Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex. PowerPoints, brief lectures or lecture videos, images, diagrams, quizzes, and interactive activities can be utilized to deliver prelusive course content.

Exams 115

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 115

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. These activities encourage participation without the anxiety of high-stakes grading (Freeman et al., 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, assessment is more than just grading and is often misunderstood. In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Focus on challenge and relevance: We all hope our courses will engage students, challenge their assumptions, require effort, and facilitate the development of deep understandings and skills. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. These assessments must be valid and reliable.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, assessment is more than just grading and is often misunderstood. In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives.

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. These activities encourage participation without the anxiety of high-stakes grading (Freeman et al., 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

How do we move beyond grades to more meaningful demonstrations of learning? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. A5 Grades are horrible, but they are a universally expected standard.

Assignments 96

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 96

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

Educators are available to students and are responsible for designing bi-modal content. Content should incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer choices to students. These are not challenges associated with online courses. Provide course materials. Adobe Spark, H5P, Prezi, etc.),

Learning 105

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

Educators are available to students and are responsible for designing bi-modal content. Content should incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer choices to students. These are not challenges associated with online courses. Provide course materials. Adobe Spark, H5P, Prezi, etc.),

Learning 98

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex. PowerPoints, brief lectures or lecture videos, images, diagrams, quizzes, and interactive activities can be utilized to deliver prelusive course content.

Exams 75

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 75

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Focus on challenge and relevance: We all hope our courses will engage students, challenge their assumptions, require effort, and facilitate the development of deep understandings and skills. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. These assessments must be valid and reliable.

Syllabus 103

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 103

Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Our questions and subsequent review focused on implementing collaborative quizzes. In the fall of 2022, students in three sections of a required 200-level business writing course at a large, Midwestern university (N=72) participated in seven collaborative quizzes and three independent quizzes taken throughout the fall semester.

Quizzes 52

Quizzes Education Multiple Choice Questions Feedback 52

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For retrieval practice to be effective at building and strengthening neural links, students must try to pull the information from memory and not simply glance over their course notes or the textbook (Miller, 2022, p. Keep in mind that a quiz in that initial window does not have to be graded to have the desired impact.

Learning 92

Learning Languages Language Instructors 92

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And for some faculty, the biggest question is: What about the extras the publishers give us (like those homework systems that automatically grade work students turn in)? Tutor pushes beyond simple multiple-choice quizzes. It doesn’t have to do anything new or different, it just has to be free.”

Textbooks 117

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 117

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In a paper Koedinger co-published in Science , he found that as instructors consider their course design and teaching options during a typical college course, they’re picking from trillions of possibilities. That sentiment is backed by learning-science research in a concept called the “doer effect.”

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

How do you leverage technology in your course? I’ve automated the grading for my essay test, which I was finally able to do with the help of a friend who programmed me a special little system this past year that I call Alucarda. That’s made grading a lot faster and easier. Resources to Inspire Your Course Design.

Education 126

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 126

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. Now the course is offered each semester and a whopping 3,000 students take it in any given school year. Let Professor John Boyer Inspire Your Course Design. Geography is the somewhere.”

Syllabus 139

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 139