Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

It doesn't encourage you to expand your movie watching habits by suggesting movies you may not like but are seminal in cinematic history. Jay Lynch is Senior Academic Research Consultant for Course Design, Development, and Academic Research (CDDAR) at Pearson. Netflix just wants you happy and watching more movies.

Education 155

Education Evaluation Failure Essay 155

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

For those that are strongly impacted, how could you: Integrate AI to further students’ learning and achievement of course objectives? ChatGPT is the fastest growing app in the history of web applications. link] history-of-web-applications/ Ibrahim, H., Modify the assessment to reduce the impact of generative AI? Alhafni, B.,

Ethics 102

Ethics Multidisciplinary Course Design Confidentiality 102

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

History Timeline Instructor draws a timeline while adding hand-drawn pictures and text to mark specific points on the timeline with verbal explanation. Jeff is passionate about learning and improving the quality of online course design and instruction to benefit returning adult learners. References Bradbury, N.

Online Learning 111

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At our university’s inaugural faculty-staff research symposium last fall, the two of us met on a drug history and policy panel, and discovered we were both teaching courses on drugs the following semester. What would happen if we connected our courses? It wasn’t all pop-up exhibitions and cacao ceremonies.

Interdisciplinary 111

Interdisciplinary Art History Discussions 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At our university’s inaugural faculty-staff research symposium last fall, the two of us met on a drug history and policy panel, and discovered we were both teaching courses on drugs the following semester. What would happen if we connected our courses? It wasn’t all pop-up exhibitions and cacao ceremonies.

Interdisciplinary 105

Interdisciplinary Art History Discussions 105

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

History Timeline Instructor draws a timeline while adding hand-drawn pictures and text to mark specific points on the timeline with verbal explanation. Jeff is passionate about learning and improving the quality of online course design and instruction to benefit returning adult learners. References Bradbury, N.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

To find out, EdSurge interviewed Terri Hasseler, a professor in the Department of History, Literature, and the Arts at Bryant University in Rhode Island. She’s also director of the Center for Teaching Excellence there, which provides faculty with support for instruction, edtech, course design, classroom management and grading.

Students 196

Students Instructors Lecturing Participation 196

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Additionally, if an OER appears on an organization’s website, it is important to research the procedures for getting material published on that website along with understanding the history and purpose of the host site.

Evaluation 145

Evaluation Education Instructors Textbooks 145

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Kristen Petersen, PhD, is an associate professor of history and social sciences. During the fall 2023 semester, we held bi-weekly planning sessions. Our efforts were totally worth it as our students strengthened highly marketable skills and learned together and from each other. Selfishly, we had a lot of fun, too.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Science History Communication 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says. From this, Fink developed a model known as integrated course design which consists of three phases: the initial, intermediate and final design phases.

Course Design 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says. From this, Fink developed a model known as integrated course design which consists of three phases: the initial, intermediate and final design phases.

Course Design 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. “I asked: ‘Why would we give it away instead of getting them to enroll?’” he remembers.

Textbooks 162

Textbooks Teaching Assistants Instructors Exams 162

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Differences in lived experiences, values, beliefs, histories, identities, and more will influence how individual students experience the learning environment (Lovett, Bridges, DiPietro, Ambrose, & Norman, 2023). This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A history starts with the historical context necessary to understand the argument. A history of an idea. Numbered lists indicate hierarchy, and students writing histories, process documents, or anything else that travels along a sequence can see the sequence more clearly when they have clearly numbered guideposts.

Teaching 111

Teaching Writing Assignments Intellectual Development 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Kristen Petersen, PhD, is an associate professor of history and social sciences. During the fall 2023 semester, we held bi-weekly planning sessions. Our efforts were totally worth it as our students strengthened highly marketable skills and learned together and from each other. Selfishly, we had a lot of fun, too.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Science History Communication 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Learning About, For, and Through Enterprise Pittaway and Edwards (2012) provide classifications in forms of enterprise and entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship education is presented as an academic discipline, much like history or sociology, with teaching, learning, and assessment methods aligned accordingly, such as lectures and essays.

Education 122

Education Beliefs Study Essay 122

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A history starts with the historical context necessary to understand the argument. A history of an idea. Numbered lists indicate hierarchy, and students writing histories, process documents, or anything else that travels along a sequence can see the sequence more clearly when they have clearly numbered guideposts.

Teaching 96

Teaching Writing Assignments Intellectual Development 96

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Volker Janssen, a history professor at California State University Fullerton who served as one of six senior contributing authors for the OpenStax U.S. History textbook, was disappointed with the final product. Others think the committee-compiled books lack a coherent perspective. So he doesn’t assign it to his students. “I

Textbooks 117

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 117

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We can activate students’ prior knowledge with: quizzes and exercises to reach back to concepts and learning covered earlier in the course, as well as covered in previously required courses. students spending 10 minutes before starting a topic sitting with a blank piece of paper on which to write everything they know about the topic.

Knowledge 126

Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 126

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

One might imagine how a PK presentation might look in an anatomy course. And for history? A slide of an anatomical landmark might be accompanied by lecture comments about its features and functions. Perhaps classic or museum displays might provide visual insight for lecture commentary. But what about something without visual content?

Lecturing 122

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Learning About, For, and Through Enterprise Pittaway and Edwards (2012) provide classifications in forms of enterprise and entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship education is presented as an academic discipline, much like history or sociology, with teaching, learning, and assessment methods aligned accordingly, such as lectures and essays.

Education 105

Education Beliefs Study Essay 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Differences in lived experiences, values, beliefs, histories, identities, and more will influence how individual students experience the learning environment (Lovett, Bridges, DiPietro, Ambrose, & Norman, 2023). This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

Syllabus 100

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 100

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

His background is in public and applied history, and his other interests include research on and preservation of vintage radio and television programming. But with some thought and planning, and a little practice, engaging both audiences can become as seamless as an in-person class you’ve conducted many times before.

Feedback 105

Feedback Minute Papers Mobile Devices Discussions 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

One might imagine how a PK presentation might look in an anatomy course. And for history? A slide of an anatomical landmark might be accompanied by lecture comments about its features and functions. Perhaps classic or museum displays might provide visual insight for lecture commentary. But what about something without visual content?

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We can activate students’ prior knowledge with: quizzes and exercises to reach back to concepts and learning covered earlier in the course, as well as covered in previously required courses. students spending 10 minutes before starting a topic sitting with a blank piece of paper on which to write everything they know about the topic.

Knowledge 98

Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Hybrid Course Design : AI platforms enable asynchronous lectures, reserving in-person sessions for interaction.

Faculty Development 89

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 89

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Hybrid Course Design : AI platforms enable asynchronous lectures, reserving in-person sessions for interaction.

Faculty Development 82

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 82

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Yet history suggests the impetus for this change is unlikely to originate from within academia. Jay Lynch is Senior Academic Research Consultant for Course Design, Development, and Academic Research (CDDAR) at Pearson. Something must change if educational research is to meaningfully impact teaching and learning.

Education 156

Education Failure Study Communication 156

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

After all, for most of human history, humans couldn’t fly, and some said it could never be done. 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.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

With Halloween upon us, we chatted with Stepanic about what his course addresses, how it became so popular, and why Bram Stoker’s Dracula is not a required read. EdSurge: Can you give us a little background on the history of the Dracula course? Professor Stanley Stepanic What do you cover in your course?

Education 126

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 126

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I was still telling a linear story about China, from physical geography to history to current events. What would you tell other educators who want to move some or all of a course online? Let Professor John Boyer Inspire Your Course Design. Understand how Boyer integrates technology into his course design.

Syllabus 139

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 139