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

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

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 64

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 64

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

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

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

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 97

Teaching Writing Assignments Intellectual Development 97

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

An editorial team researched the materials needed in the lecture hall settings where physics, anatomy, sociology and biology are taught, then recruited professors to write and review relevant textbooks, paying them flat fees upfront rather than royalties based on sales. History textbook, was disappointed with the final product.

Textbooks 117

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 117

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some online students might view the lecture on a tablet or phone where these details are lost. His background is in public and applied history, and his other interests include research on and preservation of vintage radio and television programming.

Feedback 105

Feedback Minute Papers Mobile Devices Discussions 105

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 91

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

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 86

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology.

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

Five or six years ago we started recording all my lectures—not live lectures, but actually in a studio. If normally I’d do a lecture on China that would span three hours, I would try to break that up into consumable bites, anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes, broken down by particular topics. We converted my office into a studio.

Syllabus 139

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 139