Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. This is why a well-designed course will have a balance of formative and summative assessments.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

The challenge is further compounded by students balancing their studies with household chores which can lead to decreased motivation if adequate support is not provided by the instructor. As a result, in today’s competitive lifelong learning landscape, an online course that simply gives information is no better than any other.

Student Engagement 110

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 110

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

MARCH 4, 2025

In a large classroom, instructors often face challenges in creating personal connections with students, maintaining attention, and ensuring active participation (Wang & Calvano, 2022). To address the disparity between in-person and remote students, instructors can implement strategies that ensure both groups feel equally engaged.

Teaching 91

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

In a large classroom, instructors often face challenges in creating personal connections with students, maintaining attention, and ensuring active participation (Wang & Calvano, 2022). To address the disparity between in-person and remote students, instructors can implement strategies that ensure both groups feel equally engaged.

Teaching 87

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 87

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. This is why a well-designed course will have a balance of formative and summative assessments.

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

“Educator” is used throughout this paper to represent professor, instructor, teacher, or any person or team that leads learning sessions. Scheduling and delivery of courses offered in various modalities can be problematic for colleges and universities. These are not challenges associated with online courses.

Learning 105

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Establish and maintain an inclusive community: During the first days of class, it is important to initiate an anonymous survey and a follow-up discussion about what makes students feel valued, seen, respected, included, challenged, and supported by the instructor and their peers. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2023

Assignment options included: online discussions journals research analyses video explorations current event analyses This approach meant that, by the end of the course, students had completed three of each assignment type and 15 mastery quizzes. They felt like they had high levels of interaction with the instructor.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Assignments Instructors Students 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

“Educator” is used throughout this paper to represent professor, instructor, teacher, or any person or team that leads learning sessions. Scheduling and delivery of courses offered in various modalities can be problematic for colleges and universities. These are not challenges associated with online courses.

Learning 98

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 98

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. Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors. 2014; Agarwal, 2019). Nilson, L. Ifelebuegu, A.

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

The challenge is further compounded by students balancing their studies with household chores which can lead to decreased motivation if adequate support is not provided by the instructor. As a result, in today’s competitive lifelong learning landscape, an online course that simply gives information is no better than any other.

Student Engagement 86

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 86

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

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. As many #DLNchat -ters pointed out, they are efficient and thus attractive assessment tools for instructors of large courses.

Assignments 96

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 96

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Establish and maintain an inclusive community: During the first days of class, it is important to initiate an anonymous survey and a follow-up discussion about what makes students feel valued, seen, respected, included, challenged, and supported by the instructor and their peers. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

Syllabus 103

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 103

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, 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. Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors. 2014; Agarwal, 2019). Nilson, L. Ifelebuegu, A.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

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. Likewise, any review at the end of class needs to be done by the students, not the instructor.

Learning 92

Learning Languages Language Instructors 92

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That’s when we really started getting calls from frustrated instructors at community colleges who said, ‘I have a big problem. Students are enrolling in my course to get a technical degree but they can’t afford the textbook because it’s $300. Tutor pushes beyond simple multiple-choice quizzes.

Textbooks 117

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 117

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

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. The Acuitus strategy that has evolved over 20 years involves mixing a digital tutor with in-person instructors.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Wesley Engers has an unusual hobby: beta testing online courses from well-known colleges and universities. He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I

Testing 166

Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Boyer is now a senior instructor and researcher at Virginia Tech. Let Professor John Boyer Inspire Your Course Design. Explore the World Regions course file , with links to notes, quizzes, and study guides. Watch Boyer's "The Wild Tale of the Rise of Vladimir Putin," a Course Hero Master Class.

Syllabus 139

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 139