Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Relevance for Learning, Instruction, and Assessment Adult learners have unique needs that require consideration when designing instruction. Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. Some technologies also allow for knowledge check questions to be embedded in the video.

Online Learning 111

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

In this interview with EdSurge, Maurer explains her goals for the project and emphasizes the importance of comptent online course design. The relationship that an instructor builds with an instructional designer is really, really important. What else is motivating you? So far, the network has 300 volunteers and counting.

Teaching 192

Teaching Instructors Course Design Languages 192

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Relevance for Learning, Instruction, and Assessment Adult learners have unique needs that require consideration when designing instruction. Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. Some technologies also allow for knowledge check questions to be embedded in the video.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

I have seen friends on Facebook create decent songs and stunning artistic creations with little knowledge of music or art, all after spending a bit of time getting to know an AI art or music generator. When they are forced, developing the intrinsic motivation needed for quality learning is a tall order. What could we accomplish then?

Metacognitive Skills 138

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Writing Plagiarism 138

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Around the semester midpoint you may be noticing that some of your students are becoming overwhelmed, may lack motivation, or feel disconnected from the class. The post Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. Sound familiar?

Student Engagement 131

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 131

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

This is because students bring their own prior knowledge and misconceptions to educational media. “If However, you can think of a pedagogically rich online course like a balanced meal that should strive to provide at least a serving of each. These videos are foundational and ideally motivate students to start and stick with the course.

Instructors 150

Instructors Education Lecturing Knowledge 150

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The rise of the knowledge economy is driving a tectonic shift in the nature of work—and in the education ecosystem that prepares learners for their careers. We are only just starting to see these partnerships form in meaningful ways. And Google recently announced plans to donate $1 billion to nonprofits explicitly to train tech workers.

Skills 304

Skills Course Design Instructors Achievement 304

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

In this light, designing and facilitating online discussions to increase student engagement, peer connection, and idea exchange, as well as creating a cohesive online learning community for knowledge creation, is far more important for the success of online education.

Student Engagement 112

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 112

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

They dug into the principles of universal design for learning, how instructions can use rubrics to empower students to demonstrate knowledge in many different ways, and how to break up class sessions to make it easier for everyone to participate fully. Physical accessibility.

Accessibility 218

Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

This requires the seamless integration of knowledge and skills across various disciplines to address Mars’s multifaceted challenges. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012).

Interdisciplinary 111

Interdisciplinary Study Multidisciplinary Metacognitive Skills 111

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Around the semester midpoint you may be noticing that some of your students are becoming overwhelmed, may lack motivation, or feel disconnected from the class. The post Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. Sound familiar?

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

In this light, designing and facilitating online discussions to increase student engagement, peer connection, and idea exchange, as well as creating a cohesive online learning community for knowledge creation, is far more important for the success of online education.

Student Engagement 89

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 89

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

It is also a basic part of teaching and learning and aims to make you more aware of your own professional knowledge. Professional development participants participating in a hands-on learning environment are highly engaged and motivated. Effective teaching involves prioritizing the knowledge and skills we choose to focus on.

Evaluation 111

Evaluation Participation Knowledge Learning Styles 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

I have seen friends on Facebook create decent songs and stunning artistic creations with little knowledge of music or art, all after spending a bit of time getting to know an AI art or music generator. When they are forced, developing the intrinsic motivation needed for quality learning is a tall order. What could we accomplish then?

Metacognitive Skills 98

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Writing Plagiarism 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2023

A well-written teaching philosophy statement should act as a guide during course design, development, instruction, and assessment as well as through programmatic development and revision. The more opportunities students have to apply their knowledge the more motivation will exist.

Teaching Philosophy 111

Teaching Philosophy Teaching Beliefs Universal Design 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

This requires the seamless integration of knowledge and skills across various disciplines to address Mars’s multifaceted challenges. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012).

Interdisciplinary 98

Interdisciplinary Study Multidisciplinary Metacognitive Skills 98

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

I often think of standard assessments as ‘show me what you know’ and alternative assessments as ‘demonstrate what you can do with that knowledge.’” But why, then, do so many courses still rely on exams? Bethany Bovard defined the difference in her own words. “I I'm excited to read more! The short answer: they’re easy.

Assignments 101

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 101

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

Probably the biggest lesson is that when you take your knowledge and you transfer it into a digital course, you have to find just the right amount of things to put into that video. As a graphic designer, we learn that the way to design is not to keep adding more things to make this page look better.

Lecturing 124

Lecturing Skills Course Design Motivation 124

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Access: Building Bridges to Opportunity Accessible Course Design Accessibility in online education goes beyond compliance with legal requirements. It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences. These activities promote critical thinking and application of knowledge.

Accessibility 105

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 105

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

For example, research in educational psychology often is characterized by efforts to investigate isolated interventions, in carefully controlled laboratory conditions, under short time frames, using motivated participants and focusing on learning outcomes like retention. Moving Educational Research Forward.

Laboratory 102

Laboratory Failure Education Study 102

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

It is also a basic part of teaching and learning and aims to make you more aware of your own professional knowledge. Professional development participants participating in a hands-on learning environment are highly engaged and motivated. Effective teaching involves prioritizing the knowledge and skills we choose to focus on.

Evaluation 95

Evaluation Participation Knowledge Learning Styles 95

Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2023

A well-written teaching philosophy statement should act as a guide during course design, development, instruction, and assessment as well as through programmatic development and revision. The more opportunities students have to apply their knowledge the more motivation will exist.

Teaching Philosophy 98

Teaching Philosophy Teaching Beliefs Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This belief is thought to enhance performance by fostering greater persistence, motivation, and readiness to face challenges. Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: Linkages to ways of thinking and practising within the disciplines.” “Threshold concepts in entrepreneurship–the entrepreneurs’ perspective.”

Education 122

Education Beliefs Study Essay 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Access: Building Bridges to Opportunity Accessible Course Design Accessibility in online education goes beyond compliance with legal requirements. It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences. These activities promote critical thinking and application of knowledge.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Specifically, combining the strategies, in our medical surgical nursing care course, we utilized clinical scenarios to allow students to explore the complexities of pathophysiology, treatment plans, and nursing interventions, turning theoretical concepts into practical knowledge. References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

Teaching 94

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 94

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Specifically, combining the strategies, in our medical surgical nursing care course, we utilized clinical scenarios to allow students to explore the complexities of pathophysiology, treatment plans, and nursing interventions, turning theoretical concepts into practical knowledge. References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

Teaching 89

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 89

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This belief is thought to enhance performance by fostering greater persistence, motivation, and readiness to face challenges. Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: Linkages to ways of thinking and practising within the disciplines.” “Threshold concepts in entrepreneurship–the entrepreneurs’ perspective.”

Education 105

Education Beliefs Study Essay 105

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

To facilitate implementation, we have categorized the strategies from the perspectives of course designers, content creators, and those delivering the content or workshops. The following lists provide an overview of strategies and some suggestions on how to incorporate these you’re your courses.

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

To facilitate implementation, we have categorized the strategies from the perspectives of course designers, content creators, and those delivering the content or workshops. The following lists provide an overview of strategies and some suggestions on how to incorporate these you’re your courses.

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

When updates or corrections are needed, it’s easy to change the files, and there’s little profit motive to do so unnecessarily. Commercial texts and tools make it too easy for some faculty to outsource their teaching and course design, Smith says, although he’s empathetic to part-time instructors whose workloads outweigh their resources.

Textbooks 119

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Collaborative quizzes foster purposeful relationships with peers as well as the knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy necessary to engage in respectful and fruitful dialogue toward a shared goal. Importantly, not every quiz was collaborative to deter less-motivated team members from taking advantage of more responsible team members.

Quizzes 52

Quizzes Education Multiple Choice Questions Feedback 52

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. But at a university? “We Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Coursera officials say that every course that is part of a Specialization now goes through the beta testing process, and that more than 300 have been tested so far. Testers are asked to go through a brief training MOOC, but their knowledge on the topics they review is varied—the idea is they are giving the student perspective.

Testing 166

Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

2016); however, the model should be accompanied by a course design that applies the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to augment accessibility. HyFlex has been around since 2005, designed to increase enrollment (Beatty, 2019). In turn, student attendance increases learning (Abdelmalak & Parra, 2016).

Universal Design 116

Universal Design Course Design Learning Syllabus 116

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

The first day of class is a day on which we can nurture our students’ voices and promote their engagement and intrinsic motivation for learning (Saucier, 2020). Throughout these activities, instructors should model their authentic engagement in the course, intrigue their students with the content (e.g., Inside Higher Ed. Schiffer, A.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Although in-class writing can successfully be adopted to measure comprehension and subject matter knowledge, it does not appear to be the best method of assessing various forms of writing. If you require students to include unique and specific knowledge in their writing, AI has little chance of including the content you require.

Assignments 122

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

The first day of class is a day on which we can nurture our students’ voices and promote their engagement and intrinsic motivation for learning (Saucier, 2020). Throughout these activities, instructors should model their authentic engagement in the course, intrigue their students with the content (e.g., Inside Higher Ed. Schiffer, A.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 98