Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The leading theory in job design is Job Characteristics Theory (JCT) (Hackman & Oldham, 1976). Specifically, JCT outlines that jobs facilitating 1) skill variety, 2) task identity, 3) task significance, 4) autonomy, and 5) feedback will be the most motivating and interesting. 2017 for a summary). Service learning is great here.

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Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 91

eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2021

How were you able to apply the content after completing the courses? If you’re struggling to remember these basic aspects of the last course you completed, the course design could likely benefit from some improvement. And what about online course development? How were you assessed? Is it completely different?

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eLearning Course Design Knowledge Writing 265

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Free for all educators and school districts, the one-hour, eight-lesson course provides educators with essential knowledge about AI and approaches for ensuring student safety and privacy. “With this course, we are taking a proactive approach to support and educate teachers on the front lines and prepare for this transformation.”

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Critical Thinking Ethics Course Design Learning Outcomes 283

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

BATAVIA, IL (AUGUST 19, 2022) Flinn Scientific releases updated free laboratory safety courses designed specifically for middle and high school science teachers. . Just in time for the 2022-2023 school year, Flinn Scientific has released new Lab Safety courses for middle and high school science educators.

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Laboratory Teachers Science STEM 246

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2019

It’s clear to me that the course design–how I lay out the mix of resources, homework, classwork, and more–affects how students absorb and share knowledge. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors knows a lot about how course design impacts learning. All of this starts with a good course design.

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Course Design Students Exams Feedback 80

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Educators across the nation can now access Teacher Training Pathways , a free platform offering courses aligned to micro-credentials on remote and hybrid learning, instructional technology coaching and more. The platform will feature an evolving library of courses to further develop educators’ digital literacy.

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Education STEM Internet Hybrid Learning 266

eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

the leading Impact-as-a-Service TM education innovator, announced the development of the nation’s first healthcare literacy course designed for high school students. This critical knowledge needs to exist in every high school in America.”. EVERFI Inc., More than 88 percent of adults in the U.S.

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High School High School Students Course Design 234

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Start with the skills for lifelong learning and learn those.” One free online course on that topic is Learning How to Learn , and a key concept is developing habits to seek out new knowledge and skills on your own.

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Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

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. They can have their imagination of what they’d really like to do in a course, and then I help them figure out how to do that. Online teaching is a skill and should be done thoughtfully.

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Teaching Instructors Course Design Language 189

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I turned my room into a crime scene and created a scenario that caused my students to leverage their knowledge of angles to solve the case. My students built bridges and learned the geometrical shapes engineers and architects incorporate into their designs to make them structurally sound.

Students 164

Students Attention Textbooks Assignments 164

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. While foundational knowledge is required for higher-order thinking, we often focus primarily or almost exclusively on the foundational.

Metacognitive Skills 138

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Writing Plagiarism 138

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). What is Model Teaching? assess success at completion.

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Teaching Education Learning Assignments 179

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Faculty developers and centers for teaching and learning can play a huge role in helping educators develop digital literacy skills. So how do colleges and universities help faculty build the knowledge to teach in online environments? Untethering Faculty Development. Tips for Ongoing Untethering Efforts.

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Faculty Development Participation Feedback Course Design 161

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world. We discuss how we can’t blindly trust AI; rather, we can use it as a baseline to build knowledge. What can we do about that?”

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Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 206

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

These are: pre-exposure, activating prior knowledge, and retrieval practice. When we understand the different ways of priming and how they work, we can better identify opportunities for incorporating priming into our courses and programs. Activating prior knowledge. a concept map).

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Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 126

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

In terms of the existing [medical] workforce, there is clearly a shift in the skill set that is necessary,” says Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera. The digitization of healthcare with more data and machine learning has created a skill set that many people didn’t study in school.”

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Education Course Design Attention Skills 152

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

If you’re a local, the spot is common knowledge. For more structured courses designed specifically for K-12 classrooms and language labs, Transparent Language offers real-time courses and customizable, curriculum aligned content. However, when my friend arrived, nobody was waiting for her.

Language 156

Language Languages Failure English 156

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

Just as a chef with pre-developed culinary skills meticulously selects ingredients and carefully plans before creating a masterpiece, educators must equip students with the foundational knowledge and skills necessary for their academic success.

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Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 115

Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

A SWOT analysis The five stages of the Stanford Design Thinking Process were used to structure the course. Design thinking activities and assessments were designed at each stage of the course. Students were asked to consider their transferable skills in identifying their strengths and development needs.

Course Design 116

Course Design Testing Feedback Assignments 116

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 Students 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience. It is inductive, beginning with raw experience that is processed through an intentional learning format and transformed into working, usable knowledge. Why experiential learning i nside the classroom?

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Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 122

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Photo Credit: Tina Nazerian Consider Pedagogy and Course Design Safeguarding a course from cheating can come down to the very design of the course itself. For example, a course that has two big tests worth 80 percent of a student’s grade can create anxiety because the stakes are so high.

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Academic Integrity Exams Assignments Instructors 148

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Instructional designers are experts who use their flexibility, knowledge, and skills in theory and practice to help faculty adapt to new ways of educating students (Pollard & Kumar, 2022). They help faculty use a data-driven lens when making decisions about teaching and learning in their course.

Schools 122

Schools Syllabus Authentic Assessment Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

In a world where AI skills and fluency will be necessary and marketable, colleges and universities have made efforts to embrace AI in the classroom (e.g., We are needed to engage them and to help them develop curiosity and critical thinking skills to offset their potential AI-induced brain rot. The empathetic course design perspective.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 114

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

When they wrote the LAB charter in 2013, Mote and Tucker designed a model that included college-prep academic rigor alongside life and leadership skills, particularly entrepreneurial learning. The competencies are grouped into four quadrants: Content Knowledge, Creative Know-How, Habits of Success and Wayfinding Abilities.

Schools 140

Schools Laboratory Language Languages 140

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

These are: pre-exposure, activating prior knowledge, and retrieval practice. When we understand the different ways of priming and how they work, we can better identify opportunities for incorporating priming into our courses and programs. Activating prior knowledge. a concept map).

Knowledge 98

Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The communicative method, which focuses on teaching language through interaction and real-life communication, traditionally prioritizes speaking and listening skills, emphasizing real-time language use. Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing. 2010; Kern, 1992). Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pearson Education, 2000. 2016, www2.ncte.org/statement/teaching-writing.

Language 124

Language Languages Writing Communication 124

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. While foundational knowledge is required for higher-order thinking, we often focus primarily or almost exclusively on the foundational.

Metacognitive Skills 98

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Writing Plagiarism 98

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As promoted by Zakrajsek (2016) , all learning is by nature an active process since it requires the learner to actively engage with the act of making available knowledge their own. Unfortunately, managing group work as a teacher is a honed skill that requires time, practice, and initially involves some risk.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

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 Students 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 12, 2025

For instance, is there a quiet student who excels in written assignments but struggles with a course outcome tied to public speaking? Next, consider the content students need to master, the depth of their understanding, and the skills they need to apply that knowledge in practical situations.

Learning 106

Learning Evaluation Students Course Design 106

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

It is a way educators can improve their skills and increase student outcomes. It is also a basic part of teaching and learning and aims to make you more aware of your own professional knowledge. The teaching and learning process can be defined as the transformation process of knowledge from the teacher to the students.

Evaluation 111

Evaluation Participation Knowledge Learning Styles 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

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

MARCH 19, 2023

A SWOT analysis The five stages of the Stanford Design Thinking Process were used to structure the course. Design thinking activities and assessments were designed at each stage of the course. Students were asked to consider their transferable skills in identifying their strengths and development needs.

Course Design 97

Course Design Testing Feedback Assignments 97

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The innovations that faculty, librarians and course designers are creating now help deliver education to today’s learners, who may be working adults , the first in their families to attend college or parents balancing their own education goals with those of their children.

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Lecturing Culture Course Design Attention 127

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

Scientifically proven to result in significantly increased message retention; active learning involves multiple parts of the brain, increases collaboration and creativity, and improves both critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Studies show that the Pecha Kucha style can improve English speaking skills in general. References.

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Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 122