Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2023

All sections of bi-modal courses receive a copy over of the asynchronous LMS master course. The faculty team could be consulted as to what materials should be placed in the master course. Every educator has the same course design and materials. Flexible (UDL) assignment design. Flexible student attendance.

Exams 98

Exams Course Design Assignments Learning 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. Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

If you are like most of those with whom I work, you spend hours identifying the desired learning outcomes, essential understandings and skills, and appropriate materials. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

Syllabus 100

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 100

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

What does the language in the syllabus/assignment assume about students (e.g., We learned that feedback related to linguistic implicit biases usually centered on: assumptions about relevant real-world contexts, misconceptions about knowledge and abilities, and rubric grading for grammar vs rhetorical intentions. Occasional Paper No.

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Languages 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

OpenStax and Rice scientists and developers collaborate with external researchers to test and publish papers about, for example, the effects that personalized question selection has on learning outcomes and whether natural language processing algorithms can nudge students to improve their responses to short-answer questions.

Textbooks 117

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 117

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

2020; Lang 2021; McRee 2012), results are often self-reported assessments and focus on the characteristics of the instruction such as good course design or expert presentation; less typically does the research focus solely on the learner (Gore et al., Toward learning-centered education in colleges and universities.

Teaching 52

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Problem-Based Learning 52

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Online courses are associated with increased retention and graduation rates, they improve access to education for disadvantaged students. Offering digital courses improves student learning outcomes by helping students earn their degree faster (NECC, 2021).

Syllabus 52

Syllabus Study Learning Outcomes Curriculum 52

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

The first day of class of any given course is something that happens only once and can be over so quickly – perhaps too quickly to optimize the value and impact of that first day. 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).

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

The first day of class of any given course is something that happens only once and can be over so quickly – perhaps too quickly to optimize the value and impact of that first day. 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).

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 98

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. In turn, student attendance increases learning (Abdelmalak & Parra, 2016). I use a standard weekly structure using learning modules.

Universal Design 116

Universal Design Course Design Learning Syllabus 116

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

2022 for discussion of empathetic course design). Practical ways to provide content disclosures When there is content in your course that may be potentially distressing, this should be clear to your students in the course syllabus. The empathic course design perspective. What is a content disclosure?

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 119

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

2022 for discussion of empathetic course design). Practical ways to provide content disclosures When there is content in your course that may be potentially distressing, this should be clear to your students in the course syllabus. The empathic course design perspective. What is a content disclosure?

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 111