Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

While large classes emphasize broad-reaching strategies like lectures and group activities, small classes enable individualized instruction and deeper exploration of topics (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Lecture halls and dormitories circle them, busy with faculty members and students coming and going on campus. Online, operating only in the air above, without a physical campus below, academic investments are limited to less than a handful of budget lines--instruction, course design and edtech software.

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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.

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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 16, 2023

Educators are available to students and are responsible for designing bi-modal content. Content should incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer choices to students. HyFlex courses can be deceptively difficult to do well. Provide course materials. IT expense and support.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning in its many forms is widely recognized as a high-impact educational practice, one that has been thoroughly tested and shown to be beneficial to a wide spectrum of college students. The students can learn the material by reading, conducting online research, lectures, or a combination of these modes.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

Educators are available to students and are responsible for designing bi-modal content. Content should incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer choices to students. HyFlex courses can be deceptively difficult to do well. Provide course materials. IT expense and support.

Learning 98

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

We also have learned, through student feedback in our own courses, how to truly engage with a wide range of learning personalities, so we have come up with the top five suggestions for you to consider using in your presentations during online seminars. This is not a lecture.

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Student Engagement Instructors Students Feedback 93

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. Open materials return some power to professors.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

We also have learned, through student feedback in our own courses, how to truly engage with a wide range of learning personalities, so we have come up with the top five suggestions for you to consider using in your presentations during online seminars. This is not a lecture.

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Student Engagement Instructors Students Feedback 66

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

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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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

Let Professor Neil Garg Inspire Your Course Design. Explore Garg’s organic chemistry course file with links to practice problems, quizzes, and study guides. See how Course Hero can help inspire your course design. One of the ones I typically do is the Breathalyzer test. Email tgraham@coursehero.com.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Answering that question through null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), which explores whether an intervention or product has an effect on the average outcome, undermines the ability to make sustained progress in helping students learn. Null hypothesis significance testing is an epistemic dead end. How does NHST look in action?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

“You have to use video,” says Virginia Tech’s John Boyer, who posts his geography lectures on YouTube and holds live online office hours. In a Q&A, Boyer discusses his flipped syllabus, integrating technology into course design, and why an easy A requires a lot of hard work.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I like to follow the 60/20 rule, which says to arrive 60 minutes before your presentation to test the equipment and become familiar with the room layout, and then reserve the last 20 minutes before class starts to focus on the attendees as they enter the room. I want them to see me composed and present for them.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I like to follow the 60/20 rule, which says to arrive 60 minutes before your presentation to test the equipment and become familiar with the room layout, and then reserve the last 20 minutes before class starts to focus on the attendees as they enter the room. I want them to see me composed and present for them.

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Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

How do you leverage technology in your course? I’ve automated the grading for my essay test, which I was finally able to do with the help of a friend who programmed me a special little system this past year that I call Alucarda. Resources to Inspire Your Course Design. Ooh, I could use this for this lecture.”

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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.

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