Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed. Reward systems, such as small prizes or participation points, motivated students to stay engaged and strive for excellence. References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

Teaching 94

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 94

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. These are not challenges associated with online courses. Provide course materials. Students determine where and when they will study.

Learning 98

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On a practice and policy level, there is widespread agreement that formative assessment and feedback should be featured within course design and delivery (Carless & Winstone, 2019). Assessments will always impact how students learn, their motivation to learn, and how teachers teach. Diagram 2 below describes the distinction.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed. Reward systems, such as small prizes or participation points, motivated students to stay engaged and strive for excellence. References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

Teaching 89

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 89

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

As educators, we have to constantly think of new ways to communicate our concepts to different learners and motivate them in our classrooms. You can also keep your theme running through the class; incorporate it into class examples, projects, assignments, quizzes, etc. But I say, “Pish posh!”

Syllabus 116

Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 116

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. On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning?

Assignments 101

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 101

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On a practice and policy level, there is widespread agreement that formative assessment and feedback should be featured within course design and delivery (Carless & Winstone, 2019). Assessments will always impact how students learn, their motivation to learn, and how teachers teach. Diagram 2 below describes the distinction.

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

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. Furthermore, designing course materials in concise, digestible formats allows students to integrate learning into their daily schedules more effectively.

Student Engagement 89

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 89

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

As educators, we have to constantly think of new ways to communicate our concepts to different learners and motivate them in our classrooms. You can also keep your theme running through the class; incorporate it into class examples, projects, assignments, quizzes, etc. But I say, “Pish posh!”

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 98

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

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. Tutor pushes beyond simple multiple-choice quizzes. (Print copies cost between $25 and $65, though only eight percent of students using OpenStax for class purchase a print version.)

Textbooks 119

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

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

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 third is motivational — the fuel that keeps students pushing forward when they get stuck on difficult material.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

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.

Course Design 149

Course Design Online Learning Teaching Motivation 149

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

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. Understand how Boyer integrates technology into his course design.

Syllabus 146

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 146