Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Students are required to complete online chapter quizzes based on the course objectives and textbook for the course within D2L. When the course was taught in-person, three tests were administered to students and evenly spaced throughout the semester. There were no intermittent due dates throughout the semester.

Quizzes 111

Quizzes Teaching Learning Feedback 111

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. The majority of online learning environments are no more than video-hosting platforms with quizzes and a discussion forum.

Online Learning 156

Online Learning Instructors Learning Quizzes 156

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex. PowerPoints, brief lectures or lecture videos, images, diagrams, quizzes, and interactive activities can be utilized to deliver prelusive course content.

Exams 115

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 115

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We can pre-expose students to new information before starting a course or a class with: a welcome letter or email of the course description. a video about a course or topic. pre-test quizzes. low-stakes quizzes and practice tests. color-coding key items in the pre-exposure materials. a workbook to preview.

Knowledge 126

Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 126

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. Adobe Spark, H5P, Prezi, etc.),

Learning 105

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 105

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I used traditional grading practices, assessing student progress through quizzes, tests, project, midterms and finals each year. As I improved it, I also worked on developing a smoother flow and incorporating reflections into the course. From 2011-2015, I continued to iterate on the course design for my class.

Syllabus 156

Syllabus Learning Course Outline History 156

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. Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). Technology integration played a pivotal role in bridging the gap between campuses.

Teaching 91

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 91

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. Transparent policies: Clearly outline expectations while building flexibility. 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

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. Adobe Spark, H5P, Prezi, etc.),

Learning 98

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We can pre-expose students to new information before starting a course or a class with: a welcome letter or email of the course description. a video about a course or topic. pre-test quizzes. low-stakes quizzes and practice tests. color-coding key items in the pre-exposure materials. a workbook to preview.

Knowledge 98

Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 98

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. Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). Technology integration played a pivotal role in bridging the gap between campuses.

Teaching 87

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 87

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2023

Assignment options included: online discussions journals research analyses video explorations current event analyses This approach meant that, by the end of the course, students had completed three of each assignment type and 15 mastery quizzes.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Assignments Instructors Students 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Focus on challenge and relevance: We all hope our courses will engage students, challenge their assumptions, require effort, and facilitate the development of deep understandings and skills. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. These assessments must be valid and reliable.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

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). Below, in diagram 1, are some examples of formative and summative assessments that can be utilized in the classroom.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

You can also keep your theme running through the class; incorporate it into class examples, projects, assignments, quizzes, etc. And if you want a set of eyes to review your work, just send it my way—we are all here to help one another. For example, this semester I have my quiz problems based on the world of Pokémon.

Syllabus 116

Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 116

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). Below, in diagram 1, are some examples of formative and summative assessments that can be utilized in the classroom.

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex. PowerPoints, brief lectures or lecture videos, images, diagrams, quizzes, and interactive activities can be utilized to deliver prelusive course content.

Exams 75

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 75

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 97

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 97

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

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. Transparent policies: Clearly outline expectations while building flexibility. 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rachel Thelen , The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry Noelle Haight , Occupational Therapist and Educator Julia VanderMolen , University of the Pacific Key Statement: Four helpful tips, including backwards design, for the new instructor looking to (re)design their course.

Instructors 52

Instructors Curriculum Quizzes Lecturing 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

Another method of incorporating microlearning to boost online student engagement is to simply include specific sorts of micro lessons within the course itself which can more-or-less run parallel to the course. Applying Andragogy to Online Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Success. Magna Publications Inc. ,

Student Engagement 110

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 110

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Focus on challenge and relevance: We all hope our courses will engage students, challenge their assumptions, require effort, and facilitate the development of deep understandings and skills. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. These assessments must be valid and reliable.

Syllabus 103

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 103

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

You can also keep your theme running through the class; incorporate it into class examples, projects, assignments, quizzes, etc. And if you want a set of eyes to review your work, just send it my way—we are all here to help one another. For example, this semester I have my quiz problems based on the world of Pokémon.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

Another method of incorporating microlearning to boost online student engagement is to simply include specific sorts of micro lessons within the course itself which can more-or-less run parallel to the course. Applying Andragogy to Online Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Success. Magna Publications Inc. ,

Student Engagement 86

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 86

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For retrieval practice to be effective at building and strengthening neural links, students must try to pull the information from memory and not simply glance over their course notes or the textbook (Miller, 2022, p. Spaced retrieval involves an initial encounter with the material (e.g., 107-125).

Learning 92

Learning Language Languages Instructors 92

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Tutor pushes beyond simple multiple-choice quizzes. 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. Open materials return some power to professors.

Textbooks 117

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 117

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. That sentiment is backed by learning-science research in a concept called the “doer effect.”

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

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. Know a Master Educator on your campus? Email tgraham@coursehero.com.

Lecturing 138

Lecturing Course Design Assignments Quizzes 138

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 144

Course Design Online Learning Teaching Motivation 144

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Resources to Inspire Your Course Design. Professor Stanley Stepanic’s Dracula course file , with links to notes, quizzes, and study guides. I’ve always tried to keep up-to-date with the way the technology is advancing. So now I’ll use Google maps, archive.org, YouTube, the Internet and other sources students use.

Education 127

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 127

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 140

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 140