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, 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

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

AUGUST 31, 2023

You can also keep your theme running through the class; incorporate it into class examples, projects, assignments, quizzes, etc. This can help ease quiz anxieties when they read a word problem about something they are familiar with. For example, this semester I have my quiz problems based on the world of Pokémon.

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. I'm excited to read more! Bethany Bovard defined the difference in her own words. “I DLNchat — Bethany Bovard (@bethanybovard) April 24, 2018.

Assignments 96

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 96

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

AUGUST 31, 2023

You can also keep your theme running through the class; incorporate it into class examples, projects, assignments, quizzes, etc. This can help ease quiz anxieties when they read a word problem about something they are familiar with. For example, this semester I have my quiz problems based on the world of Pokémon.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 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 103

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 103

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

After their first year of instruction, the sad truth was that my students knew only a fraction of the vocabulary they would need to comprehensively read an ancient text. Things got no better when I started teaching. The hill to climb after this was very steep. The tools in the field and our teaching strategies were failing our students.

Learning 92

Learning Languages Language Instructors 92

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Drawing on Baraniuk’s interest in personalized learning, the tool incorporates cognitive psychology research and machine learning tools to guide students through reading and studying, aiming not only to assess their learning, but also improve it. Tutor pushes beyond simple multiple-choice quizzes.

Textbooks 117

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 117

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

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 And I do enjoy giving back and trying to contribute to a community and help future students.”

Testing 166

Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

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. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He has also been selected as a Master Educator by the education technology company Course Hero , which produced a ten-minute film that features Stepanic and his crowd-pleasing class. With Halloween upon us, we chatted with Stepanic about what his course addresses, how it became so popular, and why Bram Stoker’s Dracula is not a required read.

Education 126

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 126

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 139

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 139