Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Teaching in a large-size classroom differs significantly from teaching in a small-size classroom in terms of engagement, interaction, and instructional methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022).

Teaching 89

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 89

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms.

Online Learning 159

Online Learning Instructors Learning Quizzes 159

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash. Why Start With Think-Pair-Share? Buil et al.,

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s crop of winners demonstrated progress and innovation in student and teacher engagement, student retention, and teaching and learning efficiencies that resulted in cost savings. The Awards for Excellence celebrate inspiration and innovation in the delivery of a teaching and learning experience that is both unique and collaborative.

Online Learning 120

Online Learning Quizzes eLearning Learning 120

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. References Collins, Henry, and David Foote.

Exams 115

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 115

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Course Design: Scaffold, Support, and Empower A well-designed course sets the stage for trust by providing clarity, flexibility, and opportunities for growth.

Plagiarism 123

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 123

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

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Currently, there is no shortage of articles offering a high-level look at how and why personalized learning will impact student growth, and conference sessions where teachers are encouraged to change the way they teach, but not given the tools to modify their instructional practices.

Syllabus 159

Syllabus Learning Course Outline History 159

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. I propose offering students control over their learning by providing two delivery options, not three, for each course. Adobe Spark, H5P, Prezi, etc.),

Learning 105

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. How Learning Works: 8 Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching (2nd Ed.).

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

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. I propose offering students control over their learning by providing two delivery options, not three, for each course. Adobe Spark, H5P, Prezi, etc.),

Learning 98

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 98

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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Assessment is a critical component of the teaching and learning process. Based on my classroom teaching experience, I believe that recognizing the importance of student feedback fosters active engagement and self-reflection in the student learning process. appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Course Design: Scaffold, Support, and Empower A well-designed course sets the stage for trust by providing clarity, flexibility, and opportunities for growth.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 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

AUGUST 31, 2023

You can also keep your theme running through the class; incorporate it into class examples, projects, assignments, quizzes, etc. Teresa Thompson is tenured faculty at West Valley-Mission College District where she enjoys teaching accounting to her wonderful students. The post What a Cool Syllabus…But is It Accessible?

Syllabus 116

Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 116

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Assessment is a critical component of the teaching and learning process. Based on my classroom teaching experience, I believe that recognizing the importance of student feedback fosters active engagement and self-reflection in the student learning process. appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

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. Silva holds a B.B.Mgt.

Student Engagement 112

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 112

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. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.". Bethany Bovard defined the difference in her own words. “I

Assignments 101

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 101

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. References Collins, Henry, and David Foote.

Exams 77

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 77

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. How Learning Works: 8 Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching (2nd Ed.).

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 105

Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Wesley Erwin, III , Indiana University Bloomington Keywords: Pedagogy, Relationship-Rich Education, Engaged Learning Key Statement: Meaningful teaching and learning should include evidence-based, relationship-rich education tailored to respective contexts. Our questions and subsequent review focused on implementing collaborative quizzes.

Quizzes 52

Quizzes Education Multiple Choice Questions Feedback 52

Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Keywords: Curriculum Redesign, Course Design, New Teacher Background Imagine you are a new instructor whose supervisor has just asked you to take over a course from a retiring colleague in the upcoming academic year. This might be a course that you have always wanted to teach or one you never envisioned yourself teaching.

Instructors 52

Instructors Curriculum Quizzes Lecturing 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. Teresa Thompson is tenured faculty at West Valley-Mission College District where she enjoys teaching accounting to her wonderful students. The post What a Cool Syllabus…But is It Accessible?

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 98

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

David Pleins , Assistant Director, Walker Center for Teaching and Learning, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Foreign language vocabulary acquisition (and the learning of information more generally) need not be a painful enterprise! Things got no better when I started teaching.

Learning 92

Learning Languages Language Instructors 92

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. Silva holds a B.B.Mgt.

Student Engagement 89

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 89

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Why don’t I instead build a system or a platform where we can have hundreds of different possible textbooks to teach the concepts I’m teaching?” professors enjoy academic freedom to select their own course materials, it can take a lot of personal persuasion to convince each to try teaching a new text. Because most U.S.

Textbooks 119

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

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

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

JANUARY 16, 2018

Among a slew of teaching awards, Garg has received UCLA’s Eby Award for the Art of Teaching and was named the 2015 California Professor of the Year. Let Professor Neil Garg Inspire Your Course Design. Explore Garg’s organic chemistry course file with links to practice problems, quizzes, and study guides.

Lecturing 144

Lecturing Course Design Assignments Quizzes 144

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Decades later, Stepanic teaches a standing-room-only class at the University of Virginia entitled—cue up the spooky organ music—Dracula. The course is one of the school’s most popular, with a waitlist that once swelled to 1600; it was included in a roundup of “ Top 10 Must Take Classes at UVA.” Resources to Inspire Your Course Design.

Education 132

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 132

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A few years after John Boyer began teaching world geography at Virginia Tech , a survey revealed that 58 percent of college-aged Americans could not locate Japan on a map. He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . Boyer raced ahead undaunted.

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Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 146