Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Pre-exposure is good for increasing the credibility of information and preparing students for new ways of learning, such as immersive technology. 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.

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. HyFlex courses can be deceptively difficult to do well. These are not challenges associated with online courses. Provide course materials.

Learning 105

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 105

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. These are not challenges associated with online courses. Provide course materials.

Learning 98

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 98

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 159

Syllabus Learning Course Outline History 159

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 116

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

This setting typically requires the use of technology, structured activities, and clear organization to manage the diverse needs of a larger audience. Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed.

Teaching 80

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 80

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Pre-exposure is good for increasing the credibility of information and preparing students for new ways of learning, such as immersive technology. 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.

Knowledge 98

Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 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 96

Student Engagement Assignments Instructors Students 96

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

This setting typically requires the use of technology, structured activities, and clear organization to manage the diverse needs of a larger audience. Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed.

Teaching 77

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 77

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). Linways Technologies. 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

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

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

Fairness 109

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 109

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

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 69

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 69

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. Thus, to combat these issues, instructors must take a proactive approach in designing online courses. Dixson, M.

Student Engagement 99

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 99

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Tutor pushes beyond simple multiple-choice quizzes. After all, technology is expensive to maintain. 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.

Textbooks 119

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

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. Remembering and forgetting in the age of technology: Teaching, learning, and the science of memory in a wired world.

Learning 92

Learning Language Languages 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. Thus, to combat these issues, instructors must take a proactive approach in designing online courses. Dixson, M.

Student Engagement 75

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 75

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 recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

He has been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Garg, who is now one of three finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching bestowed by Baylor University. Let Professor Neil Garg Inspire Your Course Design. Email tgraham@coursehero.com.

Lecturing 145

Lecturing Course Design Assignments Quizzes 145

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

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. How do you leverage technology in your course? I’ve always tried to keep up-to-date with the way the technology is advancing.

Education 133

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 133

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo. Let Professor John Boyer Inspire Your Course Design. Understand how Boyer integrates technology into his course design.

Syllabus 147

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 147