Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Faced with the challenge of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to create course content and respond to emails. While we may not have control over class sizes or course loads, we can manage our workspace, habits, and course procedures. Small teaching online: Applying learning science in online classes.

eLearning

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Faced with the challenge of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to create course content and respond to emails. While we may not have control over class sizes or course loads, we can manage our workspace, habits, and course procedures. Small teaching online: Applying learning science in online classes.

eLearning

k12

JUNE 27, 2025

Instead, summer school typically consists of condensed, focused courses designed to help kids catch up, get ahead, or explore topics not covered during the school year. Most last two to five hours, depending on the number of courses students take. Summer school days aren’t typically from 8 AM to 3 PM like regular school days.

Curriculum

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

She might know the theory behind data science but not how to use Tableau. This summer, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a partnership with 30 community colleges to offer a two-semester course, designed by Apple engineers and educators, to teach students to build apps using Apple’s programming language, Swift.

Skills

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).

Course Design

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).

Course Design

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

BATAVIA, IL (AUGUST 19, 2022) Flinn Scientific releases updated free laboratory safety courses designed specifically for middle and high school science teachers. . Just in time for the 2022-2023 school year, Flinn Scientific has released new Lab Safety courses for middle and high school science educators.

Laboratory

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Free for all educators and school districts, the one-hour, eight-lesson course provides educators with essential knowledge about AI and approaches for ensuring student safety and privacy. “With this course, we are taking a proactive approach to support and educate teachers on the front lines and prepare for this transformation.”

Critical Thinking

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

The resources, which support students at both the K–12 and college levels, cover a wide range of scientific disciplines including biology, chemistry, physics, and physical science. Scratch is designed for students ages 8 to 16. This application is recommended for high school and college students.

STEM

eSchool News

JULY 12, 2023

– Ellipsis Education , a leader in computer science curriculum for K-12 education, has launched the Curriculum Delivery Platform (CDP) that will provide everything educators need to teach computer science in one place. The CDP is an online portal where teachers access and navigate Ellipsis courses.

Curriculum

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

2011) into all parts of our courses (see Saucier et al., 2022 for a discussion of the empathetic course design perspective). This ranges from our syllabi to our course structures and policies, to our assignments and assessments. This empathetic course design perspective is important to us. Raimondi, 2019).

Course Design

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

A few trees were saved, but courses weren’t any smarter. So if automation and interactivity differentiate a smart phone from a phone, what makes a course “smart”? What attributes of course design and applications of technology transform outcomes and impact, as opposed to gratuitous investment in technology for technology’s sake?

Multiple Choice Questions

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

While there’s a great deal of information to digest, the article points out that many benefits of 3D printing go beyond math and science comprehension. The subjects and projects that use 3D printing are almost limitless, especially in science, technology, engineering and math classes: At Harlan Rowe Middle School in Athens, Pa.,

STEM

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

When schools and educators augment or replace classroom-only teaching with high quality, multimedia online instruction, they’re embracing “learning experience design (LXD.)" Learn more about the Six Red Marbles' Learning Experience Design team , and how they moved Boston College's courses online.

Learning

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Additionally, Odysseyware is launching more than 200 new state-specific courses designed specifically to meet standards in California, Florida, Georgia, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Washington.

Course Design

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

That’s an approach that’s grown over the past decade or so where colleges try to harness the digital breadcrumbs left by students as they move through digital platforms and online course materials to find patterns that can improve course design and even personalize material for individual students. “AI

Intelligence

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Jay Lynch is Senior Academic Research Consultant for Course Design, Development, and Academic Research (CDDAR) at Pearson. Science, 331, 772–775. doi:10.1126/science.1199327 It's about creating a learning environment that empowers each student to reach their full potential through learning. References Bjork, E.

Education

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

When it comes to learning, engagement is influenced by a learner's level of motivation, focus and cognitive ability as well as online course design and a teacher's decisions regarding facilitation style.

Motivation

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Science Cell Instructor draws a cell, labels the various parts, and explains how it functions. Jeff is passionate about learning and improving the quality of online course design and instruction to benefit returning adult learners. EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education , 15 (8). Lubrick, M.,

Online Learning

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This piece will suggest a few simple ideas that teachers of introductory STEM classes may implement in their course design to turn their lectures into active learning experiences for a large student body, without needing to completely revisit and change their whole teaching style. Life Sciences Education , 20 (1), 1–13.

Lecturing

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

Go to edX and look at the platform for creating courses there—it is cumbersome and difficult,” he adds. You can argue that because of that, you get some more-mature course designs, but it’s not the same as scalability.” A Strategy Duel The two entities have also taken very different approaches in terms of strategy, says Hill.

Fairness

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Science Cell Instructor draws a cell, labels the various parts, and explains how it functions. Jeff is passionate about learning and improving the quality of online course design and instruction to benefit returning adult learners. EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education , 15 (8). Lubrick, M.,

Online Learning

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

When our students overcome obstacles in their learning due to our support and encouragement, or experience transformations from our well-constructed course design and subsequent instruction, we succeed in cultivating spaces where their success is made possible. Center for Open Science, PsyAr Xiv : [link] Robson, D. Huettel, S.

Students

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

2011) into all parts of our courses (see Saucier et al., 2022 for a discussion of the empathetic course design perspective). This ranges from our syllabi to our course structures and policies, to our assignments and assessments. This empathetic course design perspective is important to us. Raimondi, 2019).

Course Design

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 30, 2024

It is clear to me that setting expectations during the first day and week as a reimagined “preview day” models the curiosity and openness that I expect from my students as an instructor. Anthony Lacina, DHSc, is an assistant professor of health sciences at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Syllabus

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

During the spring 2024 semester, we redesigned our courses to pilot a cross-course group project involving a social sciences course (SSC) titled, “Social Justice Movements in the U.S.”, We are also planning to ask a Librarian to visit the class to demonstrate research strategies for social science topics.

Syllabus

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

When our students overcome obstacles in their learning due to our support and encouragement, or experience transformations from our well-constructed course design and subsequent instruction, we succeed in cultivating spaces where their success is made possible. Center for Open Science, PsyAr Xiv : [link] Robson, D. Huettel, S.

Students

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

Universal Design for Learning Guidelines Version 2.2. ” Life Sciences Education 18, no. “The 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process.” ” Interaction Design Foundation – IxDF , March 1, 2024. Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty. Elsevier, 2024. Dewsbury, Bryan, and Cynthia J. “CBE.”

Learning

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. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. McDonough, M., Okoroafor, N.,

Plagiarism

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

During the spring 2024 semester, we redesigned our courses to pilot a cross-course group project involving a social sciences course (SSC) titled, “Social Justice Movements in the U.S.”, We are also planning to ask a Librarian to visit the class to demonstrate research strategies for social science topics.

Syllabus

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

Universal Design for Learning Guidelines Version 2.2. ” Life Sciences Education 18, no. “The 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process.” ” Interaction Design Foundation – IxDF , March 1, 2024. Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty. Elsevier, 2024. Dewsbury, Bryan, and Cynthia J. “CBE.”

Learning

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says. From this, Fink developed a model known as integrated course design which consists of three phases: the initial, intermediate and final design phases.

Course Design

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

Extensive analysis of student perception data was conducted and found a generally positive reception, with a majority of students strongly advocating for the pre-course’s availability to future cohorts (Hansen, Basel, & Malreddy, under review). Anatomical Sciences Education 10 (3): 215–23. Rickert, Jonathan T.

Exams

Faculty Focus

JULY 4, 2023

Chang and Smith (2008) studied student engagement in a computer science course, again through a student survey. Their findings suggest that student course satisfaction was related to perceived student-student interaction in the course. This article has been cited 664 times.

Exams

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

The program used Brightspace to deliver blended learning courses designed with experiential learning elements that allowed them to be offered with significant cost savings. The University of Akron launched the GenEd Core Pilot Program in Fall 2015 to help increase access to higher education.

Online Learning

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says. From this, Fink developed a model known as integrated course design which consists of three phases: the initial, intermediate and final design phases.

Course Design

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 30, 2024

It is clear to me that setting expectations during the first day and week as a reimagined “preview day” models the curiosity and openness that I expect from my students as an instructor. Anthony Lacina, DHSc, is an assistant professor of health sciences at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Syllabus