Course Evaluations Education Lecturing 
Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2020
One of the most empirically supported best practices of online education is for the instructor to “be present.” Don’t just use video for lectures; the format can also be used to welcome students to your class, provide feedback (much preferred by students to print feedback) and walk through assignments. Avoid long videos, though.
Edsurge
JUNE 19, 2017
For Pickett, it is a struggle to implement new digital learning styles with adult students as many of them are accustomed to traditional lecture models and are dismayed when they don't get what they expect. These critiques can discourage other students from taking the course or cost lectures their contract renewals.
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Edsurge
MARCH 17, 2020
Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. That’s a serious concern, Hardy explains, because "for many adjuncts, they are judged solely on student course evaluations.”
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. Looking through a collection of teaching portfolios by her colleagues helped reassure her that she could redesign her course while preserving what worked about the classroom experience.
Faculty Focus
APRIL 24, 2025
Notedly, when educators engage in reflection, it is usually in the form of John Dewey : We do not learn from experiencewe learn from reflecting on experience. Not to be overlooked is when educators circulate their knowing-in-action with and for others, this signifies beyond-action, cultivating double-loop learning for all to benefit from.
Edsurge
AUGUST 25, 2021
In one focus group I attended, faculty members recommended that online courses include real-time sessions, that the school stream on-campus lectures and events to remote students, and that faculty establish a uniform and consistent online course evaluation rubric following industry best practices.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
And when she last offered it in 2019, it was the most popular class at the university that semester, with about 450 students sitting in the largest lecture hall on campus. The popularity of the course led her to assemble the lessons into a book, “ Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better. And that's called the negativity bias.
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