Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 7, 2023
During lectures, I prayed that no one would ask me a question that I couldn’t answer. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Read your evaluations, and let them sit until you gain some objectivity. They always did. The students hated me.
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 7, 2023
During lectures, I prayed that no one would ask me a question that I couldn’t answer. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Read your evaluations, and let them sit until you gain some objectivity. They always did. The students hated me.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2020
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. You can make lots of small videos instead of whole lectures. Fourth, be brave and conduct a mid-term, anonymous evaluation of your course.
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.
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
First, decide what class is appropriate, such as a course that you expect a good deal of unexpected issues and problems due to the newness of teaching the course topics; experimenting new curriculum materials; new pedagogical approaches to a course; or improving and addressing student course evaluation and student feedback.
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.”
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