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Colleges Can Turn Classes Into Virtual Communities. Here’s How.

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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.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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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. We accept transfer credit for students, why don’t we accept transfer courses for adjuncts?”

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What It Takes For a College to Go Online

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Engage Faculty in the Decision to Go Online “If faculty don’t participate, you won’t have a program,” says Lisa Springer, provost at LIM College, a small Manhattan fashion-management school. It met only once and was never invited to participate in the work of the wider committee.

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Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’

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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. For instance, in course evaluations I seek out negative reviews. It's a very simple mechanism — it’s a cultural confirmation bias. …

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

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So, it really depends on how eager the student is to help improve the whole situation and the course specifically. I think in terms of its timing, the course evaluation coming only at the end affects whether the professor could make adjustments, and also how eager students are when it comes to participating in that progress.

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

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Following defined student learning outcomes in a pre-course ensures alignment with the main course objectives, providing clarity, focus, and relevance to the content covered. After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex. Tanya Mohseni, Derek C. Rowe, Beverly S.

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

Faculty Focus

Following defined student learning outcomes in a pre-course ensures alignment with the main course objectives, providing clarity, focus, and relevance to the content covered. After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex. Tanya Mohseni, Derek C. Rowe, Beverly S.

Exams 73