Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To fill immediate gaps, smaller academic programs, such as Critical Thinking Initiatives and Centers for Teaching and Learning, can help campus communities begin engaging with generative AI thoughtfully while fostering student success and workplace readiness.

Learning 111

Learning Ethics Writing Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

This enhances students’ critical thinking, knowledge integration, and problem-solving abilities. Additionally, it encourages collaboration, teamwork, and effective communication among students and faculty from various disciplines (Weinberg & Harding, 2004). 2017; Liu et al.,

Interdisciplinary 111

Interdisciplinary Study Multidisciplinary Metacognitive Skills 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. Education Reform, 2014): Provide visual, verbal/audio, and cognitive cues (i.e.,

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Exams Instructors Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

This enhances students’ critical thinking, knowledge integration, and problem-solving abilities. Additionally, it encourages collaboration, teamwork, and effective communication among students and faculty from various disciplines (Weinberg & Harding, 2004). 2017; Liu et al.,

Interdisciplinary 98

Interdisciplinary Study Multidisciplinary Metacognitive Skills 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

These activities promote critical thinking and application of knowledge. Faculty Training and Development Preparing faculty to create inclusive online learning environments is crucial for promoting access, engagement, and inclusion.

Accessibility 105

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 105

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By allowing the development and discussion of their ideas, articulating their thoughts, and hearing numerous angles of view, students are pressed to be more engaging with the course content. This can lead to significant retention and the capability to apply knowledge novelly.

Collaborative Learning 116

Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 116

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

As we re-evaluated our teaching, we sought new ways to teach culture, and above all, ways to develop our students’ ability to make cultural connections, a skill that is part of the learning goals of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).

Group work 98

Group work Culture Instructors Languages 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

As we re-evaluated our teaching, we sought new ways to teach culture, and above all, ways to develop our students’ ability to make cultural connections, a skill that is part of the learning goals of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).

Group work 98

Group work Culture Instructors Languages 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

These activities promote critical thinking and application of knowledge. Faculty Training and Development Preparing faculty to create inclusive online learning environments is crucial for promoting access, engagement, and inclusion.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By allowing the development and discussion of their ideas, articulating their thoughts, and hearing numerous angles of view, students are pressed to be more engaging with the course content. This can lead to significant retention and the capability to apply knowledge novelly.

Collaborative Learning 105

Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 105

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Back in 2014, while on an NSF panel, I had heard about evidence-based teaching practices and began scouring the literature and initiating a self-motivated, voluntary change in my own classroom. At the beginning of each semester, I have been telling my students that they will be working in teams, not groups.

Education 52

Education STEM Active Learning Peer Review 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Support is sometimes available from veteran professors, faculty development offices and workshops or training to assist professors in the challenging work of course and curriculum development and implementation. In fact, teaching is where professors receive the least training, if any at all (Fertig, 2012).

Course Design 64

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 64

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Support is sometimes available from veteran professors, faculty development offices and workshops or training to assist professors in the challenging work of course and curriculum development and implementation. In fact, teaching is where professors receive the least training, if any at all (Fertig, 2012).

Course Design 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61