Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

David Peña-Guzman starts off his Friday class at San Francisco State University like any other professor might: students file in and pull out their note-taking materials, and he opens his laptop to begin lecture. For most of the course, there’s no lecture happening at all. For starters, it’s long. and wraps up at 2:30 p.m.

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Reading Teaching Lecturing Syllabus 161

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Is a ‘desk scan’ necessary for a syllabus quiz? That sentiment was taken further this week in a Twitter thread by Jesse Stommel, a senior lecturer in communications and digital studies at the University of Mary Washington and co-founder of the Digital Pedagogy Lab. “If That’s ridiculous,” he says. Hire better teachers instead.”

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Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Historically, college students are reluctant to self-disclose their disability status. Students’ response to this question gives us an early opportunity to connect students—who might not know the process—with our college’s office of disability services. We also cannot ask students to disclose their status.

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Instructors Disabilities Culture Syllabus 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Historically, college students are reluctant to self-disclose their disability status. Students’ response to this question gives us an early opportunity to connect students—who might not know the process—with our college’s office of disability services. We also cannot ask students to disclose their status.

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Instructors Disabilities Culture Syllabus 105

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

The surveys included over 20 demographic questionscovering areas like housing, food security, disability status, and employmentfollowed by 1540 experience-based questions exploring academic confidence, mental health, study habits, and perceptions of inclusion. These were not standard end-of-semester evaluations. They asked to be heard.

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Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 64

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Active learning, as defined by Bonwell and Eison (1991), is learning that goes beyond just listening to a lecture and includes engagement on the part of the student through reading, writing, discussion and problem solving. A new comparison of active learning strategies to traditional lectures for teaching college astronomy.

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 64

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Active learning, as defined by Bonwell and Eison (1991), is learning that goes beyond just listening to a lecture and includes engagement on the part of the student through reading, writing, discussion and problem solving. A new comparison of active learning strategies to traditional lectures for teaching college astronomy.

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

You recorded your lectures or gathered via video call with however many students you could reach each week. No one knows yet what the next semester will bring, but there’s a good chance the spaces where you used to teach, whether cavernous lecture hall or cozy seminar room, won’t be available this fall. Key Concepts.

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Syllabus Lecturing Course Design Education 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Decolonize my syllabus , decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand inclusion and diversity in education. at the end, I was able to modify my lecture according to the comments flowing in. Photo by PhotoFra.]

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Lecturing Education Learning Knowledge 217

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Decolonize my syllabus , decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand inclusion and diversity in education. at the end, I was able to modify my lecture according to the comments flowing in. Photo by PhotoFra.]

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Lecturing Education Learning Knowledge 196