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Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

Faculty Focus

Unlike the end-of-semester feedback, when gathering formative feedback on what’s helping or hindering student learning might be too late, mid-term analysis of our teaching and student learning may help motivate students and enhance their learning. Sound familiar? Adding small activities for engagement.

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Get Wild! Gamification Creates Immersive, On-Demand Faculty Development 

Scholarly Teacher

Keywords: Gamification, Immersion, Faculty Development Introduction The way we live and work has changed dramatically since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the faculty development realm, a badging system could be used to reward faculty for achieved credentials, attendance, or certifications.

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Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System?

Edsurge

You would go to a university and you would study for four years, and you'd go to lectures and go to your discussion groups. There's lots of discussion of equity and education these days. All human learning that's significant is based on feedback loops, except in school. dissertation defenses we have now. What makes you say that?

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. Davidson, 2021; Pritts, 2023) to position AI as a partner in faculty development. Faculty development can include HyFlex training to optimize this balance.

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Lumen Learning, a Proponent of OER, Makes First Acquisition to Offer Faculty Coaching

Edsurge

Faculty Guild had about 40 college customers for its online faculty development service, which centered around placing faculty members in small virtual communities to guide them through improving their teaching techniques. But its pricing structure “did not scale well,” said Kim Thanos, CEO of Lumen Learning.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. Davidson, 2021; Pritts, 2023) to position AI as a partner in faculty development. Faculty development can include HyFlex training to optimize this balance.

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Using the LMS Effectively to Reduce Logistical Challenges for Students 

Faculty Focus

Many faculty don’t include due dates, which can lead to missed deadlines. Posting grades and feedback weeks or months after assignment submission is frustrating for students, especially for assignments that build on one another. A key theme here is the organization and consistent use of the LMS by faculty.

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