Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. Here, students are required to conduct an actual performance instead of simply providing an answer to a question or responding to a prompt.

Authentic Assessment 133

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Faculty Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

In our discussion, we will focus on formative -developmental observations because we are interested in practices that help in the improvement of teaching practices in educational institutions. Promote the haring of best practices : Faculty can observe, discuss, and integrate effective teaching strategies used by their peers.

Evaluation 97

Evaluation Teaching Teaching Methods Faculty Development 97

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

It can also lead to a slew of similar questions being sent to the professor, who then must spend time addressing those questions either individually or with the class the next time they meet. Include a non-graded ‘discussion’ area where students can get to know each other. Melissa Samaniego, Ed.D.

Syllabus 122

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 122

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Two recent studies, both asking different research questions and using different methodologies, offer still more evidence that the relationship between teachers and students is an integral part of the learning experience. The team used the data pool to answer two questions: (1) What do students value in their interactions with instructors?

Teachers 105

Teachers Instructors Faculty Development Feedback 105

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

These spaces contain questions that we wish to answer—no, actually, that we feel compelled to answer. She encourages us to allow our students to dwell in this liminality, to embrace it, learning to explore the robust and playful opportunity it presents to ask questions and engage in problem solving.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Groven made the point during a recent panel discussion about how best to encourage viewpoint diversity in classrooms, hosted by the Free Speech Project , a nonpartisan initiative run by Georgetown University. Listen to the full discussion on the EdSurge Podcast.

History 170

History Culture Discussions High School 170

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In many classrooms these days, student discussion can grow so heated that passion threatens to overwhelm productive conversation. Considering these high stakes, students and instructors may be tempted to avoid tough subjects altogether, or only discuss them with like-minded folks. But there’s another option.

Instructors 170

Instructors Beliefs Confidentiality Discussions 170

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

These spaces contain questions that we wish to answer—no, actually, that we feel compelled to answer. She encourages us to allow our students to dwell in this liminality, to embrace it, learning to explore the robust and playful opportunity it presents to ask questions and engage in problem solving.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 105

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Two recent studies, both asking different research questions and using different methodologies, offer still more evidence that the relationship between teachers and students is an integral part of the learning experience. The team used the data pool to answer two questions: (1) What do students value in their interactions with instructors?

Teachers 97

Teachers Instructors Faculty Development Feedback 97

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. Here, students are required to conduct an actual performance instead of simply providing an answer to a question or responding to a prompt.

Authentic Assessment 111

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

It can also lead to a slew of similar questions being sent to the professor, who then must spend time addressing those questions either individually or with the class the next time they meet. Include a non-graded ‘discussion’ area where students can get to know each other. Melissa Samaniego, Ed.D.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 105

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Listen to highlights of the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast. There's no reason for people to gather in a big room where people can't have a discussion and ask questions anymore. But these days she’s getting schooled in just how hard it is to start a college from scratch.

Education 163

Education Syllabus Faculty Development Communication 163

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. Almog, 2019; Triandafilide, 2020). References and Resources Almog, N.

Syllabus 131

Syllabus Exams Instructors Assignments 131

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

You need to give plenty of time to ensuring the room is arranged to facilitate quality discussion and learning. Good workshops involve discussion, and discussion is most fruitful in groups of 3-4 members. Principle 6: Keep in mind that discussion takes time. Principle 7: Carefully design discussion questions in advance.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Participation Discussions Group work 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

By informal, I mean posting a short video inviting them to participate in a discussion forum, journal entry, or an anonymous online poll. I recommend looking at your current teaching content with a question, “What’s the most important information I want students to learn here?” Adding small activities for engagement.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

You need to give plenty of time to ensuring the room is arranged to facilitate quality discussion and learning. Good workshops involve discussion, and discussion is most fruitful in groups of 3-4 members. Principle 6: Keep in mind that discussion takes time. Principle 7: Carefully design discussion questions in advance.

Lecturing 97

Lecturing Participation Discussions Group work 97

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

You can pose a question for a future column here. Additionally, I am responsible for leading our faculty development team and teaching classes of my own. This meant that when the pandemic struck, the current events were able to flow much more regularly into our class discussions.

Teaching 194

Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 194

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement. This is the humdinger.

Teaching 122

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 122

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

To help answer that question, we recently brought two online learning experts to EdSurge Live, a monthly video-based town hall event, to talk about their work and research in online education, and what’s needed to better serve students in the digital space. Then we tried to answer the question, why this is happening? It's interesting.

Instructors 133

Instructors Distance Learning Students Online Learning 133

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This paper will investigate some key principles and advantages of collaborative learning, explore some of the challenges, and discuss best practices for effectively implementing collaborative learning activities in the classroom. This can lead to significant retention and the capability to apply knowledge novelly.

Collaborative Learning 116

Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? And more importantly, should we?

Assignments 80

Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 80

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. Almog, 2019; Triandafilide, 2020). References and Resources Almog, N.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Exams Instructors Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement. This is the humdinger.

Teaching 98

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

UCF has led our discussions about research in the field. We discussed vendors of digital tools and how to work with them effectively, and we compared ways to support faculty as they put new digital tools in place. We talked about how to lead change management in education. A team from UMUC will visit CTU later in 2016.

Learning 78

Learning Curriculum Design Faculty Development Discussions 78

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This paper will investigate some key principles and advantages of collaborative learning, explore some of the challenges, and discuss best practices for effectively implementing collaborative learning activities in the classroom. This can lead to significant retention and the capability to apply knowledge novelly.

Collaborative Learning 105

Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 105

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Ask a question in class, hear the silence, and feel a small surge of anger. Silence does have all these negative meanings but in courses it can also provide the space needed to process the question, to search for the answer, to contemplate possible responses, to think of the question that comes before the one thats been asked.

Essay 97

Essay Motivation Attention Questions 97

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Students can embed the individual BookSnaps in a Google Slide presentation submitted to their teacher or submit the image within a discussion board post on a learning management system. In math courses, students can take a picture of their calculations, annotate their explanations, or ask questions.

Learning 111

Learning Students Textbooks Reading 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? And more importantly, should we?

Assignments 69

Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 69

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

This comes back to 20 years of faculty development where basically we know that, if a professor teaches an online course, they have to go through 80 hours of training to learn to teach online. We have a very high quality standard for the online courses, so that if you ask the question, ‘Do they learn as well?’

Lecturing 124

Lecturing Students Faculty Development Collaborative Learning 124

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Here, then, are 10 very basic, practical strategies for new faculty to consider during their early exploratory quests in the profession, based upon my experience of faculty development over the past 40 years. However, institutions vary in their commitment to faculty development. Is this enough?

Faculty Development 61

Faculty Development Peer Review Achievement Lecturing 61

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Here, then, are 10 very basic, practical strategies for new faculty to consider during their early exploratory quests in the profession, based upon my experience of faculty development over the past 40 years. However, institutions vary in their commitment to faculty development. Is this enough?

Faculty Development 54

Faculty Development Peer Review Achievement Lecturing 54

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

However, we have often been frustrated by the lessons proposed in our language textbooks for learning about culture; these lessons usually come in the form of disconnected short readings with comprehension questions. She also presents regularly on topics related to pedagogy and faculty development.

Group work 98

Group work Culture Instructors Languages 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

However, we have often been frustrated by the lessons proposed in our language textbooks for learning about culture; these lessons usually come in the form of disconnected short readings with comprehension questions. She also presents regularly on topics related to pedagogy and faculty development.

Group work 98

Group work Culture Instructors Languages 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

607) Not only do articles published in predatory journals not count towards tenure, the presence of such articles in your portfolio calls into question your other publications. With the number of predatory journals and publishers on the rise, it is the job of the faculty member to double-check a journal’s standing before submitting work.

Learning 64

Learning Peer Review Ethics Evaluation 64

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Ask a question in class, hear the silence, and feel a small surge of anger. Silence does have all these negative meanings but in courses it can also provide the space needed to process the question, to search for the answer, to contemplate possible responses, to think of the question that comes before the one thats been asked.

Essay 52

Essay Motivation Attention Questions 52

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Students can embed the individual BookSnaps in a Google Slide presentation submitted to their teacher or submit the image within a discussion board post on a learning management system. In math courses, students can take a picture of their calculations, annotate their explanations, or ask questions.

Learning 59

Learning Students Textbooks Reading 59

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

607) Not only do articles published in predatory journals not count towards tenure, the presence of such articles in your portfolio calls into question your other publications. With the number of predatory journals and publishers on the rise, it is the job of the faculty member to double-check a journal’s standing before submitting work.

Learning 52

Learning Peer Review Ethics Evaluation 52