Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Students in smaller classes often feel more comfortable asking questions and engaging in discussions, fostering a collaborative learning environment. Clear communication of expectations for both in-person and remote students is essential, ensuring everyone understands their roles in contributing to discussions and activities.

Teaching 88

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 88

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Students in smaller classes often feel more comfortable asking questions and engaging in discussions, fostering a collaborative learning environment. Clear communication of expectations for both in-person and remote students is essential, ensuring everyone understands their roles in contributing to discussions and activities.

Teaching 85

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 85

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! Lining students up in two rows facing each other, I gave them four minutes to discuss their research question with a peer (two minutes each), inviting questions and insights. It started with a yawn.

Lecturing 111

Lecturing Interdisciplinary Cognitive Development English 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! Lining students up in two rows facing each other, I gave them four minutes to discuss their research question with a peer (two minutes each), inviting questions and insights. It started with a yawn.

Lecturing 111

Lecturing Interdisciplinary Cognitive Development English 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Simple active learning techniques such as a quick temperature check or low stakes writing activity (Lang, 2021) can allow space for students to express their feelings, particularly when discussing challenging or emotive material, which simultaneously builds empathy and inclusion. Padlet is a good digital tool. Padlet is a good digital tool.

Activities 111

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

Prioritize Information : Before students can write effectively, they must learn to identify and rank key ideas from their readings, lectures, or discussions. These reflections can be used to structure class discussions, ensuring that students engage with the material in meaningful ways.

Writing 105

Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 105

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

PEEK INSIDE COLLEGE CLASSROOMS: Discover interdisciplinary teaching insights from our growing community of college educators. The student explored the culture of coffee, the culture of cafes, and the culture of leisure in Croatia and explained the failure of Starbucks through that lens of culture.

Quizzes 167

Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Simple active learning techniques such as a quick temperature check or low stakes writing activity (Lang, 2021) can allow space for students to express their feelings, particularly when discussing challenging or emotive material, which simultaneously builds empathy and inclusion. Padlet is a good digital tool. Padlet is a good digital tool.

Activities 98

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 98

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. Charlotte reminds her students that they have until this evening to post their chosen topics for their literature reviews on the class discussion board. I’m not 18 and going into a big lecture hall.

Students 176

Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 176

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Online, I’m even more careful to select appropriate times for actively taking notes, breakout discussions, and then activities. Collaborate Encourage students to ask questions, share their ideas, and participate in class discussions. Additionally, collaboration or putting students in groups to discuss was a great way to stay engaged.

Attention 122

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Online, I’m even more careful to select appropriate times for actively taking notes, breakout discussions, and then activities. Collaborate Encourage students to ask questions, share their ideas, and participate in class discussions. Additionally, collaboration or putting students in groups to discuss was a great way to stay engaged.

Attention 111

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 111

Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This may involve lectures, active learning activities, or group work to disseminate information and student learning. Backward design to combat curricular expansion in a large, interdisciplinary, team-taught course. It is important to keep a flexible mindset and focus on progress rather than perfection when tackling a new course.

Instructors 52

Instructors Curriculum Quizzes Lecturing 52

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Before the pandemic, like many of my peers, I had been a great believer of the lecture hall, with its sense of tradition and history. However, it wasn’t until I started lecturing online, and noticed the flow of real-time comments via chat, that I realized how inclusive it could be. Instead of the static talk-down with “any questions?”

Lecturing 202

Lecturing Education Learning Knowledge 202

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

Prioritize Information : Before students can write effectively, they must learn to identify and rank key ideas from their readings, lectures, or discussions. These reflections can be used to structure class discussions, ensuring that students engage with the material in meaningful ways.

Writing 122

Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 25, 2025

Maxwell (2017) discusses how awe leads to emotional uplifts, enhancing well-being by fostering feelings of connectivity and reduced self-focus, which is crucial in the isolated online learning environment.

Interdisciplinary 95

Interdisciplinary Education Instructors Communication 95

Faculty Focus

MARCH 25, 2025

Maxwell (2017) discusses how awe leads to emotional uplifts, enhancing well-being by fostering feelings of connectivity and reduced self-focus, which is crucial in the isolated online learning environment.

Interdisciplinary 95

Interdisciplinary Education Instructors Communication 95

EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

Each neighborhood team of teachers uses the new classrooms to provide more individualized instruction and have their students pursue hands-on learning activities and work on ­interdisciplinary projects. This frees up class time for discussions and collaborative activities, educators say.

Learning 120

Learning Learning Spaces Elementary School Elementary School 120

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These tasks are then recorded, shared and discussed with advisors using a special learning management system, called Headrush. He also cites a guest lecture he saw about the philosophers Thomas Hobbes’ and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s theories of social violence and control delivered by Jamaican philosopher Charles Mills.

Beliefs 148

Beliefs Learning Students Interdisciplinary 148

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

These include group discussions, hands-on experiments, problem-solving activities, and creative assessments that encourage critical thinking and peer collaboration. This innovative teaching environment blends engaged lectures with hands-on, collaborative activities, with the instructor as a facilitator. ” Science Scope 32, no.

Interdisciplinary 62

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 62

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

These include group discussions, hands-on experiments, problem-solving activities, and creative assessments that encourage critical thinking and peer collaboration. This innovative teaching environment blends engaged lectures with hands-on, collaborative activities, with the instructor as a facilitator. ” Science Scope 32, no.

Interdisciplinary 60

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 60