Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. A century later, AI is no longer fiction but a dynamic force in community college education, reshaping how faculty teach, and students learn. Spitale et al.

Faculty Development 82

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 82

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

In creating a course shell, regardless of the course modality (face-to-face, hybrid, or online), it can be helpful to understand the things that students find most frustrating (and most helpful) about faculty use of the LMS. Many faculty don’t include due dates, which can lead to missed deadlines. Melissa Samaniego, Ed.D.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 105

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

JULY 21, 2022

When I talked with Josh Eyler, director of faculty development and director of the think forward quality enhancement plan at the University of Mississippi, about the problem with grades on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, he urged us to recognize that: “The more we focus on grades, the less we focus on learning.”

Assignments 187

Assignments Grades History Ethics 187

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

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

apply, analyze, evaluate, create), and have been shown to be an effective way of learning (Lee et al., The first article (this one) will provide instructions for creating an intimate debate case study (a case study where students evaluate evidence for two sides of a controversy). 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., Write this introduction.

Study 124

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 124

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2023

In addition, students reported feeling more connected with the course content and their instructor, leading to an overall more satisfactory learning experience. They felt like they had high levels of interaction with the instructor.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Assignments Instructors Students 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). The instructor can then adjust the course as needed.

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). The instructor can then adjust the course as needed.

Group work 98

Group work Culture Instructors Languages 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

apply, analyze, evaluate, create), and have been shown to be an effective way of learning (Lee et al., The first article (this one) will provide instructions for creating an intimate debate case study (a case study where students evaluate evidence for two sides of a controversy). 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., Write this introduction.

Study 113

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 113

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Regular and engaging content: For each eight-week term, the OLC meets virtually two to three times for 30-minute sessions to provide professional development on best practices in online teaching, pedagogy, student academic engagement and student retention, and in creating a close connection to the university mission. What the literature says.

Online Learning 111

Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Regular and engaging content: For each eight-week term, the OLC meets virtually two to three times for 30-minute sessions to provide professional development on best practices in online teaching, pedagogy, student academic engagement and student retention, and in creating a close connection to the university mission. What the literature says.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

The second type of curriculum consists of the set of plans made for guiding learning, which includes the learning experiences and interactions that students have with the content, materials, resources and the process for evaluating mastery of the objectives (Glatthorn, Boschee, Whitehead & Boschee, 2019).

Course Design 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

The second type of curriculum consists of the set of plans made for guiding learning, which includes the learning experiences and interactions that students have with the content, materials, resources and the process for evaluating mastery of the objectives (Glatthorn, Boschee, Whitehead & Boschee, 2019).

Course Design 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2025

Unfortunately, the most common form of feedback that instructors receive, the mandatory end-of-semester evaluation, is primarily intended to assess faculty rather than the teaching and learning experience. Before the evaluation, the facilitator and the instructor identify three or four open-ended questions to structure the MSF.

Instructors 90

Instructors Feedback Evaluation Students 90

Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2025

Unfortunately, the most common form of feedback that instructors receive, the mandatory end-of-semester evaluation, is primarily intended to assess faculty rather than the teaching and learning experience. Before the evaluation, the facilitator and the instructor identify three or four open-ended questions to structure the MSF.

Instructors 83

Instructors Feedback Evaluation Students 83