Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

This article explores AI’s historical evolution, critically assesses its benefits and challenges for teaching, and provides evidence-based strategies for faculty to integrate AI effectively. How can it enhance teaching without diminishing faculty agency? What are its merits and limitations?

Faculty Development 75

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 75

Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Keywords: Gamification, Immersion, Faculty Development Introduction The way we live and work has changed dramatically since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have re-evaluated priorities and found ways to be more efficient in our everyday lives. How could we make learning about assessment fun and engaging?

Faculty Development 52

Faculty Development Gamification Authentic Assessment eLearning 52

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed. Others don’t necessarily come in with those values but understand that they need to do better, based on a complaint, evaluations, or an improvement plan of some sort. Who are you to your students?

Teaching 98

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 98

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Your pursuit of this kind of assignment reminds me of an interview I did for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with Ken Bain , author of "What the Best College Teachers Do." Have students turn in a reflection at the end.

Assignments 196

Assignments Grades History Ethics 196

Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

Therefore, Schon has designed reflection-during-action in which we learn to frame and reframe unexpected outcomes, talking-back and back-talking to ourselves while teaching simultaneously. Thus, I paid attention and reflected during the action in order to construct adjustments, while doing hybrid-teaching at the same time.

Lecturing 54

Lecturing Faculty Development Laboratory Knowledge 54

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Whether you’re just getting started with using an LMS in conjunction with your teaching practices, or consider yourself an expert, here are some strategies for effective use of this tool. This appreciation is often mentioned in end-of-term evaluations. Melissa Samaniego, Ed.D.

Syllabus 122

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 122

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. Teaching : Students might be required to teach something they learned in a specific course to peers, other classes, or groups of students.

Authentic Assessment 133

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Whether you’re just getting started with using an LMS in conjunction with your teaching practices, or consider yourself an expert, here are some strategies for effective use of this tool. This appreciation is often mentioned in end-of-term evaluations. Melissa Samaniego, Ed.D.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 105

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. Teaching : Students might be required to teach something they learned in a specific course to peers, other classes, or groups of students.

Authentic Assessment 111

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

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.,

Study 123

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 123

Faculty Focus

APRIL 29, 2025

The hierarchical structure of academia places tenure-track faculty at particular risk, as they are vulnerable to unfair evaluation practices, disproportionate workloads, and a lack of mentorship from senior faculty. He has been teaching in higher education in some capacity since 2010.Dr. Levecque et al.

Education 124

Education Culture Counselling Ethics 124

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.,

Study 109

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 109

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2023

Jean Mandernach, PhD, is executive director of the Center for Innovation in Research on Teaching at Grand Canyon University. In addition, she has interests in innovative faculty development and evaluation models, teaching and learning analytics, emergent instructional technology, and faculty workload considerations.

Student Engagement 96

Student Engagement Assignments Instructors Students 96

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Our introductory students often come to us with varying degrees of understanding of the languages and cultures that we teach.

Group work 98

Group work Culture Instructors Language 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Our introductory students often come to us with varying degrees of understanding of the languages and cultures that we teach.

Group work 97

Group work Culture Instructors Language 97

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

The role of interdisciplinary teaching and learning in these institutions is pivotal in shaping the minds of future pioneers and visionaries who will propel us to Mars. Addressing Challenges for Interdisciplinary Teaching Despite these benefits, interdisciplinary programs in higher education institutions face various challenges.

Interdisciplinary 111

Interdisciplinary Study Multidisciplinary Metacognitive Skills 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Professors should be careful in the formation of groups, implement individual accountability criteria, and use peer evaluation to abate this problem. There may be students who are resistant to collaborative learning because they are accustomed to being passive, used to teacher-centered approaches, and use direct traditional teaching.

Collaborative Learning 115

Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 115

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

The role of interdisciplinary teaching and learning in these institutions is pivotal in shaping the minds of future pioneers and visionaries who will propel us to Mars. Addressing Challenges for Interdisciplinary Teaching Despite these benefits, interdisciplinary programs in higher education institutions face various challenges.

Interdisciplinary 98

Interdisciplinary Study Multidisciplinary Metacognitive Skills 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Professors should be careful in the formation of groups, implement individual accountability criteria, and use peer evaluation to abate this problem. There may be students who are resistant to collaborative learning because they are accustomed to being passive, used to teacher-centered approaches, and use direct traditional teaching.

Collaborative Learning 104

Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 104

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

Online Learning 110

Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 110

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on September 30, 2019 © Magna Publications. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. Unless you inherited your courses from someone else, you’ve developed lists of them. All rights reserved. We need them.

Learning Outcomes 64

Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Teaching Philosophy 64

Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

Therefore, Schon has designed reflection-during-action in which we learn to frame and reframe unexpected outcomes, talking-back and back-talking to ourselves while teaching simultaneously. Thus, I paid attention and reflected during the action in order to construct adjustments, while doing hybrid-teaching at the same time.

Lecturing 64

Lecturing Faculty Development Laboratory Knowledge 64

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

Online Learning 96

Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 96

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on September 30, 2019 © Magna Publications. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. Unless you inherited your courses from someone else, you’ve developed lists of them. All rights reserved. We need them.

Learning Outcomes 59

Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Teaching Philosophy 59

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 60

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 60

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 58

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 58

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

The tenure binder tells a story, the story of who you are as a faculty member. The tenure picture includes other aspects of your work, such as student evaluations, syllabi for courses, service to the university and to the profession. Your tenure statement should reflect you as a faculty member. You are more than your pubs.

Learning 64

Learning Peer Review Ethics Evaluation 64

EAB

AUGUST 25, 2023

How to effectively manage people: Faculty, staff, and school leadership Independent school leaders are responsible for a host of management duties, including faculty recruitment, professional development, performance evaluations, and determining compensation, so it’s no surprise that people management was our most requested topic.

Schools 52

Schools Learning Disabilities Evaluation Questions 52

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

The tenure binder tells a story, the story of who you are as a faculty member. The tenure picture includes other aspects of your work, such as student evaluations, syllabi for courses, service to the university and to the profession. Your tenure statement should reflect you as a faculty member. You are more than your pubs.

Learning 52

Learning Peer Review Ethics Evaluation 52

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. The MSF asks students simple, direct questions focused on the teaching and learning process in their current course.

Instructors 84

Instructors Feedback Evaluation Students 84

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. The MSF asks students simple, direct questions focused on the teaching and learning process in their current course.

Instructors 78

Instructors Feedback Evaluation Students 78