Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Importantly, building classes that contain these elements for both students and instructors can lead to benefits for all. Below, I outline details about the five components and ideas for both students and instructors. For instructors: Reflect on your decision latitude to design your course from start to finish.

Course Design 80

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 80

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

TPS is also a lower-stake activity than most group work, since the learning takes place in an environment that the teacher controls, where the students are encouraged to share their communal learning with the whole class under the direct supervision of the instructor. International Journal of Science Education , 45 (15), 1241–1261.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. Instructors are encouraged to take small steps to start building HIPs in their curriculums, and there are some HIPs which are easy to incorporate into an existing course.

Assignments 97

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 97

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom. Technology will be better equipped to evaluate threads across time as well as single point-in-time measures. — Stephen Heywood, Broadcast Engineer, PTZOptics.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Thus, it’s pressing for instructors to collaborate on concrete ways to create a welcoming tone and build rapport in digital spaces. As Michelle Pacansky-Brock (2023) notes, “connecting with you [the instructor] before they connect with course content will establish a supportive and welcoming course climate that will also cultivate community.”

Culture 121

Culture Communication Language Languages 121

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now, adaptive systems equipped with artificial intelligence evaluate student responses and seamlessly modify subsequent lessons, ensuring each learner is presented with material that resonates with their current skill set and aptitude, pushing them just the right amount. Many found themselves either overwhelmed or under-stimulated.

Intelligence 120

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 120

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. Instructors are encouraged to take small steps to start building HIPs in their curriculums, and there are some HIPs which are easy to incorporate into an existing course.

Assignments 77

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 77

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now, adaptive systems equipped with artificial intelligence evaluate student responses and seamlessly modify subsequent lessons, ensuring each learner is presented with material that resonates with their current skill set and aptitude, pushing them just the right amount. Many found themselves either overwhelmed or under-stimulated.

Intelligence 107

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 107

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Thus, it’s pressing for instructors to collaborate on concrete ways to create a welcoming tone and build rapport in digital spaces. As Michelle Pacansky-Brock (2023) notes, “connecting with you [the instructor] before they connect with course content will establish a supportive and welcoming course climate that will also cultivate community.”

Culture 92

Culture Communication Language Languages 92

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom. Technology will be better equipped to evaluate threads across time as well as single point-in-time measures. — Stephen Heywood, Broadcast Engineer, PTZOptics.

Hybrid Learning 291

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 291

Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

Different instructors have disparate expectations when it comes to completing these reports. How well students know how to complete a lab report relies heavily on the feedback that previous instructors were willing to give to help students improve.

Laboratory 52

Laboratory Instructors Feedback Writing 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It’s a classic idea : In the 1600s it was the basic model of evaluation at Oxford and Cambridge (with the grilling by professors done in Latin), and it was pretty much what Socrates did to his students. And oral evaluations of student learning do still happen occasionally — like when graduate students defend their theses and dissertations.

Exams 215

Exams Essay Instructors Education 215