Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Since the pandemic, which necessitated the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas or Blackboard, there is now an additional component to consider in developing our courses. Melissa Samaniego, Ed.D.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 105

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. Davidson, 2021; Pritts, 2023) to position AI as a partner in faculty development. Faculty development can include HyFlex training to optimize this balance.

Faculty Development 89

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 89

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Unlike the end-of-semester feedback, when gathering formative feedback on what’s helping or hindering student learning might be too late, mid-term analysis of our teaching and student learning may help motivate students and enhance their learning. Sound familiar? Adding small activities for engagement.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Most of us have the experience of registering for a workshop only to discover that it is a lecture or (worse) an advertisement for the presenter. Principle 2: A workshop is not a lecture. Many experts are bad at teaching workshops because they are used to lecturing. Principle 3: Small group work is ideal.

Lecturing 100

Lecturing Participation Discussions Group work 100

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

Additionally, I am responsible for leading our faculty development team and teaching classes of my own. Research shows grades don’t help learning and actually distract from other feedback/assessment.” This role also has me reading around 20 articles a day and attempting to synthesize what I learned in some meaningful way.

Teaching 201

Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 201

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Promotive interaction involves concept explanation, idea challenging, providing positive support and feedback, and, more importantly, the student’s involvement in the learning process (Raihan, 2014). As a result, the professor can assume a facilitator’s role, guide, and observe rather than lecture and direct learning.

Collaborative Learning 116

Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 116

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Most of us have the experience of registering for a workshop only to discover that it is a lecture or (worse) an advertisement for the presenter. Principle 2: A workshop is not a lecture. Many experts are bad at teaching workshops because they are used to lecturing. Principle 3: Small group work is ideal.

Lecturing 97

Lecturing Participation Discussions Group work 97

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Promotive interaction involves concept explanation, idea challenging, providing positive support and feedback, and, more importantly, the student’s involvement in the learning process (Raihan, 2014). As a result, the professor can assume a facilitator’s role, guide, and observe rather than lecture and direct learning.

Collaborative Learning 105

Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

Ideally, faculty development programs could promote and illustrate that reflection during the action can be learned. Before the action or before the lecture, set directive goals for your action, including naming the purpose and intention for that lecture along with anticipation of surprises and struggles that could emerge.

Lecturing 64

Lecturing Faculty Development Laboratory Knowledge 64

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.

Faculty Development 62

Faculty Development Peer Review Achievement Lecturing 62

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Support is sometimes available from veteran professors, faculty development offices and workshops or training to assist professors in the challenging work of course and curriculum development and implementation. The third step in the initial design phase is to think about and plan the feedback and assessment procedures.

Course Design 67

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 67

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.

Faculty Development 55

Faculty Development Peer Review Achievement Lecturing 55

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Support is sometimes available from veteran professors, faculty development offices and workshops or training to assist professors in the challenging work of course and curriculum development and implementation. The third step in the initial design phase is to think about and plan the feedback and assessment procedures.

Course Design 62

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 62

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Everyone, both faculty and students, has in some way suffered trauma or multiple micro-traumatic events. Denial and continuing to lecture as if nothing has changed simply will not work for much longer and certainly will not build that community that will lead to happy, connected alumni. They simply won’t work.

Education 52

Education STEM Active Learning Peer Review 52