Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

There are multiple teaching tools such as journals, surveys, reflective assignments, anonymous polls, discussions, small-group reflections, and others that instructors can utilize in order to obtain student feedback. Anna Conway, EdD is a professor and faculty developer at Des Moines Area Community College.

Student Engagement 131

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 131

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Both approaches, learner-centered and transformative, require us to shuttle between various roles: the lecturer, who leads students; the facilitator, who guides them; and perhaps most importantly, the collaborator, who learns from and with them. Instructor learning outcomes, however, are highly personal. New York, NY: Dutton.

Learning Outcomes 59

Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Teaching Philosophy 59

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 86

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

Online Learning 111

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Zheng (2022) defines a microlecture as “a short video, usually produced by the instructor, that explains a single key concept or a specific skill.” Unlike traditional lecture videos that are often long and comprehensive, microlectures are bite-sized instructional videos that focus on one chunk of content. Enter microlectures.

Instructors 131

Instructors Lecturing Faculty Development Activities 131

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Then we also have continued our webinars series with our Center for Faculty Development and Innovation. What are some of the accessibility needs college students have that instructors, researchers and course designers should be thinking about when moving courses online? And the activity is just a content check.

Accessibility 218

Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

Many large classes are already in the habit of posting lectures to the class website after every session, as is done at many colleges so students can rewatch later. In practice, though, she expects that most will record lecture videos in their homes or campus offices. Is That Online Teaching? We’ve won awards for our online teaching.

Lecturing 107

Lecturing Disabilities Faculty Development Instructors 107

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

There are multiple teaching tools such as journals, surveys, reflective assignments, anonymous polls, discussions, small-group reflections, and others that instructors can utilize in order to obtain student feedback. Anna Conway, EdD is a professor and faculty developer at Des Moines Area Community College.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 98

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

Additionally, I am responsible for leading our faculty development team and teaching classes of my own. The learning management system (LMS) I use allows the instructor to see the course from a student’s view. Increasingly, the pressures of my work overshadowed my desire to ‘perform’ as an excellent homeschooling teacher.

Teaching 194

Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 194

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

You would go to a university and you would study for four years, and you'd go to lectures and go to your discussion groups. It just had levels on it — the instructor would circle the level that he had completed and use some highlighters to show what skills he's good at doing, what skills he needs to continue to work on.

Grades 194

Grades Exams Feedback Testing 194

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Zheng (2022) defines a microlecture as “a short video, usually produced by the instructor, that explains a single key concept or a specific skill.” Unlike traditional lecture videos that are often long and comprehensive, microlectures are bite-sized instructional videos that focus on one chunk of content. Enter microlectures.

Instructors 98

Instructors Lecturing Faculty Development Activities 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What follows is a case study that can be adapted by a wide range of academic programs, such as faculty development centers, university learning centers, and writing centers. In my mind, it is an ethical obligation to prepare every instructor and student to write and learn critically with AI.

Learning 116

Learning Ethics Writing Critical Thinking 116

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What follows is a case study that can be adapted by a wide range of academic programs, such as faculty development centers, university learning centers, and writing centers. In my mind, it is an ethical obligation to prepare every instructor and student to write and learn critically with AI.

Learning 111

Learning Ethics Writing Critical Thinking 111

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. Fink developed a worksheet to establish what he refers to as procedures for educative assessment.

Course Design 64

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 64

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. Fink developed a worksheet to establish what he refers to as procedures for educative assessment.

Course Design 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Utilization and modeling of these effective, participatory learning activities among faculty groups are also a way to build community among faculty as they are “trained” to be effective trauma-informed instructors. Everyone, both faculty and students, has in some way suffered trauma or multiple micro-traumatic events.

STEM 52

STEM Education Active Learning Peer Review 52