Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. Collaborative learning is analogous to the traditional learning model, in which teachers impact knowledge on students. Group processing also allows the group to identify and examine areas of improvement.

Collaborative Learning 105

Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 105

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

While the authors of the 2017 National Educational Technology Plan recommended that, “every new teacher should be prepared to model how to select and use the most appropriate apps and tools to support learning and evaluate these tools against basic privacy and security standards,” this has not come to fruition.

Teaching 218

Teaching Disabilities Evaluation Internet 218

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

He’s currently leading another evolution in online teaching, as the institution moves into adaptive learning. And they hope that the future of campus learning is for students teaming up to teach each other as they work through online exercises in campus coffee shops. EdSurge: I wanted to talk about online learning.

Lecturing 132

Lecturing Students Faculty Development Collaborative Learning 132

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A second monitor can be added to the setup for the instructor to view any lecture notes or to serve as a teleprompter that can be controlled through a laptop connected to the Lightboard CPU module. Relevance for Learning, Instruction, and Assessment Adult learners have unique needs that require consideration when designing instruction.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2023

An interesting exercise we do during our faculty development program is reminisce about the very first day we taught as a teacher. Whether you are a new teacher or an experienced one, close your eyes for a moment and relive that first lecture again. There are many lessons we can draw from the memory of that first lecture.

Teaching 115

Teaching Lecturing Faculty Development Knowledge 115

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. A century later, AI is no longer fiction but a dynamic force in community college education, reshaping how faculty teach, and students learn.

Faculty Development 92

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 92

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To fill immediate gaps, smaller academic programs, such as Critical Thinking Initiatives and Centers for Teaching and Learning, can help campus communities begin engaging with generative AI thoughtfully while fostering student success and workplace readiness. It’s time to get in the water.

Learning 116

Learning Ethics Writing Critical Thinking 116

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

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. A century later, AI is no longer fiction but a dynamic force in community college education, reshaping how faculty teach, and students learn.

Faculty Development 89

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 89

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

Viruses don’t respect academic quarters,” says Beth Kalikoff, director for the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. Over the past decade, online learning has gone mainstream, with about a third of college students in the U.S. taking at least one online course.

Lecturing 111

Lecturing Disabilities Faculty Development Instructors 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To fill immediate gaps, smaller academic programs, such as Critical Thinking Initiatives and Centers for Teaching and Learning, can help campus communities begin engaging with generative AI thoughtfully while fostering student success and workplace readiness. It’s time to get in the water.

Learning 111

Learning Ethics Writing Critical Thinking 111

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Stachowiak is host of a long-running podcast called “Teaching in Higher Ed,” and she’s the dean of teaching and learning at Vanguard University of Southern California. I love what many of the universal design for learning people say. But you're saying that this is not a time to say, “go away from online learning.”

Instructors 207

Instructors Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Ethics 207

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

Universities are increasingly concerned about student success during this era of the Great Disengagement, and faculty success (more specifically, providing care to faculty so they can succeed and in turn support the needs of students) should be an equal priority.

Faculty Development 111

Faculty Development Coaching Essay Ethics 111

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

You are assuming that students are trying to cheat—rather than assuming students are trying to learn and help them learn.” 2) how many faculty or staff have been furloughed or fired? “Our job as teachers and professors is not to surveil and police our students, but it’s to educate them,” he says. Hire better teachers instead.”

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

This role also has me reading around 20 articles a day and attempting to synthesize what I learned in some meaningful way. Additionally, I am responsible for leading our faculty development team and teaching classes of my own. The kids were always able to focus more once we returned inside for more of the formal learning.

Teaching 201

Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 201

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. as an example, let’s look at teaching with case studies.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2023

An interesting exercise we do during our faculty development program is reminisce about the very first day we taught as a teacher. Whether you are a new teacher or an experienced one, close your eyes for a moment and relive that first lecture again. There are many lessons we can draw from the memory of that first lecture.

Teaching 98

Teaching Lecturing Faculty Development Knowledge 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. What follows are some suggested principles we have prepared for workshop facilitators that move beyond a talkfest to genuine learning. Principle 2: A workshop is not a lecture.

Lecturing 100

Lecturing Participation Discussions Group work 100

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. EdSurge: In terms of accessibility during this time, what have you learned? I feel like that's what I've really learned in this situation. Is it going pretty smoothly?

Accessibility 218

Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

The book, which is due out this summer, is called “ Grading for Growth: A Guide to Alternative Grading Practices that Promote Authentic Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education.” 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.

Grades 200

Grades Exams Feedback Testing 200

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

Universities are increasingly concerned about student success during this era of the Great Disengagement, and faculty success (more specifically, providing care to faculty so they can succeed and in turn support the needs of students) should be an equal priority.

Faculty Development 97

Faculty Development Coaching Essay Ethics 97

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. What follows are some suggested principles we have prepared for workshop facilitators that move beyond a talkfest to genuine learning. Principle 2: A workshop is not a lecture.

Lecturing 97

Lecturing Participation Discussions Group work 97

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

One, students just learn better when they're making connections. The way that we've structured college, faculty 1) don't have the training, and 2) don't have the time to assess where those gaps are and then actually address them. Third is, whenever possible, students really need to be connecting their learning with the world.

Education 164

Education Syllabus Faculty Development Communication 164

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Unlike traditional lecture videos that are often long and comprehensive, microlectures are bite-sized instructional videos that focus on one chunk of content. Scagnoli (2012) has identified several important benefits of microlectures for students: Microlectures allow for self-paced learning. What are microlectures?

Instructors 131

Instructors Lecturing Faculty Development Activities 131

Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

As scholar-teachers, we know that the habit of reflectioncan be a powerful tool for workplace learning and performance, which can separate high-performance professionals from mediocre ones. During the Covid-19 pandemic, I set a before-action directive in my international business for students to engage in a virtual consulting-based learning.

Lecturing 64

Lecturing Faculty Development Laboratory Knowledge 64

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. Unless you inherited your courses from someone else, you’ve developed lists of them. You might have been asked to map these outcomes against your department’s or institution’s broader learning objectives. But why limit ourselves to student learning outcomes only?

Learning Outcomes 64

Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Teaching Philosophy 64

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Unlike traditional lecture videos that are often long and comprehensive, microlectures are bite-sized instructional videos that focus on one chunk of content. Scagnoli (2012) has identified several important benefits of microlectures for students: Microlectures allow for self-paced learning. What are microlectures?

Instructors 98

Instructors Lecturing Faculty Development Activities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. Unless you inherited your courses from someone else, you’ve developed lists of them. You might have been asked to map these outcomes against your department’s or institution’s broader learning objectives. But why limit ourselves to student learning outcomes only?

Learning Outcomes 59

Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Teaching Philosophy 59

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

She encourages us to allow our students to dwell in this liminality, to embrace it, learning to explore the robust and playful opportunity it presents to ask questions and engage in problem solving. I know, I know, there are a whole slew of objections we can raise against this approach: I can’t do this in a big lecture.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

She encourages us to allow our students to dwell in this liminality, to embrace it, learning to explore the robust and playful opportunity it presents to ask questions and engage in problem solving. I know, I know, there are a whole slew of objections we can raise against this approach: I can’t do this in a big lecture.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 105

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

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

The greater the access to higher education, the more dynamic a curriculum must be to effectively and equitably educate and elevate the learning experiences of all students. Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says.

Course Design 67

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 67

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

The greater the access to higher education, the more dynamic a curriculum must be to effectively and equitably educate and elevate the learning experiences of all students. Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says.

Course Design 62

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 62

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The problem: Faculty and students alike are dealing with massive and varied post-traumatic stress issues due to the increase in gun violence on our campuses, the COVID-19 shutdown, and an increasingly divisive political environment. Learn more about the program and future cohorts.

Education 52

Education STEM Active Learning Peer Review 52

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

He had been enjoying the video lectures by the professor, François-Marc Gagnon, and Ansuini searched online for his email address. And I’m learning from lectures recorded before his passing…. was surprised to find out that the professor listed on his syllabus and featured in his video lectures passed away in 2019.

Teaching 184

Teaching Syllabus Lecturing Faculty Development 184