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. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? Spitale et al.

Faculty Development 91

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

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

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

This comes back to 20 years of faculty development where basically we know that, if a professor teaches an online course, they have to go through 80 hours of training to learn to teach online. We have a very high quality standard for the online courses, so that if you ask the question, ‘Do they learn as well?’

Lecturing 124

Lecturing Students Faculty Development Collaborative Learning 124

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 7: Carefully design discussion questions in advance.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Participation Discussions Group work 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 7: Carefully design discussion questions in advance.

Lecturing 97

Lecturing Participation Discussions Group work 97

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. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? Spitale et al.

Faculty Development 86

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? That sentiment was taken further this week in a Twitter thread by Jesse Stommel, a senior lecturer in communications and digital studies at the University of Mary Washington and co-founder of the Digital Pedagogy Lab.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We know that it’s important to incorporate small changes in our teaching, such as periodically adding a learning activity in place of a brief lecture. I recommend looking at your current teaching content with a question, “What’s the most important information I want students to learn here?”

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 98

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. For example, a professor could have students watch a microlecture and submit questions before class so that they know what to review or address at the start of class (Scagnoli, 2012).

Instructors 131

Instructors Lecturing Faculty Development Activities 131

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

You can pose a question for a future column here. Additionally, I am responsible for leading our faculty development team and teaching classes of my own. The best thing about the experience for us has been getting to overhear their teachers referring to our kids by name and addressing their unique challenges and passions.

Teaching 194

Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 194

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I would get rid of all lecture halls that are beyond 40 people. There's no reason for people to gather in a big room where people can't have a discussion and ask questions anymore. I think that education—and no one seems to want to admit this—education just takes time, and that just takes people and labor.

Education 163

Education Syllabus Faculty Development Communication 163

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

These spaces contain questions that we wish to answer—no, actually, that we feel compelled to answer. 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. Cover the syllabus later.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 111

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. Some technologies also allow for knowledge check questions to be embedded in the video. References Bradbury, N. link] 0.1152/advan.00109.2016

Online Learning 111

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Essential skills like critical thinking, communication, problem-solving, and teamwork can be developed through collaborative learning (Wagino, Maksum, Purwanto, Krismadinata, Suhendar, & Koto 2023). 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

AUGUST 22, 2024

These spaces contain questions that we wish to answer—no, actually, that we feel compelled to answer. 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. Cover the syllabus later.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 105

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Essential skills like critical thinking, communication, problem-solving, and teamwork can be developed through collaborative learning (Wagino, Maksum, Purwanto, Krismadinata, Suhendar, & Koto 2023). 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

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. Some technologies also allow for knowledge check questions to be embedded in the video. References Bradbury, N. link] 0.1152/advan.00109.2016

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

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. For example, a professor could have students watch a microlecture and submit questions before class so that they know what to review or address at the start of class (Scagnoli, 2012).

Instructors 98

Instructors Lecturing Faculty Development Activities 98

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. Is this enough?

Faculty Development 61

Faculty Development Peer Review Achievement Lecturing 61

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. Is this enough?

Faculty Development 54

Faculty Development Peer Review Achievement Lecturing 54

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

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Aaron Ansuini had a question for the professor teaching his online course at Concordia University, so he decided to shoot him an email. 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….

Teaching 175

Teaching Syllabus Lecturing Faculty Development 175