Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Around the semester midpoint you may be noticing that some of your students are becoming overwhelmed, may lack motivation, or feel disconnected from the class. Below, let me share instructional strategies that I use in my courses (virtual, asynchronous, and in-person) to recover student engagement. Sound familiar?

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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. These skills are required for these students to be successful.

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Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 115

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. These skills are required for these students to be successful.

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Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 105

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. It might be about a time when you were a research student and were replacing a teacher on leave or your start as a new teacher on a temporary position.

Teaching 115

Teaching Lecturing Faculty Development Knowledge 115

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Privacy and Student Data During these pressing circumstances, many educators are curating and sharing digital tools, strategies, and tips for remote teaching with their networks. They may not be aware that their use of these technologies might violate students’ privacy rights and put them in unsafe situations.

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Teaching Disabilities Evaluation Internet 218

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.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 89

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

We believe many faculty have not had the time, space, or support to process feelings of grief and loss. For faculty developers and faculty seeking support, what does care look like during these desperate times?

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Faculty Development Coaching Essay Ethics 112

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. More than 60,000 students across the U.S. Students on other campuses agree.

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Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

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.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 82

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. It might be about a time when you were a research student and were replacing a teacher on leave or your start as a new teacher on a temporary position.

Teaching 98

Teaching Lecturing Faculty Development Knowledge 98

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

First, the tips: The Simplest Way to Go Online is to Shift to a Video Conference Platform Stachowiak says that just lecturing to a webcam instead of an in-person class isn’t the best way to teach online, but it is the easiest way to switch. But don’t just put a large video file on Dropbox, which can take students a long time to download.

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Instructors Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Ethics 206

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

Over the past decade, online learning has gone mainstream, with about a third of college students in the U.S. In many cases, the professors being asked to teach online have no experience doing so, and many students have little experience with fully online classes. taking at least one online course. Is That Online Teaching?

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Lecturing Disabilities Faculty Development Instructors 105

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

At the university where I teach, a number of our students come from a home schooling environment. As students would share their experiences, I often realized that the home schools in my imagination were vastly different from what these young people described. The ways in which students synthesized their learning was phenomenal.

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Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 197

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. They also addressed audience questions about how to get faculty motivated to adjust their courses to improve accessibility. However, that is obviously very costly.

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Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

We believe many faculty have not had the time, space, or support to process feelings of grief and loss. For faculty developers and faculty seeking support, what does care look like during these desperate times?

Faculty Development 96

Faculty Development Coaching Essay Ethics 96

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright student in a calculus class Talbert was teaching bombed the first exam. The student knew the material, but she just wasn’t a good test-taker. The same thing happened on the second exam, and now the student had no way to do any better in the class than a C.

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Grades Exams Feedback Testing 199

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. This means the center of attention should be on the students doing work, not on the expert talking about their expertise.

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Lecturing Participation Discussions Group work 96

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Alder College, in a nutshell, would be a two-year liberal arts commuter college and students would graduate with an associate’s degree. When students enter they'd enter with a cohort, and they would stay with that cohort of about 30 students for their entire time. One, students just learn better when they're making connections.

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Education Syllabus Faculty Development Communication 161

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. This means the center of attention should be on the students doing work, not on the expert talking about their expertise.

Lecturing 94

Lecturing Participation Discussions Group work 94

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Traditional instructional videos are often long, address a variety of content, or lack meaningful opportunities for students to engage with the content. Long videos can make it challenging for students to remain focused and attentive. The brief nature of microlectures allows students to focus on just one key concept at a time.

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Instructors Lecturing Faculty Development Activities 131

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. Drawing and speaking helps students to process the information as it is being delivered while minimizing cognitive load (Mayer, 2021).

Online Learning 111

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

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. Ideally, faculty development programs could promote and illustrate that reflection during the action can be learned. During the lecture, focus on reflection-during-action.

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Lecturing Faculty Development Knowledge Laboratory 64

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

And you’ve definitely assessed your students against them. They help ensure that we’re on the right track in fostering our students’ intellectual, emotional, and in some cases spiritual growth. But why limit ourselves to student learning outcomes only? We need them. My list addresses that risk.

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Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Students 64

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. Drawing and speaking helps students to process the information as it is being delivered while minimizing cognitive load (Mayer, 2021).

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

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. Need #3: Assessing the impact of faculty and student use of AI.

Learning 116

Learning Ethics Writing Critical Thinking 116

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Efforts to expand access to higher education have resulted in higher enrollment rates and degree attainment rates making higher education an option that is open to more students than ever before. Two Forms of Curriculum in Higher Education There are two forms of curriculum in higher education.

Course Design 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Efforts to expand access to higher education have resulted in higher enrollment rates and degree attainment rates making higher education an option that is open to more students than ever before. Two Forms of Curriculum in Higher Education There are two forms of curriculum in higher education.

Course Design 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Traditional instructional videos are often long, address a variety of content, or lack meaningful opportunities for students to engage with the content. Long videos can make it challenging for students to remain focused and attentive. The brief nature of microlectures allows students to focus on just one key concept at a time.

Instructors 98

Instructors Lecturing Faculty Development Activities 98

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. Need #3: Assessing the impact of faculty and student use of AI.

Learning 111

Learning Ethics Writing Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

And you’ve definitely assessed your students against them. They help ensure that we’re on the right track in fostering our students’ intellectual, emotional, and in some cases spiritual growth. But why limit ourselves to student learning outcomes only? We need them. My list addresses that risk.

Learning Outcomes 59

Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Students 59

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

I probably shouldn’t admit this, but when I was just beginning my teaching career, I had one clear goal on the first day of class: scare the living crap out of my students. that’s not entirely true: it came from my sense that as a grad student and a young professor not much older than my students, I needed to establish my authority.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

I probably shouldn’t admit this, but when I was just beginning my teaching career, I had one clear goal on the first day of class: scare the living crap out of my students. that’s not entirely true: it came from my sense that as a grad student and a young professor not much older than my students, I needed to establish my authority.

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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.

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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.

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Faculty Development Peer Review Achievement Lecturing 53

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.

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…. it’s a great class, but WHAT” Aaron Ansuini, a student at Concordia U., What does this unusual moment say about teaching?

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Teaching Syllabus Lecturing Faculty Development 181