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Teaching is Both Art and Science. How to Work Toward Improving Your Instructional Practice

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Here’s what I aim to do with this new EdSurge advice column: Recognize that teaching is both an art and a science. Provide guidance from my experience as a teacher and faculty developer and reach out to others when my expertise is lacking. Focus on the joy and the pain that can come from the pursuit of good teaching.

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The Silent Crisis: Bullying Among Nurse Educators in Higher Education

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Faculty development programs that focus on conflict resolution, communication skills, and leadership training can help create a more supportive work environment. All three of his degrees were from the College of Education and Health Sciences. Fostering a Culture of Civility Clark et al.

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Online Learning Book Recommendations: And Why I Read so Few Books on the Topic

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Lang’s first book in that series: Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning , it is the book that I have picked up more than any other about teaching. Someone who agrees with my perspective on not reading many books about online classes is Michelle Pacansky-Brock.

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Game On: How Four Community College Professors Spawned the CUNY Games Network

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BMCC associate professors of English Joe Bisz and Carlos Fernandez stimulated the formation of CGN when they were awarded a 2007/08 CUNY faculty development grant to study how. Active professionals within this network have put on numerous GBL workshops for interested CUNY faculty members and have developed both board and paper (e.g.

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The Emerging Story of Burnout in Educational Design

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On top of all that, instructional designers are also expected to have in-depth knowledge of the learning sciences, instructional-design theories and faculty development. This results in working long hours, lacking time for professional development and constantly trying to just keep up.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

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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.

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

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Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. Learning science principles for instructors. References and Resources Almog, N.

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