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

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.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

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 105

Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 105

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.

Education 161

Education Syllabus Faculty Development Communication 161

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

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

it’s a great class, but WHAT” Aaron Ansuini, a student at Concordia U., was surprised to find out that the professor listed on his syllabus and featured in his video lectures passed away in 2019. Also joining us is Joshua Eyler, director of faculty development at the University of Mississippi.

Teaching 181

Teaching Syllabus Lecturing Faculty Development 181

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2025

Inspired by complete-the-story games in which players each write a line of a tale that builds off a previous persons idea, Gannon, director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, uses a similar concept to facilitate silent discussions. They become living documents, he says.

Discussions 205

Discussions Art Instructors Participation 205