Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

What’s striking is that when grounded in evidence-based teaching practices, effective courses foster a greater sense of belonging, increase student confidence in their ability to graduate, and create more opportunities for feedback and encouragement (Tyton Partners, 2023). But not just any feedback.

Course Design 128

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

They didn’t understand why we were doing it and they weren’t getting any feedback.”. Even more than lacking feedback, the provost said the “top-down” approach of asking faculty to flag their students, and adding a new system to their workload, “was a mistake from the beginning.”. Beginner’s (Un)Luck.

Counselling 122

Counselling Failure Instructors Coaching 122

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Then, I test instructional concepts and product ideas by building rough prototypes that I put in front of learners to get their feedback quickly. Udemy has also created a great toolkit to help online course instructors market their learning experience. Lesson 8: Collect student feedback. Set up Skype calls to interview them.

Feedback 164

Feedback Failure Lecturing Reading 164

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Squirrel—so named because, like the furry, nut-gathering rodent, it is fast, agile, plans ahead and “cracks tough nuts,” according to founder and CEO Derek Haoyang Li—uses an AI adaptive learning system and human instructors to give students a personalized education on subjects ranging from Chinese language to physics.

Teachers 167

Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 167

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? Feedback that praised inherent ability, for example, “Good work!

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

It has helped to simplify project guidelines, use conferences to provide more targeted support and to embed feedback and checkpoints within the course, but I realize that it will never be perfect. Now it’s postsecondary instructional designers and instructors.

Teaching 163

Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Rather than wait for the teacher to do it at a future date, good PD should insist on letting the instructor serve as the facilitator just as they should do with their own students. They make presentations to each other and seek feedback to improve their learning, just as they want their students to do. blended learners , in real time.

eLearning 145

eLearning Failure Lecturing Instructors 145

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

How can instructors best manage growing class sizes, decreasing budgets and an increasingly diverse base of learners—including first time college students and adults returning to school to learn new skills? They must also redesign matriculated students' gateway courses that have unacceptable failure rates.

Failure 154

Failure Instructors Evaluation Feedback 154

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

What’s striking is that when grounded in evidence-based teaching practices, effective courses foster a greater sense of belonging, increase student confidence in their ability to graduate, and create more opportunities for feedback and encouragement (Tyton Partners, 2023). But not just any feedback.

Course Design 111

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

While students can learn at their own pace, they have the disadvantage of limited contact with instructors and reduced opportunity of immediate feedback. To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

While students can learn at their own pace, they have the disadvantage of limited contact with instructors and reduced opportunity of immediate feedback. To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades.

Student Engagement 94

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 94

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

The challenge is further compounded by students balancing their studies with household chores which can lead to decreased motivation if adequate support is not provided by the instructor. Consequently, the role of instructors becomes more crucial in designing effective online learning experiences that foster active student participation.

Student Engagement 102

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 102

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Critical systems hosted on-premises are often a single point of failure, and schools run the risk of losing access to valuable student data—whether that is at the hands of a squirrel that chewed through a line or a snowstorm taking down power. Watch the video to see how it works.

Education 167

Education Failure Intelligence Testing 167

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

Research shows grades don’t help learning and actually distract from other feedback/assessment.” The learning management system (LMS) I use allows the instructor to see the course from a student’s view. I have felt like a failure some of the time. The cutoff between a B and a B-, for example, seems so subjective, they assert.

Teaching 199

Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 199

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It is based on and necessitates analyzing one’s theories of teaching and learning, the alignment of these theories with the class experience, and critically assessing the student, teacher, and class experience along with successes and failures (Brookfield, 1998). Feedback on Teaching. Palmer, Parker J. “Reflective Teaching.”

Teaching 116

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 116

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It is based on and necessitates analyzing one’s theories of teaching and learning, the alignment of these theories with the class experience, and critically assessing the student, teacher, and class experience along with successes and failures (Brookfield, 1998). Feedback on Teaching. Palmer, Parker J. “Reflective Teaching.”

Teaching 111

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. Instead, I provide rich feedback. If students want to know how well they did in an assignment, they must read my feedback.

Grades 93

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 93

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Leaders in education now have the opportunity to leverage GenAI to accelerate the transformation of data into feedback for students across subjects. The excitement comes from the possibility of both success and failure. Play, by its very nature, invites us to embrace challenges and uncertainties.

Schools 337

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

The challenge is further compounded by students balancing their studies with household chores which can lead to decreased motivation if adequate support is not provided by the instructor. Consequently, the role of instructors becomes more crucial in designing effective online learning experiences that foster active student participation.

Student Engagement 78

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 78

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

Study 100

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 100

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

For both instructors and their students, that means adopting a mindset that avoids persistence in favor of pivoting and changing course. Early failures and failed first trials are not interpreted as a diagnosis of what could be done , and are instead seen as proof of what cant (Yeager & Dweck, 2020).

Teaching 59

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 59

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. Those kinds of comments support the fixed mindset.

Motivation 116

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

A single instructor or professor is no longer pulled in multiple directions and can play fewer roles. None of this is to say that professors will become obsolete. This is vital, as so many of our working adults do not or have not had the kinds of campus-based experiences that we tend to glorify.

Learning 113

Learning Counselling Failure Textbooks 113

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

For both instructors and their students, that means adopting a mindset that avoids persistence in favor of pivoting and changing course. Early failures and failed first trials are not interpreted as a diagnosis of what could be done , and are instead seen as proof of what cant (Yeager & Dweck, 2020).

Teaching 52

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 52

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. Those kinds of comments support the fixed mindset.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

I have worked in the Vermont education system for over twenty years, and there is one lesson that I have learned loud and clear: top-down management decisions are destined for failure. The ability to deliver course content over a web-based interface, facilitating a remote educational experience for the instructor and student.

Failure 76

Failure Feedback Assignments Instructors 76

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Whether its board games, video games, or made-up playground challenges, they engage deeply with anything that has goals, rewards, and feedback. Why It Works Gamification works because it introduces immediate feedback and visible progress, two elements that keep learners engaged.

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

EAB

MAY 9, 2023

We also heard from, I heard from a teacher, an instructor at a community college in the Pacific Northwest, who was very upset about our reporting of these terrible outcome numbers. Here at EAB, we just launched a survey that we're wrapping up that really tries to understand perceptions of how community colleges are doing at customer service.

Culture 84

Culture Questions High School High School 84