Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

When we teach, there is an unspoken power differential, and real connections have the potential to change that power dynamic. Be Present Being present in your online course goes beyond delivering the curriculum and providing assignment feedback. Consider using video for announcements, lesson overviews, and feedback. Benner, G.

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Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 105

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Mixed-mode classes present new challenges for faculty who are used to teaching an in-person or online class, where all the students are using one mode of access. If you are teaching a mixed-mode for the first time, your first instinct may be to conduct the course similar to other in-person classes with the remote students simply sitting in.

Feedback 105

Feedback Minute Papers Mobile Devices Discussions 105

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Will it spell the end of countless jobs or create new horizons for teaching, research, and meaningful work? Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments? Keeping tabs can be challenging, so consider enlisting the help of a teaching assistant or student to report in periodically.

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Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

That’s when it hit medespite years of teaching experience, I’m still searching for ways to spark the same level of engagement whether I’m interacting with students face-to-face or through carefully designed asynchronous activities. For my online students, I’ve transformed this into structured reflection journals.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Minute Papers 86

Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2023

While many of us know by now that lecture alone is incongruent with student learning, didactic lecture remains the dominant form of teaching in college classrooms. Yunteng has been committed to developing innovative teaching strategies to improve student learning and engagement. College Teaching, 67 (1), 70–72. References He, Y.

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Lecturing Instructors Minute Papers Students 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2023

While many of us know by now that lecture alone is incongruent with student learning, didactic lecture remains the dominant form of teaching in college classrooms. Yunteng has been committed to developing innovative teaching strategies to improve student learning and engagement. College Teaching, 67 (1), 70–72. References He, Y.

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Lecturing Instructors Minute Papers Students 98

Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This might be a course that you have always wanted to teach or one you never envisioned yourself teaching. moment when tasked with teaching a new course. These assessments can include quizzes, minute papers, surveys, and other methods to track student progress (Zakrajsek, 2016). What do you do now?

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Instructors Curriculum Quizzes Lecturing 52