Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. is an AI-powered teaching assistant designed to help teachers with lesson planning, instructional design, and generating educational content. You can add and edit any of the slides.

Multiple Choice Questions 109

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 109

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Yet many have been met with skepticism that such tools can provide as accurate or personal feedback as a human can.

Grades 99

Grades Exams Instructors Teaching Assistants 99

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As the lazy days of summer start to dwindle, it’s time to trade in beach reads for textbooks and flip-flops for sensible shoes. Imagine having a digital assistant that never sleeps, helping you draft syllabi, create lesson plans, and even answer those tricky student emails. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps!

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As the lazy days of summer start to dwindle, it’s time to trade in beach reads for textbooks and flip-flops for sensible shoes. Imagine having a digital assistant that never sleeps, helping you draft syllabi, create lesson plans, and even answer those tricky student emails. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps!

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. This requires considerable planning and development since most students may come to the course with little relevant experience.

Lecturing 126

Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 126

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

This has meant conversations with us about streamlining feedback to teachers and increasing teacher-teacher collaboration. We’re discussing how to strategically implement video feedback “now” and replicate successful models from other districts. –Adam Geller, Founder and CEO, Edthena.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Law: Given that most evaluation forms are filled out at the end of the semester, a lot of students feel like, "Well even if I provide that feedback, it doesn't really benefit ourselves in that scenario." Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated? Michael Sano: Hi everybody.

Teaching 121

Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 121

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Think about visual aids you might be using—drawings, equations, PowerPoint slides—and if they can be read and understood both by the in-person students and the students viewing remotely. All of this also requires feedback from both of your audiences. They watch the show on monitors in the control room.

Feedback 105

Feedback Minute Papers Mobile Devices Discussions 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Demonstrate our enthusiasm for teaching the course. Share former students’ feedback about the course. Be intentional with the examples and readings you give to your students. Actively work to develop a deeper understanding of cultural diversity through professional development, reading, film, art, and interactions with others.

Culture 122

Culture Communication Writing Language 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. This requires considerable planning and development since most students may come to the course with little relevant experience.

Lecturing 106

Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 106

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Specifically, JCT outlines that jobs facilitating 1) skill variety, 2) task identity, 3) task significance, 4) autonomy, and 5) feedback will be the most motivating and interesting. reading, watching videos, discussing with peers). Provide summary-level feedback to the entire class. Re-visit topics or adjust as needed.

Course Design 96

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 96

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. –Adam Geller, Founder and CEO, Edthena. –Lupita Knittel, President, 7 Mindsets.

Hybrid Learning 294

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 294

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Additionally, feedback loops in educational contexts where students inadvertently provide incorrect information during interactions with chatbots can reinforce inaccurate patterns and perpetuate hallucinations in subsequent interactions. Despite the potential benefits in classroom settings, their use also raises concerns.

Academic Integrity 135

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Specifically, JCT outlines that jobs facilitating 1) skill variety, 2) task identity, 3) task significance, 4) autonomy, and 5) feedback will be the most motivating and interesting. reading, watching videos, discussing with peers). Provide summary-level feedback to the entire class. Re-visit topics or adjust as needed.

Course Design 87

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 87

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Demonstrate our enthusiasm for teaching the course. Share former students’ feedback about the course. Be intentional with the examples and readings you give to your students. Actively work to develop a deeper understanding of cultural diversity through professional development, reading, film, art, and interactions with others.

Culture 96

Culture Communication Writing Language 96

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Additionally, feedback loops in educational contexts where students inadvertently provide incorrect information during interactions with chatbots can reinforce inaccurate patterns and perpetuate hallucinations in subsequent interactions. Despite the potential benefits in classroom settings, their use also raises concerns.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

To prepare for the discussion, assign readings that provide different perspectives on AI along with comprehension questions for students to complete before class. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments? Single word responses can be turned into a word cloud to spur discussion.

Minute Papers 134

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

To prepare for the discussion, assign readings that provide different perspectives on AI along with comprehension questions for students to complete before class. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments? Single word responses can be turned into a word cloud to spur discussion.

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed.

Teaching 82

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 82

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed.

Teaching 79

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 79

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2023

Ideas for manageable connection principles include getting to know each other, empathy, communication, and feedback. Instructors then comment or respond to at least one thing to help students know that their responses are read and recognized. This can be included in the syllabus, emails, assignments, and feedback.

Instructors 59

Instructors Syllabus Feedback Assignments 59

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We invited three guests: Candace Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford Graduate School of Education; Mark Milliron, co-founder and chief learning officer at Civitas Learning; and Kyle Bowen, educational technology services director at Penn State University. So that is still serving in a pedagogical agent.

Learning 89

Learning Intelligence Science Questions 89

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The students, Joseph Tey and Shaurya Sinha, have built a tool called Sherpa that is designed to help educators hear students talk through an assigned reading to determine how well they understood it. To use Sherpa, an instructor first uploads the reading they’ve assigned, or they can have the student upload a paper they’ve written.

Exams 215

Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. It’s common for anyone, even teachers, to boast that they aren’t a “math person,” in a way that nobody would proudly proclaim about reading, sources explained.

Math 186

Math Beliefs Teaching Assistants Culture 186

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

Students who want proof of completion and access to all of the resources of the course—including feedback from teaching assistants—must buy a Coursera membership that costs $49 per month. Kian Katanforoosh is the co-creator for the deep learning courses and is listed as the Head Teaching Assistant for all of them. “We

Teaching 140

Teaching Laboratory Textbooks Intelligence 140