Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Importantly, building classes that contain these elements for both students and instructors can lead to benefits for all. Below, I outline details about the five components and ideas for both students and instructors. Blooms taxonomy is also helpful here for allowing a variety of assessments and knowledge demonstration.

Course Design 92

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 92

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

One thing we know for sure is that AI is not going away and will continue to evolve and change the landscape of teaching and learning. Often, there are suggestions on what AI can do, but instructors might struggle with figuring out how to use it effectively. Looking to add some flair or whip up Depth of Knowledge questions?

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That’s enough to give most instructors pause and has set off a flurry of activity in reimagining how we assess learning in order to reduce the risk of student cheating. You might ask what skills or knowledge students believe are critical in the age of AI? Single word responses can be turned into a word cloud to spur discussion.

Minute Papers 134

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Even the best instructors may not be able to reach every student. And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated?

Teaching 117

Teaching Course Evaluations Students Evaluation 117

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As promoted by Zakrajsek (2016) , all learning is by nature an active process since it requires the learner to actively engage with the act of making available knowledge their own. Unfortunately, managing group work as a teacher is a honed skill that requires time, practice, and initially involves some risk.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The soft skills most commonly affiliated with the term include critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity and, perhaps surprisingly, copyright knowledge. That’s what an Adobe-commission survey , published in partnership with futurist Bryan Alexander and the New Media Consortium, revealed. A troublesome liability for college campuses.

Instructors 150

Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 150

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

It’s worth noting, though, that the courses that were large tended to emphasize knowledge-based material. His teaching assistants have engaged with students in the class from places such as Ethiopia, Northern Ireland, Guatemala, Samoa and Vietnam. These answers are curated on the main ANTH 101 website.

Learning 161

Learning Students Assignments Participation 161

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

To deal with the challenges of today and tomorrow, we need to equip the next generation with the skills and knowledge necessary to adapt and overcome these challenges. Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That’s enough to give most instructors pause and has set off a flurry of activity in reimagining how we assess learning in order to reduce the risk of student cheating. You might ask what skills or knowledge students believe are critical in the age of AI? 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

Teaching in a large-size classroom differs significantly from teaching in a small-size classroom in terms of engagement, interaction, and instructional methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). To address the disparity between in-person and remote students, instructors can implement strategies that ensure both groups feel equally engaged.

Teaching 88

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 88

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Teaching in a large-size classroom differs significantly from teaching in a small-size classroom in terms of engagement, interaction, and instructional methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). To address the disparity between in-person and remote students, instructors can implement strategies that ensure both groups feel equally engaged.

Teaching 85

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 85

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Taken together, open access admission policies and challenges to student engagement in the community college context present a unique opportunity for utilizing student workers as learning assistants. LAs can increase their own content knowledge and intellectual competence (Gomez Johnson et al., 2021; Close et al., Gomez Johnson, K.,Jakopovic,

Learning 98

Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment. While AI can analyze data with unmatched precision, the emotional, empathetic aspect of teaching and learning is irreplaceable.

Intelligence 122

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 122

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

To deal with the challenges of today and tomorrow, we need to equip the next generation with the skills and knowledge necessary to adapt and overcome these challenges. Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom.

Hybrid Learning 288

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 288

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment. While AI can analyze data with unmatched precision, the emotional, empathetic aspect of teaching and learning is irreplaceable.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 111

Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

As students progress into the upper-level courses, it is assumed that they have a breadth of prerequisite knowledge on how to navigate the laboratory course, including completing a lab report. Different instructors have disparate expectations when it comes to completing these reports.

Laboratory 52

Laboratory Instructors Feedback Writing 52

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Just as professors wouldn’t bring in a teaching assistant they couldn’t talk to or collaborate with, they shouldn’t adopt interactive tools that are mysterious and locked. That actually there's a lot of pedagogical knowledge that has to go into how you teach someone something. It is making a pedagogical decision.

Teaching 93

Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 93

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

To use Sherpa, an instructor first uploads the reading they’ve assigned, or they can have the student upload a paper they’ve written. Then the tool asks a series of questions about the text (either questions input by the instructor or generated by the AI) to test the student’s grasp of key concepts. You’re on the spot,” he says.

Exams 216

Exams Essay Instructors Education 216

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. Surely the students who learn will also teach. “Are you having a good day?”

Teachers 154

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 154

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

By creating a learning environment tailored to various majors, addressing barriers, and demonstrating real-world applications, instructors can make the classroom “YOUnique.” These strategies will help students build confidence to apply biological knowledge in their careers.

Interdisciplinary 62

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 62

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

By creating a learning environment tailored to various majors, addressing barriers, and demonstrating real-world applications, instructors can make the classroom “YOUnique.” These strategies will help students build confidence to apply biological knowledge in their careers.

Interdisciplinary 60

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 60