Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

apply, analyze, evaluate, create), and have been shown to be an effective way of learning (Lee et al., Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., What is GenAI? for this prompt.

Study 124

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 124

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors. Tyrone Howard, a professor of education who writes about research into students’ relationships with their teachers, said “I think schools in many ways have put the cart before the horse. Classrooms Become More Collaborative.

Achievement 257

Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 257

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most teachers who work in education today have studied — or at least are familiar with — VARK , a learning theory first introduced by Neil Fleming in 1987. VARK suggests that students can best accelerate their knowledge acquisition via one of four core learning styles: visual (V), aural (A), read/write (R) or kinesthetic (K).

Technology 204

Technology Learning Styles Instructors Learning 204

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

apply, analyze, evaluate, create), and have been shown to be an effective way of learning (Lee et al., Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., What is GenAI? for this prompt.

Study 111

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Banning GenAI tools is not the solution Many students use GenAI tools to aid their learning. Additionally, non-native English speakers and students with language and learning disabilities often turn to these tools to support their thinking, communication, and learning. Write your own GenAI policy to include in your syllabus.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample. software with or without encouraging messages, she writes. “If Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform.

Ethics 207

Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 207

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Columbia University’s Science of Learning Research Initiative (SOLER), our work is dedicated to examining the academic experience of our students and instructors through a scientific lens. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.

Academic Integrity 206

Academic Integrity Education Instructors Assignments 206

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo was launched last year in grades 5-8 and used in core content areas, which are typically math, reading, writing, and science, according to the district. It can also assist teachers with tasks such as planning lessons, tailoring instruction, creating texts and images, and providing recommendations on what students could work on next.

Schools 261

Schools Math Testing Intelligence 261

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

In a world filled with intelligent agents and easily-accessed answers, the need for tools that guide, enhance and support active learning is critical. Initially focusing on student writing, Instructure and Khan Academy aim to support students and their learning through Khanmigo’s tutoring capabilities.

Essay 130

Essay Ethics Instructors Writing 130

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). Write each question so it can receive its own response.

Feedback 104

Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 104

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

It includes institutional and college policies, plus support service resources to ensure that students and instructors have easy access to vital information, fostering both a sense of community and compliance. The template, housed in Canvas, is easy to update to reflect resource and content information changes. since 2007.

Feedback 119

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 119

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). Write each question so it can receive its own response.

Feedback 91

Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 91

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

It includes institutional and college policies, plus support service resources to ensure that students and instructors have easy access to vital information, fostering both a sense of community and compliance. The template, housed in Canvas, is easy to update to reflect resource and content information changes. since 2007.

Feedback 109

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 109

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Collaborating with students through student-faculty partnerships is one way to foster an asset-based mindset t hat draws on students’ linguistically diverse resources as tools for learning and growth in and beyond the classroom. Savini suggests that we ask ourselves what makes someone else’s writing unclear to us.

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Language 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Collecting, recording, and analyzing what happens in the preparation and delivery of a course helps the teacher move from just sharing information to understanding and shaping their teaching and the student learning experience. From this, areas of success and improvement can be identified and learning outcomes improved.

Teaching 116

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 116

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2023

Many instructors have observed variability in students’ motivation to learn and grow. Positive academic mindsets motivate students to learn Mindset science has uncovered actionable insights into the academic behaviors of students. [i] Every student learns at a different pace.

Beliefs 116

Beliefs Motivation Instructors Students 116

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Collecting, recording, and analyzing what happens in the preparation and delivery of a course helps the teacher move from just sharing information to understanding and shaping their teaching and the student learning experience. From this, areas of success and improvement can be identified and learning outcomes improved.

Teaching 111

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

If you are like most of those with whom I work, you spend hours identifying the desired learning outcomes, essential understandings and skills, and appropriate materials. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This is critical work.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

In a survey conducted not long ago by John Vivolo, who was my colleague at New York University when I headed the engineering school’s online unit, more than half of the faculty believed that virtual instructors have no personal relationship with their students. On the whole, they concluded that digital quality is not as good as on campus.

Achievement 298

Achievement Instructors Online Learning History 298

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Some students already possess a well-established sense of community in academic and non-academic digital spaces (Plotts, 2020), which they bring into their learning environments for additional support. In essence, social media offers a portable and customizable sense of community across various spaces, enriching the learning experience.

Culture 128

Culture Learning Instructors Discussions 128

Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

To improve learning outcomes for all learners, the development of several learning style assessments and neurodiversity instructional methods over the past 25 years have supported the idea that students learn in diverse ways (Dimitrov & Deardorff, 2023).

Learning Styles 111

Learning Styles Instructors Education Learning 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2023

Many instructors have observed variability in students’ motivation to learn and grow. Positive academic mindsets motivate students to learn Mindset science has uncovered actionable insights into the academic behaviors of students. [i] Every student learns at a different pace.

Beliefs 98

Beliefs Motivation Instructors Students 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Laptops and tablets can be powerful learning aids, but many faculty feel uneasy about the role such devices play in their classrooms. they may be a distraction and deter from learning outcomes. How, then, can we be sure that digital tools are integrated into the higher education experience in ways that encourage deeper learning?

Lecturing 156

Lecturing Exams Assignments Textbooks 156

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

I taught a business ethics course this semester in which I had honed the learning outcomes down into the most essential ones. The learning management system (LMS) I use allows the instructor to see the course from a student’s view. This less-is-more approach has been cascading into my teaching more in recent years.

Teaching 199

Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 199

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

But he thinks that there’s information out there about how the brain works—and in particular, how empathy changes learning outcomes—that classroom instructors should understand. I mean, we still don't know how you know how to pick up a pencil and write your name with it. And it’s all complicated.

Science 167

Science Teachers Fairness Study 167

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). 2014; Agarwal, 2019). Nilson, L. Ifelebuegu, A.

Plagiarism 118

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

To be an effective instructional designer, you also arguably need to know the basics of digital marketing and how to write compelling copy to get someone to click through, enroll in, and persist in your course. Udemy has also created a great toolkit to help online course instructors market their learning experience.

Feedback 164

Feedback Failure Lecturing Reading 164

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 16, 2025

In the service of my job responsibilities and course learning outcomes, do I really become someone else? I spent weeks getting ready, thinking about what I was going to do, writing out lectures, and planning assignments. In the classroom, to put it as The Fixx did in 1984, Are we ourselves?

Instructors 89

Instructors Lecturing Essay Art 89

Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

To improve learning outcomes for all learners, the development of several learning style assessments and neurodiversity instructional methods over the past 25 years have supported the idea that students learn in diverse ways (Dimitrov & Deardorff, 2023).

Learning Styles 95

Learning Styles Instructors Education Learning 95

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Simple active learning techniques such as a quick temperature check or low stakes writing activity (Lang, 2021) can allow space for students to express their feelings, particularly when discussing challenging or emotive material, which simultaneously builds empathy and inclusion. This atmosphere is important for the faculty as well.

Interdisciplinary 110

Interdisciplinary Activities Active Learning Participation 110

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Some students already possess a well-established sense of community in academic and non-academic digital spaces (Plotts, 2020), which they bring into their learning environments for additional support. In essence, social media offers a portable and customizable sense of community across various spaces, enriching the learning experience.

Culture 106

Culture Learning Instructors Discussions 106

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2018

However, in the current educational environments where technology is used to enhance learning outcomes, educators have consciously allowed for and are making use of technology to facilitate learning online. Rest assured, online learning will impact social learning. 15 Take-aways from Online Grad School Classes.

Gamification 105

Gamification Teaching Teachers Blended Learning 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

If you are like most of those with whom I work, you spend hours identifying the desired learning outcomes, essential understandings and skills, and appropriate materials. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This is critical work.

Syllabus 96

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 96

Faculty Focus

MARCH 5, 2023

Understanding the goals of learning and how they benefit one’s life are critical. A faculty member should make learning outcomes clear, but also provide a broader context for how those outcomes relate to the world outside of the classroom. In pedagogy, students are dependent on the instructor to teach them.

Universal Design 124

Universal Design Learning Motivation Authentic Assessment 124

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). 2014; Agarwal, 2019). Nilson, L. Ifelebuegu, A.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Simple active learning techniques such as a quick temperature check or low stakes writing activity (Lang, 2021) can allow space for students to express their feelings, particularly when discussing challenging or emotive material, which simultaneously builds empathy and inclusion. This atmosphere is important for the faculty as well.

Interdisciplinary 98

Interdisciplinary Activities Active Learning Participation 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2023

I needed to find ways to provide feedback to improve their writing, presentations, and assignments while not contributing to their stress. ” Ted Lasso I reviewed the learning outcomes and assessment practices to ensure the assignments and outcomes were relevant and practical to their professional experiences.

Teaching 119

Teaching Assignments Syllabus Counselling 119