Faculty Focus

JULY 16, 2023

At some point, most instructors were once students, so it’s easy to relate to sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture, and perhaps feeling your mind wander. By integrating dialogue into the classroom, instructors can help students connect academic content to real-life experiences and current events.

Instructors 98

Instructors Lecturing Syllabus Knowledge 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 16, 2023

At some point, most instructors were once students, so it’s easy to relate to sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture, and perhaps feeling your mind wander. By integrating dialogue into the classroom, instructors can help students connect academic content to real-life experiences and current events.

Instructors 98

Instructors Lecturing Syllabus Knowledge 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Five strategies to foster sense of belonging Be caring and authentic: Syllabus policies and language, as well as introductory comments on the first day of class, set the tone for an entire term. The good news is that research points us to several aspects of inclusive and supportive classroom environments that positively impact belongingness.

Syllabus 103

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 103

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals. A co-created syllabus session fosters accountability and trust, as students feel ownership of the course structure (Cook-Sather et al., Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. As many #DLNchat -ters pointed out, they are efficient and thus attractive assessment tools for instructors of large courses.

Assignments 96

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 96

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These questions draw from information on the syllabus (which they are provided with the week before we meet) as well as general trivia like what’s Netflix’s most watched series, what is the most desired corporate stock, etc. It is a nice balance of learning and pop-culture.

Exams 116

Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 116

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These questions draw from information on the syllabus (which they are provided with the week before we meet) as well as general trivia like what’s Netflix’s most watched series, what is the most desired corporate stock, etc. It is a nice balance of learning and pop-culture.

Exams 111

Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 111

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Engaging in ungrading disrupts the approach to learning where instructors have all the power (Rapchak et al., As with any teaching strategy, ungrading is not a one-size-fits-all solution as the implementation of ungrading can vary widely, with different instructors, disciplines, and institutions adopting different practices and methods.

Syllabus 52

Syllabus Instructors Feedback Assignments 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That’s when we really started getting calls from frustrated instructors at community colleges who said, ‘I have a big problem. Tutor pushes beyond simple multiple-choice quizzes. “A lot of students weren’t able to get jobs. People were trying to go back to college to retool, people in dire financial straits,” Baraniuk says.

Textbooks 117

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 117

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I Wesley Engers has an unusual hobby: beta testing online courses from well-known colleges and universities.

Testing 166

Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The students are informed of this option at the beginning of the semester, and a policy limiting abuse is posted on the syllabus and in the learning management system. Most felt that it should remain, with the instructor's permission to avoid abuse of accessibility.

Disabilities 52

Disabilities Exams Instructors Syllabus 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. Boyer is now a senior instructor and researcher at Virginia Tech. We sat down with Boyer to learn more about his flipped syllabus, unique assessments, and the hard work that goes into an easy A.

Syllabus 139

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 139