Faculty Focus

MARCH 24, 2024

Instructors may find it valuable to meet and teach to students in-person, rather than creating content for the proverbial faceless void. Increased planning for program and instructors. Additionally, it can be difficult for instructors to strike a balance between teaching effectiveness and covering enough material for the course.

Education 122

Education Instructors Culture Teaching Assistants 122

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. Importantly, building classes that contain these elements for both students and instructors can lead to benefits for all. Service learning is great here.

Course Design 85

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 85

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Teachers will need to learn and refine their online teaching skills and find new opportunities for working from home, allowing them a better work-life balance. 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.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. Instructors are encouraged to take small steps to start building HIPs in their curriculums, and there are some HIPs which are easy to incorporate into an existing course.

Assignments 101

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 101

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

Faculty Focus

MARCH 24, 2024

Instructors may find it valuable to meet and teach to students in-person, rather than creating content for the proverbial faceless void. Increased planning for program and instructors. Additionally, it can be difficult for instructors to strike a balance between teaching effectiveness and covering enough material for the course.

Education 111

Education Instructors Culture 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 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 80

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 80

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

The open access nature of community colleges and the varying levels of academic preparedness of their students require programs and courses that provide remediation and support in foundational skills for nearly two- thirds of students (Chen et al., 2016) and enhance their communication skills (Goff & Lahme, 2003).

Learning 98

Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Unfortunately, managing group work as a teacher is a honed skill that requires time, practice, and initially involves some risk. Discussion Questions: Reflect on your challenges in teaching a large STEM class. Instructor strategies to alleviate stress and anxiety among college and university STEM Students. link] Hsu, J.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Teachers will need to learn and refine their online teaching skills and find new opportunities for working from home, allowing them a better work-life balance. 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.

Hybrid Learning 297

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 297

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. Instructors are encouraged to take small steps to start building HIPs in their curriculums, and there are some HIPs which are easy to incorporate into an existing course.

Assignments 82

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 82

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 77

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 77

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now, adaptive systems equipped with artificial intelligence evaluate student responses and seamlessly modify subsequent lessons, ensuring each learner is presented with material that resonates with their current skill set and aptitude, pushing them just the right amount. This does not, however, negate the necessity of a human touch.

Intelligence 122

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now, adaptive systems equipped with artificial intelligence evaluate student responses and seamlessly modify subsequent lessons, ensuring each learner is presented with material that resonates with their current skill set and aptitude, pushing them just the right amount. This does not, however, negate the necessity of a human touch.

Intelligence 110

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 110

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I think where the future is going is, it's going to become even more important for students to be able to have those soft skills and be able to talk and communicate their ideas." 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

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. Perhaps students would learn more if they could query a robot themselves, instructors hypothesized.

Teachers 155

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 155

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. He was a whole person,” says Natalie Snyder, a teacher’s assistant for Holifield shortly before his death. By the time she reached fourth grade, she perceived herself as having “weak” math skills.

Math 186

Math Beliefs Teaching Assistants Culture 186

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.” This innovative teaching environment blends engaged lectures with hands-on, collaborative activities, with the instructor as a facilitator.

Interdisciplinary 58

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 58

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.” This innovative teaching environment blends engaged lectures with hands-on, collaborative activities, with the instructor as a facilitator.

Interdisciplinary 57

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 57

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