eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key points : Today’s students will undoubtedly encounter generative AI in their careers Two higher-ed instructors have designed a guide for using generative AI in life design and career education See related article: A scholar’s embrace of ChatGPT-4 Innovations that have transformed education have often been met with skepticism.

Ethics 339

Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 339

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

All too often, they would wind up needing to ask their instructor a question about the assignment but had no time to receive an answer before the deadline passed. While “on the fly” logging in can work well for some course responsibilities, many assignments require focused blocks of time to think and write.

Online Learning 178

Online Learning Instructors Coaching Syllabus 178

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing. Meyer worries that such tools are being overhyped, and that they may have limited effectiveness in classrooms.

Lecturing 215

Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 215

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. For so many instructors, whether they’re a TA, someone just starting out, or a seasoned professor with decades of experience, the answer is, “no.” This is the humdinger. Start strong.

Teaching 122

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

The first day or week of the semester is often referred to as what students call “syllabus week,” because professors typically spend the first day of class reviewing the syllabus—interject a big yawn here. So, I moved onto showing them the “About Your Instructor” icon in our LMS.

Student Engagement 116

Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 116

Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

Aside from a bare-bones syllabus, the professor never showed up. Those who participate in fully online courses, particularly asynchronous ones, may feel isolated from their instructor, their peers, and the university as a whole. My first and only fully online class taken as an undergraduate student was a complete disaster.

Syllabus 131

Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 131

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Many were enrolled in leadership-focused sections of FSHN 101 and 120 and took on active roles in the analysis, writing, and design of the final open-access book: What Your Students Arent Telling You. Sheza Shaikh centered mental health and belonging in her writing. Their contributions werent theoretical.

Disabilities 54

Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 54

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

She recalled one instructor who told her that 11 students in her class of 35 turned in the exact same assignment using materials from Course Hero, a website where students can share and access course study materials. Searching for a particular phrase can often take an instructor to the website where it was taken from.

Academic Integrity 147

Academic Integrity Exams Assignments Instructors 147

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2023

As such, more instructors are teaching online courses. Asynchronous online courses can create barriers for instructors to connect with students, but instructors can implement small and significant changes to their online courses that can help build community, connection, and relationships. Why did you take this course?

Instructors 59

Instructors Syllabus Assignments Feedback 59

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

The first day or week of the semester is often referred to as what students call “syllabus week,” because professors typically spend the first day of class reviewing the syllabus—interject a big yawn here. So, I moved onto showing them the “About Your Instructor” icon in our LMS.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Co-create classroom norms with your students.

Teaching 119

Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 119

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Often, there are suggestions on what AI can do, but instructors might struggle with figuring out how to use it effectively. However, with numerous upgrades and increasing faculty engagement, hopefully, instructors are now more comfortable using it as a valuable tool for preparing and managing the semester efficiently.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

But Rima Al Tawil (2019) demonstrates that there is a variety of ways in which nonverbal cues make their way into online learning, and it is important for instructors to understand these communication influences to monitor and manage the tone of their courses. A student needs to be in class at specific times each week.

Instructors 107

Instructors Communication Syllabus Discussions 107

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. For so many instructors, whether they’re a TA, someone just starting out, or a seasoned professor with decades of experience, the answer is, “no.” This is the humdinger. Start strong.

Teaching 98

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

Aside from a bare-bones syllabus, the professor never showed up. Those who participate in fully online courses, particularly asynchronous ones, may feel isolated from their instructor, their peers, and the university as a whole. My first and only fully online class taken as an undergraduate student was a complete disaster.

Syllabus 110

Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 110

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

But it wasn’t until her current gig, serving as an instructor for a course on water supply and demand in California, that she got her feet wet with open educational resources. Coming from educational publishing, there was a strict division between writing and editing and graphic-design work,” says Anagnoson. Now it’s my job.”

Textbooks 119

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2024

We may not have a storefront window to attract attention, but we do have something that students see before the start of the semester that can grab their attention, set the tone, and get them excited about entering the class…your syllabus! Exhibit 2: Thompson’s Barbie themed class syllabus (Spring 2024). Let Them Play!

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Attention Assignments Activities 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2024

We may not have a storefront window to attract attention, but we do have something that students see before the start of the semester that can grab their attention, set the tone, and get them excited about entering the class…your syllabus! Exhibit 2: Thompson’s Barbie themed class syllabus (Spring 2024). Let Them Play!

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Attention Assignments Activities 111

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Students as Learners and Teachers (SaLT) is an innovative teaching approach where students and instructors collaborate to improve educational experiences ( Cavazos et al., Savini suggests that we ask ourselves what makes someone else’s writing unclear to us. What does the language in the syllabus/assignment assume about students (e.g.,

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Languages 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Co-create classroom norms with your students.

Teaching 111

Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Often, there are suggestions on what AI can do, but instructors might struggle with figuring out how to use it effectively. However, with numerous upgrades and increasing faculty engagement, hopefully, instructors are now more comfortable using it as a valuable tool for preparing and managing the semester efficiently.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

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 122

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

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 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 3, 2019

MTI 558: Teach Writing With Tech. Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. Guide students in selecting writing strategies that differentiate for task, purpose and audience.

Syllabus 95

Syllabus Writing Internet Instructors 95

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

But Rima Al Tawil (2019) demonstrates that there is a variety of ways in which nonverbal cues make their way into online learning, and it is important for instructors to understand these communication influences to monitor and manage the tone of their courses. A student needs to be in class at specific times each week.

Instructors 92

Instructors Communication Syllabus Discussions 92

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

The template features an intuitive layout and essential components such as a syllabus, clear assignment guidelines, feedback and grading policies, detailed discussion forums, and links to student support services. The template, housed in Canvas, is easy to update to reflect resource and content information changes. since 2007.

Feedback 121

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 121

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

I selected OpenStax because of the many resources they provided, such as PowerPoint lecture slides, instructor solution files, and even LMS cartridges for online classes. Now the reason they are confused could be due to an error in the writing rather than a shortfall in their understanding.

Textbooks 116

Textbooks Syllabus Instructors Peer Review 116

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

They provide a quick way to access a webpage that could be the syllabus, a poll, a list of resources, or a shared online space for a brainstorming activity. Then, the instructor proceeds to conduct a short lecture where course materials such as the syllabus, slides, or videos might be shared with everyone through a QR code (see Figure 1).

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

The template features an intuitive layout and essential components such as a syllabus, clear assignment guidelines, feedback and grading policies, detailed discussion forums, and links to student support services. The template, housed in Canvas, is easy to update to reflect resource and content information changes. since 2007.

Feedback 111

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

In-person instruction In-person instruction is the teaching and learning that happens when the students and instructor are together in a physical space. Then write a press release or design a news report video to inform others about what they learned. They could annotate the class syllabus in a Google Doc or use Hypothes.is

Blended Learning 132

Blended Learning Lecturing Education Learning 132

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

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Politicians are using ChatGPT to write bills (e.g., “ AI wrote a bill to regulate AI. Ted Lieu wants Congress to pass it ”).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Politicians are using ChatGPT to write bills (e.g., “ AI wrote a bill to regulate AI. Ted Lieu wants Congress to pass it ”).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

I selected OpenStax because of the many resources they provided, such as PowerPoint lecture slides, instructor solution files, and even LMS cartridges for online classes. Now the reason they are confused could be due to an error in the writing rather than a shortfall in their understanding.

Textbooks 103

Textbooks Syllabus Instructors Peer Review 103

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

They weren't writing checks, funds were underwater, so Lean was designed for a time when you needed to optimize your cash and make sure that everything had some evidence and probability of success. People would say, “Steve, no, we just need to teach them how to write a business plan and we need to teach them finance.”

Education 125

Education Failure Syllabus Motivation 125