Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2021

The university added new options to its campus safety app, called Gator Safe, asking students to report any “face-to-face/online course concern,” such as if “instructor modified the class to virtual.” Many faculty members have requested to teach online for the spring, out of concern for their health as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

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Teaching Instructors Teaching Evaluations Students 218

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? Between weeks five and eight—and after students have received results from a major assessment—instructors ask students to weigh in on how their learning is progressing.

Feedback 188

Feedback Instructors Students Syllabus 188

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. But the burden may be especially heavy for adjunct instructors like Hardy.

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Instructors Lecturing Course Evaluations Evaluation 165

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So what has he learned in more than 20 years from applying his persistence (and much of the money he won from the Nobel) to studying teaching? EdSurge connected with Wieman to find out, and to hear about his more recent efforts to improve how teaching evaluations are done at colleges to make them more useful — and more equitable.

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Teaching Lecturing Evaluation Teaching Evaluations 197

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. Lack of u nexpected q uestions : When the exam content is known in advance, the opportunity for instructors to ask questions that test critical thinking and problem-solving skills is reduced. The average usefulness score for exam blueprints was 2.9

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Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 119

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

It helps me have a finger on the pulse of what’s going on for learners and particularly for instructor’s work in academia, in business, and in K-12 industries. It seemed to me that about two weeks ago there was a feeling of pure terror, as all of a sudden instructors of every ilk were like, “you’re going to go online on Monday.”

Education 183

Education Evaluation Instructors Questions 183

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. Lack of u nexpected q uestions : When the exam content is known in advance, the opportunity for instructors to ask questions that test critical thinking and problem-solving skills is reduced. The average usefulness score for exam blueprints was 2.9

Exams 111

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 111