Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As the lazy days of summer start to dwindle, it’s time to trade in beach reads for textbooks and flip-flops for sensible shoes. Whether it’s whipping up dazzling PowerPoint slides, rewording a syllabus, or designing a new and exciting lesson, AI has you covered. Looking to add some flair or whip up Depth of Knowledge questions?

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Consider these definitions that I share in my book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders : Cheating is using a tool or resource to misrepresent ones knowledge and skills to receive undue credit for a task. However, it is evidence that you havent internalized that knowledge or those skills yet.

Academic Integrity 88

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As the lazy days of summer start to dwindle, it’s time to trade in beach reads for textbooks and flip-flops for sensible shoes. Whether it’s whipping up dazzling PowerPoint slides, rewording a syllabus, or designing a new and exciting lesson, AI has you covered. Looking to add some flair or whip up Depth of Knowledge questions?

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Open” textbooks. Below is just a small sample of the range of activities and conversations they engaged in, as described by Andrew Rikard , an undergraduate at Davidson College and the facilitator of the inaugural cohort: “We built our own syllabus, decided what topics interested us and recruited experts to talk to us about those topics.

Syllabus 104

Syllabus Students Essay Language 104

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Dr. Emily Tarconish, a teaching professor in the College of Education, contributed her deep knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and accessible course design. Textbook format and cost mattered. A reworded syllabus, an anonymous feedback survey, or a mid-semester check-in can shift a students entire trajectory.

Disabilities 64

Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Feedback 64

k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Today, students are absorbing knowledge everywhere, all the time, even when they dont realize it. Bite-Sized, Yet Effective: Micro-learning formats fit into students’ fast-paced lives, offering knowledge in seconds rather than hours. The traditional answer might have been a teacher, a curriculum board, or a textbook publisher.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Lecturing Learning Textbooks 52

Lab to Class

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Education, especially formalized education in schools, has long held that in order for students to learn effectively, they must have solid study routines, consistent teachers, and unified textbooks. Benefits of Routines Routines are Comfortable One of the main benefits of routines is that they provide a sense of safety and consistency.

Study 52

Study Lecturing Learning Activities 52

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That's something that hasn't really been knowable, since no one's been able to collect every syllabus out there and analyze the reading lists on them to see what pops as the top ranked. It's called the Open Syllabus Project and it's run out of a public policy center at Columbia University.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Textbooks Assignments Education 119

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A physician attends to a patient with their medical knowledge, training, and experience. Attach your class syllabus (if ready) Encourage students to reach out to you if they have any questions and identify the best method for them to do this—email, phone, Learning Management System, etc. If you haven’t already, try a “visual syllabus.”

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Each tester isn’t expected to complete the entire course, but to go through at least a week’s worth of the four- to six-week syllabus (with different testers trying different parts of the course). Such checking may be more like the way textbook publishers operate than traditional professors.

Testing 166

Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A physician attends to a patient with their medical knowledge, training, and experience. Attach your class syllabus (if ready) Encourage students to reach out to you if they have any questions and identify the best method for them to do this—email, phone, Learning Management System, etc. If you haven’t already, try a “visual syllabus.”

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 98

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 uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. He loved the scope and implications of his subject.

Syllabus 147

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 147