Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. The final consideration for developing an asynchronous guest lecture is the “shelf-life” of a video.

Lecturing 110

Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 110

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Arjun Singh knows the feeling well. You save time in applying the feedback.”

Grades 100

Grades Exams Instructors Teaching Assistants 100

Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2025

I refined my TPS process after attending Jeremy Rentzs workshop Put Your Hammer Down (detailed in the Best of the 2021 Teaching Professor Conference ). I thought about how to get my students to do more work in my large lecture-based classes. An activity that promotes engagement with required readings, even in large classes.

Lecturing 83

Lecturing Teaching Assistants Discussions Activities 83

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

This can be a real challenge for procrastinators, multitaskers, responsibility jugglers and anyone tempted to half-listen to a lecture while scrolling through social media—in other words, many people. Meanwhile, a human teaching assistant monitored any replies that students sent back to the chatbot.

Student Engagement 200

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 200

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. Imagine having a digital assistant that never sleeps, helping you draft syllabi, create lesson plans, and even answer those tricky student emails. But fear not! Look no further.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Then actively pick sometime within their lecture to say, "Here's a summary of the collection of the feedback I've received, here's what I would do based on this feedback." So, what are some examples of college teaching that have really stood out? They’re creating their own surveys and say, "How do you feel about this?"

Teaching 125

Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 125

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

While large classes emphasize broad-reaching strategies like lectures and group activities, small classes enable individualized instruction and deeper exploration of topics (Wang & Calvano, 2022). The Flipped Classroom Model To further enhance engagement, we adopted a flipped classroom approach.

Teaching 94

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 94

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Additionally, the tablet has Bluetooth, so I am able to carry on a lecture while walking around the classroom monitoring students as they take notes or work through problems. Teachers want programs that they can implement immediately: not just something they read from a book. — Ryan Graham, Chief Technology Officer, Texthelp.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

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. Imagine having a digital assistant that never sleeps, helping you draft syllabi, create lesson plans, and even answer those tricky student emails. But fear not! Look no further.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

While large classes emphasize broad-reaching strategies like lectures and group activities, small classes enable individualized instruction and deeper exploration of topics (Wang & Calvano, 2022). The Flipped Classroom Model To further enhance engagement, we adopted a flipped classroom approach.

Teaching 89

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 89

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Be intentional with the examples and readings you give to your students. Actively work to develop a deeper understanding of cultural diversity through professional development, reading, film, art, and interactions with others. Tip #3: Reflect on your teaching persona. Tip #2: Use multicultural examples.

Culture 122

Culture Communication Writing Languages 122

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. –Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School.

Hybrid Learning 294

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 294

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Think about visual aids you might be using—drawings, equations, PowerPoint slides—and if they can be read and understood both by the in-person students and the students viewing remotely. Some online students might view the lecture on a tablet or phone where these details are lost.

Feedback 105

Feedback Minute Papers Mobile Devices Discussions 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Be intentional with the examples and readings you give to your students. Actively work to develop a deeper understanding of cultural diversity through professional development, reading, film, art, and interactions with others. Tip #3: Reflect on your teaching persona. Tip #2: Use multicultural examples.

Culture 98

Culture Communication Writing Languages 98

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2020

We were particularly interested in how well large lecture classes translated into a remote format. After all, these kinds of classes are what many people think of when they close their eyes and imagine college teaching. Or read a short recap below. Or read a short recap below.

Lecturing 187

Lecturing History Teaching Assistants Learning 187

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. But she also reflects some of my biases, obviously, because she’s my teaching assistant,” Barry says.

Teachers 155

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 155

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

With Halloween upon us, we chatted with Stepanic about what his course addresses, how it became so popular, and why Bram Stoker’s Dracula is not a required read. Stanley Stepanic: When I first came to UVA in 2005 to study for my master’s and my PhD, I was a teaching assistant to the course and was mentored by Professor Jan Perkowski.

Education 132

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 132

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

Even allowing for the famously low completion rates of MOOCs, it still means that hundreds of thousands of people have sat through lecture videos by Ng. In other words, Andrew Ng probably teaches more people than anyone else on the planet, putting him in a position to have an unprecedented impact on an emerging field. (The

Teaching 138

Teaching Laboratory Textbooks Intelligence 138