Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

Recently, I attended a conference and was sharing my new visual syllabus with some colleagues. After several interactions, I noticed the most frequent comment was, “What a cool syllabus…but is it accessible?” A little background about myself; I love designing, redesigning, and getting creative with my syllabus.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Between budgetary constraints, bandwidth crunches, and a constantly changing syllabus, teachers have their hands full when it comes to structuring and building their class’s lessons and lectures. Shiksha Copilot is Microsoft’s take on an AI-powered lesson plan creator and is geared to assist teachers and students located within India.

Quizzes 289

Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 289

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Connect Four –through ClassTools Educandy –create a wide variety of games for students Game Maker Studio – 2D developing platform for more intricate games. How to make a game on Scratch Kodu – create games on a PC and Xbox via a simple visual programming language.

Gamification 183

Gamification Syllabus Education History 183

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Teachers, with the beginning of the school year rapidly approaching, it’s time to give the students what they really want: Good edtech products. So often teachers force students to use tools that don't do what they claim, or that they just don't like. Notability allows students to take notes and annotate pdfs in their own handwriting.

Quizzes 145

Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus Students 145

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 337

Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 337

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? This is critical work.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Creating a trust-based classroom begins with an essential mindset: students are doing their best. When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Students should feel safe to experiment without fear of punishment or penalty.

Plagiarism 118

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. More than 60,000 students across the U.S.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Creating a trust-based classroom begins with an essential mindset: students are doing their best. When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Students should feel safe to experiment without fear of punishment or penalty.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

In fact, it is the reason his sought-after courses now are able to accommodate up to 1,400 people per semester—offering each student a learning experience that is more flexible, personalized, and engaging than ever before. Different students have different approaches to learning, he says. His choice: modular learning.

Curriculum 156

Curriculum Hybrid Courses Lecturing Gamification 156

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? This is critical work.

Syllabus 96

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

These web-based classes offer motivated students a self-paced, self-directed path to achieving their college dreams in an affordable, flexible, quality ecosystem that prepares them for future careers in fields they love. Lessons can be pushed out to the entire class or specific students. For individual students: Sign up for Study.com.

Exams 83

Exams Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus 83

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This is not the kind of refresh that comes from revising a syllabus, choosing a new textbook, or working out the details of a group project. This needs to be about you and what will enable you to stand excitedly before students the next time you teach. We mustn’t settle for less when students need our best.

Syllabus 126

Syllabus Quizzes Textbooks Motivation 126

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like.

Assignments 97

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 97

Faculty Focus

JULY 16, 2023

At some point, most instructors were once students, so it’s easy to relate to sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture, and perhaps feeling your mind wander. It’s no secret that if your students are on their phones, dozing and doodling, they’re most likely not learning. It happens to the best of us.

Instructors 98

Instructors Syllabus Lecturing Knowledge 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 16, 2023

At some point, most instructors were once students, so it’s easy to relate to sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture, and perhaps feeling your mind wander. It’s no secret that if your students are on their phones, dozing and doodling, they’re most likely not learning. It happens to the best of us.

Instructors 96

Instructors Syllabus Lecturing Knowledge 96

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This is not the kind of refresh that comes from revising a syllabus, choosing a new textbook, or working out the details of a group project. This needs to be about you and what will enable you to stand excitedly before students the next time you teach. We mustn’t settle for less when students need our best.

Syllabus 97

Syllabus Quizzes Textbooks Motivation 97

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

As educators, it is our responsibility to make space in our classrooms for all students to feel welcomed and encouraged to be a part of our community. This activity helps focus students, spark curiosity, and increase engagement. Personal connections lead to success. What do you wonder (Newbery, 2023)?”

Exams 116

Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 116

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

As educators, it is our responsibility to make space in our classrooms for all students to feel welcomed and encouraged to be a part of our community. This activity helps focus students, spark curiosity, and increase engagement. Personal connections lead to success. What do you wonder (Newbery, 2023)?”

Exams 111

Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 111

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

The initiative intends to create degree pathways with courses that only use open educational resources, known as OER, so students don’t have to spend money on class materials. Previously, her syllabus relied on a series of pamphlets from the Water Education Foundation, a California-based non-profit. But those materials were not ideal.

Textbooks 122

Textbooks Instructors Syllabus History 122

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Ungrading meets students where they are and moves them forward with intentional support and guidance. Faculty provide individualized, specific feedback intended to assist students in successfully achieving the course objectives. 2023) and situates the student as the expert in their learning. Provide students with a tool (e.g.,

Syllabus 52

Syllabus Instructors Feedback Assignments 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. Yet the nonprofit is also developing its own software designed to undercut the courseware industry, charging just $10 per student.

Textbooks 119

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

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. Education experts have long known that routines in the classroom translate clearly to students having better routines and habits as adults.

Study 52

Study Lecturing Learning Activities 52

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I And I do enjoy giving back and trying to contribute to a community and help future students.”

Testing 166

Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The discontinuation reasons included that Zoom was no longer needed; a fear that students wouldn't attend class if Zoom participation was an option or if online; and concerns that students would not pay attention or be engaged (Wong et al., A student will not learn if access is restricted due to uncontrollable circumstances.

Disabilities 52

Disabilities Exams Instructors Syllabus 52

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. The class then had 50 students. Now the course is offered each semester and a whopping 3,000 students take it in any given school year. What has made it so popular?

Syllabus 147

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 147