Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Ever wonder why students dont read the syllabus, despite the time and effort we put into creating it? In many classes, professors go over the syllabus during the first week (Richmond, 2016), so frequently that students have dubbed it syllabus week not exactly the most exciting start to a semester! Think-Pair-Share.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

Open Syllabus Project (OSP), a research project organizing data gathered from over a million syllabuses. The Digital Humanities (DH) is the hip younger sibling of the traditional humanities and a distant cousin of education technology. The syllabus data came primarily from a. It also hosts a director of the. Liberal Bias.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Ever wonder why students dont read the syllabus, despite the time and effort we put into creating it? In many classes, professors go over the syllabus during the first week (Richmond, 2016), so frequently that students have dubbed it syllabus week not exactly the most exciting start to a semester! Think-Pair-Share.

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Syllabus Students Activities Instructors 98

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a teacher who strives to help students uncover their interests and stretch their imaginations, I wanted to ensure they were participating in this new technology. Going from zero to hero Just days before our fall semester started, I learned that I’d been assigned mythology—a subject I’d not taught before and one without a syllabus.

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English Syllabus Intelligence Assignments 329

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Colleges and universities in the United States are increasingly integrating technology into developmental education programs, which are designed to bring underprepared students up to college level. Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform.

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Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 154

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

As November 8 th approached, I made sure to leave extra class time to allow my communications students to discuss the upcoming presidential election, hoping to align their discussions with topics on my syllabus. My only rule was that they were to be respectful in their comments. Is too much information a bad thing?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

However, as more and more research has gone into what methods work better for the individual learner, there is so much information out there to divulge, particularly with new techniques popping up as a result of improving technology. These digital environments allow learners to gain new perspectives and engage in group problem solving.

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Learning Syllabus Universal Design Quizzes 294

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Verify that your syllabus contains statements that reflect your values in this area. The Inclusion By Design syllabus survey can help you analyze a specific syllabus to “get a broader perspective on inclusion in your actual teaching practices.” The text of your syllabus and course design. And the subtext of your syllabus.

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Syllabus Teaching Beliefs Instructors 154

Edsurge

JULY 19, 2019

It’s called the Open Syllabus Project , and this week its leaders released a new version of their tool that analyzes assignment lists from more than six million syllabi. The Open Syllabus Project scans college websites, but can only see what is on publicly shared or submitted to the collection. But version 2.0,

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Syllabus Assignments History Knowledge 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. This session explores how technology has been leveraged to support refugee learners and provide them with some opportunity to continue their education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

I think the phenomena of the infographic syllabus has been an effort by many teachers to make that document more accessible, more real,” she explains. “We We can solve a lot of problems as educators if we can just get people to read the syllabus upfront.”. We're being very intentional about using it in the classroom," she adds.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

” I recognized that their intimidation did not come from the technology itself, but rather from a lack of confidence. After a semester where I threw out the syllabus, I was left with an inspiring question: How can I make my future courses more practical and still keep the academic writing and the academic requirements intact?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Gamification Syllabus Education History 183

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2024

We then use these responses to solidify the course syllabus as a living document that prioritizes the voices and narratives absent from their previous experiences in the English department.

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Syllabus English Learning Students 193

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I grew tired of uploading the syllabus as a file within our LMS, only to need to upload a new version every single semester. I then found myself needing to send out a revised syllabus to her and once again having to upload a revision to the LMS. I would name it something like syllabus-BUSN114.pdf syllabus-BUSN114.pdf)

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Syllabus Mobile Devices Learning Assignments 136

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world. It requires cultural change,” says Kathy Fernandes, senior director for learning design and technologies at the CSU office. And some professors share their teaching tips informally on blogs like ProfHacker.

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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

Make it Easy for Students to Interact It can be a delicate balance to try to not overwhelm students by the quantity of educational technology we use in a class, while still keeping things interesting through the element of surprise. The Marginal Syllabus project is just one example of the power of this type of collaboration.

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Instructors Syllabus Peer Review Students 163

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Thus, we encourage all life design practitioners, K-12 educators, and career educators to consider how this emergent technology can support your students in dreaming about and exploring their future. If you are a classroom educator, you might consider adding a note in your syllabus about the appropriate use of AI tools (example here ).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 331

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

One big barrier to sustaining education via remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic has been students’ unequal access to advanced technology tools. Any Device Will Do Americans have lots of consumer technology tools to choose from, and they haven’t all made the same selections.

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Distance Learning Syllabus Internet Learning 212

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.

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Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 285

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

“No teacher is going to put in 1,000 person-hours of his or her time in order to get a benefit of 200 person-hours that he or she may save,” Ashok Goel, a professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology, told EdSurge in an interview earlier this year.

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Teaching Intelligence Syllabus Learning 215

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Later in my career, as I moved districts and technology became more accessible, I had to contend with the sly texting in their laps, though they’d pretend to be on task. My syllabus had a no-technology policy and it wasn’t perfect, but it helped. I performed then too.

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Teachers Syllabus Schools Students 213

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

They've been really receptive to learning new technologies and being very patient with us as we're trying to assist all of them. They may not have access to technology or even a webcam, for that matter, to do synchronous sessions or to be monitored during exams. Jennifer Albat: I feel our institution has done a really great job.

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Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Parra , an assistant professor at New Mexico State’s department of curriculum and instruction learning design & technology, says she’s offered her students the opportunity to use their own languages to complete activities. “To In the end she builds the final syllabus based on their suggestions.

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Culture Teaching Syllabus English 152

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), Ensure content in the LMS course matches syllabus content and information (it’s ok to have information in both the syllabus and the LMS). Use consistent naming conventions, page labeling, etc. across the course.

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Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 122

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

In her syllabus written before the pandemic, she had planned a final exam with a series of physics problems for students to work out. That was the case with Stephanie Bailey, an assistant professor at Chapman University who was teaching an introductory physics course in the spring covering concepts like electricity and magnetism.

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Exams Essay Syllabus Questions 178

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features? Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference.  2 (2019): 255–75.

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Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 126

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement. How do they feel in your class?

Teaching 122

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 122

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Since he has been forced to teach online during COVID, to students who are struggling with job losses and disruptions, he has realized that most students want to learn, even if they may not meet the strict requirements on the syllabus. “I

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Exams Syllabus Lecturing Testing 177

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

Turner —one of his more abstract ones—onto the screen, and asking students whether it’s a celebration of technology or a reaction against it—and how do you know? We begin not with the syllabus, not with the table of contents, not with the attendance policy, not with lame jokes but with the real questions that delight us in our own work.

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Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Other elements of his syllabus were going to be taught using flexible online learning modules. Knowing he would have limited live time with students, he felt it was important to reflect on what aspects of the curriculum and his day were most critical to teach in-person with students.

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Blended Learning Failure Syllabus Schools 193

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

Turner —one of his more abstract ones—onto the screen, and asking students whether it’s a celebration of technology or a reaction against it—and how do you know? We begin not with the syllabus, not with the table of contents, not with the attendance policy, not with lame jokes but with the real questions that delight us in our own work.

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Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 105

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

Then AI could be used to sort, organize and synthesize all that data in ways that would have been too difficult to do using previous technologies. “If The concept is: What if a syllabus was something that students could ask questions of rather than a static document? “If

Intelligence 212

Intelligence Syllabus Feedback Assignments 212

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology. Then, we ask Seminar participants put their entrepreneurial hats on and pitch ideas for a business.

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Syllabus Education Failure Knowledge 156

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

He says that when many educators experimented with the previous free version of ChatGPT, many came away unimpressed, but the new version will be a “huge wake-up call” for how powerful the technology is, he adds. Several demos last month by OpenAI , Google, and other companies honed in on educational uses of their latest chatbots.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Like some educators, I spend way too much time thinking about ChatGPT and other language model-based chatbots, trying to figure out what they mean for students, faculty, and instructional technology geeks like me. There are many, many potential uses for this language-based technology, but they are beyond the scope of this article.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2019

Fullop, of Eureka College, said the online directory of courses helped sell her faculty on doing online course sharing, since it allows them to look at details about each course—including the syllabus and even some “learning assessment data”—to decide case by case whether to accept them. “I

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Art Syllabus Study Grades 157