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Faculty-Student Partnerships in Curriculum Design and Review

The Scholarly Teacher

Reprinted with permission. Background As faculty, our (Assif and Kim) collaboration started during COVID. It has been popular since its inception in 2008, but students and instructors have consistently expressed concerns about burnout and heavy workload. Students are assessed through a final report and presentation.

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Incorporating Virtual Instructional Strategies that Increase Student Engagement

The Scholarly Teacher

Well, if you're not paying attention during Zoom meetings, why do we expect our students to be any different? The pandemic has changed how faculty design courses, whether face-to-face, hybrid, hi-flex, or online. The challenge now is how to keep students on-task and engaged with the content. Synchronous Instruction.

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New Technology and Attitudes Emerge from the Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the start of 2020, there was robust availability of online higher education, but no one anticipated that a worldwide pandemic called COVID-19 would soon usher in a new world of distance learning. “The The pandemic opened the door for many faculty to experience teaching online that hadn’t before,” said Dr. Elizabeth M.

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Inquiring Minds Want to Know…About Social, Cognitive, and Teacher Presence Online

The Scholarly Teacher

Kari Henry Hulett , Northeastern State University Maria Gray , Northeastern State University Key Statement: Faculty can intentionally design courses using the Community of Inquiry Framework to achieve greater student engagement and learning outcomes. Garrison et al. Image by , Unsplash.

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DEI: Informing the Implicit to Create the Explicit in Classroom Culture

The Scholarly Teacher

The diversity and multicultural nature of today’s college classroom calls for use of culturally responsive practices to improve student engagement and learning (Mohammad & Nordin, 2017). Faculty as Facilitator Creation of an inclusive classroom is arguably achieved in any discipline from a faculty-as-facilitator approach.

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Creating Classroom Camaraderie to Promote Learning: 3 Strategies

The Scholarly Teacher

Key Statement : Intentionally developing a welcoming classroom environment increases student engagement and cultivates meaningful classroom relationships. Keywords: engagement, motivation, relationship. Maintaining student engagement is difficult; this is not a controversial opinion or surprise to most faculty.

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4 Challenges for Outsourcing in Hybrid Higher Ed Environments

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Higher education’s embrace of hybrid work environments began slowly years ago but picked up steam in 2020. Now, many higher ed institutions have a mix of staff, faculty and students engaging in remote work, teaching and learning a major percentage of their time.