The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 5, 2023

If a student takes a challenging course and does well in the course, their self-efficacy for taking any similar challenging course increases; they feel confident in themselves and their ability to learn and perform at that level. That is why “weed-out courses” are typically effective in dropping enrollment.

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Food Faculty Student Development IT 192

The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Even the most effective speakers delivering practiced content find it challenging to hold learners’ interest for more than 17 minutes. With these practices "built in," faculty members are able to help students to learn course content by the way lectures are configured (Harrington & Zakrajsek, 2017; Major et al., Jordt, H.,

Engineering 288

Engineering Research Faculty Student Engagement 288

The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 27, 2022

I teach at an HSI, offering courses addressing topics at the confluence of social and physical sciences (I’m a human geographer). During early course interactions, emphasize faculty members’ roles as resources for navigating university. Deliberately relate course content to students’ future career prospects.

Education 130

Education Title IX Higher Education Financial Aid 130

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

in Business Analytics differs in admission requirements, course content and program outcomes from Morgan State’s excellent Ph.D Morgan State is looking to address the issue with elected officials, said Larry Jones, assistant vice president for public relations at Morgan State. TU’s STEM-centered Ph.D

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Toldson Although the College Board has significantly expanded its AP courses over the past two decades, they have not effectively addressed longstanding racial equity issues. By 1930 multiple-choice exams were entrenched within schools, sparking debate about their content being racist or biased towards memorization and guessing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The purpose of the age-old course syllabus remains the same — a crucial document that sets the foundation for a course by providing students with essential information, outlining expectations, and serving as a reference point throughout the semester. For example, consider how we use dark to mean bad , evil , and frightening.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Rodgers (2) increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one’s job; and (3) reduced professional efficacy” (WHO, 2019) (see Bouchrika ). The statistics are telling and a clarion call for teacher education institutions to evaluate/audit their course offering and syllabi content.

Education 264

Education Higher Education Professional Development Faculty 264

CU Work-Life Balance

OCTOBER 6, 2023

LinkedIn Learning recently introduced a new library of curated learning content called Role Guides. These guides act as libraries for common job roles that bring together all content — from learning paths to courses to individual videos — relevant to that job role. Read our past article on custom content to learn more.

Marketing and Communication Services 52

Marketing and Communication Services Libraries Engineering Management 52

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

The presidents, in a joint statement , pledged not to fund or support “initiatives, instruction, and activities” that promote critical race theory or related ideologies. ’ Their statement further mandates that any courses that discuss critical race theory may do so only ‘as one of several theories.’

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Government Community College Faculty Higher Education 81

The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Effectively creating an engaging online course requires planning, creativity, and ongoing interactions. 4 Strategies to Engage Students in the Online Environment Strategy #1: Start Each Class Period With a Short Break-the-Ice Activity When designing a virtual course, faculty should encourage regular interactions (Lumpkin, 2021).

Student Engagement 130

Student Engagement Electronics Education Faculty 130

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Alex Red Corn Recently at our Indigenous Peoples Day gathering at Kansas State University, Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee spoke from the heart about matters related to Shawnee histories and their ongoing presence as a Native nation. Even if they were to attend, we do not offer any courses on Kaw language, government, or history.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

APRIL 22, 2024

Lengthy paragraphs without breaks, images, or other visual aids can lead recipients to lose interest or not engage with the content at all. Personalization goes beyond just inserting the recipient’s name; it involves curating content that resonates with their specific interests, course of study, and relationship with the institution.

Marketing and Communication Services 94

Marketing and Communication Services Technology/Audio/Visual Higher Education Career Services 94

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

What do I do with the data that I have? As one of our departmental strategies is “capacity building,” our team figured that we would start offering one-hour workshops to Division staff on topics related to writing learning outcomes, survey design, and basic use of the Qualtrics survey platform. The name we chose for our course?

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Student Affairs Consulting Higher Education Administration 81

Experiential Learning Depot

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Content knowledge is important, but soft skills are as well. Leaving out 21st-century skills in teaching approach for the sake of content-only instruction is a disadvantage to 21st-century learners. ​Content can be explored with the touch of a finger. You don't need to choose content or skills. Don't forget!

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 31, 2023

Content was sorted into seven topics: assessment culture, assessment planning, consulting and critique, success criteria and targets, critical approaches and ethics, data to decisions, and theory-to-practice application. Once compiled, SAAL wondered the best way to package and distribute this content.

Management 52

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

2019) defined flipped classrooms as increasing regular student engagement in course material with marginal involvement from the instructor. The content was also tested on a course assessment one week later. Yes, they want to do well in the course but are ultimately internally motivated to become successful registered nurses.

Higher Education 243

Higher Education Student Engagement Medical Education 243

Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Content ranges from the history of money to saving money, budgeting and using credit cards. After downloading the free app, users select which lesson they’d like to learn, watch a three-minute course video and then complete a quiz to demonstrate mastery of the content. Spent OK, so Spent isn’t an app.

Financial Aid 98

Financial Aid Higher Education Media Management 98

The Scholarly Teacher

AUGUST 30, 2023

Boettcher , Clemson University Key Statement: A short video each week is one way to build community, provide support, and connect with students in teaching any course. Of course, it was not just the students; I was struggling, as were my colleagues and everyone else in their contexts - academic, personal, and otherwise.

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Libraries Management Student Affairs Higher Education 130

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

Daily content will include news, ideas, advice and inspiration related to driving student success in four main topic areas: Academic life. The college experience. Health and wellness. Life after college.

Student Engagement 72

Student Engagement 72

Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

On the first day of class, many faculty will dedicate time to going over the course syllabus. This is often used as an opportunity to present the syllabus as a “contract” and to make course policies and penalties clear to students. Use it wisely.

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Grants and Contracts Faculty Student Engagement Utilities 98

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

Caring Campus, a program to have faculty contribute to fostering a culture of caring for students at schools, is related to observable benefits, according to a recent report by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University.

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The learning design bottleneck Many of my friends running digital course design teams tell me they cannot keep up with demand. I’ve been asking, “Suppose we could accelerate your time to develop a course by, say, 20%?” No more content license costs. They don’t have time or money to fix the problem.

Computers and Informational Technology 80

Computers and Informational Technology Professional Development Consulting IT 80

Creatrix Campus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Identify key themes or values emphasized in the mission, and then determine how these themes relate to specific academic programs. Analyze courses within the program to identify desired learning outcomes and then apply Bloom's Taxonomy levels to each outcome. Ensure that course objectives align with overall program goals.

Education 105

Education Utilities Faculty Industry 105

Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

If Blackwood’s course sounds like a divergence from the humdrum small-group discussions that college English courses bring to mind, well, you probably haven’t taken a college English class recently. English is the place to train to be a content creator or a cultural worker.”

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Alumni Recruitment Industry Event Planning 126

Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The University of Maryland is one such institution—but officials hope that a new course will provide students with tools to help manage negative emotions associated with stress, anxiety and depression on their own. What classes look like: The course operates without textbooks or lectures. Course limitations: U SAD?

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Management Faculty Research IT 98

University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With students, faculty and related academic programs going online during the pandemic, students with disabilities experienced a proliferation of edtech tools ready to assist them in the digital space. More from UB: FAFSA delayed until Dec. 31: How does this complicate your admissions team? “That’s really not enough. .

Government 82

Government Management Higher Education Admissions 82

Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The course, launched in 2021, aims to help faculty, staff and administrators reach their students and provide supports in new ways. ” Meeting Professionals’ Needs Faculty, staff and administrators from within Florida and beyond have taken the course. on the likelihood of recommending the course to others.

Transportation 98

Transportation Administration Faculty Higher Education 98

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Thus, they are not only concerned about his current state of mind but how this and related experiences will affect him later. CURRICULUM - The content and focus of counseling sessions must be anti-racist and culturally responsive to be useful for minoritized students.

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Social Justice Faculty Higher Education Education 321

Creatrix Campus

JUNE 1, 2023

It allows you to ensure that your curriculum covers the necessary content and skills outlined by relevant standards, and helps you identify any gaps or redundancies in the curriculum. They can identify content gaps, sequence topics logically, and allocate appropriate time for each concept.

Management 98

Management Administration Curriculum Development Student Engagement 98

The Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 4, 2024

Those who do well in middle school are placed into college prep courses in high school. As an example, early in my career I tended to teach courses that had enrollments that were fairly low (i.e., However, I learned only a few of the names of student in those larger courses; 250 felt too impossible to try. Why do I say this?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

A few months ago, I was let go from my side gig, writing content-driven advertising for a car services–related company. I was being paid $25 an hour to write three short articles on topics related to car care and travel. And not being a car mechanic, well, of course I could have been replaced by an AI bot.

Computers and Informational Technology 124

Computers and Informational Technology Admissions IT Research 124

eLiterate

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The core principles The four basic principles for an LMS or learning platform to support CBE are simple: Separate skill tree: Most systems have learning objectives that are attached to individual courses. The course is about the learning objectives. A skill learned in one course may count toward another.

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Architecture Consulting Management IT 83

The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Paula Jakopovic , University of Nebraska at Omaha Kelly Gomez Johnson , University of Nebraska at Omaha Key Statement: This article highlights communities of practice as a means for supporting faculty as they seek to( re)design courses with equitable, research-informed practices.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

They help students with course content outside of their assigned course and help those in crisis. They participate in department and faculty meetings and go above and beyond staying for office hours. Twelve to 14 hour days, seven days a week, have become the norm due to online teaching.”

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Faculty Healthcare Support Services Higher Education 98

eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

EdSurge’s Daniel Mollencamp has published a piece called “ What a Homework Help Site’s Move to Host Open Educational Resources Could Mean ” about Lumen Learning’s deal with Course Hero to transfer hosting of those OER textbooks from Lumen’s site to Course Hero’s. I speculate that it was non-trivial.

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IT Education Faculty Administration 52

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

And yet, in its publication policy, OpenAI clearly articulates that all content generated through the use of ChatGPT and intended for publication as writing (they give as quaint examples “a book, compendium of short stories”) is to be understood and identified as “co-authored” by the user and the AI.

Computers and Informational Technology 105

Computers and Informational Technology Education IT Higher Education 105

Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: As part of a new $560,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, humanities scholars at Wheaton College in Massachusetts are developing 10 curricular modules on the role of race, cultural backgrounds and global perspectives in health and medicine—and professors beyond Wheaton will be able to incorporate them into existing courses.

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