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Seven ways to leverage faculty development for student success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Maximizing faculty development’s impact on student success and equitable learning requires targeted action. That’s the upshot of a recent report from Every Learner Everywhere, Achieving the Dream and the Online Learning Consortium.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

Creating a Culture of Belonging To truly foster student success, community colleges need to prioritize building a culture of belonging that extends beyond academic achievement. Faculty and staff should be encouraged to engage with students in meaningful ways that extend past classroom interactions. References Pascarella, Ernest T.,

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Empowering Education Through Collaboration: The Success of the Mississippi Virtual Community College

WCET Frontiers

Enjoy the read and enjoy your day, Lindsey Downs, WCET The Mississippi Virtual Community College (MSVCC) is a shining example of what can be achieved when institutions collaborate to transform education. MSVCC Academy for Faculty Development: Excellence in distance education relies on well-prepared faculty.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. To this end, developing authentic assessment tasks might be the most effective approach for educators.

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How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

Faculty Focus

I see the 80/20 rule has an on-going process in which the next time I teach the same course, my goal is to move towards achieving 90% of desired outcomes. As a matter of good practice, I wrote up a Faculty Focus article , sharing my experiences of reflective practice through beyond-action. what we actually do).

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Learning to Surf:  Supporting a Campus’s AI Needs 

Faculty Focus

What follows is a case study that can be adapted by a wide range of academic programs, such as faculty development centers, university learning centers, and writing centers. Directors crafting proposals for new AI-infused programs must first consider their students’ needs, their faculty’s’ needs, and their institution’s needs.

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Learning to Surf:  Supporting a Campus’s AI Needs 

Faculty Focus

What follows is a case study that can be adapted by a wide range of academic programs, such as faculty development centers, university learning centers, and writing centers. Directors crafting proposals for new AI-infused programs must first consider their students’ needs, their faculty’s’ needs, and their institution’s needs.