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Building community in online conferences, events (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In-person events can be isolating for anyone who is not already part of the in crowd. We offer here ideas for what organizers of online events can learn from MYFest. Community (and the trust that is the foundation of healthy community) cannot be established with one or two speed networking sessions at an event.

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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

Faculty Focus

However, the observer can add comments or questions about the classroom events to be discussed later in the post-observation meeting. Currently, she works in faculty development at the Excellence in Teaching and Learning Center at Qatar University.

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Care for Faculty in Challenging Times: Considerations for Exploring Hope and Healing

Faculty Focus

Universities are increasingly concerned about student success during this era of the Great Disengagement, and faculty success (more specifically, providing care to faculty so they can succeed and in turn support the needs of students) should be an equal priority.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

Faculty Training and Development Preparing faculty to create inclusive online learning environments is crucial for promoting access, engagement, and inclusion.

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Care for Faculty in Challenging Times: Considerations for Exploring Hope and Healing

Faculty Focus

Universities are increasingly concerned about student success during this era of the Great Disengagement, and faculty success (more specifically, providing care to faculty so they can succeed and in turn support the needs of students) should be an equal priority.

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Not a temporary lifeline: How to scale online education to match student demand

University Business

Faculty development has been a key component of that work, with more than half of the college’s full-time staff voluntarily completing workshops aimed at enhancing online course design. The college was an early pioneer of remote education, using video conference technology as early as 1996.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. Reenactments : Students might create a reenactment of an event they took in their history course or any past event such as a political agreement.