Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Faculty can guide students by demonstrating the difference between open-ended and closed-ended prompts. By engaging students in these exercises, educators can help them develop the skills necessary to evaluate AI-generated information critically. A strong AI prompt consists of clarity, specificity, and iterative refinement.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

This article explores AI’s historical evolution, critically assesses its benefits and challenges for teaching, and provides evidence-based strategies for faculty to integrate AI effectively. A century later, AI is no longer fiction but a dynamic force in community college education, reshaping how faculty teach, and students learn.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

Faculty can get overwhelmed at the prospect of learning how to use new technologies in the classroom — and trusting that those technologies will work during their classes.

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University Business

JULY 29, 2024

Faculty learning communities (FLC) as an approach to improving pedagogy have their roots in 1979 when the first FLC was launched at Miami University by Dr. Milton D. FLCs provide faculty with the chance to work in a trans-disciplinary fashion on matters of importance to a cohort or a particular topic for the cohort to work on.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? AI offers many potential applications for faculty work.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 12, 2025

Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET The 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report (Teaching and Learning Edition) offers valuable insights into the key technologies and practices shaping the future of higher education. This also facilitates the development of learning activities and assessments that effectively support the identified outcomes.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

The preparation of faculty in online pedagogy and the appropriate use of tools for asynchronous learning to quickly build capacity was a start (Tucker & Quintero-Ares, 2021). One of the key benefits of an OLC is that faculty are given the opportunity to collaborate and share their knowledge and expertise (Tuffnell, 2021).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

She joined the School of Law's faculty in the fall of 2005 and was named the holder of the M.E. From 2015 to 2018 and for the fall semester of 2024, Rodrigues served as the law school's associate dean for faculty development. where she specialized in corporate law and technology transactions. Ambro of the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Make sure that all the technology is working. The post Running a Workshop: Guidelines for Engagement and Impact appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. Principle 1: Come early and “own” the learning space. Greet people as they enter to let them know they are valued and welcome.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 3, 2024

MSVCC’s innovations, including their custom-built enrollment tool, have transformed the student experience by streamlining processes for both learners and faculty. The consortium model united community colleges across Mississippi, pooling resources to offer instructional support, training, and cutting-edge technologies.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

The preparation of faculty in online pedagogy and the appropriate use of tools for asynchronous learning to quickly build capacity was a start (Tucker & Quintero-Ares, 2021). One of the key benefits of an OLC is that faculty are given the opportunity to collaborate and share their knowledge and expertise (Tuffnell, 2021).

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University Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It will require crafting a strategy centered on realistic goals and it will necessitate committing real and significant university resources—financial and otherwise—focused on student and faculty support. The college was an early pioneer of remote education, using video conference technology as early as 1996.

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WCET Frontiers

MAY 1, 2025

Institutions, faculty, and staff scrambled to keep courses goingand they did, under incredibly tough circumstances. Operations continued: students adapted, faculty adjusted their courses, and online learning professionals worked tirelessly to support, in most cases, double the normal online course offerings.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Many faculty already use an LMS, but how they use it is important. In creating a course shell, regardless of the course modality (face-to-face, hybrid, or online), it can be helpful to understand the things that students find most frustrating (and most helpful) about faculty use of the LMS. So how do we begin to address these concerns?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Duane Watson Duane Watson has been named associate provost for faculty development at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Mayborn Professor and professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt. in brain and cognitive sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Watson serves as the Frank W.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards serve as a potential technology to fill this void in asynchronous online courses.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Applying Principles of Organizational Development in Higher Education If you work in higher education, you know the industry is constantly evolving. Shifting student demographics, emerging technologies, and market pressures require institutions to be proactive in building a stronger, more adaptable foundation for long-term success.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Many faculty already use an LMS, but how they use it is important. In creating a course shell, regardless of the course modality (face-to-face, hybrid, or online), it can be helpful to understand the things that students find most frustrating (and most helpful) about faculty use of the LMS. So how do we begin to address these concerns?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards serve as a potential technology to fill this void in asynchronous online courses.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To tame their anxieties about AI, faculty and administrators might embrace Howard Kabat-Zinn’s maxim, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” Three camps On most campuses, faculty fall into three camps: those who want to “lock and block” AI (just stay out of the water!) It’s time to get in the water.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

University faculty members are usually immersed in various tasks related to teaching, research, committees, and office hours. This isolation can hinder their professional development and growth, especially if they do not take the time to reflect on their own teaching methods and practices.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 30, 2023

This new report, released today, details the results of a survey on faculty and student desires regarding digital learning offerings and faculty readiness for the digital learning shift. Some senior faculty are not able to fill their course loads during in-person traditional timeframes. This has had some real impacts.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To tame their anxieties about AI, faculty and administrators might embrace Howard Kabat-Zinn’s maxim, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” Three camps On most campuses, faculty fall into three camps: those who want to “lock and block” AI (just stay out of the water!) It’s time to get in the water.

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University Business

JUNE 13, 2024

Skeptical faculty are beginning to change their tune on the implications of artificial intelligence in the classroom, so much so that some believe generative AI tools rival the instruction of a professor. However, building AI programs for students requires faculty to also be up to speed on the technology, Pazz said.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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. Currently, she is working as a senior faculty development specialist at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Qatar University.

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Creatrix Campus

AUGUST 20, 2024

Strategy 2: Regular Faculty Development Maintaining your faculty's professional growth and ongoing training is revolutionary. Your staff will always be up to date on the newest technologies, instructional techniques, and business trends if you engage in regular faculty development.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed. So, when faculty come to me with a problem, they want an answer. Some of the faculty who want a quick fix already “get it,” meaning they come in valuing diversity and inclusion and/or come in with a strong critical analysis (think antiracist, feminist, queer, critical disability, etc.).

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Creatrix Campus

MAY 6, 2024

A Closer Look at Faculty Performance Appraisal and Development System editor Tue, 05/07/2024 - 02:12 Higher education institutions now analyze faculty performance for promotion, tenure, and remuneration increases. Let's look deep into the faculty performance appraisal and development systems in this blog.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As students enter the online classroom, they bring with them diverse educational experiences, backgrounds, and expectations of faculty interactions. Such strategies equip faculty with the tools to effectively respond to students’ needs (Rahimi et al., Mentors can be faculty members, alumni, or industry professionals.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 17, 2025

He’s the author of the book High Structure Course Design , which gives faculty practical, evidence-based strategies for designing and delivering courses that increase student engagement, close performance gaps, and improve learning across disciplines. Shaffer points out that most faculty were never trained to teach.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Researchers at the University of Minnesota found by 2010, for instance, that students in new, technology-enhanced learning spaces exceeded final grade expectations relative to their ACT scores. 1 strategic technology, with the group predicting that the then “experimental” trend would be “mainstream” by 2022.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? AI offers many potential applications for faculty work.

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University Business

JULY 21, 2023

Through the tuition revenue they accrue by teaching lectures to the federal grant dollars they gain through sponsored research, faculty may be the financial pulse of an institution. which will discuss revamping faculty affairs in a post-pandemic world. Interfolio is a higher education technology company focused on faculty affairs.

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PeopleAdmin

JULY 7, 2023

In the last few years, the HigherEd landscape has undergone significant changes, leading to challenges in faculty recruitment and retention. In a recent webinar, Best Practices for Faculty Recruitment and Retention , experts broke down some of the top challenges and solutions for both hiring and retaining faculty.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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. Currently, she is working as a senior faculty development specialist at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Qatar University.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2023

Additionally, this approach balanced the need for high-levels of faculty-student interaction as well as personalized feedback within a growing class size, a previously challenging task. Assignment structure In an online general psychology course, I experimented with an alternative assignment structure that centered around student choice.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 23, 2024

Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET Scenes from a Faculty Office As I was sitting in her office discussing plans to sub for her upcoming classes, my friend and colleague paused a moment and said, “Hold on, I forgot I need to call my nurse back. So why are women faculty with disabilities of concern?

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