Curriculum Development
Researching market needs, developing lesson plans and work sheets, and assessing their effectiveness are fundamental to curriculum development. Turn to Faculty Focus for tips and techniques.
June 4, 2009
General Education Programs Incorporate More Engaged, Integrative Learning Practices
A survey released last month suggests that many colleges and universities are reforming their general education programs and developing new curricular approaches and educational assessment strategies for measuring key student ... Read more »
April 17, 2009
Incorporating Diversity-related Materials into the Curriculum
Incorporating material that addresses diversity issues in classes has positive effects on a number of learning outcomes. The success of efforts to make curricula more diverse depends to a large ... Read more »
March 19, 2009
Why Do Students Take Your Course?
If you ask students what they want to get out of a course, most give the same answer: an A (never mind if learning accompanies the grade). If you rephrase ... Read more »
February 23, 2009
Information Literacy: Improving Student Research Skills in a Wikipedia World
When you assign your students to write a paper, do they know where to start? Upperclassmen surely do, but what about freshmen? Left to their own devices, they’ll likely turn ... Read more »
January 7, 2009
Four Tips for Acing Your Accreditation Site Visit
As an associate vice president at the University of Utah, part of my job is to oversee the continuing and distance education programs for the university, including accreditation visits from ... Read more »
October 29, 2008
Nine Tips for Creating a Hybrid Course
Most instructors supplement their face-to-face courses with some online learning materials such as online syllabi, handouts, PowerPoint slides, and course-related Web links. All of these can add to ... Read more »
October 13, 2008
How to Assist Faculty with an Online Course Template
How do you get the best out of your online faculty? Don’t make them re-invent the wheel each time they create an online course. Let them do what they’re best ... Read more »
September 11, 2008
Setting Academic Priorities, Identifying Signature Programs
What are your institution’s signature programs—those programs that epitomize your institution’s mission and define its distinctiveness in the marketplace? It’s a question that every institution should address, particularly when faced ... Read more »
July 19, 2008
Creating Successful Interdisciplinary Programs
The University of Oklahoma’s (OU) College of Arts and Sciences has a long history of successful interdisciplinary programs. Each was created under different circumstances without a standard process, but they ... Read more »
July 17, 2008
Curriculum Development: Department-less Interdisciplinary Program Provides Flexibility for Returning Adult Students
The Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies (BAiLS) program, an interdisciplinary program at Northern Arizona University designed to meet the needs of returning adult students, is less structured than programs ... Read more »
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