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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.

August 19, 2010

The Three Big Questions Faculty Need to Ask

The growth of knowledge within your discipline is what makes being a professor so exciting, but it also presents new challenges–particularly when it comes to teaching. Because the time allotted ... Read more »

May 14, 2010

Is There a Place for Reading Lists in Today’s Curriculum?

Given the difficulty most faculty have getting students to read for courses, even assigned reading in required textbooks, reading lists may not be used as extensively now as they were ... Read more »

April 21, 2010

Six Steps to Designing Effective Service-Learning Courses

A biology class works with a local environmental organization to test water samples from the Chesapeake Bay. A graphics design class helps a non-profit organization build a new website. A ... Read more »

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 »

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