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Reimagining the Flipped Classroom: Integrating AI, Microlearning, and Learning Analytics to Elevate Student Engagement and Critical Thinking - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Explore how AI, microlearning, and learning analytics transform the flipped classroom into a future-ready model that boosts engagement, critical thinking, and self-directed learning.
Helping Students Develop AI Prompting Skills for Critical Thinking - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Learn how AI prompting can foster critical thinking in students. Discover strategies for teaching prompt engineering, evaluating AI-generated content, and integrating AI ethically into coursework.
Integrating Systems Thinking to Enhance Liberal Arts Curriculum through Learner-Centered Teaching - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Discover how integrating systems thinking and learner-centered teaching enhances liberal arts education through interdisciplinary and holistic learning strategies.
Lifting as We Climb: A Reflection on Mentorship, Growth, and Leadership in Nursing Education - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Explore how mentorship, leadership, and peer support shape growth in nursing education. A reflective look at how nurse educators can inspire the next generation through advocacy, innovation, and compassion.
Reviving Engagement in the Spanish Classroom: A Musical Challenge with ChatGPT - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Learn how the author boosted student engagement in her classroom with a creative musical challenge using ChatGPT. Combine AI, music, and language learning to make lessons interactive and fun.
My Journey in Alternative Grading: From Curiosity to Clarity - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Explore the benefits of alternative grading systems, including contract grading and labor-based models, to reduce student stress, enhance motivation, and clarify expectations for success in the classroom.
How to Significantly Improve Student Engagement and Retained Learning in Higher Education - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Discover how higher-order active learning strategies like Task-Based Learning and Project-Based Learning can significantly boost student engagement and retained learning—especially for lower SES students—in higher education classrooms.
Supporting Student Mental Health in the Classroom: A Faculty Guide to Compassionate Engagement - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Learn how faculty can recognize signs of student distress, make compassionate referrals, and support student mental health without sacrificing their own wellbeing.
Conversation and Coursework: Strategies to Engage Undergraduate Students with Course Content - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Discover practical strategies to boost undergraduate student engagement with course content through peer conversations, active reading techniques, and in-class participation tools.
Steps Toward Creating a More Accessible and Inclusive College Classroom - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Learn practical steps to create a more accessible and inclusive college classroom through anti-ableist pedagogy, universal design, and inclusive teaching strategies that support all students.
What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
After years of teaching, I noticed how often students carried academic, emotional, and personal burdens without sharing them. Not because they lacked courage, but because they didn’t feel invited to speak. Their stories, while occasionally requested, were rarely acted upon. I wanted to change that—not just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change.
What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Given this reality in which AI can provide and synthesize information for and to our students at their requests in seconds, it is not completely paranoid to ask the question, “What can we, as college instructors, offer our students in the age of AI?”
The Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Generate Case Studies for the Classroom - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
The focus of this article is to share examples of AI input prompts to generate case studies as a learning tool to help students learn course topics and learning outcomes.
The Silent Crisis: Bullying Among Nurse Educators in Higher Education - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
While nursing education should promote professional growth, collaboration, and mentorship, many nurse educators—especially those in tenure-track positions—experience bullying from colleagues, senior faculty, or administrators. These hostile work environments have profound consequences, leading many talented educators to leave academia entirely or return to clinical practice.
Building Connections and Shaping Futures by Fostering Cohort Success - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
How do you cultivate connection, retention, and career development among busy, online STEM students? Here, we share five strategies that have helped us successfully create a sense of community in our program.
How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Learn how to implement the Circular Model of Reflection—before, during, after, and beyond action—to enhance your teaching, improve decision-making, and boost learning outcomes.
AI as an Educational Ally: Innovative Strategies for Classroom Integration - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
According to a recent survey by Anthology (2023), 60% of students in the US have used AI tools, with 10% reporting weekly use 38% using them monthly. Instead of fearing AI, we should actively explore its potential in the classroom, emphasizing how it can enrich the learning experience.
5 High-Presence Teaching Tactics for Active Online Learning - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Within the Purdue Global’s Math Department within the School of Multidisciplinary and Professional Studies, many innovative and inspiring ideas are combined with active learning tactics to promote high-presence teaching in the online classroom.
The Role of Microlearning and Andragogy in Enhancing Online Student Engagement - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
As students and educators adapt to digital platforms, student engagement has emerged as a key concern in online learning. Two such approaches—microlearning and andragogy—offer promising solutions to enhance student engagement and knowledge retention.
5 Strategies to Create Inclusive Learning Environments for International Students - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Discover five key strategies to create inclusive, supportive learning environments for international students in higher education. Enhance classroom participation, peer support, and a sense of belonging.
Designing College Curricula for Student Success - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Curriculum design in higher education is essential for student success. This article explores course design types and Fink's model, emphasizing the need for active learning, student interests, and clear goals to create engaging courses.
Mid-Semester Course Corrections: Using the MSF Model to Engage Students and Improve Courses - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
The Midterm Student Feedback (MSF) model builds on the practice of informal, mid-semester “check-ins” to provide robust, actionable, contextualized feedback when it is still possible for faculty to make changes to a course that can improve the student experiences.
Can We Teach Talent? How Mindsets Can Foster Entrepreneurial Success - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Can entrepreneurship be taught? This article explores the role of a growth mindset in entrepreneurship education, highlighting how trial, error, and persistence shape entrepreneurial success.
Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Peer observation is a valuable university practice with mutual benefits for the observer and observee, with an emphasis on learning, reflection, and improvement to enhance teaching methods and overall practices.
AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
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.