When faculty are tasked with designing their courses, they are often starting from scratch. In addition to creating the learning outcomes, they have to source the materials, design course activities and assessments, and develop course policies. While they are doing all of this, a question that is top of mind is: “Is this rigorous enough?” or “Are my standards high enough?” Continue reading
In higher education, we are currently facing a dual crisis in content creation (a tri-crisis if you count AI content creation, but that’s for another day!). On one side, we have the so-called “Zoom Fatigue”—the exhaustion students feel from sitting in endless hours of talking heads in video calls. On the other side, we have “Death by PowerPoint”—the instinct for instructors to put every single spoken word onto a slide, forcing students to split their attention between reading and listening, and worse, doing that in one to two hour long (or longer!) recordings.