Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Use of Best Practices in Exam Item Creation, Analysis, and Revision: Nursing Faculty’s Knowledge, Use, and Implementation Barriers and Facilitators, Julie Anne De Haan
The ultimate goal of nursing education is to prepare graduates to provide excellent, safe patient care. The implementation of exam item best practices can significantly contribute to this process. This study examined nursing faculty’s use o...
Submissions from 2019
Faculty Development for Online Teaching, Karen R. Johnson, Gertrude I. Hewapathirana, and Mauvalyn M. Bowen
Despite dramatic increase in online education and the benefits associated with this instructional pedagogy, many challenges exist with the design and delivery of online learning. Faculty play a critical role in the process of quality online...
Submissions from 2013
Faith Integration: Engaged Teaching and Learning, Christopher Gehrz and Jay Rasmussen
This video and companion paper, "Faith and Learning: Conversation, Education, and the Pastoral Professor", explore the concept of Faith Learning Integration by exploring questions like: How is faith integration commonly understood in the wo...
Submissions from 2011
Facilitating Lab Experiences: Engaged Teaching and Learning, Teresa DeGolier and Jay Rasmussen
Facilitating lab experiences is often considered an accumulation of hard labor versus gratifying work for an instructor. Join this experienced science educator as she shares her passion, joy, and expertise related to the preparation, execut...
Connections: Engaged Teaching and Learning, Dan Ritchie and Jay Rasmussen
Join Dan Ritchie (English and Journalism), 2005-2006 recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, as he reflects on the following: teaching style, understanding of the learning process, building student rapport, course and lesson ...
Submissions from 2010
Experiential Education: Engaged Teaching and Learning, Karen McKinney, Yer Kong, and Jay Rasmussen
Explore the meaning, purpose, and uses of experiential education with a video featuring Dr. Karen McKinney. Additionally, consider how activities can be conceptualized, designed, and appropriately assessed. The classroom activity 'Other Peo...
To Lecture or Not to Lecture: Engaged Teaching and Learning, Wayne Roosa and Jay Rasmussen
This video and companion paper discusses the lecture as a teaching tool and features Professor Wayne Roosa (Art History) as he reflects on reasons for using lectures, the thoughts and processes involved in lecture design, and techniques tha...