Faculty Effectiveness

Simplifying Faculty’s Role in Accreditation Preparation

Academic accreditation is a formal recognition of an educational program or Institution per the standards of quality set by the accreditation agency against well-defined criteria. Collegiate accreditation is granted to particular higher educational Institutions based on an impartial assessment of the attainment of specific requirements in terms of its performance, related to the academic processes and outcomes, covering the entire academics, administration, and services.

Educators are faced with numerous challenges in paper-based course evaluations including substantial investment of staff time and resources, huge paper costs, creating questions, administering course evaluations in the classroom for a large number of students, and lower response rate from students.

The education world is getting better with advancements in digital technology and business intelligence, making life even better for faculties and students. Technology-enabled classroom education makes every task as easy as possible and everything seems to be automatic and effortless.

Educators know the effectiveness of scheduling and managing instructional time in higher education. Automated timetable scheduling solutions help educational institutions to efficiently manage the scheduling process across multiple courses, faculties, and rooms to save time and optimize staff workload.  Here are the 10 things to look for in an automated timetable management system:

The NAFSA 2016 Annual Conference & Expo was one of the largest global events held last week in Denver, Colorado. Nearly 9,000 international educators from 100+ countries attended the event. The annual NAFSA conference helped participants to develop meaningful partnerships and bolster global engagement among all institutions.  NAFSA is leading the way by helping thousands of international education professionals to get going with global learning, and showing them how the global approach will help them improve learning outcomes and student success.  

The latest technology tools simplifies, streamlines and makes grading easier for faculty and administrators, and communicating the information is less tedious and time-consuming. Automated gradebook not just evaluate assignments, tests and quizzes, but also manage data in one place. Gradebook management software enable faculty to capture and track the progress of students in their classes. Grades assigned for the student work can then be shared with parents across website and mobile devices.  

How does automated gradebook work?

One of the greatest problems for faculty members is to avoid high-level stress, fatigue, and burnout due to excess teaching loads in colleges and universities. Often in times of increased pressure, instructors may be firefighting to manage class schedules and find time for research, mentoring and other teaching events. 

Course management system is increasingly adopted by faculty and staff in academic systems in higher education as technology trends are growing. Cloud, Analytics and Mobile are the emerging technologies that allows serendipitous learning opportunities for students, who could be exposed to new things they might have originally come to the classroom for. Cloud and Mobile based Classroom Management System allows faculty to upload, manage, organize and track course content and resources to students and groups at specific times. 

Many of education systems around the world have no frameworks for teacher evaluations. Evaluation is left to the discretion of educational institutions and boards. There are no standardized tools for testing teacher effectiveness with clear-cut teacher-appraisal policies. A fair evaluation system can help faculty thrive in the classroom and improves the chance of student success.   

There are increasing cases of plagiarism reported in the education sector and the numbers are steadily rising each year. There is evidence of students ghostwriting assessments including assignments, and tests with simple internet searches to fulfill learning requirements. Students resort to electronic cheating as they find cheap ways for quick gains. Colleges and Universities are fighting to detect and report cases of plagiarism.