Skills for Higher Education Pofessionals

Move beyond comments that only describe what students did wrong. This practical faculty-development session shows how to give feedback that clarifies expectations, connects performance to criteria, and gives students one actionable next step. Use the feed-up, feedback, and feed-forward model to make every comment more useful—without adding hours to your marking workload. Subscribe for practical st...

Your item-analysis report can help you improve future exams—but only if you know what each number is telling you. This practical guide explains how to interpret difficulty, discrimination, and KR-20 reliability, then turn the findings into clear post-exam actions. Use the decision matrix and one-page review workflow to identify items to keep, review, revise, or discard. Subscribe for practical fac...

Learn how to assess clinical performance with greater clarity, fairness, and confidence. This practical faculty-development session introduces the essentials of OSCEs and workplace-based assessment, including assessment forms, examiner decisions, and reliability. Subscribe for practical higher-education and health-professions education skills. Timeline: 0:00 OSCE and workplace-based assessment ess...

A well-designed analytic rubric does more than assign a score—it shows learners exactly where they are and what to improve next. In this module, learn how to build clear, practical analytic rubrics with meaningful criteria, performance levels, descriptors, and weights. You will also see a complete clinical case-presentation example and a simple template you can adapt for your own assessments. Subs...

Two markers should not give different scores for the same short-answer response. This practical module shows how to create a model answer and a clear marking key that make SAQ marking fair, consistent, and defensible. Learn the four rules of a usable marking key, work through a complete example, and use the one-page template to build your own. Subscribe for practical faculty-development strategies...

Writing a strong SBA/MCQ is more than creating plausible options—it is about assessing the reasoning you intended to assess. In this practical faculty-development module, learn how to build application-focused items, identify the 12 classic item-writing flaws, apply the cover-the-options test, and use a quick checklist before an item goes live. Subscribe for practical, evidence-informed strategies...

Build assessments that measure what students are actually expected to learn. This practical faculty-development session shows how to create an exam blueprint (table of specifications) that aligns learning outcomes, cognitive levels, and item allocation. You will see a clear five-step process, a worked example, common pitfalls to avoid, and a template you can use for your next exam. Subscribe for p...

A quiet room does not always mean a failed flipped classroom—but when it does, you need to know why quickly. This practical guide helps you identify the cause, respond in the moment, and strengthen the next session. Learn to distinguish between unprepared learners and productive thinking silence, diagnose whether the problem is the video, accountability, or content, and use a clear rescue checklis...

Create a clear, reusable LMS shell that makes flipped learning easier for students to follow—and easier for you to run each week. Learn how to structure content, automate release rules, and track engagement without turning course management into a daily burden. Subscribe for practical faculty-development strategies. Timeline: 0:00 Set up the flipped shell 0:50 Why the LMS shell matters 2:47 Create...

A flipped classroom succeeds or fails in the in-class hour. Learn how to design application activities that make pre-class preparation genuinely necessary. This module shows how to test whether your class is truly flipped, build tasks that depend on prior learning, redirect groups without re-teaching, and adapt the design to different teaching spaces. Subscribe for practical, evidence-informed fac...

Flipped learning only works when students arrive prepared. Learn three practical, LMS-ready ways to build meaningful accountability for pre-class work. This guide covers entry quizzes, Just-in-Time Teaching, and ticket-to-class tasks—plus a simple decision guide to choose the right approach for your cohort and content. Subscribe for practical faculty-development strategies that make teaching more...

A short micro-lecture can make flipped learning work—but only when students actually watch it. This practical guide shows faculty how to plan, record, and publish an engaging 6–8 minute pre-class video. Learn a simple five-part structure, what to show on screen, the equipment you truly need, common recording pitfalls, and a production checklist you can use immediately. Subscribe for practical facu...

Flipped learning is not simply putting lectures online. It is a design decision about where learning works best. This practical guide helps faculty decide which course sessions to flip, which must remain in class, and how to audit a course without sacrificing expert guidance, feedback, or meaningful application. You will learn a clear five-criterion framework, six content types that should never b...

Make learning more durable without adding extra teaching sessions. This module shows how retrieval practice and spaced learning can be built into normal teaching routines to help students remember, apply, and retain what they learn. Subscribe for practical, evidence-informed faculty-development strategies for higher education. Timeline 0:00 Why Retrieval Practice and Spacing Matter 1:08 The Proble...

mall groups do not need a facilitator who gives more answers—they need one who makes thinking visible. This practical session shows how to facilitate PBL and case discussions without drifting into lecturing. Learn concise prompts and responses for shallow answers, disconnected ideas, dominant or silent students, and groups that go off track. Subscribe for practical faculty-development strategies f...

Fixed seating does not mean passive learning. This practical session shows how to build meaningful participation into large, fixed-seat lecture halls without major room changes or extensive preparation. Explore five ready-to-use active-learning techniques, including retrieval pauses, one-sentence summaries, predict–observe–explain, row debates, and error-spotting tasks—each with practical health-p...

Better classroom participation is not about asking more questions. It is about designing questions so more students can think, commit, and contribute. In this practical faculty-development module, learn three high-impact techniques—wait time, think–pair–share, and supportive cold calling—and how to combine them into a questioning sequence for a 50-minute session. Subscribe for practical, evidence-...

Difficult concepts do not become clear simply by adding more text to a slide. In this practical faculty-development session, learn four evidence-informed ways to make complex ideas easier for students to understand, retain, and apply. You will see how to use worked examples, well-designed analogies, dual coding, and cognitive-load-safe slides—illustrated through health-professions examples such as...

A 50-minute session should be more than content delivery. It should give students one clear idea, make them work with it, and check what they have learned before they leave. This practical guide introduces the Chunk–Challenge–Check framework for designing focused, active, and assessable teaching sessions. It includes timing guidance, common mistakes, a worked pharmacy example, and a one-page plann...

Writing learning outcomes is not enough—students must be able to demonstrate them, and educators must be able to assess them. This practical guide for health-professions educators shows how to turn vague course outcomes into clear, measurable, assessable statements. You will use a four-part template, choose observable verbs, examine worked pharmacy and clinical-practice examples, and apply a rapid...

In this deep dive, we tear down the incredibly fragile architecture of multiple-choice tests. Based on a masterclass manual designed for higher education faculty and instructional designers, we explore why writing a fair question is notoriously difficult. All too often, poorly written exams end up testing your reading comprehension or working memory instead of your actual content knowledge. As an...

Welcome to the complete guide on the Backward Design Blueprint, created specifically for higher education professionals, adjunct instructors, and subject matter experts. Are you designing your courses for "coverage" or for true student learning? This video explores how to move away from the traditional, content-heavy syllabus that rushes through textbook chapters and leaves students with...