About Faculty eCommons

Developed by Risepoint, Faculty eCommons is a social learning ecosystem for faculty across the world to work together to improve online education. The site offers industry research, guidance, best practices, and professional development opportunities with a focus on student persistence and national quality standards.

Faculty eCommons (FeC) contains resources to help online designers, developers, and instructors and is maintained by the Academic Services and Products team at Risepoint.

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Tips for AI Prompting and Crafting Assessments 

Build a foundation for assessment ideation with AI using the 3Ps of Quality Prompting. Then, take your AI assessment brainstorm to the next level with these tips for prompting! Prep: Setting the Stage with Contextual Information These techniques focus on providing the AI with the necessary background and context to

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Assessments and Assignments

Authentic Assessment in the Online Classroom

Assessment plays a vital role in online learning. It helps students track their progress, pinpoint strengths and areas for improvement, and ultimately ensures they meet the course’s learning objectives.  Although each of these characteristics serves a valuable instructional or pedagogical function, it’s also important that assessments engage students and prepare

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AI Prompt Templates and Examples for Authentic Assessments

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) can provide faculty with an additional partner to ideate and brainstorm new and innovative authentic assessments in their online courses. These types of assessments engage students with critical thinking, problem solving, and metacognitive strategies to review and evaluate cognitive complex situations.  Interested in using AI as

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Assessments in an AI World

New technologies require greater attention to course design than ever before. As a result, strong, well-designed course interactions are the necessary response from educators. When students tap into their strengths and interests through authentic assessment, it increases the value provided by your course offerings. Assessments provide an opportunity for students to

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