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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“In talking to hundreds of universities and students over the years, I know the life-changing benefits of education. I’ve also seen the challenges many students face to access affordable education in a flexible way that allows them to achieve their goals. It’s an honor to lead a mission-driven company, like Risepoint, that supports the needs of our university partners with a single-minded focus on advancing university and student success.”
Fernando Bleichmar
Chief Executive Officer

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AI Productivity for Educators

Across recent research and practitioner guidance, a consistent theme emerges: AI is most productive when it automates the routine so you can focus on the human. In practical terms, AI can meaningfully reduce the time you spend on repetitive, well-defined tasks. What it cannot, and should not, replace is the

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The Professor’s AI Action Plan

2025 brought even more urgency to finding an answer to the question, “What is the role of educators when it comes to AI?” In early 2025, students recognized AI was generating uncertainty around future job prospects and noted a lack of formal AI integration into their studies.1 (Risepoint, 2025). As

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AI as a Research Partner

AI-empowered research is reshaping the way we summarize, interpret, and discover knowledge. Faculty and students can now look to AI to potentially accelerate literature reviews and identify new hypotheses1 (Bolaños, Salatino, Osborne, & Motta, 2024). Decades ago, scholars visited their university library, with its grand bookshelves of knowledge and calming space filled with

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