eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Free for all educators and school districts, the one-hour, eight-lesson course provides educators with essential knowledge about AI and approaches for ensuring student safety and privacy. “With this course, we are taking a proactive approach to support and educate teachers on the front lines and prepare for this transformation.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

BATAVIA, IL (AUGUST 19, 2022) Flinn Scientific releases updated free laboratory safety courses designed specifically for middle and high school science teachers. . Just in time for the 2022-2023 school year, Flinn Scientific has released new Lab Safety courses for middle and high school science educators.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2024

To make AI training more accessible, the AI for Educators course is built for teachers across disciplines and provides hands-on practice to gain experience that can be applied through a number of generative AI tools. “We’re

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The National Center for Education Statistics reports that enrollment in distance learning courses was steadily rising even before the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to do so (Digest of Education Statistics, 2021). This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Educators across the nation can now access Teacher Training Pathways , a free platform offering courses aligned to micro-credentials on remote and hybrid learning, instructional technology coaching and more. The platform will feature an evolving library of courses to further develop educators’ digital literacy.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The National Center for Education Statistics reports that enrollment in distance learning courses was steadily rising even before the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to do so (Digest of Education Statistics, 2021). This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 6, 2023

These courses offer many advantages, like remote access, self-paced learning, flexibility, and affordability. In addition to the numerous benefits, online courses also have a few obstacles that must be addressed to make these courses attractive and successful. yet they have limitations.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world. We discuss how we can’t blindly trust AI; rather, we can use it as a baseline to build knowledge. What can we do about that?”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

So how do colleges and universities help faculty build the knowledge to teach in online environments? Untethering faculty development requires one to design these experiences so faculty are not required to be physically present in a specific place or time to learn. Untethering Faculty Development. Tips for Untethering Workshops.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The activation of these schemas draws related information into our memory and can either be increased or decreased in a variety of ways to make memories easier to access or less likely to be retrieved. These are: pre-exposure, activating prior knowledge, and retrieval practice. Activating prior knowledge. a concept map).

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

In this interview with EdSurge, Maurer explains her goals for the project and emphasizes the importance of comptent online course design. The relationship that an instructor builds with an instructional designer is really, really important. So far, the network has 300 volunteers and counting. This is a partnership we develop.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

Just as a chef with pre-developed culinary skills meticulously selects ingredients and carefully plans before creating a masterpiece, educators must equip students with the foundational knowledge and skills necessary for their academic success. Pharmacy preparation courses have also been shown to boost cumulative GPAs (Klausner et al.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

She’s also director of the Center for Teaching Excellence there, which provides faculty with support for instruction, edtech, course design, classroom management and grading. It's good to support learning, it's important for accessibility, it's important to address accommodations for students. So that stuff is really important.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Faculty risk excluding certain students and impeding their ability to succeed when they aren’t intentional about design and facilitation. But simply sharing the correct answer skips the opportunity to let students continue constructing knowledge and practice communicating. What do we mean by an inclusive classroom?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Instead, MOOC providers see an opportunity in helping medical professionals keep their knowledge and skills up to date after they graduate, a field also known as continuing medical education (CME). The courses are free but cost $99 for students who request a verified certificate after finishing.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Instructional designers are experts who use their flexibility, knowledge, and skills in theory and practice to help faculty adapt to new ways of educating students (Pollard & Kumar, 2022). They help faculty use a data-driven lens when making decisions about teaching and learning in their course.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

She recalled one instructor who told her that 11 students in her class of 35 turned in the exact same assignment using materials from Course Hero, a website where students can share and access course study materials. Academic integrity isn’t a one-and-done conversation at the start of semester, though.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Most of the case studies I use in my teaching are fictional by design so that I am able to slightly tweak the scenarios in order to make them more relevant to students’ characteristics. The post Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

This is because students bring their own prior knowledge and misconceptions to educational media. “If However, you can think of a pedagogically rich online course like a balanced meal that should strive to provide at least a serving of each. Then, I storyboard the instructional videos I’ll need to incorporate.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

UPCEA’s eDesign Collaborative ), I spent hours doing my own personal research on my university’s open access policy and scouring the library website. The collaboration allowed the bookstore access to the library’s online catalog to see which materials in faculty’s course packs were readily available in library journals.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Efforts to expand access to higher education have resulted in higher enrollment rates and degree attainment rates making higher education an option that is open to more students than ever before. However, much of the emphasis has been placed on access rather than preparation.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The activation of these schemas draws related information into our memory and can either be increased or decreased in a variety of ways to make memories easier to access or less likely to be retrieved. These are: pre-exposure, activating prior knowledge, and retrieval practice. Activating prior knowledge. a concept map).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

They are informed by #a11y ( accessibility design ) and #UX (user experience design) and the near-ubiquitous social media that penetrates across all sectors. They are hacking in the backrooms of IT buildings, making interfaces that allow learners to move in and out of technologies seamlessly, in a unified experience.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As promoted by Zakrajsek (2016) , all learning is by nature an active process since it requires the learner to actively engage with the act of making available knowledge their own. Unfortunately, managing group work as a teacher is a honed skill that requires time, practice, and initially involves some risk. Buil et al.,

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Efforts to expand access to higher education have resulted in higher enrollment rates and degree attainment rates making higher education an option that is open to more students than ever before. However, much of the emphasis has been placed on access rather than preparation.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

The second domain focuses on making an effort to acknowledge the knowledge, skills, and abilities that team members contribute to improving a process. The educator will need to create an inclusive and fair learning environment for all students as it relates to access to the materials following the event (Billings & Halstead, 2024).

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

The second domain focuses on making an effort to acknowledge the knowledge, skills, and abilities that team members contribute to improving a process. The educator will need to create an inclusive and fair learning environment for all students as it relates to access to the materials following the event (Billings & Halstead, 2024).

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Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

The second domain focuses on making an effort to acknowledge the knowledge, skills, and abilities that team members contribute to improving a process. The educator will need to create an inclusive and fair learning environment for all students as it relates to access to the materials following the event (Billings & Halstead, 2024).

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Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 12, 2025

” This means that instead of genuinely understanding the material, students may simply perform well on assessments because they have access to AI tools that help them produce correct answers without deeply learning the concepts. Consideration 3: Seek Collaborative Partners The third consideration is who to partner with.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Instructional designers are experts who use their flexibility, knowledge, and skills in theory and practice to help faculty adapt to new ways of educating students (Pollard & Kumar, 2022). They help faculty use a data-driven lens when making decisions about teaching and learning in their course.

Schools 105

Schools Syllabus Authentic Assessment Evaluation 105

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

He said that students have had access to the information we teach prior to AI. As instructors, our role is not just to provide access to content. We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge. The empathetic course design perspective. Saucier, D.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 12, 2025

” This means that instead of genuinely understanding the material, students may simply perform well on assessments because they have access to AI tools that help them produce correct answers without deeply learning the concepts. Consideration 3: Seek Collaborative Partners The third consideration is who to partner with.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

The competencies are grouped into four quadrants: Content Knowledge, Creative Know-How, Habits of Success and Wayfinding Abilities. In some cases, the framework’s quadrants are central to course design, impacting curriculum, instruction and the student experience. Eighth graders who are taking a capstone course on U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

I often think of standard assessments as ‘show me what you know’ and alternative assessments as ‘demonstrate what you can do with that knowledge.’” But why, then, do so many courses still rely on exams? Digital tools used for assessment can also increase access and support collaborative assignments. I'm excited to read more!

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

.” In the current learning environment, students with disabilities encounter significant challenges due to the lack of inclusivity and accessibility in the education system. Importantly, these strategies aim to address accessibility barriers for multiple types of disabilities, benefiting a broader range of learners.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

.” In the current learning environment, students with disabilities encounter significant challenges due to the lack of inclusivity and accessibility in the education system. Importantly, these strategies aim to address accessibility barriers for multiple types of disabilities, benefiting a broader range of learners.

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Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It not only reinforces vocabulary and grammatical structures but also helps students synthesize their knowledge in a way that supports the other core language skills: reading, speaking, and listening. Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing. Accessed 27 Sep. Pearson Education, 2000. 2016, www2.ncte.org/statement/teaching-writing.

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