eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Poptential , an award-winning family of free social studies course packages, has expanded and enhanced its Bell Ringer content with the goal of providing a bell ringer for every day of the school year. Poptential is available via a digital platform that allows students to access lessons even in poor bandwidth environments.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. ProjectChoiceBoard.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

It’s a question that some higher education instructors have asked before, and one that two Penn State University educators sought to answer on Wednesday at this year’s EDUCAUSE conference in Denver. An instructor can type in a concept or idea, such as “industrial design,” into the tool his team built, called Eureka!,

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J. Social-Psychological Accessibility and Faculty-Student Interaction Beyond the Classroom. Wilson, R.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. Moreover, issues like digital dividewhere not all students have equal access to technologyraise concerns about equity in education.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. Why College Instructors Matter: A Student’s Perspective I had a conversation with one of my students recently about this exact question. Schoeder, 2024).

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

As Tax Day approaches, Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors media-rich content to teach key concepts about taxation in the United States. Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers , quizzes, and tests.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

This technology captures whatever is going on in the classroom and turns it into easily searchable and referenceable video content that students can access anywhere, anytime, on all their devices—which is one piece of the puzzle. Instead of hearing only from the same six students, instructors get feedback from many more.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

The impact of technology on the human brain is still being studied, but there is a body of research which is decades old and has increased its capacity to inform education with advances in medical imaging technology. The effect of Brain Based Learning on academic achievement: A meta-analytical study. McClintic, C., & Klimek, K.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

Poptential , an award-winning family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors a variety of content to help students learn about the national debt using pop culture media to engage students. Poptential is available via a digital platform that allows students to access lessons even in poor bandwidth environments.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Subsequently, instructor facilitated classroom conversations intended to enhance understanding of course content may stagnate and falter. The frame of content engagement can look different based on course, instructor and level of student. Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A., H., & Bailey, E. Briggs, W. Sullivan, N., & Towler, 2005).

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

“I am so very proud of our AP® Latin students who, in the midst of a rigorous AP® Latin curriculum, took the time to prepare and excelled on this prestigious National Latin exam,” said Marilee Osier, VHS Learning’s subject matter expert and instructor for Latin. About VHS Learning.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2024

Academic studies confirm that interactivity and active learning can greatly enhance student engagement in the classroom. More importantly, how can your instructors maximize the use of the equipment and minimize its downtime? This lets instructors hold competitive quizzes or have multiple students solve puzzles at the same time.

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Technology Instructors Quizzes Disabilities 294

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J. Social-Psychological Accessibility and Faculty-Student Interaction Beyond the Classroom. Wilson, R.

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Instructors Syllabus Attention Teaching Assistants 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2023

Catholic schools have renewed their partnerships with VHS Learning to provide their students with continued access to high-quality, teacher-led online classes. Adding VHS Learning courses is quick and easy, as VHS Learning provides the course instructors and curriculum, as well as its team of helpful online learning experts.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2023

VHS Learning collaborates with schools of all types — urban, rural, public, and private — to expand their programs of study and offer instructor-led courses that might not otherwise be available locally.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Poptential , a family of award-winning social studies course packages that infuse lessons with digital storytelling, offers an array of engaging content to illustrate the culture, traditions, and history of Native Americans for National American Indian Heritage Month. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet. Signed into law by President George H.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

We have a plan and we’re ready to progress that plan,” said Calvin McNeil, an Advanced Placement computer science instructor with the University of Florida. Helping people get into the AI pipeline provides equity and access for all students.” So, what skills do they need to learn, and how do we help them prepare?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

I NDIANAPOLIS, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — When teaching about the labor movement in the United States, instructors often focus on Cesar Chavez and Peter McGuire to illustrate the rise of unions and workers’ rights. They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests.

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History Curriculum Social Studies Teachers 246

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We are both instructors for our class group, which means we can both develop and post assignments, as well as access our students’ work and provide them with feedback. In our Mental Health Unit, we read and performed Romeo and Juliet while researching mental health conditions and studying the human brain.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To remediate the exam preparation study skills that beginning (and other) students are missing, most of us respond by telling students about those skills that make for good exam performance. Consider an approach that might succeed where how-to-study admonitions fail. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Come to class.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2017

Based upon the 2010 study, I founded a company (IDS), which began putting tablets containing academic and vocational courses into jails and prisons. Inmates have access to materials for reading and studying, but for vocations that require hands-on training they still have little access to training facilities.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

And even though 15 states have adopted a policy to give all high school students access to computer science courses, universities prepare way fewer computer science teachers than we need. It’s more abysmal in the younger grades, with only six states giving all K-12 students access. They especially love dancing with him.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

The free resources from Vernier include the following: Experiment and Sample Data Library: Teachers can access more than 250 free experiments covering many subjects to distribute to students at home. Teachers can also access Lab Builder to customize the experiments for different virtual lab setups, equipment, and learning objectives.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities. Online education has revolutionized the way individuals access and engage with learning opportunities, providing flexibility and convenience that traditional institutions cannot always offer.

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Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 105

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Poptential , a family of free, award-winning social studies course packages that infuse lessons with digital storytelling, offers an array of engaging content about the Civil Rights Movement for instruction during Black History Month. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet. history and society.

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History Curriculum Social Studies Quizzes 246

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Changing the way calculus is taught, proponents argue, helps more students find math approachable and relevant, making them therefore more likely to succeed while studying it. This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July. the instructor asked. What’s your morning process?”

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Math Instructors Science STEM 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet as instructors in the new world of online education, we have access to ever-increasing amounts of data—from recorded lecture videos, electronically submitted homework, discussion forums, and online quizzes and assessments—that may give us insights into individual student learning.

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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 214

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

AI tutoring can change students’ learning experiences by providing access to an environment designed according to their learning styles and paces. Intelligent AI tutoring programs accomplish this feat by using machine learning algorithms to detect patterns in how students interact with the software during study sessions.

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Learning Styles Learning Students Gamification 311

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most teachers who work in education today have studied — or at least are familiar with — VARK , a learning theory first introduced by Neil Fleming in 1987. Early in my career as a university instructor, this method was a foundational cornerstone in the classroom.

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Technology Learning Styles Instructors Learning 199

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

A new “playbook” aims to strike the middle ground between offering higher ed instructors and institutions too much information about teaching remotely and offering too little. Course Design Instructors should ask themselves: What do you want students to learn in your course? Now, a few months in, they may feel inundated with advice. (We

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Recent studies have shown alarming gaps in Americans’ understanding of our democratic processes and systems. This challenging mathematics course prepares students for further studies in engineering, computer science, data science, and natural sciences, as well as theoretical mathematics. More than one third of U.S.

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Math Middle School Middle School Essay 265

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities. Online education has revolutionized the way individuals access and engage with learning opportunities, providing flexibility and convenience that traditional institutions cannot always offer.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or third, or fourth) language. Of course, not everyone has access to an intensive, in-person training program run by the U.S. That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. That’s an opportunity largely reserved for children. government.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

The new features will help to improve student outcomes and confidence by making Paper’s ESS more engaging and accessible for all students. Bridge the gap between learning and fun with Paper Live’s daily extracurricular classes hosted live by some of the most entertaining instructors on the internet.

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Essay Feedback Math Assignments 258

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. Students saved an average of $65 per OER course at colleges participating in the study.

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Textbooks Instructors Education Participation 191

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Now, having gone to the trouble to design course resources that can be accessed remotely and feeling accustomed to turning on a webcam in the classroom, he has continued to embrace a teaching practice that is known as “HyFlex,” a portmanteau of hybrid and flexible. Lectures, for example, are not holding up well in some studies.)

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