Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2024

When Microsoft Publisher came out a lifetime ago, it was the first major desktop publishing effort to blend layout, colors, and multimedia that was accessible to everyone. Covers Cover pages add just the right amount of professionalism for reports, poetry collections, ebooks, a magazine, or any other project that shares curated knowledge.

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Syllabus Knowledge Achievement Math 172

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change.

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Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 55

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2016

Additionally, students aren’t just proving their knowledge in a multiple-choice exam. So far, 1500 teachers have been trained on creating a Computer Science Principles syllabus for the fall of 2016. Trevor Packer The Advanced Placement team has piloted the course for the last three years in 45 high schools across the country.

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Science Exams Accessibility Syllabus 113

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2024

Websites like Khan Academy or Quizlet provide access to lectures, practice tests, and flashcards among other things. For example, with Quizlet, you can create digital flashcards and practice tests tailored to your syllabus. They can also sync across devices for easy access anywhere. Let’s look at Notion a bit closer.

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Exams Study Syllabus Essay 158

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

The program is designed for our employees to build knowledge of what actually happens in classrooms, as well as an understanding of the deep tensions and issues with our educational system. Engage Edtech Employees in Extended Learning We call the program Freshman Seminar. You can even borrow and build on what we’ve created.

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Syllabus Education Failure Knowledge 157

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The food choice helps me understand a bit about their cultural background, while knowledge of their career dreams enables me to tailor class topics to their interests. Successful syllabus While there are mandatory components of a standard syllabus, I also add welcoming elements.

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Syllabus Lecturing Instructors Feedback 122

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The case reveals insights about a question relevant to a marathon course or an academic course: How can the integrity of results be ensured when there is easy access to technology that can be used to cheat? In other words, regardless of students access to AI tools, cheating has been and continues to be endemic.

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Advisors can help students establish healthy work habits by sending helpful advice for meeting deadlines before classes begin such as: Plan ahead: Get a “lay of the land” of the course by reading the syllabus. Anywhere Access Benefits From Dedicated Space The students who are least likely to ask for help are those who need it most.

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Online Learning Instructors Coaching Syllabus 187

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The food choice helps me understand a bit about their cultural background, while knowledge of their career dreams enables me to tailor class topics to their interests. Successful syllabus While there are mandatory components of a standard syllabus, I also add welcoming elements.

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Syllabus Lecturing Instructors Feedback 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Is that a real A, or an A based on turning in the syllabus? And even when we do poorly on our Socrative quizzes, we can take solace in knowing, as does Socrates, that “true knowledge exists in knowing that we know nothing.”. We all have that one teacher who seems to take months to grade even a single test. It happens to every student.

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Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus Students 144

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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Schools Syllabus Authentic Assessment Evaluation 122

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2019

I have created what I’m calling my “prep syllabus” and hope to set a solid foundation for myself. I would love to get your feedback on what should be in my "prep syllabus” and how to make that transition. Once I was back in our house and able to access wifi, I took a look at her situation. Thanks so much!

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Syllabus Writing Schools Research Methods 142

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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Academic Integrity Exams Assignments Instructors 151

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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Schools Syllabus Authentic Assessment Evaluation 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

When Microsoft Publisher came out over twenty-five years ago, it was the first major desktop publishing effort to blend layout, colors, and multimedia that was accessible to everyone. Trifold brochures are popular for assessing learning on any inquiry topic that expects students to acquire and share knowledge. Click to view slideshow.

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Knowledge Syllabus History Achievement 122

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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Textbooks Syllabus Course Design Communication 123

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

They provide a quick way to access a webpage that could be the syllabus, a poll, a list of resources, or a shared online space for a brainstorming activity. They are meant to help students organize existing knowledge, pull relevant information into working memory, and encourage reflection and metacognition.

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Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Previously, her syllabus relied on a series of pamphlets from the Water Education Foundation, a California-based non-profit. Some, Anagnoson says, did “not read at a deep level for students,” and others “assumed a lot of prior knowledge.” His office also oversees making sure content meets accessibility guidelines.

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Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 126

Faculty Focus

JULY 16, 2023

The benefits of dialogue-based learning Comprehension: Unveiling the gaps Have you ever thought you understood something perfectly, only to realize you had gaps in your knowledge when asked to explain it? While convenient, this constant access to knowledge has led to a decline in memory recall. It happens to the best of us.

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Instructors Lecturing Syllabus Knowledge 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 16, 2023

The benefits of dialogue-based learning Comprehension: Unveiling the gaps Have you ever thought you understood something perfectly, only to realize you had gaps in your knowledge when asked to explain it? While convenient, this constant access to knowledge has led to a decline in memory recall. It happens to the best of us.

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Instructors Lecturing Syllabus Knowledge 98

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Modeled after the program at Bryn Mawr College, the student-faculty partnership program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (URTGV), one of the largest Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the nation, aims to create educational spaces in direct response to students’ experiences, knowledge, and insights.

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Teaching Instructors English Languages 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

A press conference : Ask students to collaboratively devise a set of interview questions, and interview you (or a guest speaker) to gain knowledge about an event or phenomena related to class. Tip: Ask students to construct new knowledge (e.g., Tip: Ask students to construct new knowledge (e.g., Provo, UT: EdTechBooks.org.

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Blended Learning Lecturing Education Learning 132

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.’” Digital tools used for assessment can also increase access and support collaborative assignments. RSVP for our next chat: How Can We Improve Accessibility Through Instructional Design?

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Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 101

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. Inclusive access has already gotten up to acronym status,” he said.

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Textbooks Accessibility Syllabus Participation 149

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

However, students who ask for extra time on tests/projects, high levels (30%+) of extra credit, or to make up work weeks or months later, without having responded to any communications or requests for updates/accommodation needs… and still do not go to the Office of Accessibility… am I being a hard ass? How much do you bend?

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Disabilities Students Assignments Syllabus 134

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Feeling squeezed, for-profit publishers are searching for new revenue by selling colleges digital homework systems that charge students up to $100 for a semester’s worth of access. It’s a big misnomer and irony that they call it ‘inclusive access,’ because it’s not; you have to pay for it.” Then the Great Recession hit. “A

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Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

With increasing access to different types of AI chatbots, and increasing advances in AI technology, “preventing student cheating via AI” has risen to the top of the list of faculty concerns for 2023 (Lucariello, 2023). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? 2023; Trust et al.,

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

With increasing access to different types of AI chatbots, and increasing advances in AI technology, “preventing student cheating via AI” has risen to the top of the list of faculty concerns for 2023 (Lucariello, 2023). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? 2023; Trust et al.,

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

A press conference : Ask students to collaboratively devise a set of interview questions, and interview you (or a guest speaker) to gain knowledge about an event or phenomena related to class. Tip: Ask students to construct new knowledge (e.g., Tip: Ask students to construct new knowledge (e.g., Provo, UT: EdTechBooks.org.

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Blended Learning Lecturing Education Learning 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

And if those of us asking vital questions about access/cost, academic integrity, and a potential loss of linguistic diversity can be heard without accusations of knee-jerk paranoia. I embrace progress; I do not want to teach in elbow patches from a dusty syllabus. Only if we listen with equal parts openness and alarm.

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change.

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Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 64

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

And if those of us asking vital questions about access/cost, academic integrity, and a potential loss of linguistic diversity can be heard without accusations of knee-jerk paranoia. I embrace progress; I do not want to teach in elbow patches from a dusty syllabus. Only if we listen with equal parts openness and alarm.

Plagiarism 111

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

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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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 67

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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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 62

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Because they get a question answered, but me too because I can look it up and figure it out or it tells us where there's holes in the knowledge. But if my learning goals are met without using those, I don't see the necessity in requiring students to purchase access to spend all of that time. We don't know everything.

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Teaching Lecturing Evaluation Syllabus 114

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

The syllabus is structured to inspire confidence and courage. Unlike at community college, where she ran into digital paywalls when she looked for academic journals, she now has access to all the resources she can find. Todd explains how students can start to add their threads to this web of knowledge.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 176

k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Today, students are absorbing knowledge everywhere, all the time, even when they dont realize it. Bite-Sized, Yet Effective: Micro-learning formats fit into students’ fast-paced lives, offering knowledge in seconds rather than hours. But in 2025, that idea is rapidly fading. What makes online learning through YouTube so powerful?

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Online Learning Lecturing Learning Textbooks 52