Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.

Student Engagement 96

Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 96

Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

When the Grading Stack Becomes Too Much As the classroom quiets and the last student heads out the door, you finally take a breathonly to be met with the overwhelming sight of papers piled high, waiting for your attention. Its exhausting, its overwhelming, and it happens far too often. They’re engaged in metacognition.

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Students Peer Review Math Assignments 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Choose high-interest books and materials for reading activities, and encourage students to choose how they’d like to finish final projects. And if you can incorporate their phones and/or electronics into the lesson, you’ll get a lot more students paying attention!

High School 52

High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Engage students actively for deeper learning and enhanced academic outcomes Enhance learning through active participation, collaboration, and critical thinking skills Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Active learning strategies engage students in the learning process, fostering deeper understanding and retention.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

Although a wealth of research suggests that active learning increases student engagement and improves academic outcomes, many college campuses struggle to get faculty to shift away from traditional, sage-on-a-stage style teaching practices. One of IU’s early redesign efforts saw it transform an old indoor swimming pool.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

However, encouraging students to read in and out of class is challenging as small screens command much of their time and attention. She is bilingual (Spanish), Google certified, and passionate about leveraging her 15 years of experience to modernize teaching and learning.

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Culture Reading Assignments Blended Learning 500

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

According to Merriam-Webster, engagement is defined as the act of engaging, which is to draw favorable attention or interest. For our purposes, we are going to say that student engagement is the ability for a teacher to draw the attention or interest of students for the sake of learning. So how do you do that?

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Student Engagement Teachers Students Attention 294

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Active learning Lectures and memorization are taking a back seat to active learning. Classroom technology such as tablets, virtual reality (VR), and interactive whiteboards make learning more engaging. Tablets and interactive smartboards also encourage active learning through games, competitions, and role playing.

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Learning Styles Participation Attention Hybrid Learning 314

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Pasadena high school realizes benefits of active learning with standing desks. As educators turn their attention to how physical learning environments can influence student learning, more companies are responding to the demand for flexible and innovative classroom furniture. Ergotron, Inc.

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Student Engagement Schools Attention Students 253

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

These parallel yet distinct teaching environments demand intentional strategies that can adapt while maintaining their power to actively engage students in the learning process. Instead, we need to reimagine active learning for both spaces, maintaining the core principles while adapting the execution.

Active Learning 84

Active Learning Activities Learning Minute Papers 84

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why this article from EdSurge caught my attention: Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? A New Analysis Dives Into the Research A new meta-analysis looked at the effectiveness of flipped learning, a model that asks students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning.

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Teaching Methods Lecturing Middle School Middle School 158

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It’s that in some cases attention gets really focused on a set of practices that are untested and can distract from the discussion that we have about teaching. One of the things that is apparent as you start to read about the lecture-versus-active learning debates is that everyone is defining those terms in very different ways.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

But it was just one student, and most seemed to be paying attention. And I was like, ‘But I've been here the whole time, and I've actively paid attention and done it.’ Active Learning Strategies I still had one more class to go on my visit. I'm gonna have to pay a bit more attention to structure,” he told me. “We

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Instructors Lecturing Students Textbooks 213

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

As learners and teaching technology continue to evolve, faculty are recognizing the importance of teaching for active learning. During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et.

Lecturing 122

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 122

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Highlighting or Underlining : Merely marking text with highlighters or underlining without actively processing or synthesizing the information. While these methods may draw attention to key points, they do not necessarily promote understanding or retention. What are the active learning strategies?

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Study Activities Critical Thinking Active Learning 130

Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

In the book What the Best College Teachers Do , Ken Bain describes how sustaining students’ attention helps to facilitate learning. In an hour-long class, I seek a way to gain the students’ attention in the beginning. In an hour-long class, I seek a way to gain the students’ attention in the beginning.

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Lecturing Attention Questions Study 180

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

After a few of the district’s schools participated in a pilot program with the digital reading platform Actively Learn, Stanley got a look at teacher surveys and other program details. “I How do we prepare students to do that more actively? The Actively Learn platform provides opportunity for both approaches.

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Reading Teachers Learning English 148

Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

However, by integrating interactive features like quizzes, hotspots, and branching storylines within the video content, instructors can create interactive videos that transform passive viewing into active learning experiences, resulting in improved student performance by up to 30 percent.

Instructors 116

Instructors Quizzes Students Assignments 116

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2024

This encoding involves attention and perception, allowing the brain to filter and focus on relevant information. Empowering students with choices not only enhances their understanding and retention of new information but also builds their confidence and motivation to learn.

Knowledge 195

Knowledge Participation Discussions Writing 195

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

As learners and teaching technology continue to evolve, faculty are recognizing the importance of teaching for active learning. During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 98

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

The online university advertises its video-based online courses as active-learning seminars, so these class sizes are modeled after their counterparts at many traditional face-to-face colleges. This is not an operation where one person does it.

Lecturing 161

Lecturing Attention Beliefs Participation 161

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Beyond straight academics, Reconstruction classes often feature “brain breaks” and “body breaks,” Etienne says, since young children need frequent movement and typically have shorter attention spans. We have designed apps that will give kids a different type of learning experience—play-based and interactive.

Math 218

Math Reading Quizzes Activities 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. Listen to the full discussion, including examples of active learning methods shown to work and how Wieman thinks the pandemic has impacted teaching on the EdSurge Podcast.

Teaching 201

Teaching Lecturing Evaluation Teaching Evaluations 201

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

These brief moments set the stage for active learning, focus, trust, and shaping the atmosphere of the entire session. These crucial minutes set the tone, influencing how students perceive the class, their peers, and their role within the learning environment. Consider the First Five Minutes from the students perspective.

Activities 111

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

For any task that feels impossible, adding pieces of social engagement and active learning can be a significant variable toward success. The variety of media will likely hold attention and engagement more than any text string of characters could. Easy way to grab your students attention during live seminars 3.

Online Learning 96

Online Learning Activities Multidisciplinary Teaching 96

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

From increased anxiety and depression related to unhealthy usage of social media , to our students’ decreased attention spans , it’s time to take a “less is more” approach. But when it comes to education and technology, this prevailing hypothesis is proving itself to be flawed. That may seem counterintuitive.

Distance Learning 218

Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

July 28, 2022) — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—today announced a host of new enhancements to its award-winning K-12 platform. Among the latest enhancements made to the Discovery Education K-12 learning platform for back-to-school are: .

Quizzes 165

Quizzes Education Learning Assignments 165

Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

However, by integrating interactive features like quizzes, hotspots, and branching storylines within the video content, instructors can create interactive videos that transform passive viewing into active learning experiences, resulting in improved student performance by up to 30 percent.

Instructors 98

Instructors Quizzes Students Assignments 98

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Some educators worry that it will keep students from paying attention. New AI tools can make audio recordings of lectures and automatically create summaries and flashcards of the material.

Lecturing 216

Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

From the start, access has been the defining achievement of online learning. For a couple of decades, I championed online learning for its ability to uproot entrenched ideas in education, especially by engaging students in active learning, a pedagogical style rarely practiced on campus. Or so I thought.

Education 144

Education Students Hybrid Courses Blended Courses 144

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

These brief moments set the stage for active learning, focus, trust, and shaping the atmosphere of the entire session. These crucial minutes set the tone, influencing how students perceive the class, their peers, and their role within the learning environment. Consider the First Five Minutes from the students perspective.

Activities 98

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

For any task that feels impossible, adding pieces of social engagement and active learning can be a significant variable toward success. The variety of media will likely hold attention and engagement more than any text string of characters could. Easy way to grab your students attention during live seminars 3.

Online Learning 83

Online Learning Activities Multidisciplinary Teaching 83

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Many students don’t pay much attention in class. When they study, that demanding task occurs as they attend to a host of other, often more engaging mental activities. The mind naturally wanders, shifting attention from the primary task at hand to internal, personally relevant thoughts” (p. © Magna Publications.

Attention 78

Attention Lecturing Textbooks Exams 78

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They were not really paying attention, and their lack of engagement made it apparent that Zoom was not the right way to teach people,” recalls Avida. The Minerva Project, which developed its own online “active learning” platform , Forum, to facilitate courses for its students spread across the world, has been selling it to others.

Instructors 151

Instructors Learning Motivation Attention 151

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Dear Bonni, You have shared often about active learning strategies and the impact they have on student learning. The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. However, I am dubious that the approaches you describe work with large classes.

Learning 162

Learning Students Assignments Participation 162

Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.

Student Engagement 91

Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 91

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

An overflowing supply of books, websites, newsletters, podcasts, and videos offer tips, tricks, and strategies to help entrepreneurs manage their time, attention, and priorities. Be conscientious about your time, attention, and productivity. There is no shortage of productivity and efficiency advice for entrepreneurs.

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Instructors Activities Motivation Attention 106