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.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. I never delivered a lecture in real time on Zoom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

After teaching online in the pandemic, many savvy faculty members have recognized that students like the option of being able to watch a video of a lecture if they missed it — or if they just wanted to rewatch sections to review. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

The difficulties in student engagement with instructor-directed reading, both in terms of the amount of reading undertaken and the participation and benefit from in-class discussion around readings, can be a prevalent problem. qualitative studies in crime or UK business effects of Brexit) and with regard to level/type of publication (e.g.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Faculty assign homework to expose students to a new concept before they arrive to class, and use class time to ask questions and do more-active learning. They come primed to discuss those things and learn in classroom,” says Barba. “We STEM has always been lecture heavy,” she says, “and that's the big difference.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He argues that the traditional lecture method for teaching physics and other STEM fields has been proven ineffective, and that shifts to more active methods can greatly improve learning outcomes to make sure the next generation of researchers can make the next Nobel-worthy breakthroughs. And this isn't just flippant.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

The difficulties in student engagement with instructor-directed reading, both in terms of the amount of reading undertaken and the participation and benefit from in-class discussion around readings, can be a prevalent problem. qualitative studies in crime or UK business effects of Brexit) and with regard to level/type of publication (e.g.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

At Purdue University, leaders have famously announced they are installing plexiglass barriers in some classrooms that teachers will stand behind to lecture. These were the questions tackled this week during a live online discussion, part of our monthly EdSurge Live series. How would you summarize that discussion?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

And with the recent release of the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma,” there is lots of discussion around the inherently addictive characteristics of social media and its effect on teens. Discussing this information can launch teachers and students into deeper conversations around self-awareness and time management.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of online distance education, educators face a crucial challenge: captivating students and igniting their passion for learning within virtual environments. The key to unlocking this new era of educational success lies in the integration of active learning strategies.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of online distance education, educators face a crucial challenge: captivating students and igniting their passion for learning within virtual environments. The key to unlocking this new era of educational success lies in the integration of active learning strategies.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2016

This week, we’re taking you on a virtual tour of some of the latest developments and trends in K-12 learning, including flipped and blended learning, marketplace updates, and flexible learning spaces and their influence on active learning. This new tool makes the flipped classroom more social.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing. New AI tools can make audio recordings of lectures and automatically create summaries and flashcards of the material.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 3, 2025

Here are a few tried-and-true active learning strategies to keep students engaged and learning. Think-Pair-Share: A Simple Yet Powerful Tool This strategy is a favorite among teachers who incorporate cooperative learning in their classrooms. Students pair up and discuss their responses with a partner.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

By offering a guided tour through a variety of theories about human learning, he may just cause you to rethink what teaching even is. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast. And so when you talk about critiques of the lecture style of teaching, you group that under a practice that lacks authenticity.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve been utilizing mid-semester check-ins for several years now and have noticed that students respond best when I send out informal invitations to reflect on their learning experiences. By informal, I mean posting a short video inviting them to participate in a discussion forum, journal entry, or an anonymous online poll.

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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. In this educational quagmire, Pecha Kucha is an answer.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2018

The days of standing in front of the classroom and “lecturing” are long gone. Video is also proving to have solid results when it comes to learning outcomes—from higher test scores to increased engagement with learning materials to increased comprehension.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. The Echo360 video platform use Amazon Transcribe to provide real-time transcriptions of lectures at the University of Michigan. Our system is also able to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide, automatically.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

And improved access to devices and high-speed Wi-Fi means that traditional classrooms lectures need not be limited to the physical classroom space. The narrative I often hear centers on how students may resist active learning approaches, a teaching style that often (but not always) is predicated on some technology.

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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. Such a class for 400 students may require very different staffing than a traditional large lecture, he adds. It takes a team."

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional methods like lectures to innovative approaches such as active classroom learning and technology integration, these techniques play a vital role in shaping educational outcomes. Effective teaching strategies encompass a variety of approaches tailored to engage students and promote meaningful learning experiences.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You might be wondering how this is possible—how one might actually minimize their dependence on education technology in an era of remote instruction and screen-dependent learning. But doing so is imperative if we want to re-humanize learning experiences for our students. School leaders asked: Which apps should we download?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

I never see this discussed in resources for effective teaching, but it has been a big challenge for me for many years. With any interactive or active form of learning, so much of how a class goes depends on the students. The students were so engaged in discussions, I had no authority. It was awkward. And awesome.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Passive Listening : Merely listening to lectures or audio recordings without actively taking notes, asking questions, or participating in discussions. Encouraging active learning and study strategies is essential for promoting deeper understanding, critical thinking skills, and academic success.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2018

One particular headache we hear often is how LMSs have been admin-centered and designed to streamline back-end operations like course scheduling, curriculum management, grading, and online discussion boards. The convergence of these challenges is making it much harder for faculty to engage students in traditional lecture-style classes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Community-based learning encourages students to find and solve local issues. And the related place-based learning sees students explore the history and culture of their own region. The concepts inherent to active learning are not new. Many schools are still wedded to the test scores, drill and kill.”

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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. In this educational quagmire, Pecha Kucha is an answer.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth. One effective teaching technique within active learning is problem-based learning (PBL).

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve been utilizing mid-semester check-ins for several years now and have noticed that students respond best when I send out informal invitations to reflect on their learning experiences. By informal, I mean posting a short video inviting them to participate in a discussion forum, journal entry, or an anonymous online poll.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning approaches like lectures and textbooks to innovative methodologies such as active learning and technology integration, these methods aim to promote effective and dynamic learning experiences. What are the 5 methods of teaching? What are the 5 methods of teaching?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2023

One concern is that more accommodating course policies may disincentivize in-person attendance, which may undermine the development of a rich classroom learning environment ( Holstead, 2022 ; Sloan, et al., Throughout the 18 lectures, there were 14 activities each worth five points (11 counted towards the grade; 13.75% of the overall grade).

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2025

Ive tried a few different techniques for class discussions over the years, some that Ive written about previously in Faculty Focus. In recent years, Ive dialed in a 3-step process for discussion in my face-to-face classes, which has helped me create an engaged classroom climate. Its Think-Pair-Share (TPS), with some upgrades.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 30, 2024

At the same time, I intentionally sprinkle discussions where I can highlight the transferrable skills that we will learn and reinforce in the course; this includes a vast offering of career opportunities that go along with the transferrable skills or content. In the final 20 minutes of class, I tend to shift focus to the syllabus.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

One thing University of Central Florida has become known for is large lecture classes. As I recall, some in-person courses are so big you have overflow rooms where students watch the lectures on TV. How does what you’re learning in online play into those large classes? What we know is active and collaborative learning works.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The discussion is outlined below but it’s not too late to share your own ideas, just tweet them with the hashtag #DLNchat. As Crisp said, “New degree programs should honor the knowledge and skill students bring to the table by eliminating lectures over content that is repetitive from other courses or life experiences.”.

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