Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study — which involved 811 undergraduate students at Florida International University, a large public university in Miami — is perhaps the biggest randomized study of active learning methods in calculus, says Laird Kramer, a physicist at the university and one of the study’s authors. Its conclusion? But eventually, they get it. “[The

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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

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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But with the fame brought by the Nobel, he hoped to raise the profile of educational research. You’ve famously compared lecturing to bloodletting. This was my soundbite, but it was effective, that lectures are the pedagogical equivalent to bloodletting. And so much of the same thing is happening with lectures.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As highlighted in our report—published by Just Equations and the California Education Learning Lab—forward-thinking math departments across the country are implementing promising instructional approaches to make calculus classes more engaging and effective for students from various backgrounds.

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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. Of course, this is also essential assistive technology. The Echo360 video platform use Amazon Transcribe to provide real-time transcriptions of lectures at the University of Michigan. Source: Echo360.

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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. And they'll be pretty isolated from each other during the lecture experience. In the mathematics department, we're very committed to active learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

And so when you talk about critiques of the lecture style of teaching, you group that under a practice that lacks authenticity. 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. Do I need this?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Clever techies have stepped up to the challenge with their ingenious gadgets, transforming remote students into tangible beings with a heartbeat, devising uncanny innovations, most now surprisingly part of mainstream education, right on campus. MOOC critics say that streaming lectures is not terribly innovative.

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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. That may seem counterintuitive.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. But there has been progress, both with the tools themselves and the teaching practices we employ to incorporate technology into the classroom.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

The fact that three letters can mean so many different things raises an obvious question: Have we reached peak “based” learning? There are so many acronyms that are pretty closely related,” explains Karen Cator, CEO of Digital Promise and a former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

Flipping the Classroom Professors who recorded video lectures for online learning during the pandemic are realizing they have a new resource at their disposal. In contrast, flipped learning involves students learning material on their own first, reserving class time for group activities and active learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

His choice: modular learning. In this system, students choose from a menu of content delivery options (textbook, downloadable study guides, lectures) and interaction options (in-person or online). Today’s technologies, he notes, make it easier than ever to create, distribute, and navigate such a curriculum. “If

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

For students, reflecting on their daily technology use is the first step in developing a sense of agency. instead of broad lectures (e.g., Use Technology Deliberately With the transition to remote and hybrid learning, educators are using many useful and engaging online tools for teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

Minerva’s online-education platform, called Forum, was originally designed for a class size of around 20 people, which is the typical class size at Minerva Schools. The requirement of filling out the worksheet, or doing some other activity like a poll or quiz, makes sure students in breakout groups stay on task, Nelson says.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. 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

JANUARY 20, 2020

Bain writes, “Teachers succeed in grabbing students’ attention by beginning a lecture with a provocative question or problem that raises issues in ways that students had never thought about before, or by using stimulating case studies or goal-based scenarios.” I then might lecture for around 15 to 20 minutes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

At Sloan-sponsored summer workshops in upstate New York, some 20 years ago, I listened eagerly to pioneering faculty who imagined that virtual classes would be taught with radical education methods that had been proposed earlier by giants in progressive education—John Dewey, Jean Piaget and Paulo Freire, among others.

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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. What are the six effective teaching strategies?

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

He says Forum is designed to support an “active-learning” pedagogical approach where an instructor (or a TA) engages every student and provides timely feedback. And, most importantly of all, “no lecturing.” This move bears some resemblance to another recent development in the education technology industry.

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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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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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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. Of course, this is also essential assistive technology. The Echo360 video platform use Amazon Transcribe to provide real-time transcriptions of lectures at the University of Michigan. Source: Echo360.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2023

A New Analysis Dives Into the Research Flipped learning had a big moment during the pandemic, when many professors decided it made a lot of sense to ask students to watch recorded lecture videos on their own, then use class time for active learning. But does this model of instruction actually work?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Tables and chairs can be easily assembled for a group activity, or separated for a lecture-style class. Wireless clickers let students to participate in live polling to increase engagement during lectures. Dean Miller says the college plans to convert many more classrooms to the active-learning format over the next few years.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2023

Instead of simply giving step-by-step instructions for students to develop computer programs in a teacher-centered approach, he encourages students to solve problems via active learning. EdSurge: How would you describe the CoolThink curriculum adoption for your school?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Place-based instructional practices draw on experiencing the land, the stories, and the primary sources that inspire active learning and promotes civic responsibility. If your experience was like mine, you likely learned most history through reading and taking notes through lecture. Staff before students?

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Manipulatives, such as counting blocks and science kits, offer hands-on learning experiences that reinforce abstract concepts. Furthermore, educational technology has become increasingly prevalent in classrooms, with tools like interactive displays, educational software, and online platforms.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

In my work supporting faculty, I have learned that professors always appreciate strategies to make their teaching more efficient. Many times, learning a new educational technology tool is time-consuming. In this case, I am proposing using technology that we already use in our daily lives and applying it to our classrooms.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Dear Bonni, You have shared often about active learning strategies and the impact they have on student learning. Quality Matters suggests we need to consider more ways to get our students active in their learning, and to focus on the issue no matter the class size. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

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.”. The design of a program should also be adaptable to the diversity of students who may enroll.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2017

lecture alone doesn’t work). freshman seminar on the successful transition from high school to college, where SEL competencies like relationship skills and emotional management are taught alongside academic skills like test taking, time management, and active learning. Widener University has a.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

UC Davis has been piloting adaptive-learning software from the Open Learning Initiative in its introductory biology classes to create more active-learning environments than a standard lecture hall. Molinaro asks.

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