Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Creating a trust-based classroom begins with an essential mindset: students are doing their best. When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Instead, we foster an environment of learning, growth, and empowerment.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In my observations of thousands of teachers, I’ve noticed that sometimes the smallest tweak in instructional approaches reaps the biggest impact, and group work is no exception. Grouping Structures When determining how students will tackle a task, our options are to have students work independently, with a partner, or in a group.

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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. However, I am dubious that the approaches you describe work with large classes. What about when you have 50-60 students in a class? Or even hundreds?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Creating a trust-based classroom begins with an essential mindset: students are doing their best. When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Instead, we foster an environment of learning, growth, and empowerment.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Gaggle Speaks

AUGUST 24, 2015

Conversations about technology in education always seem to be focused on the reasons why students need this or that technology. It’s rare when anyone considers the other—and perhaps more important—angle: Students want to learn with technology. They want to learn at a comfortable speed.

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Technology Blended Learning Mobile Devices Students 111

eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2020

Multimedia learning tools play an important role in classrooms in a number of ways–including, but not limited to, boosting creativity, encouraging student engagement, and helping students learn to collaborate. Shy students may come out of their shells when allowed to give a presentation via blog post or podcast.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Students at the University of Central Florida are busy, and it’s not always with classes. They have sports to play, student organizations to run, even parties to go to. It has always seemed strange to me that students living on campus would choose to take courses online. But these students are also using our rec center.

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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 2, 2019

Every new version of Microsoft PowerPoint allowed instructors to embed more and more media and wow students with visually appealing graphics. These advancements are worth celebrating, but it leaves me wondering: Why should students still show up to a physical classroom? Provide opportunities for students to reflect.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2023

The shift to emergency remote teaching in 2020 was a challenging time for students and instructors. Many universities embraced the idea of increased flexibility to enable greater autonomy and allow students to pursue their education while managing other challenges in their life. 2020 ); Moores, et al.,

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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. What are the Necessary Steps to Specifically Help SES Students?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 30, 2024

At the same time, I find it important to pre-engage with students by studying their pictures and names (including practicing pronunciation) and sending a welcome email several days before the first class as a brief introduction along with logistical elements of the first day.

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Syllabus Lecturing Discussions Science 124

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 30, 2024

At the same time, I find it important to pre-engage with students by studying their pictures and names (including practicing pronunciation) and sending a welcome email several days before the first class as a brief introduction along with logistical elements of the first day.

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Syllabus Lecturing Discussions Science 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2024

Online classes most often begin with an “introduce yourself” discussion forum for students to get comfortable working with peers in discussions and other activities. A gamified approach can produce more genuine interaction between students. Here are some activities to use in your online courses. Jeopardy Jeopardy!

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2024

Online classes most often begin with an “introduce yourself” discussion forum for students to get comfortable working with peers in discussions and other activities. A gamified approach can produce more genuine interaction between students. Here are some activities to use in your online courses. Jeopardy Jeopardy!

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Activities Instructors Participation Questions 110

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2024

When used in the classroom, they can engage your students as well. Breakout sessions allow for students to choose not only a topic they’d like to explore further, but also how they would like to explore it with a small group of their peers. Robust small group discussions in turn strengthen larger group dialogue.

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Motivation Instructors Discussions Lecturing 110

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Traditional classroom learning is now modernizing Debates remain about online vs. classroom learning Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Classroom learning remains a cornerstone of education, fostering a dynamic environment where students engage with peers and instructors in real-time.

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Learning eLearning Instructors Learning Styles 130

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2024

When used in the classroom, they can engage your students as well. Breakout sessions allow for students to choose not only a topic they’d like to explore further, but also how they would like to explore it with a small group of their peers. Robust small group discussions in turn strengthen larger group dialogue.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The integration of digital tools such as interactive software, cloud-based platforms, and adaptive learning systems has shifted traditional educational models towards more personalized, flexible, and engaging learning experiences. A key aspect of education technology is its capacity to support personalized learning.

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Educational Technologies Technology Education Quizzes 130

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The problem: Faculty and students alike are dealing with massive and varied post-traumatic stress issues due to the increase in gun violence on our campuses, the COVID-19 shutdown, and an increasingly divisive political environment.

Education 52

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Teach Hub

JULY 3, 2024

Punch cards are a simple and smart classroom management tool that keeps your students motivated and engaged. Here we’ll explore three key areas where punch cards can greatly benefit your classroom: managing student behavior, encouraging academic performance, and fostering student collaboration.

Motivation 59

Motivation Achievement Classroom Management Fairness 59

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 5, 2023

The methodology is called Thinking Classrooms, and now that I have gotten a closer look at it, I can see that it could work in just about any content area. Built on 14 key practices, it’s a way of teaching that gets students up on their feet, collaborating and thinking through challenging problems on a daily basis.

Math 52

Math Assignments Group work Social Studies 52

Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Instructors first determine what students should know, understand, and be able to do by the end of the course (Cline et al., Next, based on the desired goals and objectives, the instructor will determine assessments to ensure that students meet intended course outcomes (McTighe & Wiggins, 2012). 2023; McTighe & Wiggins, 2012).

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 7, 2025

But what exactly is social medias role in the world of online learning? How do platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and Discord intersect with structured learning? And are we empowering students, or simply blurring boundaries? YouTube is being used to host student-made explainer videos, book reviews, and science experiments.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2020

Did the students seem to learn as much? The large lecture course he was teaching—to about 100 students—was called Viewing America: 1940-1980. Before the pandemic outbreak, Balogh gave lectures twice a week, on Mondays and Wednesday, and the students met in smaller groups once a week for a discussion led by a teaching assistant.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Supporting biology courses for non-majors involves addressing the diverse needs of students with little intrinsic motivation to study the subject. These students come from varied academic backgrounds, resulting in different levels of preparedness and confidence (Tobias 1990; Gormally and Heil 2022).

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Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 67

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Supporting biology courses for non-majors involves addressing the diverse needs of students with little intrinsic motivation to study the subject. These students come from varied academic backgrounds, resulting in different levels of preparedness and confidence (Tobias 1990; Gormally and Heil 2022).

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Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 64