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.

Lecturing 122

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 122

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.”

Learning 167

Learning Problem-Based Learning History Lecturing 167

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.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 98

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.

Textbooks 112

Textbooks Lecturing English Internet 112

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. Spencer Willis, Jr.

Instructors 116

Instructors Quizzes Students Assignments 116

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

The assignment he revised was from a course he taught in 2012 about the history of mathematics and cryptography that fulfilled a campus writing requirement. One of his major recommendations: Try a flipped classroom , where students watch lectures via video and spend class time on active learning exercises.

Assignments 148

Assignments Instructors Writing History 148

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

At its core, classroom learning provides a structured environment conducive to focused study and exploration. Within this setting, instructors deliver curriculum content through lectures, presentations, demonstrations, and other instructional methods tailored to meet the diverse needs of learners.

Learning 130

Learning Instructors eLearning Learning Styles 130

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. Spencer Willis, Jr.

Instructors 94

Instructors Quizzes Students Assignments 94

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2018

The curricular elements of it really were germinated when I was an undergraduate, and it was actually driven out of a course I took my freshman year about the history of American Higher education and how universities relate to their society. So, technology enables you to do fully active learning better than you could without technology.

Lecturing 112

Lecturing Knowledge Art Questions 112

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Step four in Finks guide consists of the teaching and learning activities, which in order to create significant learning opportunities, must incorporate active learning. Active learning thus includes the act of students doing things which requires experiential opportunities and reflective dialogue.

Course Design 60

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 60

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Step four in Finks guide consists of the teaching and learning activities, which in order to create significant learning opportunities, must incorporate active learning. Active learning thus includes the act of students doing things which requires experiential opportunities and reflective dialogue.

Course Design 57

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 57

k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Some notable trends in online learning include: Learn on TikTok Hashtags: Used by content creators and even institutions like NASA and the World Health Organization to share educational insights. In 15 seconds, theyve illustrated a core economics principle better than many lectures. What Makes Edu-Creators So Effective?

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Lecturing Learning Textbooks 52

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Hybrid Course Design : AI platforms enable asynchronous lectures, reserving in-person sessions for interaction.

Faculty Development 88

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

A solution: Build support communities among faculty that model inclusive, consensus-building learning environments and model teaching and learning using trauma-informed evidence-based practices. Connected faculty will build connected students who will become connected alumni and that is good for the bottom line.

Education 52

Education STEM Active Learning Peer Review 52

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Hybrid Course Design : AI platforms enable asynchronous lectures, reserving in-person sessions for interaction.

Faculty Development 73

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 73

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2020

We were particularly interested in how well large lecture classes translated into a remote format. The first professor I talked to was Brian Balogh, a longtime history professor at the University of Virginia who has won awards for his teaching. Or read a short recap below. Let us know here. And students were doing a lot of group work.”

Lecturing 187

Lecturing History Teaching Assistants Learning 187

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2021

Something new is needed, and flipped learning may be exactly the right model for where higher education is headed once the pandemic is over. What is flipped learning? Flipped learning puts first contact with new ideas before group space activities, then uses the group space for active learning on mid- and upper-level tasks.

Teaching 217

Teaching Lecturing Learning History 217

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

It’s easy to forget that notions of childhood have changed radically over the years—and not all for the better, says Steven Mintz, a history professor at the University of Texas at Austin. The history of the American family and childhood is an area Mintz has long studied. But it has a cost.

History 152

History Education Lecturing Exams 152