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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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." MOOCs deliver mostly video-streamed lectures, with some offering readings, problem sets and interactive options as well. MOOC critics say that streaming lectures is not terribly innovative. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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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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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

These experiences can range from the traditional lecture-style format to the emerging modern learning environments that are gaining in popularity. Research Supports the Benefits of Modern Learning Environments. Despite cultural and technological changes over the past several decades, one thing remained the same: the desks.

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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.” Nelson also doesn’t expect to sell the platform universally.

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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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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into higher education is increasingly common, presenting new opportunities and challenges for educators and institutions. We also asked faculty who were using AI to share how it impacted their teaching and learning.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into higher education is increasingly common, presenting new opportunities and challenges for educators and institutions. We also asked faculty who were using AI to share how it impacted their teaching and learning.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. ” (Turing, 1950), followed by John McCarthy’s naming of “artificial intelligence” (McCarthy, 2007). What is artificial intelligence? Mitchell, T.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

The race to outsmart artificial intelligence is on as educators try to prevent the coming semester from devolving into, as one professor put it, a “ homework apocalypse.” One of his major recommendations: Try a flipped classroom , where students watch lectures via video and spend class time on active learning exercises.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. ” (Turing, 1950), followed by John McCarthy’s naming of “artificial intelligence” (McCarthy, 2007). What is artificial intelligence? Mitchell, T.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Whether its a 60-second TikTok on the French Revolution, a deep-dive YouTube documentary on climate change, or a TED Talk about emotional intelligence, young minds are tuning in and learning, often more effectively than traditional methods ever allowed. This is the hidden curriculum of the internet, which aids online learning.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

Thats why success in online learning doesnt just rely on intelligence or curriculum. Start with small daily goals like finishing a video lecture or solving five math problems. Use Active Learning, Not Passive Consumption Watching lectures or reading textbooks might feel productive, but its passive.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2024

It starts with the very basics — like whether it even makes sense anymore to measure learning in credit hours — and builds up to future-facing conundrums about how to handle the sudden ubiquity of artificially intelligent tools. Should colleges still wait for students to apply, or proactively admit qualified candidates?

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