eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Stefany Gurgel, NC3 Master Instructor, Festo and Instructor, Jewish Leadership Academy In the last few years, we have seen a change in workforce needs–there is strong emphasis on skills-based education, technological proficiency, and adaptability.

Schools 338

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials. When I attend professional gatherings on open education, however, instructors like myself are often the minority.

Textbooks 131

Textbooks Instructors Education Peer Review 131

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

Study 165

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 165

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

It’s a fun and engaging activity for students. If it’s a hybrid class, this might be a jumping-off point for a conversation in the face-to-face classroom after they’ve done this engagement activity outside in the community. Again, this is a community activity, and a student’s immediate family is not the community.)

Laboratory 98

Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 98

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

The kids’ teachers did a good job of telling us what assignments or activities were most important, from their perspective. I eventually got to the point where I would prioritize those activities over others. The teachers have done a good job sending PDF documents that lay out most of the kids’ school activities.

Teaching 199

Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 199

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. Active learning strategies help students take risks and engage deeply with material in a low-pressure environment. These activities encourage participation without the anxiety of high-stakes grading (Freeman et al., Random House.

Plagiarism 116

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 116

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Instructors often turn to flipped classrooms as a method to engage learners but run into unexpected barriers. This transition requires educators to move away from traditional lectures and incorporate active teaching strategies to engage learners. These barriers, if not addressed, will often lead to academic failure.

Lecturing 130

Lecturing Instructors Knowledge Failure 130

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

The challenge is further compounded by students balancing their studies with household chores which can lead to decreased motivation if adequate support is not provided by the instructor. Consequently, the role of instructors becomes more crucial in designing effective online learning experiences that foster active student participation.

Student Engagement 99

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 99

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Failure to appreciate these points will result in personalized learning products more likely to hinder than help students. Instructors are equally susceptible to the deeply counterintuitive nature of learning. Do Learners Really Know Best? prefer instructional formats that produce inferior learning outcomes.

Education 159

Education Evaluation Failure Essay 159

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Classroom response systems make the practice of regular “temperature checks” an impactful and efficient activity in even the largest classrooms. In this way, backchannels serve as a formative assessment for instructors to identify ways to improve the delivery and impact of our teaching. Academically? Emotionally?

Course Design 128

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

How can instructors best manage growing class sizes, decreasing budgets and an increasingly diverse base of learners—including first time college students and adults returning to school to learn new skills? They must also redesign matriculated students' gateway courses that have unacceptable failure rates.

Failure 154

Failure Instructors Evaluation Feedback 154

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin. On a classroom level, professors should play a more active role with students, Iowas Gooblar says.

Students 178

Students Math Writing Skills 178

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

While students can learn at their own pace, they have the disadvantage of limited contact with instructors and reduced opportunity of immediate feedback. To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. Active learning strategies help students take risks and engage deeply with material in a low-pressure environment. These activities encourage participation without the anxiety of high-stakes grading (Freeman et al., Random House.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

While students can learn at their own pace, they have the disadvantage of limited contact with instructors and reduced opportunity of immediate feedback. To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades.

Student Engagement 92

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 92

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

It’s a fun and engaging activity for students. If it’s a hybrid class, this might be a jumping-off point for a conversation in the face-to-face classroom after they’ve done this engagement activity outside in the community. Again, this is a community activity, and a student’s immediate family is not the community.)

Laboratory 77

Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 77

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Since instructors are autonomous, we allowed them to create a CourseSite on Blackboard.com. Beware Proximity to the Instructional Core In most industries, a pretty smart strategy is to identify the core productive activity of the organization and improve it. At Blackboard we packaged learning management into three tiers. The lesson?

Learning Outcomes 140

Learning Outcomes Instructors History Evaluation 140

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Classroom response systems make the practice of regular “temperature checks” an impactful and efficient activity in even the largest classrooms. In this way, backchannels serve as a formative assessment for instructors to identify ways to improve the delivery and impact of our teaching. Academically? Emotionally?

Course Design 111

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

The challenge is further compounded by students balancing their studies with household chores which can lead to decreased motivation if adequate support is not provided by the instructor. Consequently, the role of instructors becomes more crucial in designing effective online learning experiences that foster active student participation.

Student Engagement 75

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 75

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Instructors often turn to flipped classrooms as a method to engage learners but run into unexpected barriers. This transition requires educators to move away from traditional lectures and incorporate active teaching strategies to engage learners. These barriers, if not addressed, will often lead to academic failure.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Instructors Knowledge Failure 98

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

The best teachers have more in common with fitness instructors, he argues. His latest book, “ Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes ,” expands on his arguments and offers practical advice for instructors who want to rethink how they design their classes. Face-to-face classroom time costs the most.

Coaching 143

Coaching Lecturing Teachers Motivation 143

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The big idea is that VCs simply assumed that any failure to execute the plan was a failure of the founders or the key people in the company. Entrepreneurship and innovation is a experiential, hands-on activity. It's an experiential type of activity for teaching. It's not the same. That's a great question.

Education 123

Education Failure Syllabus Motivation 123

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

Study 100

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 100

Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

From a well-designed and well-implemented group activity, students can have rich encounters with the content and learn the value of working collaboratively. Those negative attitudes about groups lead to a larger question: Can students still learn even if they don’t like the instructional approach, activity, or assignment?

Group work 64

Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 64

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

For instructors, rubrics expedite grading with standards; at the same time, they reinforce learning objectives and standardize course curricula. How can instructors ensure that students engage with rubrics when they work on their assignments? Wide consensus confirms the usefulness of rubrics. Both options are possible with Google Docs.

Instructors 64

Instructors Failure Assignments Students 64

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Within each of those three major prongs, there are thousands of subsets of other activities. Focused hospitals are built around a very specific value-adding process activity: They take incomplete or broken parts and then transform them into more complete outputs of higher value while charging a fee for the outcome.

Learning 113

Learning Counselling Failure Textbooks 113

Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

From a well-designed and well-implemented group activity, students can have rich encounters with the content and learn the value of working collaboratively. Those negative attitudes about groups lead to a larger question: Can students still learn even if they don’t like the instructional approach, activity, or assignment?

Group work 59

Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 59

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. She suggests a number of ways teachers can respond to these challenges.

Motivation 116

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

Aligned with the maker movement—which focuses on using hands-on activities like building, sewing, assembling and computer programming for learning—the kits provide a foundation that teachers can use for guided projects both in and out of the classroom. “I

Failure 107

Failure Instructors Elementary School Elementary School 107

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

For both instructors and their students, that means adopting a mindset that avoids persistence in favor of pivoting and changing course. Early failures and failed first trials are not interpreted as a diagnosis of what could be done , and are instead seen as proof of what cant (Yeager & Dweck, 2020).

Teaching 59

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 59

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

For instructors, rubrics expedite grading with standards; at the same time, they reinforce learning objectives and standardize course curricula. How can instructors ensure that students engage with rubrics when they work on their assignments? Wide consensus confirms the usefulness of rubrics. Both options are possible with Google Docs.

Instructors 52

Instructors Failure Assignments Students 52

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. She suggests a number of ways teachers can respond to these challenges.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

For both instructors and their students, that means adopting a mindset that avoids persistence in favor of pivoting and changing course. Early failures and failed first trials are not interpreted as a diagnosis of what could be done , and are instead seen as proof of what cant (Yeager & Dweck, 2020).

Teaching 52

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

I have worked in the Vermont education system for over twenty years, and there is one lesson that I have learned loud and clear: top-down management decisions are destined for failure. Three of my favorite activities. I would have been wasting my time if I simply choose an LMS for our system.

Failure 76

Failure Feedback Assignments Instructors 76

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

With fewer opportunities for spontaneous interactions and physical activity, many learners find themselves feeling isolated and unengaged. Shifting this balance, giving students agency, can turn passive listeners into active participants. Autonomy activates intrinsic motivation, the kind that sustains long-term curiosity and effort.

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52