Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

mainly comes in a few fixed shapes and sizes: the research university, the liberal arts college, the community college, the technical college. What is unique, perhaps, is a model that both embraces online education materials and partnering with employers while also insisting on preserving in-person teaching and a dose of the liberal arts.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

was free, and people had to pay at least $20 a month to get access to the state-of-the-art model. 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. “I

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2022

Two years ago, English Language Arts teacher Tyler Rablin promoted cell phone use in the classroom, encouraging his students to bring their phones to class. Because attention is a limited resource and kids are spending too much of it distracted by their phones. The debate about mobile phones in the classroom can get heated.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

In one focus group I attended, faculty members recommended that online courses include real-time sessions, that the school stream on-campus lectures and events to remote students, and that faculty establish a uniform and consistent online course evaluation rubric following industry best practices.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

David Peña-Guzman starts off his Friday class at San Francisco State University like any other professor might: students file in and pull out their note-taking materials, and he opens his laptop to begin lecture. For most of the course, there’s no lecture happening at all. For starters, it’s long. and wraps up at 2:30 p.m.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

Its primary customer is the nonprofit university called Minerva Schools at KGI, which aims to offer a selective liberal-arts undergraduate education where classes are fully online, using video and interactive tools. Such a class for 400 students may require very different staffing than a traditional large lecture, he adds.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Also, only some teachers have the time or money to invest in building courses with the functionality, attention to the user experience, and variety of hints and examples that a third-party software vendor can afford. Finally, if a teacher isnt an engaging presenter, the lecture is likely even worse on video than in person.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

Students use iMacs in three digital arts labs to do sound engineering, digital animation, television production, yearbook and photography. Digital arts students create designs for the drama club’s school production while engineering students help with the robotic aspect of props for the production. It’s all happening at once.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

ETC offers a two-year Master of Entertainment Technology program (MET) launched in 1998 and cofounded by the late Randy Pausch, author of “The Last Lecture.”. Feelsbot with three fellow MET students at ETC’s Silicon Valley satellite campus housed at the headquarters of Electronic Arts in Redwood City, California.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

To find out, EdSurge interviewed Terri Hasseler, a professor in the Department of History, Literature, and the Arts at Bryant University in Rhode Island. If so, what’s driving the trend? And what can professors and higher ed leaders do about it? Terri Hasseler So this kind of absenteeism may not be just not being physically there.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Today, as an associate teaching professor of economics at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, Wooten is on the flip side of the camera; he creates his own short educational videos to enhance traditional reading materials and lectures. I value my lecture time,” says Wooten. “I Review key terms and definitions. “I

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

However, the struggle will be to expand innovation in core subjects and beyond, including integrating technology into ancillary K-12 areas such as CTE, music, physical education, health, and the arts. Teachers will continue to pull out all the stops to boost student morale, attention, and excitement amid the many challenges of the pandemic.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

Robert Talbert would get the nagging, unsettling sense that the lectures he gave in his Calculus courses just weren’t sinking in. “I EdSurge: Like most professors, you’ve spent most of your career lecturing. I wasn’t really paying attention to their answers. The feeling would crop up every so often. What do you mean by that?

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Is it ADHD if they can’t pay attention to a boring lecture? That’s not ADHD, that’s just a boring lecture. And that works in the sciences, the arts, etc. There are actually tests you can do to look at the ways the brain is very different to how they looked a generation ago. Kids [today] are different. Possibly not.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

When black students at the University of Michigan took to Twitter several years ago to critique campus policies and culture , one tweet in particular caught the attention of college administrators. It wasn’t equitable,” says Susan Perreault, director of student recruitment for the university’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The days of checking books out of the library, traditional style lecturing, and writing papers with a pen are continuously becoming pastimes. Including videos in your lesson plan is a great way to modernize traditional lectures or PowerPoint presentations. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Sociology and studied business in college.

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eLearning Teaching Lecturing Learning Styles 121

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

First, online interactions for children have to be fun, not lecture-like. The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Those who are struggling slow down and try different methods, like exploring math or science concepts through art. The school is drawing attention. Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. Students who excel move on.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Interactive simulations and virtual field trips bring students face-to-face with historical landmarks, famous works of art, and locations that are not accessible to the general public. Immersive technologies such as virtual and augmented reality are redefining traditional learning methods.

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Learning Styles Intelligence Blended Learning Gamification 280

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

They could start college during the pandemic—taking courses online at home, or in person wearing masks in emptied-out lecture halls. Then there was a third option that got lots of attention: a gap year. Or, they could try to find jobs—during a crisis that left frontline workers vulnerable and employment hard to come by.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

A dozen or so students are gathered virtually in a Zoom room, inhaling and exhaling and summoning their attention for a brisk lunchtime lesson filled with music and poetry. Year by year, these adults have gathered threads of wisdom, which the university now invites them to weave into the great tapestry of the liberal arts.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Introduction The introduction should be professional and strive to capture the attention of the listener. Thus, posing questions before new lectures will encourage richer connections to the learning experience by fostering self-questioning, which has been seen as strongly associated with enhanced student achievement (Hailikari et al.,

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Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

two to three keywords, color/contrast change, or a symbol that attracts attention to area of the screen ). It helps concentrate student attention by emphasizing crucial information, therefore targeting certain components of the movie for processing in working memory. Spencer Willis, Jr.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After a certain amount of time, groups rotate, allowing everyone to get personalized attention from the teacher. It build rapport in a way traditional lecturing simply cannot.” The station rotation model is utilized across the district, at the elementary, middle and high school level, in both bilingual and mainstream classes.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 2, 2023

The art of the check-in As doctors need to check in on their patients to ensure they are on track to a successful recovery, so must teachers check in on their students throughout the term. At the end of the term, tell your classes how much you have appreciated their attention and hard work. It is recommended to first read Part 1.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

two to three keywords, color/contrast change, or a symbol that attracts attention to area of the screen ). It helps concentrate student attention by emphasizing crucial information, therefore targeting certain components of the movie for processing in working memory. Spencer Willis, Jr.

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Instructors Quizzes Students Assignments 95

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Introduction The introduction should be professional and strive to capture the attention of the listener. Thus, posing questions before new lectures will encourage richer connections to the learning experience by fostering self-questioning, which has been seen as strongly associated with enhanced student achievement (Hailikari et al.,

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Instructors Lecturing Learning Textbooks 88

Faculty Focus

MARCH 2, 2023

The art of the check-in As doctors need to check in on their patients to ensure they are on track to a successful recovery, so must teachers check in on their students throughout the term. At the end of the term, tell your classes how much you have appreciated their attention and hard work. It is recommended to first read Part 1.

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Feedback Teachers Assignments Lecturing 96

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

If learning takes place online, students may use a learning management system (LMS) to log into their courses, and even watch live video lectures. Tuition and fees for the first year of a bachelor of arts degree in 2015 was R13,600 (a little over $1,000 U.S. Unisa claims to serve nearly one third of South African students alone.

Ethics 101

Ethics English Distance Learning Textbooks 101

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

All learning styles are important and need to be acknowledged, but I have found when information is presented visually, both faculty attention spans increase and interests tend to peak participation. In order to answer these questions, Gusky (2002) points our attention to key indicators: What will be measured? Did it make a difference?

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2018

And in order for you to have the responsibility of liberty, you had to be trained in the various arts of a liberated or liberal society. Hence the ‘liberal arts.’ So in a 15 or 16 person class, everybody is paying attention—they have to deeply process. And people have liberty. They're free. And I figure that that's a problem.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2018

Start by sharing information in ways that don’t rhyme with “‘PowerPoint” or “lecture” Then, for activities like volunteer sign-up, Q&A, and exploring the class, use the exciting digital tools that students will use to achieve their goals. So how is this accomplished?

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Schools Lecturing Questions Curriculum 73

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

All learning styles are important and need to be acknowledged, but I have found when information is presented visually, both faculty attention spans increase and interests tend to peak participation. In order to answer these questions, Gusky (2002) points our attention to key indicators: What will be measured? Did it make a difference?

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Evaluation Participation Knowledge Learning Styles 86

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

And once she had the attention of the conference goers, she used the opportunity to announce the crowdfunding campaign for Wayfinding Academy. Another student offered that she co-hosted two art shows this semester, and one said she signed up for a new lab class. For one thing, students quickly asked her not to lecture.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

Start with small daily goals like finishing a video lecture or solving five math problems. Master the Art of Time Blocking Instead of vague to-do lists, time blocking gives structure and flow to a student’s day. Pause during lectures to take notes or reflect on what was just said. It keeps the brain stimulated, not rested.

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Lab to Class

JANUARY 3, 2024

In addition to this, it is important to keep instructional methods varied as research shows that a variety of teaching styles is more effective at keeping students engaged and giving information than simply expecting students to sit in rows and listen to lectures. Nonlinear effect of biological feedback on brain attentional state.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 2, 2025

A student participating in a live math lesson or creating a digital art project is engaging with their screen very differently than one scrolling social media for an hour. Then theres attention span. The quality of screen engagement matters. And in many cases, its the difference between screen time being a tool or a trap.

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