Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

In the early days of online education, I imagined that virtual classrooms would follow the same basic model as in-person ones, with an instructor leading the same number of students typical in a campus class. Students attend WGU entirely on screen, with instructors engaging with them virtually by email, phone, text and video.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

“We broke through the temporary status of contingent higher ed employment under a framework that offers some semblance of job security,” said Amy Higer, a lecturer at Rutgers’ Newark School of Arts and Sciences and president of PTLFC-AAUP-AFT, unions representing part-time employees. Across higher ed, it wasn’t always this way.

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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. Some schools do, but a lot of schools generally leave absence management up to individual instructors. If so, what’s driving the trend? This is why we spend time together in a room.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

From high school valedictorian to game company CEO to computer science instructor, all I really needed to know, I’ve learned from video games. I grinded a lot in high school, eventually graduating as valedictorian and principal oboe of a small arts magnet in Los Angeles. As you might imagine, I didn't do to well in class.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

They may learn, for example, that the Q&A portion of their lecture class was actually the part where students learned the most, rather than from the meticulously crafted presentation from the lectern. The problem is that many educators, having accomplished the hard introspection needed to teach well online, stop there.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Too often, math teachers present information through lecturing and worksheets to students, forcing learners to decipher the context and usefulness on their own. An important element is mixing free play with guided play , which has some direction from an instructor. Wed never say that about art, she adds.

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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. What do you think about Lecture Capture.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

Bartlesville Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Gary Quinn called the new state-of-the-art facility as one of the best in the state. “I IT Labs, two each, contain 30 student computers and an instructor computer at a mobile station, and electronic marker board. Madison and Central Middle Schools. —

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Outlier.org combines cinematic video and charismatic professors with the best in modern, evidence-based teaching techniques to virtually transport the student to a college lecture hall.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Students at a community college could supplement their math class with lectures from MIT. A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

It also enhances the teaching experience for the instructor. Think-Pair-Share Students need opportunities to process information during lectures. Small groups work While lecturing is one way to convey information, other methods, like gallery walks, encourage student interaction during the teaching and learning process.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

The announcement, from The Minerva Project, enters a longstanding debate about whether online education can drastically cut the cost of education by reducing the number of instructors needed to teach. Such a class for 400 students may require very different staffing than a traditional large lecture, he adds.

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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. You mention that in the traditional lecture model, students get addicted to professors teaching, and not in a good way.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2020

There’s an outsized focus today on science, technology, engineering and math, known as STEM (or STEAM if you prefer to include “arts”) and for good reason. Having previously leaned toward large-group lectures, we began using small groups to teach straight coding to our campers. How cool is that? The reality: It’s not that cool.

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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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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Professors in the department of kinesiology at Cal Poly Tech Humboldt have observed growth in student performance and comprehension by designing content-specific episodes that begin by considering the basic building block of an instructor-generated podcast. The principal focus of the second body is to convey new information.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

It also enhances the teaching experience for the instructor. Think-Pair-Share Students need opportunities to process information during lectures. Small groups work While lecturing is one way to convey information, other methods, like gallery walks, encourage student interaction during the teaching and learning process.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Today, many of my colleagues who remain wedded to the traditional face-to-face teaching modality share some of the same fears I experienced as a beginning online asynchronous instructor. As college professors and instructors, we are the content experts and instructional leaders of our courses. If so, please list below.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

When I attend professional gatherings on open education, however, instructors like myself are often the minority. Yet open educational materials impact faculty and students alike, and many instructors are using these resources today. That is not appealing to instructors,” argues Skidmore.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Today, many of my colleagues who remain wedded to the traditional face-to-face teaching modality share some of the same fears I experienced as a beginning online asynchronous instructor. As college professors and instructors, we are the content experts and instructional leaders of our courses. If so, please list below.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. Instructors should aim to deliver the material with enthusiasm and engagement, which will help to pique the interest of students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When the audience of around 30 students entered the large lecture classroom in Moore Hall, where the college houses its Center for Inclusive Excellence, Delano greeted them with a slide show explaining how the afternoon would go. ,” would be tense. It's really about thinking about how it just becomes part of the culture,” Smith says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

What do these newly virtual classrooms look and feel like, for both the instructors and the students? And it highlights some of the issues that are coming up unexpectedly, for instructors and students, doing education online for the first time. College has suddenly moved online in the time of the coronavirus.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Preparation and materials needed Before starting the activity, students should receive a 20-30-minute lecture about cultural competency, cultural misunderstandings (language barrier, nonverbal communication), and communication accommodation theory (convergence, divergence, and maintenance). You express your feelings and opinion through art.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Video-based learning is a powerful tool for many reasons; one study even notes that “well selected online educational video lectures advance students’ communication on the discourse level, critical thinking, deep learning, and future employability” (Elgeddawy, 2018, 726). Amy Winger is an online instructor for the University of Phoenix.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Preparation and materials needed Before starting the activity, students should receive a 20-30-minute lecture about cultural competency, cultural misunderstandings (language barrier, nonverbal communication), and communication accommodation theory (convergence, divergence, and maintenance). You express your feelings and opinion through art.

Culture 102

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Professors in the department of kinesiology at Cal Poly Tech Humboldt have observed growth in student performance and comprehension by designing content-specific episodes that begin by considering the basic building block of an instructor-generated podcast. The principal focus of the second body is to convey new information.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 16, 2025

In The Art of Teaching , Jay Parini is quick to dismiss these questions, since authenticity itself is, he argues, yet another construction and [t]he notion of the true self is [] utterly false (2005, 59). I spent weeks getting ready, thinking about what I was going to do, writing out lectures, and planning assignments. Parini, Jay.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Video-based learning is a powerful tool for many reasons; one study even notes that “well selected online educational video lectures advance students’ communication on the discourse level, critical thinking, deep learning, and future employability” (Elgeddawy, 2018, 726). Amy Winger is an online instructor for the University of Phoenix.

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Instructors English Lecturing Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. Instructors should aim to deliver the material with enthusiasm and engagement, which will help to pique the interest of students.

Instructors 96

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Thus, it’s pressing for instructors to collaborate on concrete ways to create a welcoming tone and build rapport in digital spaces. As Michelle Pacansky-Brock (2023) notes, “connecting with you [the instructor] before they connect with course content will establish a supportive and welcoming course climate that will also cultivate community.”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

Ensuring a successful educational experience for our students is akin to the art of culinary development, where thoughtful preparation is fundamental. PowerPoints, brief lectures or lecture videos, images, diagrams, quizzes, and interactive activities can be utilized to deliver prelusive course content.

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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. Online learning refers to a specific method of education where instructors deliver content over the internet directly to students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 26, 2018

Until they achieve a satisfactory grade — as set by the instructor — they cannot work on the next lesson. I don’t want to miss art class. Instead of worrying about the alternatives for grappling with the missed lesson, students can rest stress-free and access the lectures whenever they are comfortable. Let me see how I fared.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Jenna Zucha: At the Digital Promise Challenge Institute in Monterey, teachers were presented as not only instructors and leaders in their community, but as learners. We used to just stand in front of the class and lecture or present an idea that we may have spent hours at home working on, but we never showed the students that process.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Thus, it’s pressing for instructors to collaborate on concrete ways to create a welcoming tone and build rapport in digital spaces. As Michelle Pacansky-Brock (2023) notes, “connecting with you [the instructor] before they connect with course content will establish a supportive and welcoming course climate that will also cultivate community.”

Culture 96

Culture Communication Writing Language 96