Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

That means wealthier neighborhoods get better schools—often with state-of-the-art facilities, robust extracurriculars, and college prep courses—while nearby communities may struggle with crumbling infrastructure and underpaid staff (Owens-Young 2023). Here’s the thing: public school funding in the U.S. depends heavily on local property taxes.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

I grew up in Vietnam at a time when education was often delivered through rigid lectures and rote learning. From a young age, I was captivated by a single question: “Can learning be more meaningful than memorization?” As a student, I found myself disengaged, even though I deeply valued the idea of learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience. However, many educators still rely heavily on lecture-based formats, which can lead to disengagement. You can’t ignore the impact of globalization either.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

A professor lectures students during class at Sacramento State University on Oct. One of her few in-person classes was a math course, but it was held in a large lecture hall and required students to wear masks. “I Students welcomed low-key gatherings such as video nights or arts-and-crafts sessions. Her mom kept her grounded.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 25, 2025

The comedian Stephen Colbert coined the term "truthiness" to describe those things that sound true, but really aren't: I'm going to claim the term "playishness" to describe those things that might seem like play, but are really just exercises in direct instruction using toys and art supplies instead of lectures and text books.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

Your ringtone blasts in class, or you start snoring mid-lecture? See your cultures art hanging in the Louvre or trending on social media? Perfect for a quick reset before diving back into an intense lesson. Would you rather: Trip in front of your crush or go viral for falling down the school stairs?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

They can be designed around pre-packaged online curricula or the sorts of adaptive software that are being developed to support learning in math and language arts. If some of the more rote sorts of lessons (think lectures, reviewing math facts, etc.) Some take the added step of creating all or some of their own learning materials.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Even though the flipped classroom encouraged teachers to record lectures and mini-lessons to send home with students for homework, video can be woven into the class period to shift control from teacher to learner. Engagement Strategy #3 Pair the Video with Sketch Notes or Sketch Art. “What if students do not watch the video?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Comprising the Premium RP Series, Mainstream RM Series, and Entry-Level RE Series, the interactive displays feature state-of-the-art yet intuitive tools to enhance learning comprehension, engagement, and collaboration for in-person, virtual, and hybrid classrooms. Because it matters. More information is available at www.BenQ.com.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science? We actually wrote a post for our Teaching Center’s blog with that title, “Is teaching an art or a science?” But if we focus too much on the science, we lose the human element of teaching—what I think of as the art of teaching. I think there’s a real art to that. Do I need this?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The report lists one of the study’s goals as determining if “smaller, independent liberal arts institutions can make more effective use of their instructional resources and/or reduce costs through online humanities instructions.” And of course, he won’t have to re-record all of those lectures. A “modified yes,” he says.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

In 2010, my state, Mississippi, joined the growing list of states adopting the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and math. Open resources can help design attractive, engaging lessons with a Common Core twist. This academic year has been especially pivotal, as we are now in full implementation.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

This is tantamount to a lecture series on anything from space exploration, artificial intelligence, or even telephone scams. These are examples of the art of education and how creativity on the part of educators can be wonderful. Because the world is always changing, there are infinite examples of how to use this to your advantage.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2018

Those who were frustrated by typical lesson plans and lectures have found the Fab Lab to be a place where their unique learning styles are engaged. Our first success was a very small grant for an arts center where students could complete hands-on projects. None of us predicted the success we’ve seen.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2024

Offering a diverse catalog of award-winning college courses with cinematic lectures from top-rated instructors, Outlier by Savvas provides high school students multiple pathways to college and career. “We

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2018

Through lectures, readings, discussions, graphic representations, videos, and hands-on artistic models, teachers have ways to share information. Some students may find that their best outlet and means of expression comes through writing while others excel in giving an oral presentation, acting out a play or creating a piece of art.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Building skills and confidence As I had hoped, the class learned more efficiently and enthusiastically about STEAM topics through this hands-on learning approach than they would have from my standard PowerPoint presentations and lectures.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The courses feature cinematically produced lectures by top-rated instructors and professors from renowned institutions, such as NASA, MIT, Harvard, and Yale. Since Outlier courses are offered asynchronously, students — no matter where they live — can try on the rigor of college-level courses that easily fit their school schedule.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Through lectures, readings, discussions, graphic representations, videos, and hands-on artistic models, teachers have ways to share information. Some students may find that their best outlet and means of expression comes through writing while others excel in giving an oral presentation, acting out a play or creating a piece of art.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

It’s common today for colleges to invite professors from other institutions to deliver distinguished lectures on campus. On their own and in their own time, students watch pre-recorded video lectures and demonstrations, enter discussion boards and work together in groups employing collaborative software tools day and night.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The project began when Tiina Syrjä, a lecturer in voice and speech at the University of Tampere, in Finland, met an administrator from Coventry University, in Britain, and they decided to organize a collaborative long-distance theater seminar. Coventry University sent Tom Gorman, a senior theater lecturer, to Finland to come up with a plan.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Art Graesser: A lot of the learning that goes on is shallow learning: memorizing things and being exposed to ideas, for example. We have evidence that when you take a demanding test that requires reasoning, reading a book or listening to a lecture in preparation is no different than doing nothing. That’s the vision, exactly.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

A few months ago, Debora Spar took the helm at Harvard Business School Online, after a rocky year-long stint as the president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. We asked, “How do you take a small women’s liberal arts college in Manhattan and how should we go online?” Now it has a new leader as well.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

Classrooms and lecture halls may, over time, fade away and become relics of our educational past. We wanted a space that would be a place of collaboration between students and faculty, as well as a place for faculty to present material in ways other than strictly lecture format or lecture with integrated PowerPoint.

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Finally, if a teacher isnt an engaging presenter, the lecture is likely even worse on video than in person. Performance tasks require students to apply their knowledge, such as through an essay, performance, work of art, exhibition, and so forth. For more examples, see 30 Examples of AI-Adaptive Software, Guide School, [link].

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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. Wed never say that about art, she adds. The assumption is that art is inherently interesting. And for people who love math, its already like art, she says.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

EdSurge recently sat down with Bowen at his office at the liberal arts college just outside of Baltimore, where he argued that improving college teaching is key to helping improve the political climate facing the country. What do you think about Lecture Capture. But Lecture Capture is big business. Do you not do that at Goucher?

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2025

As designers drew up plans to revitalize the visual arts complex at California State University, Fullerton, they hoped to create a space that would encourage students to stay on campus as much as possible. Many of Fullertons students commute to campus from home. You need to be able to make spaces that people want to be in, Delgado says.

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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. I’ve taught English Language Arts to high schoolers—mostly ninth graders—for nine years now. The debate about mobile phones in the classroom can get heated.

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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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Yet how many middle-class families can pay $200,000 for a four-year liberal arts degree? That’s the average of the top liberal arts colleges today, without living costs.) These are all worthy goals—if you can afford them. It’s one of the reasons we’re approaching a $1.5-trillion trillion overhang in student debt.

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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

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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