Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

And they entered college with gaps in study skills and anxiety about social interactions. 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 Her mom kept her grounded.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

Be at the top of the class or study abroad during your senior year? Your ringtone blasts in class, or you start snoring mid-lecture? See your cultures art hanging in the Louvre or trending on social media? Attend college or take a skilled trade path? Travel the world before college or fast-track to a degree?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Edward’s University , where he works as an associate professor of philosophy and the director of the Center of Ethics and Leadership , was one of the 21 institutions taking part in a study to explore teaching upper-level humanities courses online. And of course, he won’t have to re-record all of those lectures.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

But as Eyler warns readers at the outset, he’s not a scientist himself, but a humanist with a PhD in medieval studies. 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?” I think there’s a real art to that.

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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. Sixth grade social studies teacher, Ashlynn Sandoval provides content by showing a video that has captions. With this in mind, we ask, “How do you share content with your students?”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

She won the grant, which allowed the Dean Children’s Center to buy two KIBO kits and do an independent study project focused on implementing the hands-on, screen-free robot with four- and five-year-old children at Dean College’s Children’s Center. This inspired me to incorporate KIBO into my STEM course for pre-service teachers.

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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. Sixth-grade social studies teacher Ashlynn Sandoval provides content by showing a video that has captions. With this in mind, we ask, “How do you share content with your students?”

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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

AUGUST 25, 2021

Earlier, Springer was associate dean at NYU’s School of Professional Studies. It’s especially fruitful to establish a university-wide online committee with senior faculty as members, tasked with studying the potential impact of digital education on the institution. It’s unwise to launch new remote programs in fields new to the school.

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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. Video study guides, he says, were a natural next step. “We Clarify a difficult concept.

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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. Adjuncts were looking for more strident champions.

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Attention Teachers Instructors Fairness 206

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2023

Bir, who’s now a freshman studying computer science at Diablo Valley College in California, could relate. “As They are organized into five categories — science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics — and further indexed by relevant courses, like AP Physics, or topics, like digital photography.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The higher ed award honored Timothy Renick, Senior Vice President for Student Success and Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University. Art Graesser: A lot of the learning that goes on is shallow learning: memorizing things and being exposed to ideas, for example. Here, read a book, or listen to a lecture.

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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. Learning at the right level in a way that replicates the effects of human tutoring has proven in innumerable studies to be a more effective instructional design than monolithic, one-sized instruction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It’s not just the Language Arts or Reading teacher’s sole responsibility to teach literacy. Art / Music. While not specifically an art teacher, Elizalde’s tactics could be adopted by teachers in both ELL and art instructional courses. Social Studies / Current Events. The initiative?

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

Using the Dreamscape Learn platform , ASU Prep Pilgrim Rest teachers and grade 3-6 students can attend class in any imaginable virtual location relevant to their subject matter — generating unprecedented student excitement and engagement in subjects including STEM, social studies, and language arts.

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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 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

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

JUNE 26, 2018

He’s also the founder of the Center for Science and Law, which studies how advances in brain science can shape the legal system (although his work also focuses on brain plasticity, or how we learn and absorb new information). Is it ADHD if they can’t pay attention to a boring lecture? That’s not ADHD, that’s just a boring lecture.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Challenges and Solutions in Mathematics College professors frequently adopt a lecture-based approach, emphasizing theory over practice. Finance and Economics: The Art of Numbers In the realms of finance and economics, mathematics is the brush with which professionals paint the picture of the market’s future.

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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. Recommended resources from Mosyle.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I grinded a lot in high school, eventually graduating as valedictorian and principal oboe of a small arts magnet in Los Angeles. I like to think I maximized my experience gained in both the arts and academics during this time. My evenings and nights were quite active but I would rarely wake up in time for lectures the next morning.

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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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Reading Teaching Lecturing Syllabus 163

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

Classes aren’t led by a lone professor lecturing at the front of the classroom, but by teams of educators, with at least three virtual instructors and as many as ten to fifteen assigned to larger classes. Some traditional professors have opposed the model as too great a departure from the classic liberal arts college.

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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

JULY 7, 2022

They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. 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. She was preparing to audition for a performing arts scholarship.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One of us is from American Studies and the other from Sociology, and our readings for the courses reflected our disciplines. We were fascinated to see how our students reacted to the art we had selected in consultation with Wright. ” And, we haven’t even started talking about our medicine woman-led cacao ceremony.

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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. In every discipline, we learn by abstracting the object of study to remove details that don’t matter. It shouldn’t.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The university doesn’t require all students to own personal computers, yet many do, using them frequently during lectures to take notes or follow along with readings. 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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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One of us is from American Studies and the other from Sociology, and our readings for the courses reflected our disciplines. We were fascinated to see how our students reacted to the art we had selected in consultation with Wright. ” And, we haven’t even started talking about our medicine woman-led cacao ceremony.

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Interdisciplinary Art History Discussions 105

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. She appreciates that her outdoor recreation and environmental studies program is affordable and that it teaches practical skills: Her courses kicked off with a backpacking trip.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

I was supposed to start at University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in January of next year to do the digital arts and culture program. Audience question]: What advice would you give to your faculty regarding online lectures? I would also say that in terms of online lectures, it's being engaging. to 8:00 a.m. Nobody wants to.

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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 119

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

As one professor at Pomona College, John Seery, wrote in a Huffington Post article , Nelson first approached Pomona about the partnership, but faculty there turned down the idea after some study. What’s different: The campus will have no classrooms and no lectures. The core of the curriculum will be long-term student projects.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” How can I get away from that whole spin, wash, repeat cycle of: Here’s the study guide, take a test, forget what you learned, repeat? It really was transformative.

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History Students Textbooks Testing 167