Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

Make it Easy for Students to Interact It can be a delicate balance to try to not overwhelm students by the quantity of educational technology we use in a class, while still keeping things interesting through the element of surprise. This past semester, each student submitted reading notes as an assignment in the LMS.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement. Researchers tapped alternative models of calculus teaching that have shown evidence that they work, according to Kramer.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Rebecca Stout remembers the time she got a call from Saudi Arabia at midnight from one of her online students looking for help on an assignment. It was just one example of how she—and many online instructors—feel like they must be always on call when they teach an online course.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

Many instructors see them as drudgery as well. For Valenza and a growing number of instructors, the answer is video. Other tools do the job as well, and some course-management systems allow students to submit videos, audio or text for any assignment. It doesn’t really build a community, if that was what is intended,” he says.

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Instructors Discussions Course Evaluations Writing 148

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Moving from essential to “renewable” assignments means that the students see the tasks as sufficiently meaningful to be kept and even passed on to others. What a waste! Collaboration.

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Assignments Motivation Science Study 131

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators can even tap student enthusiasm for new technology by assigning–and assessing student learning using–multimedia projects. Underlying the 5 steps below are 2 “secrets,” which will come as no surprise to today’s educators. Secret 1: Multimedia assignments. Does this all sound far-fetched?

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Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 337

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

On the production side, other pedagogies cropped up, as teachers can now assign video assignments that turn students into the creators, letting them find their voices and learn technical skills that could apply to jobs. Video also has greater “bandwidth” for communication, than text discussion forums, adding images to audio.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

“Interactive curriculum is the next wave” of opportunities in the education market, says Tim Brady, a partner at Y Combinator, in an interview with EdSurge. Brady has now overseen 11 cohorts of education technology startups over the past seven years.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2017

Most introductory geology professors teach students about earthquakes by assigning readings and showing diagrams of tectonic plates and fault lines to the class. But Paul Low is not most instructors. Low recently created a virtual-reality homework assignment for a geology 101 class. Low and Mills prefer. Image credit: Paul Low.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks STEM 128

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

Do your school’s students submit their school assignments by uploading PDFs or other files within a learning management system? Instructors can then use Drive and Google Docs to grade assignments and share course materials. Instructors can then use Drive and Google Docs to grade assignments and share course materials.

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Feedback Assignments Instructors Writing 105

eSchool News

MAY 17, 2024

Given that today’s students are digital natives , it makes sense for schools to invest in modern educational technology such as interactive whiteboards. Of course, maintaining this smart technology can be a hefty investment. More importantly, how can your instructors maximize the use of the equipment and minimize its downtime?

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Technology Instructors Quizzes Disabilities 282

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

But the rise of alternative education providers that rely on contractors raises the question: Should these instructors be considered employees instead? In addition to teaching classes during normal business hours, both said they worked extra to prepare lessons, grade assignments, meet with students and attend marketing events.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the mid-1950s, schools would adopt localized, attached libraries in which librarians are considered qualified teachers, educating both students and instructors. This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 357

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Department of Education. The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion. For instance, instructors can ask students to post a one-sentence summary or brief reflection after going through an assigned reading or watching a short video lecture.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Over the last few decades, applied technology in the classroom has grown by leaps and bounds. Of course, there’s more to education technology than allowing computers in the classroom. In addition, a robust device manager can secure each device from unauthorized users by assigning varying access levels to end users.

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Learning Styles Participation Attention Hybrid Learning 314

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. She imagines teachers might use AI in the same way to create assignments or lesson plans. “No Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing centers on college campuses have been around for more than 100 years , and they’re both a resource for students doing assignments and a symbol of the importance in higher education of learning to express yourself in text. Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience.

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Writing Instructors Essay English 205

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like.

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Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 93

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

It actually requires some unlearning, and some changes in approach, to create an environment that better encourages students to complete assigned activities. Instructors first need to consider how we use grades in our teaching—and then explore what kinds of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations exist and persist for our students.

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Motivation Reading Instructors Assignments 202

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For instructors who have had the opportunity to participate in pedagogy learning groups, there may be a lot of overlap in what they already know about teaching and what changes AI might bring to the classroom. Instructors across the disciplines question how and where their students will use AI.

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Teaching Instructors Knowledge Writing 208

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. The latest cohort, unveiled over two days at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017.

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Educational Technologies Technology Education Elementary School 127

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I recall one student who would wait until the night of the assignment deadline to dive into their schoolwork. All too often, they would wind up needing to ask their instructor a question about the assignment but had no time to receive an answer before the deadline passed. Don’t wait for an assignment notification to get started.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Many university campuses host “writing centers” where students can book time to get editing help on their written assignments. Acceptable use may vary from one course to another, and indeed from one assignment to another. That instructor, Kyle Ali, took two key steps in his “Diversity in a Global Economy” course.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Remembering that most students arent looking to be cheaters can take down the temperature so that instructors dont get so worked up about it. That is causing frustration for many instructors. But the solutions that this expert recommends havent changed.

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Academic Integrity Instructors Ethics Students 192

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Though 97 percent of education professionals in Kaltura’s State of Video in Education annual report say that video is “ essential to students’ academic experiences ,” when it comes to educational video practices, many instructors are still pressing play. viewing “against the grain”).

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Teaching Instructors Teaching Philosophy Education 190

Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. Every new version of Microsoft PowerPoint allowed instructors to embed more and more media and wow students with visually appealing graphics. Provide opportunities for students to reflect.

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Technology Teaching Intellectual Development Instructors 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The journal Contemporary Educational Psychology ranks Mayer as the No. 1 most productive educational psychologist in the world. Since the pandemic hit, his research findings are more relevant than ever, as instructors look for guidance on what works as they move their teaching online.

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Teaching Instructors Education Testing 218

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

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the technology itself evolving rapidly, establishing a framework for examining its implications is critical; we need to know what questions to ask, and to continue asking, even as the answers continuously change. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.

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Academic Integrity Education Instructors Assignments 206

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

To stave off this potential defection, how can we instructors promote virtual community? One of the most empirically supported best practices of online education is for the instructor to “be present.” In an online-only world, it’s imperative for students to see you as a human being, not merely as an instructor.

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Instructors Lecturing Course Evaluations Feedback 209

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? Between weeks five and eight—and after students have received results from a major assessment—instructors ask students to weigh in on how their learning is progressing.

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Feedback Instructors Students Syllabus 195

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

If we really want to understand how effective educational technology tools are for improving learner outcomes, we need to stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater. As instructors consider technology tools for their courses, they are increasingly looking for evidence of effectiveness.

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Instructors Education Study Science 158

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2019

But it could make for a practical addition to its growing suite of online educational tools, now used by tens of millions of teachers and students. Upon creating an assignment, a teacher can turn on the originality reports feature, which lets students check their assignments up to three times.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Instructors are assigning more content that’s free or at least “not paid for directly” by the student, says Richard Hershman, vice president of government relations at NCAS. Seventy-three percent of students now report being assigned free or non-paid material, the report says. What’s driving the decline?

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Textbooks Students Assignments Instructors 217

eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2016

Gale Interactive: Science makes it easy for instructors to integrate 3D, digital content into the classroom that’s contextualized and mapped to the national science curriculum. It can be used for test prep, research or homework assignments (with flipped classrooms), or for in-class demonstrations.

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Science Instructors Learning Assignments 155

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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Exams Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments 218

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all).

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 200