Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

The instructor can decide if you want to let anyone who has the link be able to collaborate, protect your ideas with a password, or require people to set up accounts before they can engage. This is just one example of a tool that makes it easy for student-to-student interaction without requiring much effort from instructors to set it up.

Instructors 165

Instructors Syllabus Peer Review Students 165

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This educator posits that ChatGPT is now a part of learning, and teachers must accept it–with a few conditions : It is time for educators to treat ChatGPT as an unreliable partner in all assignments and to provide a way for students to let us know how much help they received.

Instructors 325

Instructors English Assignments Intelligence 325

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., In academic settings, ChatGPT can be used to produce written essays, reports, and responses when supplied with the assignment prompt.

Assignments 124

Assignments History Art Ethics 124

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

public education system has evolved throughout its history, school libraries have also developed with a consistent central goal: to give students the best opportunity to succeed academically. This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work. As the U.S.

Schools 358

Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 358

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Participants access learning via textbooks, video clips, interactive learning tasks, and webinars and have opportunities to practice skills via weekly online discussion forums, webinars, collaboration activities, self-check exercises, and homework assignments. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

Teachers 258

Teachers Coaching Textbooks Participation 258

Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

Every new version of Microsoft PowerPoint allowed instructors to embed more and more media and wow students with visually appealing graphics. Including student voices as active and important features of course design is a key component of a classroom based on dialogue, and this is what it truly means to be an inclusive instructor.

Technology 167

Technology Teaching Intellectual Development Instructors 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But since the COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors around the world to try online education, something unexpected has happened: Professors have found that there are some online teaching methods that work better than what can be done in the limits of a physical classroom. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video.

Teaching 218

Teaching Lecturing Blended Courses Instructors 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.

Teaching 167

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These tools can also help instructors track whether and how students are studying and completing assignments. history surveys. The theory is that courseware has the potential to improve student outcomes because it tends to offer students personalized instruction and instant feedback on their work, Jones-Davis says.

STEM 181

STEM Instructors Study History 181

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

It has grown into a library of more than 1,200 explainer videos, many of which have received more than a million views each and are assigned in schools and colleges around the world. Crash Course tackles weighty subjects like European history and organic chemistry. His advice for instructors suddenly making videos or teaching online?

Education 165

Education History Lecturing Culture 165

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Within Sandbox AR, users can create virtual worlds and populate them with some of the hundreds of unique objects from history, the built world, science and nature, and more. Using Kami, teachers can create assignments with their LMS, share class-wide, and offer feedback in real time.

STEM 339

STEM Math Internet Mobile Devices 339

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

So Boyle, who is a secondary school principal at Dalian American International School, located on China’s northeastern coast, let teachers email assignments during the first few weeks out and skip most instruction. His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M., Watts says she’s heard of schools conducting lessons both ways.

Schools 218

Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Composer allows teachers to create assignments and then closely observe the entire process their students follow, from gathering information to writing and revising.

Writing 161

Writing Ethics Plagiarism Academic Integrity 161

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 116

Instructors Quizzes Students Assignments 116

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

But it wasn’t until her current gig, serving as an instructor for a course on water supply and demand in California, that she got her feet wet with open educational resources. College of the Canyons’ history with OER starts before Anagnonson’s dabble, however. For years, Stephanie Anagnoson worked in academic publishing.

Textbooks 119

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In undergraduate classrooms, instructors encounter a variety of students with diverse backgrounds and different personalities. It is the instructors challenge to create a comfortable class environment. Not only will students benefit, but instructors can feel more at ease in their own classrooms. Model reflective listening.

Instructors 105

Instructors Feedback Discussions Participation 105

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

Online Learning 111

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

Their studies take a look at how simple assignments that ask participants to read about how other older students have felt out-of-place at school — the first year of middle school and first year of college, to be precise — can build resistance to that sneaky inner voice that says, “I don’t belong here.”

Middle School 166

Middle School Middle School Schools Students 166

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

Minute Papers 134

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others.

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Traditional classroom learning is now modernizing Debates remain about online vs. classroom learning Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Classroom learning remains a cornerstone of education, fostering a dynamic environment where students engage with peers and instructors in real-time.

Learning 130

Learning eLearning Instructors Learning Styles 130

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 98

Instructors Quizzes Students Assignments 98

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to detect student use of generative AI systems. Still, the unease about inaccurate accusations gives instructors and administrators pause around AI writing detection.

Plagiarism 119

Plagiarism Academic Integrity Intelligence Instructors 119

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? But I can't put exact numbers on that.

Students 196

Students Instructors Lecturing Participation 196

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In undergraduate classrooms, instructors encounter a variety of students with diverse backgrounds and different personalities. It is the instructors challenge to create a comfortable class environment. Not only will students benefit, but instructors can feel more at ease in their own classrooms. Model reflective listening.

Instructors 98

Instructors Feedback Discussions Participation 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Differences in lived experiences, values, beliefs, histories, identities, and more will influence how individual students experience the learning environment (Lovett, Bridges, DiPietro, Ambrose, & Norman, 2023). Students must understand why the assignment is important, what is expected, and how the quality of their work will be judged.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2023

It also includes certified teachers who are filling positions outside their subject of expertise — like a history teacher assigned to a math class. Particularly for STEM courses, Nguyen says it’s important to have an instructor who has not just the pedagogical knowledge but also the content knowledge to effectively teach the class.

Teachers 164

Teachers Knowledge Math Instructors 164

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2022

A lack of bilingual instructors and leadership buy-in, and the difficulty of developing a Spanish-only college-level curriculum, are some of the limiting factors that have stymied their growth, experts and university leaders say. Classes, many of which are asynchronous, are taught by instructors based in Mexico.

English 156

English Instructors Languages Language 156

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

History 170

History Culture Discussions High School 170

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

Students are often perfectly comfortable with these technologies and they’re really happy to go out and do this assignment. Then they assign the challenge to personal contacts, neighbors, coworkers, or classmates. There are two takeaways from this assignment: one, it’s hard to get people to change.

Laboratory 106

Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 106

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns. The most time consuming or emotionally taxing items can be processed via prompts.

Schools 337

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Outside the Computer History Museum, where its 26th demo day was held, an autonomous tractor drove in circles next to a massive 3D printer assembling an office pod. Instructors, who are often computer science students or recent graduates, generally end up taking home 50 percent of the tuition, says Shen.

Educational Technologies 146

Educational Technologies Technology Education Instructors 146

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Incorporate mindful use of instructor language/actions/words. Provide low-stakes opportunities for PSTs to try questions, revise solutions, and resubmit assignments. regular assignments, tasks, schedules).Recognize Responsible Decision-Making Discuss current pedagogies, issues, and histories in mathematics education.

Math 124

Math Teaching Teachers Instructors 124

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The reality is that I work daily without the support of bilingual instructors or interpreters. Today, I teach world history and geography to newcomers in a Title I school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where nearly 60 percent of the 1,550 students enrolled in our school are Hispanic and speak Spanish, and many speak a Mayan dialect.

English 194

English Language Languages Teachers 194

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Fojan: I remember growing up and being the kid that got assigned into a group and ending up doing the majority of the work, oftentimes because the assignments were not as robust and could essentially be completed by one person. PBL goes beyond just a school assignment—it prepares kids for the real world that we live in.

Intelligence 178

Intelligence Education Assignments Middle School 178