Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. It seems as if a quick scan of one of the assigned pages is the best effort.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Today, the flipped classroom is no longer just about moving lectures online but about curating immersive, personalized learning environments. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Today, the flipped classroom is no longer just about moving lectures online but about curating immersive, personalized learning environments. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Re-examine assignments and assessments for bias and exclusionary practices. Replace and/or supplement outdated readings.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Turnitin, a longtime leader in the plagiarism-detection market, released a new tool within six months of ChatGPT’s debut to identify AI-generated writing in students’ assignments. This year, the college paid almost $47,000.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation. What new words or expressions did you learn?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. Each assignment has 1-10 points, with a total of 100 points. In Asao Inoues (2022) labor-based grading model, he defines labor as the engine that runs all learning.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation. What new words or expressions did you learn?

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Languages Language Instructors Culture 65

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

If there is one learning strategy I’ve probably talked the most about on this platform, it’s retrieval practice. A big and growing body of research tells us that when we study with retrieval, we learn and remember things much better than we do by other review methods. That class always has a wait list now.”

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

For many families, online learning opened the door to new possibilities in education. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. Supporting your child’s engagement helps them thrive academically and strengthens their enthusiasm for learning.

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Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

10 8th Grade Social-Emotional Writing Prompts Social-emotional learning is a way for students to find their place in the world around them while staying in touch with their own wants and needs. Give them a safe and structured place to let their arguments fly when you assign these persuasive writing prompts. What would you do?

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Organized Classroom

JUNE 3, 2025

Not to mention the instructor also needs to figure out WHERE in the classroom the technology will be housed safely. Storing Classroom Technology There are so many different ways to store high-tech devices at school.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

However, what we really should be striving to develop are self-sufficient classrooms where students are driving the learning. Ideally, by surpassing compliance goals and student-driven learning, we can get to an even more important goal — critical thinking. The instructor can leave comments for students (i.e.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Students who spent formative years learning online may be too nervous to raise a hand in class or have trouble paying attention. Then there’s the sudden temptation of ChatGPT and other new AI tools, which can make cheating on assignments easy and often undetectable. Teaching The Why Sarah Z.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2024

Orlando, Florida – Anthology, the leading educational technology company, revealed the latest iteration of its Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard, at Anthology Together 2024. Previously known as Blackboard Learn, the flagship LMS was recognized for outpacing the competition in feature development for the third consecutive year.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2020

As teachers embrace their new roles as designers, instructors, and facilitators of online learning, many are grappling the details associated with teaching remotely. It can be daunting to think about how to present information online, when and where to post assignments, how much to assign, and when to expect that work to be completed.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Since teachers grade so many papers and assignments, many educators see that as an unacceptable level of error. Time-Lapse History Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin in Oakland, California, has used process tracking in her writing classes. It can create a time-lapse video of the documents creation as well.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Some experts believe this new technology can have a positive impact on teaching and learning, while others fret it may weaken the teaching of critical thinking and increase bias by spreading misinformation about different groups and cultures. Secret 1: Multimedia assignments. Does this all sound far-fetched?

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Your pursuit of this kind of assignment reminds me of an interview I did for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with Ken Bain , author of "What the Best College Teachers Do." Gressang’s subsequent tweets reveal what some of the students enrolled in her class created for this final assignment. Include citations in their submissions, and.

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Assignments Grades History Ethics 193

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2023

The results of the survey , released this week, showed that students who took courses exclusively online were less likely to communicate with instructors and other students than students who take at least some courses in person. If I never hear from the teacher, never see any assignments, I don’t think about the class.”

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Instructors Students Assignments Student Engagement 189

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

What barriers make designing for deeper learning in schools challenging? In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, educators face numerous challenges when designing instruction that promotes deeper learning for all students. How can teachers weave social-emotional learning (SEL) skills into the fabric of their lessons?

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Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Motivation 460

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested?

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Assignments Grades Feedback Evaluation 166

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study — which involved 811 undergraduate students at Florida International University, a large public university in Miami — is perhaps the biggest randomized study of active learning methods in calculus, says Laird Kramer, a physicist at the university and one of the study’s authors. Students majoring in biology saw the biggest bump.)

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Our purpose is twofold: (1) provide our students with unique experiential learning opportunities; and (2) expand their understanding of the STEAM careers of the future. Subjects like mathematics and science are often learned in isolation, making it difficult for students to develop comprehensive ideas across the different disciplines.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. In other courses, I restrict the use of generative AI tools to particular uses for specific assignments.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I believed that team teaching and sharing the same population of students in a shared space would allow us to make important cross-curricular connections, delve into more meaningful project-based learning, and provide more individualized support and feedback. 1 Learning from Another Perspective. School that makes it so powerful. #1

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2020

But, instead of kicking back and joining their friends for marathon Fortnite sessions while occasionally completing a long-distance school assignment, the pair of highly motivated problem solvers have chosen to work 12- to 16-hour days designing, building, programming, and tweaking a low-cost Ambu Bag Ventilator System.

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Instructors Motivation Assignments Science 313

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

“Those weekly face-to-face sessions are as much about seeing people’s faces—seeing how tired they look, seeing how engaged they are in the material, seeing all of those kinds of things, and having that back and forth—as it is learning new content together,” she noted. Department of Education.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Innovative educators and students are finding new ways to integrate AI into teaching and learning every day. Students, on the other hand, learn how to critically evaluate information and learn about biases when they analyze information coming from generative AI sources.

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Instructors English Assignments Intelligence 314

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Having a philosophical basis for grading helps instructors explain grades, their meaning, and their value to students, who may then see the grade as less arbitrary.Two common approaches to further mitigate this arbitrary nature include normative-based grading and criterion- or standards-based grading.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2022

Instructors often don’t know how to accept help from the instructional coaches, even when they would like to. Instructional coaches, instructional designers, and even assigned co-teachers often struggle to establish working relationships with individual classroom teachers. However, that is only one facet of the coaching role.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

After a challenging and unique year of emergency remote learning, I recently spoke with a group of faculty members new to online teaching to learn more about their experiences. Is the prevailing takeaway from this brutal, oppressive year a shared aversion toward online learning? Remote learning is here to stay.

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Online Learning Learning Counselling Instructors 217

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. Schoeder, 2024).

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