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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Assignments Teaching Learning Lecturing 164

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. I especially wanted students to understand that the final assignment was anything but.

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 70

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

To be successful, active learning depends heavily on the student’s participation. New technology enables students to participate in the way that’s most comfortable for them. Multi-touch capabilities allow the entire class to participate in group activities that promote collaboration and cooperation while fostering competition.

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Learning Styles Participation Hybrid Learning Attention 325

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J. You could also include reminders of any tasks or assignments that need to be completed in the first week.

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Instructors Syllabus Attention Teaching Assistants 98

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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Teachers Coaching Textbooks Participation 258

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

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Such a position can help frame classroom assignments as interdisciplinary tasks and projects that require knowledge from other classes and other subjects. Our instructors are subject matter experts who help guide their exploration by providing them with scenarios and simulations to solve. Few mistakes are corrected.

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Skills Interdisciplinary Middle School Middle School 234

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

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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Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

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.

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Teaching Lecturing Blended Courses Instructors 218

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

When we commit to participating in a culture of continuous learning, we are living out phrases like, “It’s okay not to know,” “Everyone has things they are still learning,” or ,“We all make mistakes.” In response, I’ve adapted my teaching approach to make assignments more interactive.

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Education Schools Math Science 310

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 Assignments Students Instructors 217

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Class is student-paced with no direct instructor involvement or meetings.

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Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 31

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.

Instructors 210

Instructors Lecturing Course Evaluations Feedback 210

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 177

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 177

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Through the two-and-a-half yearlong effort, nearly 2,000 instructors developed and taught 6,600 OER course sections that served 160,000 students. Eleven of those institutions participated in a study about the academic and financial implications this kind of widespread OER adoption has on students, faculty and colleges.

Textbooks 198

Textbooks Instructors Education Participation 198

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Designed to create an environment for students to actively participate and engage with the material provided, the flipped classroom is shown to exhibit learning gains almost two standard deviations higher than those found in traditional classes.

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Lecturing Textbooks Instructors Attention 169

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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Instructors Assignments Participation Students 96

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The STAR project randomly assigned students to either small classes (13 to 17 students per teacher) or large classes (22 to 25 students per teacher). More positivity reported about participating in learning. Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors.

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Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 257

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Student complaints about the digital textbook and courseware bundles now assigned in many college classes have escalated into a new batch of legal challenges. But the plaintiffs’ attorneys are seeking court approval to turn the lawsuits into class-action cases that represent all students who have been assigned course material bundles.

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Textbooks Accessibility Assignments Instructors 207

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 Exams 201

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. That’s what Joseph Ching, an affiliate scholar at James Madison University, has experienced.

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Exams Instructors Students Lecturing 205

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Educators participate in this three-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help their students develop their inner writer. Teach Writing with Tech.

Instructors 158

Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 158

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2018

When professors shift to assigning Open Educational Resources instead of publisher-produced textbooks, the move typically saves students money (and it can be a significant amount). Across the participating schools, the bulk of the money went to developing the course materials. million in grants. million in grants.

Textbooks 161

Textbooks Study Participation Assignments 161

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Set video to “on” for both host and participant 2. Schedule lectures at the assigned time slot for the class 3. Mute participants upon entry (otherwise there will be a lot of background noise). But now you can ask everyone to participate. Select the following configuration options in Zoom: Disable join before host.

Teaching 209

Teaching Lecturing Instructors Disabilities 209

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall. That’s going to be a real time saver for faculty,” he predicts.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

Early on, Christian says, he was a little reserved and shy, but participating at the gym helped improve his communication skills. Jodi Grant “While after-school programs have academic support, there's also all of these other things that are happening, whether it's workforce skills, it's participating in sports and theater.

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Schools Instructors Participation Accessibility 174

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

After all, students quickly spread the word on TikTok and other social media platforms that with a few simple prompts, a chatbot could write an essay or answer a homework assignment in ways that would be hard for teachers to detect. The measure has stalled for now. People figured out very [quickly] that we cannot be replaced” with tech.

Teachers 217

Teachers Education Instructors Language 217

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

As instructors consider technology tools for their courses, they are increasingly looking for evidence of effectiveness. In another, an instructor may be uncertain about how to use the technology and recommends it only for additional practice. In one college, perhaps the Wi-Fi won’t allow 50 learners to be logged on concurrently.

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Instructors Education Study Science 160

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. New students participate in an orientation that aims to teach them how to become “autonomous learners” ready for an intensive academic program, says provost Robert Savukinas.

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Motivation Language Languages Learning 214

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But Chatterjee, an international student from India, did not feel confident about the assignment, and thought it was Western-centric and focused on physical powers associated with attractive males. Based on that feedback, the professor, Julia Parra, says she changed the assignment to make it broader, and more inclusive.

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Culture Teaching Syllabus English 154

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

That vantage point gives her insight about what’s keeping students from feeling fully invested in showing up for class ready to truly participate in the learning process. Some schools do, but a lot of schools generally leave absence management up to individual instructors. And they immediately wanted to write those students off.

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Students Instructors Lecturing Participation 203

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors, we want to motivate and engage the whole class and bring everyone to mastery of the course. Part 1: Pedagogical approaches Backward design Set the course goals and lesson objectives, then plan activities, assignments, and evaluations/assessments that align with the goals and objectives. Provide variety in assignments.

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Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 126

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

” Another advantage is the fact that they require every student to participate “something in social psychology we call the diffusion of responsibility. ” assigning points : Blunt strongly discourages assigning points to whiteboard retrieval activities. When you walk into the class and say, how are you today?

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Students earn points by completing a much wider variety of assignment and assessment pathways than what is typically seen in most higher education courses today. Students also have autonomy to choose what they want to do within that wide variety of assignments and assessments. Their grades are determined by points accumulated.

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Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 166

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.”

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Middle School Middle School Schools Students 175

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As its name suggests, Engageli aims to foster social interactions among students and instructors. The platform lets instructors choose how they assign students to specific tables. That, Avida says, gives his tool a leg up in terms of being more accessible to a wider audience.

Instructors 157

Instructors Learning Motivation Attention 157

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.

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Instructors Feedback Discussions Participation 104