Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This technological support allows students to learn at their own pace and revisit complex material without feeling anxious or dependent solely on the instructor. Instead of overwhelming students with lengthy video lectures or dense readings, microlearning delivers short, focused modules that concentrate on single learning objectives.

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 93

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This technological support allows students to learn at their own pace and revisit complex material without feeling anxious or dependent solely on the instructor. Instead of overwhelming students with lengthy video lectures or dense readings, microlearning delivers short, focused modules that concentrate on single learning objectives.

Critical Thinking 86

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 86

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Two of these authors Dr. Michelle Rivers and Dr. Janell Blunt shared theirs on the podcast you can listen to our conversation in the player above or read the full transcript. ” assigning points : Blunt strongly discourages assigning points to whiteboard retrieval activities. The strategies are summarized below.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

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.

Language 64

Language Languages Instructors Culture 64

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. Name all of your files in a consistent manner, for example “Reading 1, Week 1.” Similarly, we think Chickering and Gamson’s approach to teaching applies to the modern day online classroom.

eLearning 68

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 68

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. Name all of your files in a consistent manner, for example “Reading 1, Week 1.” Similarly, we think Chickering and Gamson’s approach to teaching applies to the modern day online classroom.

eLearning 66

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 66

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Online learning isn’t limited to slides and reading assignments. If your child is reluctant to get involved with other students, give them a little push to participate fully in group assignments or peer review activities. Peer Review and Group Projects: Online learning isn’t only about solo work.

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Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

Do you like it when someone reads a book to you, or do you prefer reading independently? Give them a safe and structured place to let their arguments fly when you assign these persuasive writing prompts. What would you say? Would you rather have a job where you made a lot of money, or a job where you could follow your passion?

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Writing Grades Middle School Middle School 52

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

According to one of our Grade 6 teachers, Shannon Diven, her students could read but could not pull out details from the text to expand answers, explain answers, or to develop a piece of writing around the text (basically, reading comprehension). Authentic Reading Experiences Wanted.

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Reading Technology Feedback Instructors 423

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Then there’s the sudden temptation of ChatGPT and other new AI tools, which can make cheating on assignments easy and often undetectable. Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Teaching The Why Sarah Z.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 197

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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Teaching Assignments Discussions Communication 545

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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Instructors Assignments Writing History 148

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 201

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.

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Instructors Syllabus Peer Review Students 164

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. I rarely read the whole thing.”

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Instructors Discussions Course Evaluations Writing 150

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Marika and I use Google Classroom to assign and manage our students’ work. We are both instructors for our class group, which means we can both develop and post assignments, as well as access our students’ work and provide them with feedback. It has been incredible to have that support system in place.

Teaching 386

Teaching English Feedback Assignments 386

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

Read part 1 and part 2. 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. This is part 3. Digital video has taken the world by storm.

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Assignments Teaching Learning Lecturing 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. It uses a mathematical model of likely words, not research.

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Instructors English Assignments Intelligence 322

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.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks STEM 132

eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

With that in mind, certain strategies, tips, and guidelines have been proven to help instructors begin what can seem like an overwhelming task—teaching a course without ever even needing to physically see her students. Prepare syllabus and assignment due dates carefully and well in advance so that students know what to expect and when.

Education 279

Education Syllabus Instructors Feedback 279

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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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 113

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. As leaders, librarians are prepared to guide students through reading and research processes at the same time that they offer necessary support to teachers.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 358

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

In a face-to-face class, students see the instructor and other students and, even if not interacting with them directly, know they are not alone. But asynchronous courses, and especially asynchronous independent study courses, present a different scenario with challenges for both instructors and students. Who is my instructor?”

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Instructors Syllabus Assignments Feedback 105

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Keep up with reading.” “See A first-year seminar provides a perfect structure for this assignment, but it could be used in a variety of courses. 272-3) A copy of the actual assignment appears in an appendix at the end of the open-access article referenced below. 274) theme involved the value students placed on the assignment.

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Exams Assignments Study Evaluation 105

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2016

Almost 70 percent of community college students and 40 percent of four-year college students enroll without college-level reading and mathematics skills. When it comes to mathematics learning technology, students want: Help preparing for tests and exams; 77 percent of instructors provide practice problems or practice tests.

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Math Exams Instructors STEM 188

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

This release gives students the power to submit papers, analyze similarity reports (to check for originality), and review instructor feedback on the go. An enhanced interface for instructors offers streamlined grading on- and offline. An enhanced interface for instructors offers streamlined grading on- and offline.

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Mobile Devices Instructors Feedback Math 198

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.

Teaching 207

Teaching Instructors Knowledge Writing 207

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 257

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.

Teaching 218

Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. It’s not as simple as assuming that students are all cheaters, the instructor stresses.

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Study Lecturing Instructors Students 214

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.

Online Learning 185

Online Learning Instructors Coaching Mobile Devices 185

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. Paratext helps me connect with and make sense of the poem.

Teaching 188

Teaching Instructors Education Teaching Philosophy 188

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In most flipped classrooms, educators provide materials for students to review before class such as readings from textbooks, worksheets or videos.

Lecturing 188

Lecturing Textbooks Instructors Attention 188

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

The difficulties in student engagement with instructor-directed reading, both in terms of the amount of reading undertaken and the participation and benefit from in-class discussion around readings, can be a prevalent problem. academic journal article or specific industry press).

Discussions 115

Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 115

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Upon reading it, I took a pause. 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. So how can that work? So how can that work?

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors and students press pause for winter break, journalists at EdSurge are likewise taking some time away from writing and editing during the last week of 2023. I have read and loved them all. Read more from Emily here. Read more from Jeff here. I give “The Anthropocene Reviewed” five stars.

Reading 146

Reading Essay Instructors Culture 146

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

Students can read articles, watch videos, and listen to podcasts to learn. Instead of seeing their value as instructors and experts, we explored the teacher’s role as facilitator and coach, guiding individual and small groups of students in their journey toward mastering concepts and skills.

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Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Motivation 460