Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

But Lang admits that holding students’ attention is now harder than it’s been in the past, and he offers some practical suggestions on how to respond. We talked about his tips for holding attention during online classes, his thoughts on banning devices in the classroom and how he got into writing about teaching in the first place.

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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? 20, 2018, General Assembly began notifying former and current instructors about the settlement and their share of the sum. Overworked and Undercompensated On the week of Aug.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Think Shorter If it’s hard to hold students’ attention in person, it’s even harder online, says Stachowiak: “You'll want to think about shortening that experience. So the first step is to pick a web conferencing tool, she adds, like Zoom or Skype. Often the college already pays for access to one of them.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

AI tutoring systems give students immediate feedback on areas of concern so they and their instructors can address problematic knowledge issues before they become severe. The future of AI-powered education Though AI tutoring systems are still in their infancy, many educators predict they will quickly reshape how students learn.

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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. Key to winning over a learner’s attention, he adds, is breaking down the courses into digestible chunks. Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Early in my career as a university instructor, this method was a foundational cornerstone in the classroom. Higher levels of cognition and increased attention are noted among young school-aged children with an increased level of this sleep-induced effect.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

The author’s work did not discount the fact that there are inspirational teachers whose lectures are so compelling they can hold student attention for hours. Instructors have also experimented with lecture formats that did away with podiums and blackboards.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

Much of the attention that open educational resources have earned focuses on their low cost. The “digital” factor provides instructors with data about what changes they need to make to their materials or teaching, while the “open access” factor makes it legal—and hopefully simple—to accomplish those changes themselves.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Without that intrinsic personal motivation, it’s hard to reach the levels we expect and hope,” says Parandeh Kia, associate provost for educational technology at the institute. Small class sizes mean instructors can give individuals assignments on topics relevant to their personal interests. Achievement is not comparable.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support. Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology. You need to analyze these implications critically to make informed decisions about the future of education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The last time I taught in a physical college classroom was in 1999, when my adult students shook off their weariness from a day of working and taking care of their children to pay attention to their classmates and me for three hours. I helped them frame their question to their instructor in a way that avoided defensive “why did you?”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The training also had the educators plan, observe and teach classes based on these principles to eager high schoolers enrolled in a summer camp on campus. This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July. It was meant to allow the educators to see these new methods in action, and to try them out personally.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Culatta aptly observes that while most discussions primarily focus on the first facet, there is a concerning lack of attention given to the equally vital second dimension. The crucial first step in addressing both facets is wholeheartedly embracing AI in educational settings. It's going to come from… the instructor.

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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.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

And as one-to-one device programs gain traction ( hitting over 50 percent in 2017 , and climbing into the 80 and 90 percent range during the pandemic ), it’s safe to assume that more students will be asking their questions to Google before their instructors. It’s not difficult to see a child’s reasoning behind this.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Dubbed simply “Nearpod for Higher Education,” the product lets faculty and instructors upload lessons and presentations, add interactive features and assessments, create polls and quizzes, and then beam them directly to students’ devices. Students can follow at their own pace and deliver responses back to the instructor.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So goes the origin story of many education startups born this year, like ClassEDU, which raised $16 million to put some oomph in Zoom classrooms. It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. The platform lets instructors choose how they assign students to specific tables.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The conversation gets at how much can be automated about teaching, and what is it, exactly, about having a live instructor that matters? But in traditional higher education, we had better start paying attention to these folks and stop writing them off. I was surprised that the pedagogy has gotten a lot better.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2019

While it’s great for instructor workflows, it has always been a course management tool, not a learning tool. Today, the LMS is a technological staple for all courses across higher ed, whether online or traditional brick-and-mortar institutions. Learning is the product of inputs from students and instructors.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

K-12 tech innovation is driving a paradigm shift in education, embracing interactive tools, personalized learning, and digital resources to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of the evolving global landscape. What are the educational technology trends in 2024? How has technology impacted K-12 education?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We produced a three-part series on the issue called “ Attention Please ,” and two of those episodes made our list. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights? That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction. He says AI products could yield positive learning outcomes by providing personalized attention and learning to students, but does not believe tools such as Khanmigo could replace human instruction completely.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

The pandemic brought even more attention to this issue. When class is about to start, the teacher can press that lecture mode button, and it will automatically have the students seated, their microphones muted and they have to pay attention. Kevin Chu Chu: Online learning has been growing over the past decade.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. But are colleges paying attention to what online students want most?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

The most obvious sign that measuring learning is not a priority in higher-ed is that administrators and educators throw away so much data about it. Instructors grade the vast majority of high-stakes summative assessments on paper, and collapse student performance down to a single number for entry into the grade book.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

When she became the district’s first educational technology director in 2017, Briana Allen looked for a better solution. She tried several options before jumping on a free trial of the wireless video streaming and screen mirroring technology by Vivi, an education-focused company founded in Australia.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

Some schools do, but a lot of schools generally leave absence management up to individual instructors. They may disengage by being physically in the classroom, but on their phones or their laptops feigning attention , feigning participation in class, but they're really in their Amazon cart or they're in their email or they're someplace else.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Without that element , student dissatisfaction surges , and one has to doubt that regular comments and announcements from an instructor, no matter how detailed and well thought-out, really suffice. In all of these cases, actually, infrastructure and support must also receive significant attention.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

With all the changes and challenges over the last year, one takeaway I keep reflecting on is how essential education technology has become to learning—and how quickly this transition occurred. I have long believed that edtech has the power to open up opportunities for students and change how educators teach.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences depicting the Titanic voyage, the Apollo 11 space mission and the bombing of Berlin during World War II. The design interface comes from VictoryXR, a company that sells virtual-reality education technology.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. AI can considerably improve engagement in the classroom (A. Huang et al.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

After the pandemic, the nationwide adoption of online high-dose tutoring was expected to address deepening educational disparities. Additionally, it gained attention for its ability to provide high-quality education in regions with inadequate supplies of teachers, especially in higher-grade STEM education.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2016

Instructor video feedback has also been shown to improve social presence, which is correlated with the development of an instructor-student relationship. In online the instructor-student relationship has been shown to play a role in student engagement and persistence, particularly with Latino students. Supporting All Learners.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

The initiative supports IU instructors in leveraging the features of any classroom—whether low-tech whiteboards or high-tech touchscreens—by granting access to reimagined rooms that foster a range of active learning strategies. One of IU’s early redesign efforts saw it transform an old indoor swimming pool.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. Theres such a focus on early literacy that math doesnt get much attention, she adds. Thats why Robinson says she feels like a math therapist.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2024

All of this stuff really draws teachers’ attention. And so you have a group of kids getting a lot of attention that have high needs, and then you have maybe 12 other kids who are managing their own affairs. So yeah, with all that, the teachers had more attention to spread. They expect a lot of adult attention. It just is.

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