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Hoping to Regain Attention of Students, Professors Pay More Attention to Them

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Teaching is about attention — getting students to pay attention to the material, and to engage with new ideas so they can develop new skills and abilities. But getting and holding the attention of students has become more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country. I'm a quest giver.

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Smartphones Have Changed Student Attention, Even When Students Aren’t Using Them

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When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. Many of the examples she uses stem from her experience teaching, from interviews with college students and from investigations of the impact of distance education. You use a phrase for this that you call ‘budgeted attention.’

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Massive Study of Online Teaching Ends With Surprising — and ‘Deflating’ — Result

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MIT professor Justin Reich and several colleagues just completed one of the largest-ever research studies exploring teaching techniques in online higher education, involving nearly 250,000 students from nearly every nation on the planet. After all, he and his collaborators did get significant results in their earlier, smaller studies.

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Why Colleges Should Pay Attention to Strikes by Their Most Precarious Teachers

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There’s a news story in higher ed that’s not getting enough attention. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. The nation’s adjuncts are rising up. In the end, after a year of contract negotiations, they won a big jump in pay and benefits.

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Bite-Size Learning, Big Results: Why Microlearning is the Future of Education

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This fundamental truth about human cognition has finally found its perfect technological match in the form of microlearning. As we witness the rapid evolution of educational technology, the convergence of bite-sized learning modules with intelligent virtual tutors is creating unprecedented opportunities for personalised education.

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Students Turn to TikTok for Study Buddies

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“It helps people create a community around studying,” she says. Thompson is part of a trend of college and high school students who stream themselves studying on TikTok or YouTube, often using the hashtag #studywithme. The concept even has roots in a clinical treatment for people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

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New Study Shows Where ‘Growth Mindset’ Training Works (And Where It Doesn’t)

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A large nationwide study has found that teaching ninth graders to maintain a “growth mindset” toward learning—stressing that their minds are like muscles that can get stronger with use—can result in higher test scores. Dweck is a co-author of the study released today. Data was collected in the 2015-16 school year.

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