eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For a student, individual attention can make the difference between effectively developing skills and just coasting along. Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors. This means they will stick around longer, giving every school or university the benefit of expert instructors.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Student performance in math and English language arts on spring state test scores in 2023 went up by 2 percentage points from the prior year, highlighting slow academic recovery after the pandemic. District leaders also developed plans in science and English language arts that focus on new approaches to learning to boost student achievement.

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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

JULY 17, 2019

Around 6 o’clock on a fall morning in 2018, Jordan sat down at her desk, donned her headset, and logged in to her account with VIPKid , a Beijing-based company that connects native English-speaking teachers like her with children in China for live, online video lessons. Then the marathon began. billion industry by 2022.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In addition, the district deeply appreciated that IXL Learning’s tutoring service, Wyzant, could seamlessly connect its students with experienced instructors to grow their math skills away from the classroom. All sessions are private and 1:1, so learners get the focused attention and support they need. About IXL Learning.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

Incorporating active learning strategies with course lectures not only allows the student to be fully present, it can also be used to break-up lecturing into shorter segments, more manageable for most adult attention spans. When the instructor presents in PK style: The audience cannot rely on pre-printed text notes or presentation text.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Most of those teachers taught English or social studies, where the applications of chatbots are more obvious. Overcoming initial resistance from a student can require an instructor to build a relationship with the child. A good teacher — or tutor — relies on personal and emotional connection, he argues. Does It Add Up?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At his second college, close to his home in East Hollywood, he says that he had a bad experience with the instructor about an early assignment in a developmental English course. Del Real Viramontes joined its Puente program , which embedded him in a cohort of students in a math and English course sequence.

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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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Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

We can sum up CTU’s approach in four words: paying attention to faculty. For it to work, you have to pay attention to the needs and opinions of the people who use it. Amy Sloan, Lead Faculty of English at CTU. So, how have we managed to cultivate a culture of innovation on campus? You Don’t Have To Listen To Us.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

The college affordability crisis has gained much attention in recent years, yet prices continue to climb. Mills says his team is working with faculty from other departments, like English, Psychology and Communications, to make OER degrees for those majors by building upon the courses the school developed for general studies.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

So some colleges and instructors have started to think about how to help students get up to speed on their digital and technical skills. The institution’s digital literacy specialist, Don Michael, says he would like to be able to test all students on digital skills before they enter college, and provide extra attention to those who need it.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

To prepare students for the changing job market, schools need to focus even more attention on teaching higher-level thinking skills that can’t be automated—creativity, critical thinking, creative problem-solving and communication. AI can perform these simpler skills better, faster and cheaper.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

In the end it meant that the students had an advanced grasp of poetry, but lagged in other English standards like grammar, Fiske says. Regardless, microschools are increasingly accessing public dollars through education savings accounts and vouchers, which Watson thinks will focus attention on them. They spent much of the year on it.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. She discovered multiple studies on the efficacy of peer feedback when well-guided by an instructor, some with numerous tips to be mined and applied.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Squirrel—so named because, like the furry, nut-gathering rodent, it is fast, agile, plans ahead and “cracks tough nuts,” according to founder and CEO Derek Haoyang Li—uses an AI adaptive learning system and human instructors to give students a personalized education on subjects ranging from Chinese language to physics.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

Incorporating active learning strategies with course lectures not only allows the student to be fully present, it can also be used to break-up lecturing into shorter segments, more manageable for most adult attention spans. When the instructor presents in PK style: The audience cannot rely on pre-printed text notes or presentation text.

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Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Professors in the department of kinesiology at Cal Poly Tech Humboldt have observed growth in student performance and comprehension by designing content-specific episodes that begin by considering the basic building block of an instructor-generated podcast. The principal focus of the second body is to convey new information.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

If [students] get bored, it becomes very difficult to learn, to get their attention,” says de Santiago, a 37-year-old instructor at the London School of Economics and King’s College London. For de Santiago, the Spanish language instructor from London, using the app has brought some energy to her classes of about 16 students.

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Language Languages English Instructors 90

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Focused and purposeful attention to task, however, is most effective when the brain is in “top-down mode,” with analytic and reasoning functions of the neocortex in primacy. 2017) state, “emotional stimuli appear to consume more attentional resources than non-emotional stimuli” (p. As Tyng et al.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

University of Texas at Austin psychology instructor Brooke Miller adds that the internet and YouTube have changed instruction. “We The videos’ multimedia approach—visual, auditory, graphic—supports students with various learning preferences, including those for whom English is a second language. Address a variety of learning needs.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2018

Kevin Wong, an adjunct instructor from NYU Children under eight-years-old view content on mobile devices for an average of 48 minutes per day, according to a recent survey by Common Sense Media. With the eye trackers, researchers found that kids were paying more attention to the whole screen when Elmo was talking about the definition.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

It will also flag situations that warrant closer attention, such as instances where a draft receives starkly contrasting feedback from different students. There’s certainly a need for spelling and plagiarism checkers, says Perry, especially to support instructors who have to grade stacks of papers in a short period of time.

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 113

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

They are not going to provide an adequate replacement for human attention, and any suggestions that you could replace a human teacher with a robot are misguided,” says Dr. Amanda Sharkey, a researcher from the United Kingdom who specializes in the ethics of social robots.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using Wakelet, school librarians can work with librarians in their district–or even across the state or country–to draw attention to important resources in the library, offer research tips, and motivate students. Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin. Johnson has her students make her a promise: If they think about dropping the class, they will meet with her first.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2024

In the first part, I introduced you to the translation process, the instructor-translator relationship, and the before, during, and after elements of the process. Group discussions are a good use of time, especially if the visiting instructor eavesdrops with the help of the translator. In most cases this is not the case.

Teaching 111

Teaching Lecturing Languages Language 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2024

In the first part, I introduced you to the translation process, the instructor-translator relationship, and the before, during, and after elements of the process. Group discussions are a good use of time, especially if the visiting instructor eavesdrops with the help of the translator. In most cases this is not the case.

Teaching 110

Teaching Lecturing Languages Language 110

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

While many colleges and universities make use of an embedded instructor model—in which a qualified high school faculty member uses a rigorous college curriculum to teach students—other models send faculty to high schools or enroll dual credit students directly on-campus in non-dual credit courses.

Instructors 122

Instructors Peer Review High School High School 122

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Professors in the department of kinesiology at Cal Poly Tech Humboldt have observed growth in student performance and comprehension by designing content-specific episodes that begin by considering the basic building block of an instructor-generated podcast. The principal focus of the second body is to convey new information.

Instructors 96

Instructors Lecturing Learning Textbooks 96

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. The tyranny of the urgent for many instructors seems to be determining course policies, content, materials, assessments, and planned learning experiences.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Focused and purposeful attention to task, however, is most effective when the brain is in “top-down mode,” with analytic and reasoning functions of the neocortex in primacy. 2017) state, “emotional stimuli appear to consume more attentional resources than non-emotional stimuli” (p. As Tyng et al.

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

While many colleges and universities make use of an embedded instructor model—in which a qualified high school faculty member uses a rigorous college curriculum to teach students—other models send faculty to high schools or enroll dual credit students directly on-campus in non-dual credit courses.

Instructors 111

Instructors Peer Review High School High School 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In the sixteen years she’s taught high school English at Wilmington High School in Wilmington, Massachusetts, Lisa Desberg has never used Strunk and White. She says her school is literature-based—grammar is not “the essence” of English classes. Grammar is not something that our district tends to purchase,” she says.

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Writing Textbooks English Assignments 109

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Income-share agreements, or ISAs, are one method winning the attention of investors and education providers alike. The debt aversion is unlike anything I’ve seen” says Courtney McBeth, special assistant to the president and an adjunct instructor at the University of Utah. An English major would be 4.97 percent for 116 months.”

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Instructors English Attention Science 164