Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Educators can access instructor kits and other resources to help them use Trailhead in the classroom, and they can interact with other educators. The automation and augmentation of jobs is raising the profile of issues surrounding the skills gap to the attention of those beyond the traditional education stakeholders.

Skills

Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

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.

Attention

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2024

When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. And that’s true even when instructors force students to put away their smartphones. EdSurge connected with Turner to learn about this new world of fragmented attention and what educators can do to reach these increasingly distracted students.

Attention

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Teachers have three primary roles – designer, instructor, and facilitator. Most teachers dedicate significant time and energy to their instructor role, explaining complex concepts and processes and modeling specific strategies and skills. I encourage teachers to consider the following question.

Blended Learning

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Students who spent formative years learning online may be too nervous to raise a hand in class or have trouble paying attention. 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.

Instructors

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

But it was just one student, and most seemed to be paying attention. Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I And I was like, ‘But I've been here the whole time, and I've actively paid attention and done it.’ We were told on our end, ‘Give them everything.

Instructors

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

Yet that discomfort also raises opportunities to question prevailing assumptions about how teaching and learning occurs. 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. Many things did not translate well online.

Lecturing

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Capturing students’ attention throughout the entire class is crucial for any teacher, but the challenge lies in the fact that, despite teachers’ expertise in their subject matter, it can be challenging to hold students’ attention for an extended period. A thought-provoking question is a great crowd-pleaser.

Attention

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Perhaps they are nervous about asking questions because they don’t want to be seen as a student who doesn’t understand the material. However, I have learned that many students tend to be reluctant to reach out for a variety of reasons.

Instructors

Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. It’s almost like this symphony that the instructor is the heart of.” That’s not to say that the transparent whiteboard is ineffective.

Instructors

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

That question is the topic of a new book out this month by James Lang, called “ Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It. 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. So what are educators to do?

Instructors

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2020

The private conferencing is on a closed network and every instructor gets their own virtual classroom, so staff can conduct classes simultaneously. Features include real-time comprehension checks with multiple-choice polling questions, virtual hand raising, non-verbal emoji feedback, whiteboarding, attention tracking, and more.

Mobile Devices

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Capturing students’ attention throughout the entire class is crucial for any teacher, but the challenge lies in the fact that, despite teachers’ expertise in their subject matter, it can be challenging to hold students’ attention for an extended period. A thought-provoking question is a great crowd-pleaser.

Attention

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to.

Attention

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Perhaps they are nervous about asking questions because they don’t want to be seen as a student who doesn’t understand the material. However, I have learned that many students tend to be reluctant to reach out for a variety of reasons.

Instructors

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. Use Polls to Keep Students Engaged There are many tools available to pose multiple-choice questions to students remotely. And then this overwhelming, just, feeling of angst.

Instructors

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? In General Assembly’s case, the question remains: Should educators for an education company be classified as employees? Overworked and Undercompensated On the week of Aug.

Instructors

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Attention is a so-called gateway between information and learning and is compared to a spotlight on a large stage (Keller et al.,

Lecturing

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. Check for questions frequently and provide timely feedback on progress. Establish good course practices.

Education

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to.

Attention

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2024

Faculty should be prepared to answer key questions from leadership related to crisis prevention and intervention in the online learning environment: What training have you received in crisis prevention and intervention specific to online education? Mental Health in the College Classroom: Best Practices for Instructors. link] Costa, S.

Instructors

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Attention is a so-called gateway between information and learning and is compared to a spotlight on a large stage (Keller et al.,

Lecturing

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.

Achievement

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?”

Online Learning

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2024

Faculty should be prepared to answer key questions from leadership related to crisis prevention and intervention in the online learning environment: What training have you received in crisis prevention and intervention specific to online education? Mental Health in the College Classroom: Best Practices for Instructors. link] Costa, S.

Instructors

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2023

Some students became questioners, trying to monopolize instructor attention. They’d even get to the point of slamming their hands against the desk or standing up and waving their arms to try to get attention. As an instructor, I was going to need to adapt. Wow, what mistaken assumptions!

Instructors

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2023

Some students became questioners, trying to monopolize instructor attention. They’d even get to the point of slamming their hands against the desk or standing up and waving their arms to try to get attention. As an instructor, I was going to need to adapt. Wow, what mistaken assumptions!

Instructors

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. Prompt students to jot questions before they watch and during their viewing.

Teaching

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Children who have only known a world in which AI-based systems are widespread often turn to search engines to find answers to questions before going to their own parents and teachers. Also, asking a search engine avoids awkward or difficult conversations behind more serious questions.

Intelligence

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The teaching experts who sponsored the training hope it will prepare college instructors to become “advocates,” empowering them to explain and defend the rigor of this way of teaching calculus to skeptical scientists from other departments. This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July. the instructor asked.

Math

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Talbert recently wrote about the experience on his blog , asking the question: “is traditional higher education in trouble from online course providers?” The conversation gets at how much can be automated about teaching, and what is it, exactly, about having a live instructor that matters? What did you expect the answer to be going in?

Teaching

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).

Student Engagement

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. 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. Dueling for Attention Work is not the primary reason people use Duolingo.

Motivation

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.

Students

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

The first image many people have of school is a circle of small children, sitting cross-legged, paying attention (or not) to an adult reading a book aloud and showing pictures to the class. A second question has been given almost equal importance: Is reading a book to students online even legal? The short answer is, well, yes.

Reading

Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2019

While it’s great for instructor workflows, it has always been a course management tool, not a learning tool. Learning is the product of inputs from students and instructors. If we want to keep their attention, we have to layer systems and connect them. Despite its name, the Learning Management System (LMS) is not about learning.

Mobile Devices

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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. Teachers had to rely on their voices to capture students’ attention and adapt to unfamiliar remote teaching methods to motivate students who only appeared on video.

Instructors