Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Subsequently, instructor facilitated classroom conversations intended to enhance understanding of course content may stagnate and falter. The frame of content engagement can look different based on course, instructor and level of student. Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A., H., & Bailey, E. Briggs, W. Sullivan, N., & Towler, 2005).

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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.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. The impact of technology on the human brain is still being studied, but there is a body of research which is decades old and has increased its capacity to inform education with advances in medical imaging technology.

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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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Ask a Tech Teacher crew has ideas on those skills that will not only serve you well in your academics but beyond: 4 Highly Important Study Skills to Develop During College and Beyond We spend a lifetime learning, so it makes sense to develop a few study skills that will make our lives easier.

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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.,

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J. Instead of being annoyed at the disruptions, this seemed to encourage my students to pay more attention.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S. Department of Education found that 77% of online students reported a better balance between their studies and personal life.

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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.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Perhaps one of the most famous studies to come to this conclusion was the Tennessee Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) project in the 1980s. In the kindergarten years alone, the study found a “definite advantage for small classes in achievement.”. More positivity reported about participating in learning.

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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.,

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

Intelligent AI tutoring programs accomplish this feat by using machine learning algorithms to detect patterns in how students interact with the software during study sessions. The system analyzes these patterns and adjusts its tutoring approach to match individual learning styles.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most teachers who work in education today have studied — or at least are familiar with — VARK , a learning theory first introduced by Neil Fleming in 1987. Early in my career as a university instructor, this method was a foundational cornerstone in the classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or third, or fourth) language. 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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Changing the way calculus is taught, proponents argue, helps more students find math approachable and relevant, making them therefore more likely to succeed while studying it. This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July. the instructor asked. What’s your morning process?”

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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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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. Numerous problems arose as we came back together in person.

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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. Numerous problems arose as we came back together in person.

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Instructors Intelligence Classroom Management Communication 98

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Recent studies have shown alarming gaps in Americans’ understanding of our democratic processes and systems. This challenging mathematics course prepares students for further studies in engineering, computer science, data science, and natural sciences, as well as theoretical mathematics. More than one third of U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2024

When young students miss school, their teachers begin to think of them as less capable in math and language and less committed to learning, according to a new study. But there’s some reason for caution in drawing too many conclusions from this research, including that the study is based on data from before the pandemic.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The Newark Board of Education in March approved a data-sharing agreement with Khan Academy to study whether the tool was effective “in the North Ward schools,” according to the agreement. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2024

David Monaghan, an associate professor of sociology at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, has been digging into that question in a series of recent research studies. Since the program was open to all high schools in the city, doing that communication was more difficult than in the case of the other program they studied.

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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. They're no longer a joke. They are catching up really, really fast.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

Earlier, Springer was associate dean at NYU’s School of Professional Studies. It’s especially fruitful to establish a university-wide online committee with senior faculty as members, tasked with studying the potential impact of digital education on the institution. It’s unwise to launch new remote programs in fields new to the school.

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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

JULY 31, 2018

Chris Biffle is a former college instructor who started the movement back in 1999, along with its accompanying organization, called Whole Brain Teaching. According to Biffle, a formal study is too expensive for the group to engage in. If we charged, we could have bought researchers’ time years ago.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

Although its definition is somewhat abstract, active learning is an approach to instruction that involves actively engaging students with the course material through activities such as discussions, problem solving, case studies, and role playing. The task of embracing change can be daunting for both faculty and students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

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. For example, if it were easier for instructors to record student performance on specific learning outcomes, instructors could track progress across assignments.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They were not really paying attention, and their lack of engagement made it apparent that Zoom was not the right way to teach people,” recalls Avida. As its name suggests, Engageli aims to foster social interactions among students and instructors. The platform lets instructors choose how they assign students to specific tables.

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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.

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Instructors Communication Achievement Attention 158

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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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. Huang et al. 2023, 396).

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots. Relate” videos get the student to feel connected to the instructor.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

The college affordability crisis has gained much attention in recent years, yet prices continue to climb. In this past spring semester, the ATD study shows students on average have saved about $134, or 5 to 22 percent of what they were paying, per course. Government Accountability Office.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Studying stars from the surface of the moon. Whether this type of VR course initially sounds weird or awesome depends on your point of view, but it does tend to become more enjoyable and more realistic to students over time, according to a new study out of Stanford University. Diving into a magnified human cell.

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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. For instance, an often cited study showed that first-grade teachers with math anxiety passed it to their female but not their male students.

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