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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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A second monitor can be added to the setup for the instructor to view any lecture notes or to serve as a teleprompter that can be controlled through a laptop connected to the Lightboard CPU module. Lightboard technology provides an avenue to bridge the gap between the traditional classroom and online space. References Bradbury, N.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

Kevin Chu Chu: Online learning has been growing over the past decade. Remote learners miss out on many key elements of in-person learning when using the tools currently available. The pandemic brought even more attention to this issue. There's a lecture mode in UNIVERSE. Teachers love that feature.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A second monitor can be added to the setup for the instructor to view any lecture notes or to serve as a teleprompter that can be controlled through a laptop connected to the Lightboard CPU module. Lightboard technology provides an avenue to bridge the gap between the traditional classroom and online space. References Bradbury, N.

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Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Most MOOCs, despite the claims of innovation and disruption, consisted of video lectures and text-based assignments. Thus, the impression that most people have of online education is an attempt to create an online lecture. But there are powerful and exciting alternative.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

One unusual aspect of the NEI model is to encourage professors to adopt online course materials developed at other universities. It’s exciting to see the recognition that experiential learning (co-op) and online learning can be at the core of adding value to the undergraduate experience,” Gallagher said.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

Some students prefer the energy of large lecture halls, while others thrive in small, discussion-based classes. Personalized attention can make a significant difference in academic success, so consider whether a schools class sizes and faculty engagement align with your learning style.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

In one focus group I attended, faculty members recommended that online courses include real-time sessions, that the school stream on-campus lectures and events to remote students, and that faculty establish a uniform and consistent online course evaluation rubric following industry best practices.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

Technology helps educators give each student the attention he or she needs, through tools such as online learning modules, personal tablets and, now, virtual and augmented reality. . Attention deficit disorder is a rising issue among K–12 schools.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

In the last couple of decades, as online learning was steadily being recognized by millions of students as a convenient way to earn a highly prized academic degree, most senior officers at the nation’s colleges and universities paid little attention, dithered or dabbled. None of them partnered with OPMs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

Such a model assumes a deficit of knowledge in other parts of the world and a belief that non-Western parts of the world have less or even nothing to contribute to online learning. While MOOC pedagogies are continually improving, little attention is paid to the question of who or what shapes global knowledge.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Because of these new technologies used in education during the pandemic, today, students who are home on extended illness-related absences, those who are traveling, or those who are otherwise unable to attend in-person school don’t have to worry about missing entire days or weeks of learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

His choice: modular learning. In this system, students choose from a menu of content delivery options (textbook, downloadable study guides, lectures) and interaction options (in-person or online). But nowadays, [student learning] is very graphic and video-oriented—which is a different skill set.” What is Course Hero?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

If you are simply going to lecture at students, they do not need to be in the same physical space as you. In fact, a recent study showed that in a HyFlex class, online students were more engaged and felt it was easier to ask questions during lectures compared to in-person students (University of Copenhagen, 2021).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Today, Bonner is a lecturer and researcher for the Language, Media and Learning Research Center at Kanda University of International Studies in Japan. As learning becomes increasingly digital, what problems does VR solve? I saw that I could use VR to do some fascinating stuff with English language education,” explains Bonner.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 20, 2020

As we try to figure out what schooling will look like in the months to come, we need to pay attention to the motivators and demotivators that help foster student engagement. If all we’re offering students is the uninspiring learning, we’re in a heap of trouble. We had our chance this summer to get better at online learning.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Whether its a 60-second TikTok on the French Revolution, a deep-dive YouTube documentary on climate change, or a TED Talk about emotional intelligence, young minds are tuning in and learning, often more effectively than traditional methods ever allowed. This is the hidden curriculum of the internet, which aids online learning.

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Online Learning Lecturing Learning Textbooks 52

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Research has shown that meaningful collaboration and communication are unlikely to occur in an online learning environment without teacher direction (Borup et al. Let’s face it, plain black text on a white page is boring and is not going to grab their attention. ” Online Learning 23, no. 1 (2019): 164-183.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

First, the tips: The Simplest Way to Go Online is to Shift to a Video Conference Platform Stachowiak says that just lecturing to a webcam instead of an in-person class isn’t the best way to teach online, but it is the easiest way to switch. But you're saying that this is not a time to say, “go away from online learning.”

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

Thats why success in online learning doesnt just rely on intelligence or curriculum. In this blog, well explore 17 study tips for online learning. This is perhaps one of the most important study tips for online learning. Real learning happens when the student engages with the material.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

If you are simply going to lecture at students, they do not need to be in the same physical space as you. In fact, a recent study showed that in a HyFlex class, online students were more engaged and felt it was easier to ask questions during lectures compared to in-person students (University of Copenhagen, 2021).

Blended Learning 98

Blended Learning Lecturing Education Learning 98

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. Educational media is at an inflection point.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Research has shown that meaningful collaboration and communication are unlikely to occur in an online learning environment without teacher direction (Borup et al. Let’s face it, plain black text on a white page is boring and is not going to grab their attention. ” Online Learning 23, no. 1 (2019): 164-183.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. 1 As universities continue to transition towards online education, educators commonly use asynchronous videos and synchronous video conferences as the primary modes of instruction.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Families needed a flexible learning environment in which students could miss a few days of school due to inclement weather, a tournament, or harvest time—without falling behind. Moore couldn’t control the weather, but he could turn his attention to challenges where he would have impact.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Thus, online learning may have favorably trained students to aggregate and integrate many forms of technology at one time to enrich the learning experience (Law-Penrose, 2021). Introduction The introduction should be professional and strive to capture the attention of the listener. He completed an eight-year Ph.D.

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Instructors Lecturing Learning Textbooks 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

I got personal help from teachers, and a lot more personal attention than you would get in just a normal public school. Looking back, it's like, “Okay, maybe I should have paid a little more attention in school.” For me, I actually preferred learning on my own and grasping the concepts. And it was more one-on-one. I was like.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

In one presentation, Ken Koedinger, director of CMU’s LearnLab, described a course in which the professor set out to answer the question, Which student choices of what to do within the course materials resulted in the most learning? Learning by doing appears to have a 6x better [outcome] than learning by watching or reading,” Koedinger said.

Learning 164

Learning Quizzes Assignments Science 164

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture. At the time, I’d been hearing about what Khan was doing and suddenly I realized there’s a fundamental divide between how we’ve traditionally taught medical school and how the next generation is wired to learn.” The TED Talk folks got it right,” he says.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

But we’ve declared our other campus an online campus, and we call it the “cloud campus.” We wanted to use the word “cloud” because we didn’t want to just keep doing the traditional LMS, put the slides in there, capture the lecture, beam it out to people, like what I call the electronic post office in the sky. How does that fit in?

Lecturing 121

Lecturing Students Study Questions 121

Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. 1 As universities continue to transition towards online education, educators commonly use asynchronous videos and synchronous video conferences as the primary modes of instruction.

Instructors 96

Instructors Quizzes Students Assignments 96

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Thus, online learning may have favorably trained students to aggregate and integrate many forms of technology at one time to enrich the learning experience (Law-Penrose, 2021). Introduction The introduction should be professional and strive to capture the attention of the listener. He completed an eight-year Ph.D.

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Instructors Lecturing Learning Textbooks 90

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Course Hero is an online learning platform where you can access course-specific study resources contributed by a community of students and educators. There is a theory in pedagogy that suggests that human beings cannot focus their attention on a single activity for more than 12 minutes. What Is Course Hero?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Here’s what they had to say: The demand for online learning will continue to grow in 2022 and possibly lead to the creation of virtual schools, which would introduce new AR and VR learning processes. And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators.

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