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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Building skills and confidence As I had hoped, the class learned more efficiently and enthusiastically about STEAM topics through this hands-on learning approach than they would have from my standard PowerPoint presentations and lectures.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Oftentimes, students enroll in degrees out of a misguided belief that some degrees are more practical than others. You can also use sites like RateMyProfessor to learn more about lecturers and professors before enrolling. Ask about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives before your student enrolls for a particular degree.

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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. I used to have the belief that I have very little to do with the success of my online students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In fact, he predicted that the changes he’s experimenting with this semester might be jarring to students accustomed to lecture classes. His course expects a “new workflow,” he explains, since it uses adaptive courseware software, as well as a flipped classroom model where lectures are replaced with the interactive material.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It is continuously tested as new ideas are added, either causing long-held beliefs to evolve or be replaced. Traditional classes focus on teacher lecture; constructivism focuses on personal inquiry and class discussion. Learning is constructed, not acquired, and is based on the fullness of a person’s individual lifetime of learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I also turned to a different kind of professional reading that shaped my beliefs about students, learning and the purpose of education. In her book “Other People’s Children,” the author Lisa Delpit writes that, “We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.” It is not always easy to do.

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MAY 18, 2023

The company does not keep a customer list nor does it collect emails, the policy elaborates, out of a belief that companies tend to misuse it. Schools are paying technology companies, but the students are often the product, argues Ellen Zavian, a professional lecturer for George Washington University Law School.

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Students Beliefs Lecturing Internet 215

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

Such a class for 400 students may require very different staffing than a traditional large lecture, he adds. We can’t allow for any would-be critics to be dismissive” because of a belief that students aren’t receiving attention from professors. Before each class, students are expected to have already watched the video lectures.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. The Echo360 video platform use Amazon Transcribe to provide real-time transcriptions of lectures at the University of Michigan. Our system is also able to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide, automatically.

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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. Knowledge Production The content on MOOCs is typically produced in universities from the U.S. Stanford University, Google, Facebook, AT&T?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

And improved access to devices and high-speed Wi-Fi means that traditional classrooms lectures need not be limited to the physical classroom space. On the show, individuals read aloud the beliefs and struggles that guide their daily lives. The popular NPR program titled “This I Believe,” espouse this ethos on a weekly basis.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

There was the belief that universities would go away because, why would you possibly need to go to university if you could hear the lectures on radio? And I went back among other things and looked at the history of radio, and it’s fascinating. You look at what people were saying when radio first emerged in the 1910’s and 20’s.

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Internet Schools Beliefs Art 203

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

There is a strong belief among many professors that all students need to succeed in intermediate algebra in order to progress, agrees Olga Rodriguez, a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California Higher Education Center. The shift in pedagogy there is that much more challenging.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

There was also a common belief among higher ed leaders—as there still is—that building online infrastructure is far too costly. How will faculty learn how to deliver effective courses virtually—not just their old lectures via Zoom? One way a rising number of colleges have found is to sign on with an OPM.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Josemaria and I share the belief that “…[technology] must be transparent, like a lens; otherwise, it hinders learning.” Lack of variety -not related to the content but the format: video, text, website, lecture, and so on. . He has a Masters in Ed from Penn State University (any Nittany Lion fans out there?)

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Learning Textbooks Lecturing Syllabus 156

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

As the reality sinks in that the shift to online education will continue indefinitely—and some of it permanently—now is a particularly good time to re-examine our beliefs about effective teaching. The problem is that many educators, having accomplished the hard introspection needed to teach well online, stop there.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

So, too, students seated in the same class at most of the nation’s colleges and universities can pay as little as nothing or many thousands of dollars to attend the same lecture. A passenger in first class can be flying free on points, while a traveler jammed into coach might be charged a premium for a last-minute booking.

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Study Ethics Beliefs Lecturing 214

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2019

Source: Digital Promise report And 80 percent of the general public say that tailored instruction is a better way for students to learn than whole-group instruction, the traditional practice of a teacher lecturing in front of a classroom. But here’s where things get murkier.

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Learning Learning Disabilities Beliefs Disabilities 150

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 4, 2024

A graduate student is attending a lecture given by one of her intellectual heroes, the Brazilian educator and theorist Paulo Freire. She is impressed beyond belief, but time prevents her from asking one last, difficult question. This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on June 12, 2013 © Magna Publications.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2023

They represent the beautiful diversity of cultures, beliefs, abilities and gifts that come with the knowledge and appreciation of our histories. During an hour-long class period, we are able to move from partner conversations and whole-group lectures into independent activities quickly and efficiently.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

One of my colleagues at New York University disagreed, cautioning even decades ago, that the belief was “pretty naive.” Classes aren’t led by a lone professor lecturing at the front of the classroom, but by teams of educators, with at least three virtual instructors and as many as ten to fifteen assigned to larger classes.

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Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 176

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This observation led my colleagues and me to reflect on the importance of maximizing the LMS’s potential (a belief that we held prior to the pandemic). Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference. 

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 4, 2024

A graduate student is attending a lecture given by one of her intellectual heroes, the Brazilian educator and theorist Paulo Freire. She is impressed beyond belief, but time prevents her from asking one last, difficult question. This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on June 12, 2013 © Magna Publications.

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Teaching Beliefs Learning Lecturing 102

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

To your point though, more broadly, I think one of the issues is that we can no longer assume that it's a shared belief structure that we all think being in the classroom is the thing to do post-pandemic. You can hear those articulated in different ways in the classroom.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2023

The company does not keep a customer list nor does it collect emails, the policy elaborates, out of a belief that companies tend to misuse it. Schools are paying technology companies, but the students are often the product, argues Ellen Zavian, a professional lecturer for George Washington University Law School.

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Students Beliefs Lecturing Internet 157

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Learning About, For, and Through Enterprise Pittaway and Edwards (2012) provide classifications in forms of enterprise and entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship education is presented as an academic discipline, much like history or sociology, with teaching, learning, and assessment methods aligned accordingly, such as lectures and essays.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This observation led my colleagues and me to reflect on the importance of maximizing the LMS’s potential (a belief that we held prior to the pandemic). Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference. 

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Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

2020) compared language usage in NS and NNS of English among engineering lecturers. The researchers found that the NNS tended to use “and” and “so” more frequently than NS in lectures. Unlike humans, LLMs do not (presumably) have beliefs or sensory information beyond prompts. Kuswoyo et al. link] Kuswoyo, H., Sujatna, E.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How did the highlighted words (your findings) compare to your departmental or college vision, belief statement, and/or values? Dr. Katherine Orlando is a lecturer and the graduate program director for the Department of Instructional Leadership and Professional Development at Towson University. Who or what was centered in the meeting?

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Feedback Beliefs Lecturing Participation 116

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! If so, this belief seems to compound at the time of a student’s entrance to college. Trista Nilsson is a senior lecturer in the English and Communication Department at Nazareth University. It started with a yawn.

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Lecturing Interdisciplinary Cognitive Development English 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 26, 2019

Chat — don’t lecture. Lecturing is conflated with pontificating. For example, many label recent politically-charged Supreme Court decisions as intolerant but when you dig into the facts behind it, you find closely-held beliefs on both sides to this story. Don’t do that. Instead, have a discussion.

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Teaching Lecturing Beliefs Culture 116

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! If so, this belief seems to compound at the time of a student’s entrance to college. Trista Nilsson is a senior lecturer in the English and Communication Department at Nazareth University. It started with a yawn.

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Lecturing Interdisciplinary Cognitive Development English 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How did the highlighted words (your findings) compare to your departmental or college vision, belief statement, and/or values? Dr. Katherine Orlando is a lecturer and the graduate program director for the Department of Instructional Leadership and Professional Development at Towson University. Who or what was centered in the meeting?

Feedback 111

Feedback Beliefs Lecturing Participation 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The educators sat through lectures on pedagogy, the finer points of math and how to apply it to actual biological problems. The week-long training ran from mornings into afternoons, with chummy lunch breaks in the faculty lounge, or the buzzing cafe in the Science Center lobby.

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Math Instructors Science STEM 218

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Learning About, For, and Through Enterprise Pittaway and Edwards (2012) provide classifications in forms of enterprise and entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship education is presented as an academic discipline, much like history or sociology, with teaching, learning, and assessment methods aligned accordingly, such as lectures and essays.

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Education Beliefs Study Essay 105

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Preparation and materials needed Before starting the activity, students should receive a 20-30-minute lecture about cultural competency, cultural misunderstandings (language barrier, nonverbal communication), and communication accommodation theory (convergence, divergence, and maintenance).

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Culture Communication Instructors Lecturing 108

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

The fundamental belief is that we should give teachers the power to create more resources, reflect on the quality of their creations, and then let them quickly iterate and improve,” says Ben-Naim. Dror-Naim believes in giving instructors full control over designing all the different paths of content that learners may encounter.

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