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Redesigning the Syllabus to Reflect the Learning Journey

Edsurge

We need to design student-centered learning experiences and that takes time, practice and support. The Syllabus Gets a Facelift. If we think about learning as a journey that gets compartmentalized in formal education, then the first experience for middle and high school students is often the syllabus.

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Strategic Blended Learning in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

In spring 2021, inspired by feedback from students, I redesigned my two undergraduate education courses as blended learning courses. While I was familiar with the benefits of blended learning (e.g., So, what is blended learning? They could annotate the class syllabus in a Google Doc or use Hypothes.is

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Strategic Blended Learning in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

In spring 2021, inspired by feedback from students, I redesigned my two undergraduate education courses as blended learning courses. While I was familiar with the benefits of blended learning (e.g., So, what is blended learning? They could annotate the class syllabus in a Google Doc or use Hypothes.is

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Online language learning tools available free

eSchool News

Course Wizard – a course creation tool that allows you to custom-build activities based on vocabulary in your syllabus or from an excerpt of text. Blended Learning Guide , with suggestions on how to make the most of Lingvist in your virtual classroom. The process takes only seconds and assigning it to your classroom is easy.

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The Pandemic Adds a Lot of Constraints for Schools. That Opens the Door to Creativity.

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As someone who has dedicated her career to helping educators leverage online and blended learning to transform their classrooms, this pandemic has certainly provided an opportunity to do the work I love most. This is not what online and blended learning should look like. Let’s be honest, though.

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How AI can transform lesson planning and assessment

eSchool News

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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Enhancing Face-to-Face Education: Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Student Success? 

Faculty Focus

Furthermore, it places both faculty and students in a better position to adapt, should the need for another rapid shift to remote learning arise. What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features?

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