eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

K-12 classroom instructors, instructional coaches, and educational administrators are invited to enroll. The teaching team consists of Stanford Professor Emeritus Kenji Hakuta, Senior Researcher Dr. Jeff Zwiers and Lecturer Dr. Sara Rutherford-Quach.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key points : Today’s students will undoubtedly encounter generative AI in their careers Two higher-ed instructors have designed a guide for using generative AI in life design and career education See related article: A scholar’s embrace of ChatGPT-4 Innovations that have transformed education have often been met with skepticism.

Ethics 339

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et. This same study identifies one student-based reason for instructor reluctance—though students in an active classroom learn more, they feel like they learn less.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Students at a community college could supplement their math class with lectures from MIT. A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Another challenge that the sector is witnessing, perhaps more in the pedagogical dimension than the technological, involves the role of the educator, whether in-person, online, hybrid, high-flex or what have you, evolving from exclusively functioning as a lecturer to a facilitator or a coach. They wouldn't be at the institution!

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. These default features force online instructors to use a style of teaching that feels more like shouting to the masses than engaging in meaningful conversations.

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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

MARCH 29, 2017

Relate” videos get the student to feel connected to the instructor. They seek to establish instructor presence. Finally, I check to see if I’m building in ways to prompt the instructor to relate, narrate, demonstrate, and debate as we shoot the course content. Then, I storyboard the instructional videos I’ll need to incorporate.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Many flip lessons , using videos, websites, and digital presentations rather than traditional lectures. Alyssa Tormala ( @alytormala ) is the Instructional Technology Coach and the Information Science Department Chair at St. They hold online discussions, offer design challenges and genius hours , and share feedback digitally.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2020

Having previously leaned toward large-group lectures, we began using small groups to teach straight coding to our campers. We hired computer-science students from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken to teach HMS students, who in turn may become junior instructors themselves once they reach high school.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Professors in the department of kinesiology at Cal Poly Tech Humboldt have observed growth in student performance and comprehension by designing content-specific episodes that begin by considering the basic building block of an instructor-generated podcast. The principal focus of the second body is to convey new information.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et. This same study identifies one student-based reason for instructor reluctance—though students in an active classroom learn more, they feel like they learn less.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Our learning is all project-based and flipped classroom, instead of lecture-based. Every student gets to learn from great instructors. It's online-synchronous, with instructors available starting at 9 am Monday to Friday, with evening coaching hours all the way to midnight.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? But there is literature on how to adapt the grading process to avoid the drawbacks above, and improve student motivation and engagement, as well as instructor satisfaction.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2024

I have a module about how teaching is like coaching. When I started teaching, I thought teaching was lecturing.” The second image is of a giant lecture hall with a small instructor at the front. The second image illustrates the somewhat isolating nature of the traditional lecture in a slightly comic way.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2024

I have a module about how teaching is like coaching. When I started teaching, I thought teaching was lecturing.” The second image is of a giant lecture hall with a small instructor at the front. The second image illustrates the somewhat isolating nature of the traditional lecture in a slightly comic way.

Teaching 111

Teaching Lecturing Disabilities Communication 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Professors in the department of kinesiology at Cal Poly Tech Humboldt have observed growth in student performance and comprehension by designing content-specific episodes that begin by considering the basic building block of an instructor-generated podcast. The principal focus of the second body is to convey new information.

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Instructors Lecturing Learning Textbooks 95

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

As a long-time music teacher and instructional technology coach, modeling has been key to my work for over a decade. My official title is “lecturer,” but that is a far cry from how I teach. Now it’s postsecondary instructional designers and instructors. Our students are current K-12 educators who have a passion for technology.

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Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 161

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? But there is literature on how to adapt the grading process to avoid the drawbacks above, and improve student motivation and engagement, as well as instructor satisfaction.

Grades 98

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Some faculty expressed that using AI tools has significantly reduced the time spent on creating lecture materials, allowing them more time to focus on creating engaging and exciting student activities. Often, there are suggestions on what AI can do, but instructors might struggle with figuring out how to use it effectively.

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Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Some faculty expressed that using AI tools has significantly reduced the time spent on creating lecture materials, allowing them more time to focus on creating engaging and exciting student activities. Often, there are suggestions on what AI can do, but instructors might struggle with figuring out how to use it effectively.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Additionally, the tablet has Bluetooth, so I am able to carry on a lecture while walking around the classroom monitoring students as they take notes or work through problems. Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom.

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Teachers who used to lecture with a chalkboard or whiteboard may now lecture with an expensive interactive whiteboard. As teachers, heads of school, counselors, coaches, and librarians, we all now have the ability to participate in ongoing, virtual, global communities of practice.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Provide opportunities to continue to develop interpersonal skills: The nature of this trio-format structure allows all of us in the class to enhance our active listening skills, including the instructor. The Process Observer supports the role-sharing so everyone is heard. I benefit, too. I hope you give this a TRI!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Additionally, the tablet has Bluetooth, so I am able to carry on a lecture while walking around the classroom monitoring students as they take notes or work through problems. Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 294

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 21, 2025

Some simply broadcast lectures over video calls. They dont merely transplant classroom lectures to a screen. Immediate feedback helps correct mistakes while the material is still freshlike having a coach who whispers tips during practice, not after the game. Before leading a class, instructors undergo specialized training.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

Focus on Advising In the spirit of the name, Wayfinding Academy students spend an unusual amount of their time with their assigned Guide, a college official who plays a role that is part academic advisor, part life coach, part career counselor. For one thing, students quickly asked her not to lecture.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Asynchronous Models Online high schools typically offer two main modes of instruction: Synchronous Learning: Students attend scheduled live classes, interacting in real-time with instructors and peers. Asynchronous Learning: Students access recorded lectures, complete assignments at their own pace, and submit work within flexible deadlines.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. A New York Times headline went so far as to call it a “ Death Knell for the Lecture ,” while other mainstream media outlets scrambled to cover the craze.

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