eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

We can’t discuss online and hybrid learning without acknowledging the role the COVID-19 pandemic played in forcing districts to move fully online for virtual instruction, later paving the way for hybrid learning as classrooms slowly reopened for small groups of students. We were course designing and co-teaching,” she said.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of online education, the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications online graduate programs (UF CJC Online) stands at the forefront of innovation and quality. These efforts culminated a meticulously designed course template that is the backbone of the program’s online offerings.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. Download it here: [link] In higher education, we often track student success through grades, credit hours, and retention rates. They are co-creators of it.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In our increasingly digital world, educators recognize the significance of integrating AI tools in the classroom. AI integration can address diverse learning needs , promote data-driven decision-making , and spur class discussion. EdSurge: Why did you decide to take the ISTE U AI course? I think all educators grew concerned.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Generative AI is changing the landscape of higher education, in both good and bad ways (Balch, 2023). In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. Chronicles of Higher Education. The empathetic course design perspective.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of online education, the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications online graduate programs (UF CJC Online) stands at the forefront of innovation and quality. These efforts culminated a meticulously designed course template that is the backbone of the program’s online offerings.

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Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 111

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

As professors and K-12 teachers adjust to the sudden move to online teaching, one question keeps coming up: How much of class time should be done live—known in education parlance as “synchronous” teaching—and how much should be done so that students can do the work at their convenience—or “asynchronous” teaching. Department of Education.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The landscape of higher education has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with an increasing number of students opting for nontraditional avenues to pursue their academic goals. This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

C) Ask students “Please discuss your answer with a neighbor.” Like many education tools, it depends. Faculty risk excluding certain students and impeding their ability to succeed when they aren’t intentional about design and facilitation. Instructors often ask students to pair with their neighbors and “discuss” their answer.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 145

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Educational media is at an inflection point. Patagonia’s multi-module educational campaign to encourage environmental activism and the New York Times 360 Video Channel preview what video learning platforms of the future could look like. This is because students bring their own prior knowledge and misconceptions to educational media. “If

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As an educator and instructional designer, I find this problematic. If the focus shifts to quantity over quality, our students will be the ones to lose out, ultimately receiving less educational value for their investment. Incorporating flexibility in course design can help with student engagement and motivation.

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Instructors Course Design Students Authentic Assessment 116

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The landscape of higher education has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with an increasing number of students opting for nontraditional avenues to pursue their academic goals. This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities.

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Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 98

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. The majority of online learning environments are no more than video-hosting platforms with quizzes and a discussion forum. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.

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Online Learning Instructors Learning Quizzes 159

Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. In addition to using technology in my own biology courses, I also work with faculty across the country on how to teach with technology through an inclusive lens. Leverage partners.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Somewhere between our collective obsession with predictive analytics and infatuation with adaptive learning, higher education wonks and practitioners are making time to deconstruct the quality attributes of online courses. It’s a collaborative process that engages faculty in the design and improvement of online courses.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The discussions are always rich and engaging, but, perhaps unsurprisingly, our efforts to scale them were always coming up short. From there, it was only natural to start applying some of the concepts we discussed using with students in our own professional development. of Wayne Township in Indianapolis.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

I organize modules to include researched based articles, video messages and discussion boards centered around teachers’ learning objectives. It’s so much more time consuming to read everyone’s comments on discussion boards,” wrote one teacher after completing a survey Scheetz administered following an asynchronous PD session.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In keeping with the school’s long held tradition, the faculty at Boston College takes a “whole person” approach to education, helping students explore their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual development. Evenchik knew that delivering top-notch, online graduate-level courses required finding the right LXD team.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As an educator and instructional designer, I find this problematic. If the focus shifts to quantity over quality, our students will be the ones to lose out, ultimately receiving less educational value for their investment. Incorporating flexibility in course design can help with student engagement and motivation.

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Instructors Course Design Students Authentic Assessment 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning is viewed today as a parallel learning modality, and is both valued and entrenched in higher education (Marcus. In today’s fast-paced, constantly-changing education landscape, it can be challenging for educators to stay abreast of the latest developments and trends in their field. 2022; Nworie,2021).

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Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 111

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

That’s an approach that’s grown over the past decade or so where colleges try to harness the digital breadcrumbs left by students as they move through digital platforms and online course materials to find patterns that can improve course design and even personalize material for individual students. “AI

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

And while these are all important factors in impacting student success, there are also many psychological challenges students may face in their online education: Isolation. Those who participate in fully online courses, particularly asynchronous ones, may feel isolated from their instructor, their peers, and the university as a whole.

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Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 131

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2017

Too many discussions of edtech focus on tools (like tablets, clickers, learning-management systems, smart boards, etc). More thought should be spent on the design of the classroom itself. A classroom can be feature-rich and highly flexibly, however this needs to be supported by course design, technical support, and ongoing evaluation.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Instructors 148

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

She also lets them decide if they want to reflect in a discussion forum with their classmates, or personally send her their reflections. “I She said that one of the ways she implements active participation is through participatory course design in some of her courses, where students take part in brainstorming what the course will look like.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2023

Offering both synchronous and asynchronous options may be referred to as hybrid, blended, or bichronous course delivery, but often these are not flexible enough. Educators will need to be open-minded and flexible as they will be adapting delivery and materials with in-person lessons and changing amounts of students throughout the year.

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Exams Course Design Assignments Learning 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It wasn’t part of their teacher training program so they rely on school PD to fill the many holes in blending tech with education. What is surprising is that many teacher programs don’t prepare their graduates well for the rigors of using technology to meet current educational requirements. And here lies the problem.

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Technology Teachers Evaluation Course Design 159

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

So it stands to reason that using the term “smart” to describe the application of technology within college courses might have a similar connotation. Online courses are “smart,” one might assume, because they use technology to improve educational outcomes or, at least, create new efficiencies or extend the abilities of faculty and students.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

The answer, I believe, lies in using AI to help clear space for the work only we can dothe collaboration, connection, and critical guidance that makes education transformative. Works in Theory, Wobbles in Practice Weve all fallen in love with that one key discussion question or written assignment prompt that just fizzles in the classroom.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning is viewed today as a parallel learning modality, and is both valued and entrenched in higher education (Marcus. In today’s fast-paced, constantly-changing education landscape, it can be challenging for educators to stay abreast of the latest developments and trends in their field. 2022; Nworie,2021).

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Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

Could this be a chance to design a model where students wouldn’t dream of using AI unethically or allow it to steal their learning, a model where educators find more meaning and purpose in their work as well? We’d have loads of discussions on what constitutes ethical use of AI in this brave new world and ethics in general.

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Metacognitive Skills Ethics Writing Plagiarism 138

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Introduction Generative AI in higher education has been widely discussed following the record-breaking uptake of ChatGPT in November 2022 (Dwivedi et al., Although the capabilities of generative AI tools will continue to expand, our guiding questions are designed to maintain relevance despite shifts in technologies.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Feedback as an opportunity for dialogue: Invite students to meet to discuss feedback and revisions.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 123

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

Empathy, in course development, refers to an educator’s ability to understand the problems, needs, and desires a group of learners faces through research and inquisition. Literature suggests that to develop an inclusive learning environment, we must start with self-awareness.

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Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

Empathy, in course development, refers to an educator’s ability to understand the problems, needs, and desires a group of learners faces through research and inquisition. Literature suggests that to develop an inclusive learning environment, we must start with self-awareness.

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Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

2011) into all parts of our courses (see Saucier et al., 2022 for a discussion of the empathetic course design perspective). This ranges from our syllabi to our course structures and policies, to our assignments and assessments. This empathetic course design perspective is important to us. Miller, S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The native Canadian has five degrees from three countries—a bachelor’s in engineering, master’s in education and business, and doctorates in philosophy and education. He’s published more than a dozen books on higher education and taught at more than 40 business schools around the world, from Britain to Uzbekistan.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

That could range from simply giving students a chance to pause and discuss with peers, to role playing, to polling students during class, and more. The data-gathering is fairly simple: The system’s dashboard has a set of “buttons” named with about 20 common classroom practices, such as lecturing, group discussion or video demonstration.

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