Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2019

It’s clear to me that the course design–how I lay out the mix of resources, homework, classwork, and more–affects how students absorb and share knowledge. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors knows a lot about how course design impacts learning. All of this starts with a good course design.

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Course Design Students Exams Feedback 83

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

As university professors and researchers who work closely with K-12 online teachers and learners, we’ve heard from many newly remote educators who are struggling. Figuring out how to effectively engage learners has always been a complex challenge for educators like the ones that we instruct. Quick communication builds connection.

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Motivation Education Learning Feedback 218

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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“For example, this morning I taught a web design course, and one of my students has epilepsy, and he said, ‘I can feel something coming on so I better not come out today,’” Blythe says. But not every educator who tried hybrid teaching of some kind during the pandemic has continued it. Will their efforts succeed?

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Teaching Instructors Lecturing Blended Courses 207

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

Instructors 144

Instructors Education Lecturing Knowledge 144

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.

Education 122

Education Beliefs Study Essay 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference.  Use of LMS tools  Students spoke highly of courses that harnessed the full potential of the LMS’s tools. Journal of Educational Technology Systems 48, no.

Syllabus 126

Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 126

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The Association of College & Research Libraries maintains in its “access entitlement principle,” which functions as a sort of library bill of rights, that all students of an institution of higher education “are entitled to the library services and resources of that institution,” including access to a librarian, regardless of location.

eLearning 162

eLearning Course Design Students Distance Learning 162

Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. And improved access to devices and high-speed Wi-Fi means that traditional classrooms lectures need not be limited to the physical classroom space.

Technology 167

Technology Teaching Intellectual Development Instructors 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stop me if you’ve seen this one before: In an effort to encourage teachers to abandon traditional, lecture-style instruction in favor of next-generation learning models, we sit them down and ask them to listen for an hour or two. Or, in other words, we lecture teachers on the merits of ditching the lecture.

Teachers 158

Teachers Lecturing Blended Learning Students 158

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

There are large lecture halls, hard-wired lecture capture technology, smaller classrooms, casual study spaces and brightly colored swivel chairs. For starters, the space is dedicated to “active learning,” a term that often refers to teaching styles that go beyond a one-way lecture format.

Active Learning 120

Active Learning Activities Lecturing Teaching 120

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. It also has the added benefit of allowing the professor to use it for many sections of the same course.

Lecturing 126

Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 126

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.

Education 105

Education Beliefs Study Essay 105

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference.  Use of LMS tools  Students spoke highly of courses that harnessed the full potential of the LMS’s tools. Journal of Educational Technology Systems 48, no.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 111

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms.

Online Learning 159

Online Learning Instructors Learning Quizzes 159

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Much like slide projectors once replaced chalk as top-of-the-line educational tools, today’s intrapreneurs aim to shift our dependence on legacy technologies such as the standard LMS. They are informed by #a11y ( accessibility design ) and #UX (user experience design) and the near-ubiquitous social media that penetrates across all sectors.

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Lecturing Culture Course Design Attention 130

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. It also has the added benefit of allowing the professor to use it for many sections of the same course.

Lecturing 109

Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 109

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. Students claim that instructors aren’t actually teaching, and instructors can face negative reactions to a change in their lecturing methods that were already difficult to create and introduce.

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Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 122

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

She’s also director of the Center for Teaching Excellence there, which provides faculty with support for instruction, edtech, course design, classroom management and grading. And for me as an educator, I always really subscribe to Paolo Freire's thoughts on the idea that you build knowledge together in the classroom with students.

Students 203

Students Instructors Lecturing Participation 203

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. Relevance for Learning, Instruction, and Assessment Adult learners have unique needs that require consideration when designing instruction.

Online Learning 111

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Since the pandemic, which necessitated the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas or Blackboard, there is now an additional component to consider in developing our courses. Melissa Samaniego, Ed.D.

Syllabus 122

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 122

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.

Quizzes 167

Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

Ensuring a successful educational experience for our students is akin to the art of culinary development, where thoughtful preparation is fundamental. This parallels the concept of pre-courses, which serve as innovative ingredients and preparatory tools in the educational kitchen.

Exams 115

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 115

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

Aaron Rasmussen, co-founder of MasterClass, this week announced the launch of Outlier, an online provider of university-level courses. Instructors who recorded the lectures came from institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, New York University and Davidson College.

Lecturing 116

Lecturing Textbooks Course Design Instructors 116

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. Relevance for Learning, Instruction, and Assessment Adult learners have unique needs that require consideration when designing instruction.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

The shift to virtual learning, accelerated by the global pandemic, has fundamentally transformed the way education is delivered. As a result, the lasting impact of this transition, along with the necessary adaptations, continues to reshape how education is offered to its target market.

Student Engagement 107

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 107

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

We heard from Albat and Stephanie Del Tufo, assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, who studies individual differences in learning, language and literacy. So instead of having a three-hour class, we've tried to break our lectures down into 10 minutes, followed by an interactive short activity.

Accessibility 217

Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 217

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Since the pandemic, which necessitated the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas or Blackboard, there is now an additional component to consider in developing our courses. Melissa Samaniego, Ed.D.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 105

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. Students claim that instructors aren’t actually teaching, and instructors can face negative reactions to a change in their lecturing methods that were already difficult to create and introduce.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 98

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

Heath, who has co-written books including “Made to Stick” and “The Power of Moments,”delivered a keynote Thursday at the 2018 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education in San Francisco. And during the keynote he challenged educators by asking: “How do we create more academic peak moments in school?” But he isn’t hopeless.

Instructors 103

Instructors Syllabus Textbooks Lecturing 103

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

There are many ways to design a course in higher education, but why do it alone? As the educational landscape continues to evolve, the role of an instructional designer (ID) has become necessary. Hiring instructional designers is the pivotal change agent needed to innovate and engage students. Thinkific.

Schools 122

Schools Syllabus Authentic Assessment Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

While large classes emphasize broad-reaching strategies like lectures and group activities, small classes enable individualized instruction and deeper exploration of topics (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

Teaching 88

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 88

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Efforts to expand access to higher education have resulted in higher enrollment rates and degree attainment rates making higher education an option that is open to more students than ever before. Two Forms of Curriculum in Higher Education There are two forms of curriculum in higher education.

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 62

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Efforts to expand access to higher education have resulted in higher enrollment rates and degree attainment rates making higher education an option that is open to more students than ever before. Two Forms of Curriculum in Higher Education There are two forms of curriculum in higher education.

Course Design 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning in its many forms is widely recognized as a high-impact educational practice, one that has been thoroughly tested and shown to be beneficial to a wide spectrum of college students. The students can learn the material by reading, conducting online research, lectures, or a combination of these modes.

Learning 122

Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

While large classes emphasize broad-reaching strategies like lectures and group activities, small classes enable individualized instruction and deeper exploration of topics (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

Teaching 85

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 85

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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Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 64