eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2015

Are any of us better than Google as an instructor? The point is, of course, that you probably can Google every single concept you currently teach and your students know this well. An added challenge is to grapple with the informal course designs that are popping up all over the net. area similar questions.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

To keep students engaged in STEM learning during school closures, Vernier Software & Technology is offering a robust collection of free remote learning solutions for teachers and students. This application is recommended for high school and college students. Pivot Interactives is recommended for high school and college students.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education has launched a short online course designed specifically to help educators create rich and meaningful opportunities for communication within the classroom. The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches this August with three online sessions.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Even when students are all in the same time zone—such as for most K-12 schools and community colleges—getting to a live online class on time can be challenging for those who live in households where there aren’t enough computers or tablets for every learner, or where the internet connection isn’t robust enough.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

So she whipped up a few online forms, messaged colleagues on Twitter and together they created the Instructional Design Emergency Response Network. It’s a simple system that matches instructors who need help teaching online with instructional designers willing to assist. I think it depends on the instructor.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. Every new version of Microsoft PowerPoint allowed instructors to embed more and more media and wow students with visually appealing graphics. Provide opportunities for students to reflect.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

That this was framed as a contrast to the OPM-designed program, and accompanied by plans to invest in faculty incentives to teach online, suggests some of the weaknesses of OPM programs, further emphasized by the Century Foundation’s 2019 report, “ Dear Colleges: Take Control of Your Online Courses.”

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Back-to-school is getting closer and closer, and as it approaches, stakeholders and ed-tech vendors are working to create research and products that identify educational needs and truly improve teaching and learning in the classroom. The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches in August with three online sessions.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Connecting with students shifts the obligation from the instructor working singularly to create an inclusive environment to one where the class works collectively to build the community. Instructors lead by example, sharing information about themselves, their backgrounds, and their interests, and encourage students to do the same.

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Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rachel Thelen , The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry Noelle Haight , Occupational Therapist and Educator Julia VanderMolen , University of the Pacific Key Statement: Four helpful tips, including backwards design, for the new instructor looking to (re)design their course. What do you do now?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

ID Benefits While traditionally associated with K-12, higher ed, and the corporate world, IDs can bring transformative benefits to professional schools (programs offering terminal degrees for a specific profession) and support faculty in their endeavors to innovate and engage students. Instructional Design: A Collaboration or A Consultation?

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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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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Connecting with students shifts the obligation from the instructor working singularly to create an inclusive environment to one where the class works collectively to build the community. Instructors lead by example, sharing information about themselves, their backgrounds, and their interests, and encourage students to do the same.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children regularly miss elementary, middle and high school. 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. If so, what’s driving the trend?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. When you attend a rural public high school like I did, no one explains to you that you are creating a resume that you will use when you apply to colleges,” she wrote.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world. And at first, our school blocked its use. The instructor was really supportive. I think all educators grew concerned.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

Gwinnett County Public Schools : Alvin Wilbanks, CEO/Superintendent, Dr. Robert McClure, Chairman of Gwinnett County Board of Education. The program used Brightspace to deliver blended learning courses designed with experiential learning elements that allowed them to be offered with significant cost savings.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

ID Benefits While traditionally associated with K-12, higher ed, and the corporate world, IDs can bring transformative benefits to professional schools (programs offering terminal degrees for a specific profession) and support faculty in their endeavors to innovate and engage students. Instructional Design: A Collaboration or A Consultation?

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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. They also prompt students to reflect on their own prior experiences with the topic and reasons for taking the course. These four actions represent a synthesis of the research on instructional media.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

In creating a course shell, regardless of the course modality (face-to-face, hybrid, or online), it can be helpful to understand the things that students find most frustrating (and most helpful) about faculty use of the LMS. Many faculty don’t include due dates, which can lead to missed deadlines.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). assess success at completion. Student-led Classroom Management.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

The subjects and projects that use 3D printing are almost limitless, especially in science, technology, engineering and math classes: At Harlan Rowe Middle School in Athens, Pa., A team of students from Murtaugh School District in Idaho used a 3D printer to create a solar-powered motion-sensing alarm to keep deer and elk out of fields.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Our guests were Michelle Pacansky-Brock, faculty mentor for the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative and @ONE (Online Network of Educators), and Di Xu an assistant professor at UC Irvine School of Education. Many of these folks need to balance their working commitment, family commitment with their school work.

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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. And are there any common ones that pop up in many classrooms or that instructors maybe encounter more often?

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. This is why a well-designed course will have a balance of formative and summative assessments.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

And he believes that both K-12 and higher-ed instructors can make that happen. According to Heath, psychologists have found that people are more likely to recall memories happening near major transitions in their lives, such as the beginning of a new school year rather than from the middle of an academic term.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

In creating a course shell, regardless of the course modality (face-to-face, hybrid, or online), it can be helpful to understand the things that students find most frustrating (and most helpful) about faculty use of the LMS. Many faculty don’t include due dates, which can lead to missed deadlines.

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Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 105

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. This is why a well-designed course will have a balance of formative and summative assessments.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So are most of the students taking the cultural competency quiz Professor John Branch gives out near the beginning of his MBA-level International Marketing class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Source: Course Hero. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

Extensive analysis of student perception data was conducted and found a generally positive reception, with a majority of students strongly advocating for the pre-course’s availability to future cohorts (Hansen, Basel, & Malreddy, under review). Klausner, Eytan A., Rowe, Beverly S. Hamilton, and Karen S.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

There are multiple teaching tools such as journals, surveys, reflective assignments, anonymous polls, discussions, small-group reflections, and others that instructors can utilize in order to obtain student feedback. You could also use specific mid-semester exercises to learn about student experiences in your course.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In response, universities and educators strive to create and nurture virtual relationships and communities that foster positive relational school cultures, understanding student behavior within a social context (Manassah, Roderick, and Gregory 2018, 39). It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

In school, a sense of belonging refers to a general feeling of being accepted, respected, connected, and supported by one’s peers, teachers, and other staff. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. We also have come to understand that sense of belonging is highly individualized. Canrinus, E. de Boer, H.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. “I asked: ‘Why would we give it away instead of getting them to enroll?’” he remembers.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In response, universities and educators strive to create and nurture virtual relationships and communities that foster positive relational school cultures, understanding student behavior within a social context (Manassah, Roderick, and Gregory 2018, 39). It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Actively Certified To encourage faculty to try active learning, the school offers an active learning certification process, and those who complete it receive priority access to teaching in the new building.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

In a large classroom, instructors often face challenges in creating personal connections with students, maintaining attention, and ensuring active participation (Wang & Calvano, 2022). To address the disparity between in-person and remote students, instructors can implement strategies that ensure both groups feel equally engaged.

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