eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Free for all educators and school districts, the one-hour, eight-lesson course provides educators with essential knowledge about AI and approaches for ensuring student safety and privacy. “With this course, we are taking a proactive approach to support and educate teachers on the front lines and prepare for this transformation.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

BATAVIA, IL (AUGUST 19, 2022) Flinn Scientific releases updated free laboratory safety courses designed specifically for middle and high school science teachers. . Just in time for the 2022-2023 school year, Flinn Scientific has released new Lab Safety courses for middle and high school science educators.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2024

We’re proud to collaborate with MIT RAISE on the Generative AI for Educators course to help teachers invest in their professional development, use AI to work more efficiently, and unlock new levels of innovation in the classroom.”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge. The empathetic course design perspective. This was our role as instructors prior to the advent of AI. As instructors, our role is not just to provide access to content. Our role is to excite our students about the content.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Dr. Emily Tarconish, a teaching professor in the College of Education, contributed her deep knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and accessible course design. Tessa Wolf strengthened our commitment to inclusive course design. Sheza Shaikh centered mental health and belonging in her writing.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

the leading Impact-as-a-Service TM education innovator, announced the development of the nation’s first healthcare literacy course designed for high school students. This critical knowledge needs to exist in every high school in America.”. EVERFI Inc.,

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The platform will feature an evolving library of courses to further develop educators’ digital literacy. Registration is now available for courses designed to help educators address learning challenges in remote instruction, explore education technology tools and develop both synchronous and asynchronous instruction for learners.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The theoretical framework for the report includes the work of Rose and Mayer and their three overarching principles of effective UDL course design: Presentation , action and expression , and engagement and interaction. In presentation , the course provides learners with various way of acquiring information and knowledge.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

One free online course on that topic is Learning How to Learn , and a key concept is developing habits to seek out new knowledge and skills on your own. Asynchronous is very good for community knowledge building,” he argues, since everyone can have time to contribute.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

At the university level, course design has traditionally been easy for faculty to manage on their own—until, that is, digital technologies began to play a role and online courses started to take off. Students need tools and knowledge that allow them to navigate their future roles with agility.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Model Teaching is an online educator training program with a goal not only to provide teaching knowledge but to improve overall student performance. Classes are designed to help new and experienced K-12 teachers master concepts and immediately apply them to their lessons. What is Model Teaching? assess success at completion.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

These are: pre-exposure, activating prior knowledge, and retrieval practice. When we understand the different ways of priming and how they work, we can better identify opportunities for incorporating priming into our courses and programs. Activating prior knowledge. a concept map).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. By utilizing a two-channel approach to deliver instruction, the presenter can use voice and visual hand movement to help the learner codify knowledge (Mayer, 2021). Cognitive load theory states that our working memory is limited (Sweller, et al.,

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

I have seen friends on Facebook create decent songs and stunning artistic creations with little knowledge of music or art, all after spending a bit of time getting to know an AI art or music generator. While foundational knowledge is required for higher-order thinking, we often focus primarily or almost exclusively on the foundational.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

Teachers enroll now in new online professional development courses designed to improve student achievement in reading and math. Both the Lexile and Quantile courses offer an interactive curriculum featuring direct instruction, knowledge checks, summative assessments and performance tasks. DURHAM, N.C.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

So how do colleges and universities help faculty build the knowledge to teach in online environments? Design facilitated online, asynchronous courses for faculty that model effective course design and facilitation. Untethering Faculty Development. Tips for Ongoing Untethering Efforts.

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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. We discuss how we can’t blindly trust AI; rather, we can use it as a baseline to build knowledge. What can we do about that?”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Faculty risk excluding certain students and impeding their ability to succeed when they aren’t intentional about design and facilitation. But simply sharing the correct answer skips the opportunity to let students continue constructing knowledge and practice communicating. What do we mean by an inclusive classroom?

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

In this interview with EdSurge, Maurer explains her goals for the project and emphasizes the importance of comptent online course design. The relationship that an instructor builds with an instructional designer is really, really important. So far, the network has 300 volunteers and counting. This is a partnership we develop.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. By utilizing a two-channel approach to deliver instruction, the presenter can use voice and visual hand movement to help the learner codify knowledge (Mayer, 2021). Cognitive load theory states that our working memory is limited (Sweller, et al.,

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

Just as a chef with pre-developed culinary skills meticulously selects ingredients and carefully plans before creating a masterpiece, educators must equip students with the foundational knowledge and skills necessary for their academic success.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I turned my room into a crime scene and created a scenario that caused my students to leverage their knowledge of angles to solve the case. My students built bridges and learned the geometrical shapes engineers and architects incorporate into their designs to make them structurally sound.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says. From this, Fink developed a model known as integrated course design which consists of three phases: the initial, intermediate and final design phases.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

These are: pre-exposure, activating prior knowledge, and retrieval practice. When we understand the different ways of priming and how they work, we can better identify opportunities for incorporating priming into our courses and programs. Activating prior knowledge. a concept map).

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

If you’re a local, the spot is common knowledge. For more structured courses designed specifically for K-12 classrooms and language labs, Transparent Language offers real-time courses and customizable, curriculum aligned content. However, when my friend arrived, nobody was waiting for her.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As promoted by Zakrajsek (2016) , all learning is by nature an active process since it requires the learner to actively engage with the act of making available knowledge their own. Unfortunately, managing group work as a teacher is a honed skill that requires time, practice, and initially involves some risk.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Instead, MOOC providers see an opportunity in helping medical professionals keep their knowledge and skills up to date after they graduate, a field also known as continuing medical education (CME). The courses are free but cost $99 for students who request a verified certificate after finishing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

This is because students bring their own prior knowledge and misconceptions to educational media. “If However, you can think of a pedagogically rich online course like a balanced meal that should strive to provide at least a serving of each. Then, I storyboard the instructional videos I’ll need to incorporate.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says. From this, Fink developed a model known as integrated course design which consists of three phases: the initial, intermediate and final design phases.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Photo Credit: Tina Nazerian Consider Pedagogy and Course Design Safeguarding a course from cheating can come down to the very design of the course itself. For example, a course that has two big tests worth 80 percent of a student’s grade can create anxiety because the stakes are so high.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2017

Instructors and students need fresh markers and clean, effective erasers to focus on creating and synthesizing knowledge, not smudging it with their fist. “I 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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The rise of the knowledge economy is driving a tectonic shift in the nature of work—and in the education ecosystem that prepares learners for their careers. We are only just starting to see these partnerships form in meaningful ways. And Google recently announced plans to donate $1 billion to nonprofits explicitly to train tech workers.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

This requires the seamless integration of knowledge and skills across various disciplines to address Mars’s multifaceted challenges. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012).

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Providing your students with a choice of how they can complete an activity, be it a short reflection, an audio recorded reflection clip, or a small-group discussion post, can be another instructional decision to help increase their knowledge level, course engagement, and confidence in their community of learning.

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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.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

The second domain focuses on making an effort to acknowledge the knowledge, skills, and abilities that team members contribute to improving a process. The first domain is associated with taking a team approach to maintain shared values, engage in ethical conduct, and engage in respect for each other.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

The second domain focuses on making an effort to acknowledge the knowledge, skills, and abilities that team members contribute to improving a process. The first domain is associated with taking a team approach to maintain shared values, engage in ethical conduct, and engage in respect for each other.

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