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. She might know the theory behind data science but not how to use Tableau. When a shortfall in skills snowballs it throws the brakes on economic growth.

Skills

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).

Course Design

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.”

Critical Thinking

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.

Laboratory

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).

Course Design

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. Make it stick: The science of successful learning.

Knowledge

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.,

Online Learning

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.,

Online Learning

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.

Lecturing

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. Make it stick: The science of successful learning.

Knowledge

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. Anatomical Sciences Education 10 (3): 215–23. Rickert, Jonathan T. Leo, and Natalie R.

Exams

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

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Instructional designers are experts who use their flexibility, knowledge, and skills in theory and practice to help faculty adapt to new ways of educating students (Pollard & Kumar, 2022). They help faculty use a data-driven lens when making decisions about teaching and learning in their course. References Binder, M.

Schools

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience. It is inductive, beginning with raw experience that is processed through an intentional learning format and transformed into working, usable knowledge. Why experiential learning i nside the classroom?

Learning

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.

Course Design

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. Retrieval practice and Blooms taxonomy: Do students need fact knowledge before higher-order learning? Ambrose, S.

Plagiarism

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

Incorporating active learning strategies with course lectures not only allows the student to be fully present, it can also be used to break-up lecturing into shorter segments, more manageable for most adult attention spans. Psychological Science , 28 (2), 171–180. The presenter is unable to simply ‘read’ information off of the slides.

Lecturing

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.

Course Design

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Instructional designers are experts who use their flexibility, knowledge, and skills in theory and practice to help faculty adapt to new ways of educating students (Pollard & Kumar, 2022). They help faculty use a data-driven lens when making decisions about teaching and learning in their course. References Binder, M.

Schools

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. Universal Design for Learning Guidelines Version 2.2. ” Life Sciences Education 18, no. “The 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process.” Elsevier, 2024.

Learning

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. Universal Design for Learning Guidelines Version 2.2. ” Life Sciences Education 18, no. “The 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process.” Elsevier, 2024.

Learning

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It not only reinforces vocabulary and grammatical structures but also helps students synthesize their knowledge in a way that supports the other core language skills: reading, speaking, and listening. Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing. Anadolu Journal of Educational Sciences International, vol. 2016, www2.ncte.org/statement/teaching-writing.

Languages

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge. 2001, University of Vermont) is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar and Professor of Psychological Sciences at Kansas State University. The empathetic course design perspective. Saucier, Ph.D. Saucier, D.

Instructors

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

The second domain focuses on making an effort to acknowledge the knowledge, skills, and abilities that team members contribute to improving a process. Universal Design for Learning Guidelines Version 2.2. ” Life Sciences Education 18, no. “The 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process.” Elsevier, 2024.

Learning

Gaggle Speaks

MAY 8, 2015

Think about how science classrooms are arranged much differently than writing or math classrooms. Design is an important factor to student success, but with more classrooms expanding online, it’s worth considering how the design of learning spaces should begin to expand as well. Transform Discussion Boards.

Learning Spaces

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

It is also a basic part of teaching and learning and aims to make you more aware of your own professional knowledge. The teaching and learning process can be defined as the transformation process of knowledge from the teacher to the students. Effective teaching involves prioritizing the knowledge and skills we choose to focus on.

Evaluation

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience. It is inductive, beginning with raw experience that is processed through an intentional learning format and transformed into working, usable knowledge. Why experiential learning i nside the classroom?

Learning

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. Retrieval practice and Blooms taxonomy: Do students need fact knowledge before higher-order learning? Ambrose, S.

Plagiarism

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In a surprise move, the University of Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s most-selective institutions, is offering a nearly fully online bachelor’s in applied arts and sciences, among the first of the Ivies to offer a virtual undergraduate degree.

Fairness

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

One of the key benefits of an OLC is that faculty are given the opportunity to collaborate and share their knowledge and expertise (Tuffnell, 2021). This framework is focused on facilitating collaboration, sharing knowledge and expertise, and providing support and guidance to faculty through the OLC. Education Science.

Online Learning

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Modeled after the program at Bryn Mawr College, the student-faculty partnership program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (URTGV), one of the largest Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the nation, aims to create educational spaces in direct response to students’ experiences, knowledge, and insights.

Teaching

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

Incorporating active learning strategies with course lectures not only allows the student to be fully present, it can also be used to break-up lecturing into shorter segments, more manageable for most adult attention spans. Psychological Science , 28 (2), 171–180. The presenter is unable to simply ‘read’ information off of the slides.

Lecturing

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

From Curiosity to Campuswide Inquiry The project began in two large general education courses I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: FSHN 101: The Science of Food and FSHN 120: Contemporary Nutrition. Tessa Wolf strengthened our commitment to inclusive course design. They are co-creators of it.

Disabilities

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

The second domain focuses on making an effort to acknowledge the knowledge, skills, and abilities that team members contribute to improving a process. Universal Design for Learning Guidelines Version 2.2. ” Life Sciences Education 18, no. “The 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process.” Elsevier, 2024.

Learning

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It not only reinforces vocabulary and grammatical structures but also helps students synthesize their knowledge in a way that supports the other core language skills: reading, speaking, and listening. Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing. Anadolu Journal of Educational Sciences International, vol. 2016, www2.ncte.org/statement/teaching-writing.

Languages

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

One of the key benefits of an OLC is that faculty are given the opportunity to collaborate and share their knowledge and expertise (Tuffnell, 2021). This framework is focused on facilitating collaboration, sharing knowledge and expertise, and providing support and guidance to faculty through the OLC. Education Science.

Online Learning

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. Anatomical Sciences Education 10 (3): 215–23. Rickert, Jonathan T. Leo, and Natalie R.

Exams