eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Educators across the nation can now access Teacher Training Pathways , a free platform offering courses aligned to micro-credentials on remote and hybrid learning, instructional technology coaching and more. The platform will feature an evolving library of courses to further develop educators’ digital literacy.

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Education STEM Internet Hybrid Learning 266

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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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 96

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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Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Instructors 189

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Emily Tarconish, a teaching professor in the College of Education, contributed her deep knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and accessible course design. Dr. Tony Zhang from Gies College of Business offered perspective on AI, ChatBot technology, and ethical academic support tools.

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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.”. To learn more about the course or to request it for your school visit everfi.com.

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High School High School Students Course Design 214

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. Department of Education.

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Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

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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Interdisciplinary Ethics Learning Learning Styles 163

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. PhD students in instructional technology. I was expecting people in K-12 and higher ed, but I also got a lot of people from corporate instructional design. Technology is going to fail."

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Teaching Instructors Course Design Language 194

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). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Teaching Education Learning Assignments 179

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards serve as a potential technology to fill this void in asynchronous online courses.

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Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

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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Teachers Education Math Achievement 130

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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Faculty Development Participation Feedback Course Design 159

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. I was at a crossroads; I didn't want students to use it because I didn't want academic dishonesty, but I also knew this technology would not go away.

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Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 207

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. a video about a course or topic. Activating prior knowledge. a workbook to preview.

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Knowledge Quizzes Learning Students 126

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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Metacognitive Skills Ethics Writing Plagiarism 138

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

Of all the classroom subjects technology is poised to change, perhaps none stoke the imagination quite like language learning. In-ear technology promises to make 40 languages comprehensible in approximately two seconds lag time. If you’re a local, the spot is common knowledge. So, let’s keep teaching language. .

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Language Languages Failure English 158

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards serve as a potential technology to fill this void in asynchronous online courses.

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Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

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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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 140

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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Students Attention Textbooks Assignments 164

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. A learner might leave college with marketing theories under her belt, but lack the ability to use applications like Marketo or HubSpot that are critical for getting a marketing job.

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Skills Course Design Instructors Achievement 296

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2017

Technology in the room supports a video display for each team and the capability to to share a display to any one or all seven projectors in the room. Instructors and students need fresh markers and clean, effective erasers to focus on creating and synthesizing knowledge, not smudging it with their fist. “I

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Active Learning Activities Learning Instructors 149

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. His research focuses on anatomy education, eye-tracking technology, and active learning.

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Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 114

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). Instructional designers empower faculty to focus once again on teaching, content, and their students. The word selective is important.

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Schools Authentic Assessment Syllabus Evaluation 122

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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Instructors Education Lecturing Knowledge 146

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

They dug into the principles of universal design for learning, how instructions can use rubrics to empower students to demonstrate knowledge in many different ways, and how to break up class sessions to make it easier for everyone to participate fully. Jennifer Albat: I feel our institution has done a really great job.

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Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

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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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

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 hacking in the backrooms of IT buildings, making interfaces that allow learners to move in and out of technologies seamlessly, in a unified experience.

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Lecturing Culture Course Design Attention 131

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. a video about a course or topic. Activating prior knowledge. a workbook to preview.

Knowledge 98

Knowledge Quizzes Learning Students 98

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. Further, the educator must consider whether the educational offering will be synchronous or asynchronous and whether technology will be used.

Learning 110

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 110

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. Further, the educator must consider whether the educational offering will be synchronous or asynchronous and whether technology will be used.

Learning 110

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 110

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

Students spend more time in school, the staffing model is focused on building teacher capacity and includes tiered levels of educators, and the school uses a home-grown technology tool, Cortex , which was built in-house by Mote, a technologist by trade. Eighth graders who are taking a capstone course on U.S.

Schools 143

Schools Laboratory Language Languages 143

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.

Education 150

Education Course Design Attention Skills 150

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. Further, the educator must consider whether the educational offering will be synchronous or asynchronous and whether technology will be used. She received her Ph.D.

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Learning Universal Design Fairness Course Design 109

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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Students Instructors Lecturing Participation 203

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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Academic Integrity Exams Assignments Instructors 146

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 12, 2025

In an era of advanced technologies and artificial intelligence, the use of these tools in education raises concerns about its impact on student learning, particularly when it comes to assessments. This can be revealing for educators as they see a different side to students exploring and applying course content in authentic ways.

Learning 102

Learning Evaluation Students Course Design 102

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.

Metacognitive Skills 98

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Writing Plagiarism 98