eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

Pre-pandemic, Meriden was already dipping its toe into online learning, so we had some tech-savvy teachers doing things with Moodle or Schoology,” Moore. We had some experience with online learning.” We really did a lot in getting everybody online. Then came the pandemic. “We Then the pandemic happened, and wow.

Hybrid Learning 283

Hybrid Learning Learning Blended Learning Discussions 283

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.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Sustaining high quality online teaching and learning is best achieved through professional development derived from collegial relationships among online teaching faculty and high touch faculty support provided through an online mentoring model, the Online Learning Community (Pearson & Kirby, 2018).

Online Learning 110

Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 110

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Sustaining high quality online teaching and learning is best achieved through professional development derived from collegial relationships among online teaching faculty and high touch faculty support provided through an online mentoring model, the Online Learning Community (Pearson & Kirby, 2018).

Online Learning 96

Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 96

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

UDL is tough enough in a face-to-face environment, but the real challenge might be how to implement the principles in an online world where students’ abilities and learning styles differ drastically. In presentation , the course provides learners with various way of acquiring information and knowledge.

Accessibility 189

Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Instructors 189

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

Throughout, the playbook explores themes of providing students with support in online courses, making such courses equitable, and the importance of continuously improving them. Here are summaries of the four essential elements of successful online courses, according to the playbook.

Course Evaluations 196

Course Evaluations Instructors Evaluation Universal Design 196

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.

Teaching 194

Teaching Instructors Course Design Languages 194

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Many online learning platforms, such as LinkedIn Learning and MasterClass, are indeed pivoting towards business models that look a lot like subscription-based streaming services Pandora, Spotify or Netflix. Even as we reinvent the platforms and modalities for learning, the teachers at the center of the model are losing out.

Online Learning 85

Online Learning Instructors Education Fairness 85

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

It’s the seventh edition of the Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) report. In the survey, chief online officers predicted that by 2025, programs and courses that mix on-campus and online learning experiences will become the norm for undergraduate students, graduate students and adult learners.

Hybrid Learning 194

Hybrid Learning Hybrid Courses Learning Exams 194

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The emerging field of Learner Experience Design or LX design is about balancing the need for quality course design with the central role of human interaction in online learning. It’s a collaborative process that engages faculty in the design and improvement of online courses.

Blended Courses 164

Blended Courses Instructors Evaluation Participation 164

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district. The adjustment has been difficult for our teachers too.

Teachers 213

Teachers Course Design Participation Discussions 213

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

From our experience both in the online classroom and in training teachers to teach online, this is familiar territory and typically happens about six weeks into a new school session. The newness has worn off, the excitement around technology wanes and teachers often struggle finding ways to engage with their students.

Motivation 218

Motivation Education Learning Feedback 218

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of online education, the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications online graduate programs (UF CJC Online) stands at the forefront of innovation and quality. The course template is a key factor in the QM course review process as it ensures consistency in course design.

Feedback 118

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 118

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

It was really in the ‘80s and the ‘90s that the first satellite distance learning programs came up,” she adds, meaning students could sit in classrooms connected via interactive satellite TV. In a 2010 meta-analysis of online-learning research compiled by the U.S. Department of Education.

Teaching 218

Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

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. I also teach remotely and write content for an app-based English language-learning product.

Languages 158

Languages Language Failure English 158

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of online education, the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications online graduate programs (UF CJC Online) stands at the forefront of innovation and quality. The course template is a key factor in the QM course review process as it ensures consistency in course design.

Feedback 108

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 108

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). Blended Learning. assess success at completion.

Teaching 179

Teaching Education Learning Assignments 179

eSchool News

JULY 11, 2016

At the ISTE 2016 opening general session, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and Microsoft Corp. It will leverage our respective strengths and allow our substantive work on student empowerment, digital citizenship, education leadership and professional learning to be multiplied.”

Beliefs 124

Beliefs Course Design STEM Culture 124

Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2023

All sections of bi-modal courses receive a copy over of the asynchronous LMS master course. The faculty team could be consulted as to what materials should be placed in the master course. Every educator has the same course design and materials. The benefits of bichronous online learning platform.

Exams 111

Exams Course Design Assignments Learning 111

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Online education has revolutionized the way individuals access and engage with learning opportunities, providing flexibility and convenience that traditional institutions cannot always offer. Alongside the benefits of online learning come challenges, particularly in ensuring access, engagement, and inclusion for all students.

Accessibility 105

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 105

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. He engineers every aspect of his courses, down to which students he’ll shoot the breeze with before class. Source: Course Hero. Source: Course Hero. What Is Course Hero?

Quizzes 167

Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

This is in addition to online announcements posted in the Learning Management System and individualized outreach for folks who miss an assignment. Her primary research interests revolve around the scholarship of teaching and learning in online contexts in higher education.

Syllabus 130

Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 130

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Sally Baldwin, EdD, researches online course quality, online course design, and course evaluation instruments. Her research is motivated and informed by her work as an instructor and instructional designer within the California community college system. Louis’ Olin Business School.

Instructors 115

Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 115

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

Educators are available to students and are responsible for designing bi-modal content. Content should incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer choices to students. Each class session and learning activity is offered in-person, synchronously online, and asynchronously online.

Learning 105

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 105

Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

One of the challenges of course design is that all our work can seem perfectly clear and effective when we are knee-deep in the design process, but everything somehow falls apart when deployed in the wild. If you’d like to try this approach yourself, here’s a template prompt you can use with AI systems.

Assignments 79

Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 79

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Online education has revolutionized the way individuals access and engage with learning opportunities, providing flexibility and convenience that traditional institutions cannot always offer. Alongside the benefits of online learning come challenges, particularly in ensuring access, engagement, and inclusion for all students.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

Educators are available to students and are responsible for designing bi-modal content. Content should incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer choices to students. Each class session and learning activity is offered in-person, synchronously online, and asynchronously online.

Learning 98

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Sally Baldwin, EdD, researches online course quality, online course design, and course evaluation instruments. Her research is motivated and informed by her work as an instructor and instructional designer within the California community college system. Louis’ Olin Business School.

Instructors 105

Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 105

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Learn more about the Six Red Marbles' Learning Experience Design team , and how they moved Boston College's courses online. The difference between good and great course designers is the ability to serve as the eyes of the students,” says Evenchik.

Learning 143

Learning Gamification Course Design Textbooks 143

Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2023

All sections of bi-modal courses receive a copy over of the asynchronous LMS master course. The faculty team could be consulted as to what materials should be placed in the master course. Every educator has the same course design and materials. The benefits of bichronous online learning platform.

Exams 96

Exams Course Design Assignments Learning 96

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. Go to edX and look at the platform for creating courses there—it is cumbersome and difficult,” he adds.

Fairness 207

Fairness Course Design Motivation Internet 207

Faculty Focus

JULY 4, 2023

So, if we are truly evidence-based in our approach to designing courses, what can we conclude about student-student interaction? Journal Of Research On Technology In Education. A structural equation model of predictors for effective online learning. Journal of Interactive Online Learning.

Exams 115

Exams Students Instructors Evaluation 115

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

The educator must also be cognizant of the generational differences that may have an impact on learning, the social dynamics in a live or online setting, and how those differences can have an impact as it relates to the ability to use technologies that are embedded within a course (Billings & Halstead, 2024).

Learning 110

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 110

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

The educator must also be cognizant of the generational differences that may have an impact on learning, the social dynamics in a live or online setting, and how those differences can have an impact as it relates to the ability to use technologies that are embedded within a course (Billings & Halstead, 2024).

Learning 109

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 109

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

The educator must also be cognizant of the generational differences that may have an impact on learning, the social dynamics in a live or online setting, and how those differences can have an impact as it relates to the ability to use technologies that are embedded within a course (Billings & Halstead, 2024).

Learning 108

Learning Universal Design Fairness Course Design 108

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

“Digital learning can help institutions reduce costs and pass along savings to students through three primary mechanisms: raising student-to-instructor ratios, drawing on a broader network of adjunct faculty, and avoiding additional operations costs.”

Study 124

Study Culture Course Design Instructors 124

Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

This is in addition to online announcements posted in the Learning Management System and individualized outreach for folks who miss an assignment. Her primary research interests revolve around the scholarship of teaching and learning in online contexts in higher education.

Syllabus 104

Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 104