eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

Most teachers don’t have prior experience or professional development in teaching online courses effectively. Related post: Leading eLearning and a Future Ready library opportunity. Online education is fairly synonymous with asynchronous learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. Yet the nonprofit is also developing its own software designed to undercut the courseware industry, charging just $10 per student.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Students are required to complete online chapter quizzes based on the course objectives and textbook for the course within D2L. When the course was taught in-person, three tests were administered to students and evenly spaced throughout the semester. There were no intermittent due dates throughout the semester.

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Quizzes Teaching Learning Feedback 126

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Students are required to complete online chapter quizzes based on the course objectives and textbook for the course within D2L. When the course was taught in-person, three tests were administered to students and evenly spaced throughout the semester. There were no intermittent due dates throughout the semester.

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Quizzes Teaching Learning Feedback 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Seven years ago, that first course redesign was a big shift for me. I had been teaching eighth grade geography for four years at that point, and historically, I had used a textbook and pacing chart to cover the curriculum. As I improved it, I also worked on developing a smoother flow and incorporating reflections into the course.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For retrieval practice to be effective at building and strengthening neural links, students must try to pull the information from memory and not simply glance over their course notes or the textbook (Miller, 2022, p. Spaced retrieval involves an initial encounter with the material (e.g.,

Learning 92

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

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