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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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

Coding bootcamp providers may have found their niche by targeting needs that traditional four-year institutions do not always offer: short, skill-based learning programs. Trilogy works with institutions to create intensive learning programs for adults looking to skill-up in areas such as data analytics and web development.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

In a world where AI skills and fluency will be necessary and marketable, colleges and universities have made efforts to embrace AI in the classroom (e.g., We are needed to engage them and to help them develop curiosity and critical thinking skills to offset their potential AI-induced brain rot. The empathetic course design perspective.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The initiative includes the Path to Pro Skills Program, offering on-demand courses designed to prepare participants for six trade-based careers, including electrical, drywall, paint, plumbing, HVAC and general construction. Interested students explore free programs developed by experts in the construction profession.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Digital course helps high schoolers develop critical skills they’ll need for workplace success. Every year, millions of students take the ACT WorkKeys® career-readiness assessment, which is used by thousands of employers to determine if potential hires have the skills necessary to succeed.

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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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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

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. High school students have a growing capacity for processing information, thinking more about abstract ideas, and using reasoning skills. EVERFI Inc.,

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

BetterLesson announced BL Connect , an online library of quick, self-directed courses designed to bring actionable professional education to every teacher. BL Connect courses build upon educators’ past successes, connecting the dots between professional learning and everyday practice.

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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. They can have their imagination of what they’d really like to do in a course, and then I help them figure out how to do that. Online teaching is a skill and should be done thoughtfully.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

With a commitment to ensuring educational excellence and student success, in 2020, UF CJC Online developed a comprehensive course design strategy to elevate its online courses, a mission mandated by the State University System of Florida’s 2025 Strategic Plan for Online Education.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

The ability to communicate effectively is increasingly recognized as an important skill for students entering the workforce. Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education has launched a short online course designed specifically to help educators create rich and meaningful opportunities for communication within the classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This September, twenty years after I entered high school, my colleagues and I at America Achieves rolled out “ Quest for Success ,” a free career exploration course designed to ensure students know about and are prepared for careers of the future.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

With a commitment to ensuring educational excellence and student success, in 2020, UF CJC Online developed a comprehensive course design strategy to elevate its online courses, a mission mandated by the State University System of Florida’s 2025 Strategic Plan for Online Education.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

But what does it take to improve learning for all student populations, support positive school environments, and ensure school leaders at all levels are equipped with the skills and tools they need to maintain successful learning environments? The short answer: It takes a lot, but companies and researchers are up to the challenge.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

How would this course impact you? You wouldn’t be absorbing a trove of new content, but you would be learning skills critically important to thriving in our rapidly changing economies. You’d be learning to step toward resilience, agility, designing with others, creative collaboration.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Start with the skills for lifelong learning and learn those.” 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.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Research on faculty perceptions suggests that the ideal enrollment for online courses is lower than what they would consider suitable for high-enrollment courses, with course design playing a crucial role. With fewer students, instructors can more easily track progress and adapt the course based on individual needs.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

3D modeling and printers can bring almost any educational concept to life, while building practical skills such as problem-solving, creative coding and design. 3D printing also supports inclusion efforts for students of various learning styles and improves collaboration and speaking skills. 3D Printing Engages Students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Students debated the best ways for educators and course designers to build fair and valuable grading schemes, and many brought up their concerns over how the current model for testing and grading doesn’t work for all students.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Founded in 2015, MasterClass has stuck to its founding premise: to make Hollywood-quality courses featuring experts who are the best in their profession. Today, the company offers 85 courses spanning acting, business, cooking, filmmaking, sports and other skills. One of the most popular? He declined to share how much each costs.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2022

The curriculum is guided by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language World Readiness Standards, with emphasis on reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. VHS Learning will also introduce Spanish 1 as an 8-week paced summer course beginning in June 2022.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

“But bringing it into an online setting adds that extra layer of technology challenge and collaboration-skill challenge.” She said that one of the ways she implements active participation is through participatory course design in some of her courses, where students take part in brainstorming what the course will look like.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

A SWOT analysis The five stages of the Stanford Design Thinking Process were used to structure the course. Design thinking activities and assessments were designed at each stage of the course. Students were asked to consider their transferable skills in identifying their strengths and development needs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

In terms of the existing [medical] workforce, there is clearly a shift in the skill set that is necessary,” says Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera. The digitization of healthcare with more data and machine learning has created a skill set that many people didn’t study in school.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Faculty developers and centers for teaching and learning can play a huge role in helping educators develop digital literacy skills. Design facilitated online, asynchronous courses for faculty that model effective course design and facilitation. Tips for Ongoing Untethering Efforts.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

That may mean hiring more staff who have expertise in digital course design and instruction—and reevaluating whether to pay for help from outside companies or bring services in-house. And the report suggests that few colleges require students to undergo training about how to succeed in online courses.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Courses designed to better use mobile technology could help parent learners use these bits of time more effectively. Cell-Ed , a mobile-first adult education provider, is partners with businesses and community-based organizations to deliver micro-courses in English literacy, basic education, and workforce skills via cell phones.

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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.

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Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Generative AI and Your Discipline After a sense of initial impressions, our guiding framework asks you to think broadly about your discipline and the skills students acquire in your program. As you think about your discipline relative to generative AI, consider: What fundamental skills do students need in your courses or disciplines?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

We would spend far more time developing information literacy, teamwork, research skills, study skills, and metacognitive skills so that students wouldn’t be so dependent on us and could engage in more self-directed learning. She joined Georgia College in 2001, where she is a Professor of Teacher Education.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2022

It’s an eight-week training course designed to prepare women for apprenticeships and jobs in the skilled trades, which can set them up for careers that start out paying double or triple the minimum wage. To start to change that, in 2008 Moore Community House created a new program called Women in Construction.

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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.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Pro tip: Multiple times throughout the course, encourage students to provide anonymous feedback on the course content and structure and be responsive to their suggestions. Final Thoughts Building connections with students isn’t magic; it’s a skill that takes time and effort. Benner, G. J., & Sanders, S.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Research on faculty perceptions suggests that the ideal enrollment for online courses is lower than what they would consider suitable for high-enrollment courses, with course design playing a crucial role. With fewer students, instructors can more easily track progress and adapt the course based on individual needs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

For more structured courses designed specifically for K-12 classrooms and language labs, Transparent Language offers real-time courses and customizable, curriculum aligned content. Students without opportunities to use their target languages in their own communities can use Verbling to chat with native speakers.

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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. First, provide the AI with information about your course and key characteristics of your student population.

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