eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The shift to virtual learning in early 2020 put a spotlight on online course design, with all its flaws and inconsistencies. But there are good examples of effective online course design. First and foremost, engaging online learning programs are built with empathy for both the teacher and the student.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2020

Pathblazer Courses for Summer School and On-Level Mastery for mitigating learning loss for students in grades K-6 who are working below grade level. The modules can also be used any time of the year to support student success and address ELA standards covered in grades 6-12 and math standards covered in grades 6-11.

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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).

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work? A philosophical foundation is important to how a teacher grades. Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well?

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2024

The course is online, two-hours, and self-paced—with no previous experience required. Teachers who complete the course will earn a certificate that can be presented to their district for professional development (PD) credit. “Google wants to ensure every educator can take advantage of the opportunities created by AI.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 4, 2020

Teachers are scrambling to move their offline courses online to ensure that students continue learning for the remainder of the school year. I am fielding questions about how to set up online courses , design online lessons , and offer small group instruction and support via video conferencing. ChoiceBoardLearnOffline.

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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).

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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. About PAVO.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

To keep students engaged in STEM learning during school closures, Vernier Software & Technology is offering a robust collection of free remote learning solutions for teachers and students. Physics with Video Analysis Lab Book: Teachers can download this e-book for free through June 2020.

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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. Teachers trickle in as I set out muffins and candy at each table.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2019

It’s clear to me that the course design–how I lay out the mix of resources, homework, classwork, and more–affects how students absorb and share knowledge. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors knows a lot about how course design impacts learning. All of this starts with a good course design.

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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. Being a government teacher and teaching about political elections, I'm really excited to apply what I’ve learned in my classroom.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2015

With Google in the classroom, teachers should reimagine lessons. The point is, of course, that you probably can Google every single concept you currently teach and your students know this well. An added challenge is to grapple with the informal course designs that are popping up all over the net. area similar questions.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

Most teachers don’t have prior experience or professional development in teaching online courses effectively. Two months ago, nobody would have predicted that education at every level, from kindergarten through graduate programs, would either shut down or move online.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We know technology is a challenge for veteran teachers. It wasn’t part of their teacher training program so they rely on school PD to fill the many holes in blending tech with education. It was clear that as I worked with these up-and-coming teachers, their first exposure to the integration of technology was in my classroom.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2021

If you’re struggling to remember these basic aspects of the last course you completed, the course design could likely benefit from some improvement. Now ask yourself this question: What am I doing differently as a teacher or faculty member to create better learning experiences for my students?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stop me if you’ve seen this one before: In an effort to encourage teachers to abandon traditional, lecture-style instruction in favor of next-generation learning models, we sit them down and ask them to listen for an hour or two. Or, in other words, we lecture teachers on the merits of ditching the lecture.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

Teachers enroll now in new online professional development courses designed to improve student achievement in reading and math. Each course is 10-hours, self-paced and asynchronous. Upon completion of the professional development courses, teachers become Certified Lexile or Quantile Educators. DURHAM, N.C.

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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. Some teachers had started in Google Classroom, but it was still in its infancy and didn’t have a lot of features at the time.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

ClassVR is a full turnkey VR and AR offering for classrooms, teachers, and education. It offers a web-based management portal and uses existing IT infrastructure for wi-fi and connectivity to make it easier for teachers to integrate VR resources into their existing instruction.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2023

The CDP is an online portal where teachers access and navigate Ellipsis courses. Designed to be mobile-responsive, the CDP makes the curriculum teachers know and love easier to use. With the new CDP, teachers will only see the courses they have access to, color-coded by grade band, on their home screen. .

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Teacher Training Pathways offers educators a free platform for professional development. Expansion of Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program to include additional student connectivity and teacher professional development for Title I schools.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Author Thomas Arnett, an education researcher at the Institute, noted that “ if you align your funding with impact, you are better positioned to design systems that support teacher-led instruction.” The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches in August with three online sessions.

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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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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. There is a need for one trusted, dynamic and centralized source of education that students, their families, and teachers can rely on,” said Davidson. EVERFI Inc.,

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

As university professors and researchers who work closely with K-12 online teachers and learners, we’ve heard from many newly remote educators who are struggling. Some teachers report that their students lack interest and in the worst cases, that students are dropping from classes entirely.

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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). assess success at completion.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2022

“One of the keys to our success with credit recovery is the design of our online asynchronous courses,” said Carol DeFuria, President & CEO of VHS Learning. The other key is our highly-qualified teachers.”.

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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 19, 2020

In this interview with EdSurge, Maurer explains her goals for the project and emphasizes the importance of comptent online course design. The relationship that an instructor builds with an instructional designer is really, really important. So far, the network has 300 volunteers and counting. This is a partnership we develop.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

2011) into all parts of our courses (see Saucier et al., 2022 for a discussion of the empathetic course design perspective). This ranges from our syllabi to our course structures and policies, to our assignments and assessments. This empathetic course design perspective is important to us. Raimondi, 2019).

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

As professors and K-12 teachers adjust to the sudden move to online teaching, one question keeps coming up: How much of class time should be done live—known in education parlance as “synchronous” teaching—and how much should be done so that students can do the work at their convenience—or “asynchronous” teaching.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

When schools and educators augment or replace classroom-only teaching with high quality, multimedia online instruction, they’re embracing “learning experience design (LXD.)" Learn more about the Six Red Marbles' Learning Experience Design team , and how they moved Boston College's courses online. No problem.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2021

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, taught for 36 years before retiring. Over the past year teachers have been bombarded by colleagues, administrators, and social media pundits on which platforms can best serve them and their students. How did a teacher decide what was the best fit for their students?

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Teachers spend hours designing and setting up their classrooms. One of EdSurge’s most popular articles described how a teacher used flexible seating to create a classroom that resembled Starbucks, spawning a movement to “ Starbucks your classroom. ” They arrange cozy reading nooks and construct colorful bulletin boards.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I spent the next four years in my assigned seat among the rows of desks, trying to listen to the teacher at the front of the room, completing homework assignments from textbooks, and preparing for tests by making countless flashcards. Eight years later, I was back in high school again, this time as a math teacher.

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