eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When it comes to teaching economics and personal finance, instructors report that they value the use of digital storytelling, popular culture, and simulations/games because they help connect the dots between theory and real life, according to the study. The study is available on the Poptential website. About Certell, Inc.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning. Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

For decades, researchers have highlighted the importance of comprehending and integrating diverse cultural elements to enhance teaching and learning practices. When people hear the term “culture,” it is often associated solely with ethnic culture.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. I came to alternative assessment alongside many other instructors as COVID-19 forced seasoned instructors to grapple with assessment policies. University Press of Colorado, 2022.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Our goal is to shift pedagogy toward a “culture of thinking” that supports more student agency and more effective use of the learning space itself. Once onboard, those instructors participated in three different professional learning dates, plus additional ones that were added during the school year.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

A culture of continuous learning Wendy W. When we commit to participating in a culture of continuous learning, we are living out phrases like, “It’s okay not to know,” “Everyone has things they are still learning,” or ,“We all make mistakes.” Students are not just passively learning math; they’re actively participating.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Being not only consumers but also active content creators, examining their social media usage reveals much about their cultural identity expression. Instructors can broaden community and connection, going beyond traditional classroom boundaries while retaining academic standards by leveraging social media.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

For decades, researchers have highlighted the importance of comprehending and integrating diverse cultural elements to enhance teaching and learning practices. When people hear the term “culture,” it is often associated solely with ethnic culture.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Thousands of students and their teachers have participated in the Museum’s live virtual STEM workshops this school year. Virtual Traveling Science Workshops are live-streamed, hands-on workshops led by the Museum’s experienced STEM instructors. For more information please visit www.discoveryacton.org.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The teaching experts who sponsored the training hope it will prepare college instructors to become “advocates,” empowering them to explain and defend the rigor of this way of teaching calculus to skeptical scientists from other departments. This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July. the instructor asked.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Being not only consumers but also active content creators, examining their social media usage reveals much about their cultural identity expression. Instructors can broaden community and connection, going beyond traditional classroom boundaries while retaining academic standards by leveraging social media.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Participants will get objective, honest and useful information from admissions experts and learn what it takes to choose the right college and build the strongest college application possible. The School’s first Symposium, an intensive one-day event for students and parents preparing for the college admissions process, will take place on Oct.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. New students participate in an orientation that aims to teach them how to become “autonomous learners” ready for an intensive academic program, says provost Robert Savukinas.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The group held an invitation-only summit where they encouraged participants to identify projects that they can share with colleagues elsewhere. Most institutions do have some kind of center for teaching and learning but it’s often seen as a kind of an optional resource that instructors go to occasionally,” he added. “We

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

A Culture of Smallness Brene Brown, an affective researcher and professor at the University of Houston, identifies vulnerability as the birthplace of innovation. Higher education institutions typically have, what I describe, as a culture of smallness. However, in higher education, digital participation is not mainstream.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2020

Build a Healthy Virtual Culture Many high schoolers from underserved communities have never interacted in virtual professional or learning environments before. To counter these gaps, we provided our students with laptops and hot spots where necessary.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

So some colleges and instructors have started to think about how to help students get up to speed on their digital and technical skills. Fluent in Digital Culture — Not Academic Tools It’s understandable that many educators perceive members of Gen Z to be internet-savvy.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This approach improves access and learning as well when students play a role in the design of content, said some of the chat participants. Students get the best of both worlds where they can engage the instructor and other students but still have the flexibility of online work,” said White. In my experience, blended is best.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

K-12 classroom instructors, instructional coaches, and educational administrators are invited to enroll. Each session includes expert video screencasts, classroom video clips, readings and resources, and assignments that will help participants create a strong foundation of communication within the classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

That involves understanding the learner's cognitive style, their cultural background and even their emotional state or sentiment. Learners in a personalized education system are active participants in their educational journeys rather than passive recipients of information. It's about making education more equitable and ethical.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Participants could move from table to table, discussing the questions with other members of each group. Many colleges have also begun offering faculty workshops so instructors can learn to model constructive dialogue in the classroom, Longo says. It's really about thinking about how it just becomes part of the culture,” Smith says.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In undergraduate classrooms, instructors encounter a variety of students with diverse backgrounds and different personalities. It is the instructors challenge to create a comfortable class environment. Not only will students benefit, but instructors can feel more at ease in their own classrooms. Model reflective listening.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At his second college, close to his home in East Hollywood, he says that he had a bad experience with the instructor about an early assignment in a developmental English course. But without participation from four-year colleges, community college efforts are like a bridge that only spans half of a river. He went on to earn his Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. That’s what Joseph Ching, an affiliate scholar at James Madison University, has experienced.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Someone who wants to live out my values in practice There is a key difference between an educator saying they want to meet the needs of diverse learners and that instructor actually taking the actions that would meet that goal. Mitchell at Lafayette College provides instructors with information about the students taking their class.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

Their studies take a look at how simple assignments that ask participants to read about how other older students have felt out-of-place at school — the first year of middle school and first year of college, to be precise — can build resistance to that sneaky inner voice that says, “I don’t belong here.” I would stop to start saying how I am.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

The difficulties in student engagement with instructor-directed reading, both in terms of the amount of reading undertaken and the participation and benefit from in-class discussion around readings, can be a prevalent problem. Bovill et al., academic journal article or specific industry press).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The six participating libraries include: The Public Library Albuquerque and Bernalillo County , Belen Public Library , Santa Fe Public Library and three of New Mexico’s Rural Bookmobiles: Bookmobile East ( Tucumcari ), Bookmobile Northeast (Cimarron Library) and Bookmobile West ( Los Lunas ).

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

When I attend professional gatherings on open education, however, instructors like myself are often the minority. Yet open educational materials impact faculty and students alike, and many instructors are using these resources today. That is not appealing to instructors,” argues Skidmore.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

YouTube may be humanity’s largest collaborative cultural project, aggregating an astonishing amount of user-generated content. More colleges are using it for online learning, since it can make students and instructors more present to each other than most other media. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In undergraduate classrooms, instructors encounter a variety of students with diverse backgrounds and different personalities. It is the instructors challenge to create a comfortable class environment. Not only will students benefit, but instructors can feel more at ease in their own classrooms. Model reflective listening.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

In an online environment, we have seen benefits from that early design thinking in terms of helping adapt our students and curriculum in an online format, and creating capacity for instructors to balance interaction with large classes and smaller groups.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 13, 2025

Increasingly, instructors report difficulty maintaining students attention, citing ever-present distractions like smartphones, laptops, and a relentless stream of digital notifications. Rather than dictating course policies and classroom norms, instructors can instead ask: What do you think about this plan? This distinction is crucial.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Academic transformation starts—but does not end—with changing the centuries-old lecture model around which campus culture has been constructed. Provides option for participants to join remotely without needing an account Screen sharing Built-in recording option Online polling. Digital Tools for Untethering Workshops & Meetings.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2022

A lack of bilingual instructors and leadership buy-in, and the difficulty of developing a Spanish-only college-level curriculum, are some of the limiting factors that have stymied their growth, experts and university leaders say. The region’s geography and culture give the program key advantages when it comes to recruiting local students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

In this vein, Benjamin Riley and Michael Pershan, from the nonprofit Deans for Impact, recently published an article describing cultural cognition. They write: “Cultural cognition describes how we interpret certain facts and evidence through the lens of our existing values.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

These activities encourage participation without the anxiety of high-stakes grading (Freeman et al., Flexible participation options: Allow students to choose how they engage, including online discussion boards, written reflections, video reflections, or in-class individual or group work. 2014; Agarwal, 2019). Teachers College Press.

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