Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. But too often, a critical element is left out of the process: student voice. You can find the full report here , and a snapshot of highlights below.

Fairness 163

Fairness Education Students Disabilities 163

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Specifically, she’s launched Reconstruction , a collection of online courses and curriculum focused on Black contributions to American and world history, targeted specifically at Black students. What would a national Black curriculum look like? And by May, we had hired close to 30 curriculum writers.

Culture 209

Culture Instructors History Education 209

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2021

It starts with studying and discussing identity, and then using students’ understanding of identity as a foundation for infusing it into the entire curriculum. Centering students’ humanity isn’t a destination; it’s a decision you must make every day in your classroom.

Learning 218

Learning Feedback Testing Lecturing 218

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2022

As Educational Technology Director for the entire district, Susan Uram is responsible for ensuring that roughly 28,000 students and their teachers have access to the most impactful learning technology available. Then, we have systems of teacher leaders, curriculum leaders, principals who join these conversations.

Coaching 182

Coaching Evaluation Motivation Science 182

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

We take a bottom-up approach to education technology in a way that is contextual and responsible. We enable organizations to have ownership over how they contextualize education technology specific to their local needs and experience. All of this is part of our theory of change.

Education 164

Education Internet Accessibility Exams 164

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

First, the BEGiN will expand Homer’s digital curriculum beyond reading to cover math, critical thinking and social-emotional learning. Every one of our investors invested with an intention to play an integral role, whether that’s through curriculum design, branding, promotion or product development,” he says.

Education 181

Education Curriculum Design Critical Thinking Study 181

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Upon graduation I joined him to lead educational technology research and Constructionist theory development. What is worst about school curriculum is the fragmentation of knowledge into little pieces. Helping children learn to be good learners was much more important than teaching them a rigid curriculum.

Knowledge 129

Knowledge Curriculum Design Intelligence Math 129

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

These educators work directly with teachers and administrators, serving as mentors, curriculum writers, and professional learning facilitators for our workforce. There are many cases in which we make subtle changes to our strategy or curriculum based on MBE research to improve teaching and learning.

Questions 186

Questions Teaching Education Learning 186

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The AI Education Project , founded in 2019, hopes to teach young people about artificial intelligence and the way it will impact—and is already impacting—their lives and livelihoods. Tanner: First we centered the students themselves in our design process. I’ve heard you say the curriculum is more like TikTok than Scholastic.

Intelligence 202

Intelligence STEM Culture Curriculum 202

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

some of the principles being stripped out of the curriculum are why we’re here,” she says. “We It’s a good combination of community and equity and purposeful curriculum design,” Egan says. The majority of commercial textbooks are produced in Texas or Florida, Egan says, and their cultural references reflect their origins.

Textbooks 188

Textbooks Culture Students Participation 188

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

There are many professors I've spoken to who are fascinated by research on learning science, educational technology, approaching to teaching of learning. I'm curious, because you note in your study that higher education is at a big moment of change, and that new ways of teaching better fit the needs of today’s workplace.

Education 121

Education Curriculum Design Science Instructors 121

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is a particularly challenging aspect of any educational plan, as it deals with the kind of character traits that are most difficult to monitor and measure in students—social awareness, self-efficacy, stress management, decision making, interpersonal behavior, and relationship building.

Learning 144

Learning Elementary School Elementary School Curriculum Design 144

eSchool News

JULY 23, 2020

That’s why we work to provide resources and technology to connect what’s possible for all stakeholders, expanding and enhancing the expectations of what education should be,” said Joel Hernandez, CEO of eLumen. Designing Quality Curriculum and Processes?This Supporting Technology Implementation and Review.

Evaluation 130

Evaluation Learning Achievement Learning Outcomes 130

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rather than creating online degree programs from scratch, Noodle is outsourcing various aspects—recruitment, curriculum design—to other companies and bundling together the services for universities. Perhaps the university wants to outsource recruitment and analytics for its online program but handle the curriculum design internally.

Curriculum Design 126

Curriculum Design Failure Exams Course Design 126

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. University of Michigan marketing professor John Branch rebuilds the learning experience by taking a precision engineering approach to course design. That’s the engineering side of my brain.

Quizzes 167

Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Most people with “instructional design” in their job title are involved in converting “traditional” written curriculum or in-person teaching into an online course. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy.

Feedback 163

Feedback Failure Lecturing Reading 163

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I struggled with classroom management, curriculum design and the pressures of working in a high-poverty school. I entered the classroom through an alternative certification program , which meant I hadn’t received the same level of preparation as teachers who came through traditional teacher training routes.

Culture 204

Culture Motivation Classroom Management Teaching Assistants 204

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2020

Look for STEM programs and online resources that provide step-by-step curriculum designed for the classroom or PD opportunities for teachers. In-person and virtual learning experiences give teachers confidence to coach STEM and robotics programs.

STEM 191

STEM Coaching Students Participation 191

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Schools across the globe are experiencing an influx of digital technologies—from systems that allow teachers to monitor computer use in the classroom to adaptive learning applications, machine learning-based programs that modify instruction based on students’ behaviour and proficiency.

Schools 142

Schools Curriculum Design Accessibility Evaluation 142

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

The pressure of keeping up with our district’s curriculum map, getting through all the standards and preparing these struggling math students for Algebra I, led me to utter the worst possible sentence in that moment: “Time to start our next unit: Percents, Proportions and Ratios.” My heart sank.

Learning 165

Learning Math Testing Exams 165

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

One promising development in blended curriculum design that promotes student engagement is the new COVA model. In 2013, the school district entered a contract with Apple (technology) and Pearson (curriculum programming) to provide students with devices for a blended learning program.

Blended Learning 152

Blended Learning Failure Learning Learning Outcomes 152

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

The most popular edtech job category doesn’t relate to design or administration—it’s all about curriculum writing. While edtech “sales” jobs do garner an admirable amount of attentions, over the past twelve months, “curriculum writer” has risen to the top, capturing more than a fourth of all pageviews. There’s a caveat, however.

English 98

English Curriculum Design Attention Curriculum 98

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

AI is going to transform every aspect of higher education and the student journey. How students engage with their professors, the methods used to evaluate learning and retention and course curriculum design will all be influenced by the opportunities and challenges posed by AI.

Plagiarism 171

Plagiarism Education Intelligence Ethics 171

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

The computer science curriculum is doing more than teaching underserved middle school students how to code. In early May, students were finishing up a website design unit in their computer science class, which follows the curriculum designed by RePublic Schools , a charter school network based in Nashville, Tenn.

Schools 167

Schools Science Middle School Middle School 167

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. Nate McClennen, Vice President of Education at Wyoming’s Teton Science Schools , hopes to accelerate the movement. McClennen explains.

Education 125

Education Schools History Culture 125

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The classroom program, which began in fall 2018 and runs through the spring, pairs Nintendo technology with a curriculum designed by the Institute of Play to create a STEM-focused, hands-on learning experience that combines digital and physical elements.

Feedback 167

Feedback Critical Thinking STEM Skills 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

As brainstorming continued so too did the sense of empathy for the many educators whose innovative work was found piecemeal throughout the state yet not communicated broadly within the education community. One potential fix?

Teachers 140

Teachers Curriculum Design Communication Feedback 140

Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2017

That’s exactly what the leadership team has done at Valor Collegiate Academies in Nashville, Tennessee, a school network committed to balancing academic content with non academic skills and habits in the curriculum to help better prepare students for their future. Work towards all three goals is underway. What’s Next for Valor?

Testing 107

Testing Beliefs Curriculum Achievement 107

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

A few folks mentioned the importance of institutional partnerships in curriculum development. We then (re)design the curriculum to match, then go through a curriculum review” - and this process is iterated over time. Entangled Solutions felt, “Educators should develop the curriculum - they are curriculum design experts.

Skills 77

Skills Discussions Language Languages 77

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

A venture-backed company today announced a new educational offering billed as an alternative to the standard undergraduate experience. It will last only one calendar year, feature a curriculum designed in close coordination with well-known employers, and cost nothing—at least at the outset.

Art 133

Art Lecturing Writing Curriculum 133

Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. Educational Technology Research and Development 69 (2): 55381. Wang, Huanhuan, and James D.

Instructors 119

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

Instructors who recorded the lectures came from institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, New York University and Davidson College.

Lecturing 116

Lecturing Textbooks Course Design Instructors 116

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

We wanted participants in the collaboration to be diverse, with faculty, staff, administrators and curriculum designers contributing, and we wanted students to be the focus of our discussions. Together, they reviewed the maps and exchanged insights about curriculum design and ways to work effectively with faculty.

Learning 73

Learning Curriculum Design Faculty Development Discussions 73

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Crisp noted, “most analytics right now just show engagement, which is one measure, but strategically placed Q&A could tell curriculum designers a lot about what knowledge, skills and abilities are sticking and where the instruction misses the mark.”.

Authentic Assessment 81

Authentic Assessment Education Curriculum Design Knowledge 81

Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. Educational Technology Research and Development 69 (2): 55381. Wang, Huanhuan, and James D.

Instructors 98

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 98

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2016

All of the curriculum we have developed has followed a similar principle: ensure that all students are connected, acquiring new knowledge and building confidence as they progress through concrete steps. For computer science , this means we have done a tremendous amount of in-house curriculum design.

Science 82

Science Math Schools Interdisciplinary 82

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Fiore says she is particularly proud of this initiative, because it is the first program where LaGuardia took an employer-heavy approach to curriculum design and saw success. Working with LaGuardia, it developed the medical billing program to help fill this need.

Education 90

Education Learning Styles Curriculum Design Participation 90