eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2022

The traditional sequence of teaching using lectures, discussion, projects, and testing was upended during the pandemic as teachers adapted to digital classrooms and students took on more responsibility for their learning. In many traditional classrooms, the majority of class time is spent in a lecture-and-listen format.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

In the above context, I saw my pandemic classroom as a laboratory to prototype and test new pedagogical moves, and where unexpected issues are expected to come to light. Write them down and have it with you as you start the lecture. During the lecture, focus on reflection-during-action.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Founding narrative: While the founder, Ben Nelson, was an undergrad at an Ivy League college (U Penn), he became frustrated with traditional higher education and wrote a long paper envisioning a new kind of curriculum. And traditional professors worry about a lack of traditional elements of a core curriculum and extracurriculars.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2025

In recent years, the discourse around effective assessment has steered towards incorporating the assessment for learning strategy into curriculum development. In the field of engineering, which is my academic background, traditional methods such as lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions are the dominant content delivery vehicles.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

And we also heard from Dan Meyer, vice president of user growth at Amplify, a curriculum and assessment company, who writes a newsletter about teaching mathematics where he has raised objections to the idea of using AI chatbots as tutors. I got in line to take a course with Marvin Minsky and got in.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

Science classes were lecture-based with occasional labs, and each course culminated in a statewide Regents Exam. Lenny, an Intel semi-finalist who launched rockets in a park and built a robot in his bedroom, is a technical staff member at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory where he provides analysis to the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A second monitor can be added to the setup for the instructor to view any lecture notes or to serve as a teleprompter that can be controlled through a laptop connected to the Lightboard CPU module. Attention span during lectures: 8 seconds, 10 minutes, or more? Jeff Puhala is an instructional designer at Penn State University.

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