Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

The surveys included over 20 demographic questionscovering areas like housing, food security, disability status, and employmentfollowed by 1540 experience-based questions exploring academic confidence, mental health, study habits, and perceptions of inclusion. Each chapter is co-authored with students who lived the realities we discuss.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

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Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

Recently, EdSurge met with field experts, all part of the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA), to discuss how they leverage edtech to provide an inclusive learning environment for all students. At Compass High, educators discuss with students any accommodations they are receiving and the rationale for each.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Platforms like Zoom or Google Classroom enable real-time discussions, while forums foster ongoing dialogue beyond scheduled sessions. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2017

CCC-SLP, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Communication Enhancement and the Autism Language Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, discussed some innovative communication tips for students with autism. Shane, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Pop-up social media spaces and hashtags, such as #remoteteaching , #CovidCampus , and the Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning Facebook group, feature numerous posts and discussions about digital tools, resources, and apps for remote teaching. Students look for whether tools have accessibility statements or policies (i.e.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing. New AI tools can make audio recordings of lectures and automatically create summaries and flashcards of the material.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2024

This wasn't a one-way lecture; it was a collaborative exploration, inviting the audience to contribute their insights and perspectives. Accessible conferences ensure that all attendees, regardless of physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities, can participate fully and engage with the content and networking opportunities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system. These questions and more are echoing through the special education ecosystem while federal recommendations and guidelines pivot aggressively around discussion of waivers, accountability and budgets.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

The note began: “We are sorry to report we learned today that some of our online Zoom classes were disrupted by people who used racist and vile language that interrupted lectures and learning. In Butash’s district, school officials have disabled the camera and muted the microphone for students upon joining a Zoom conference.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

At Purdue University, leaders have famously announced they are installing plexiglass barriers in some classrooms that teachers will stand behind to lecture. These were the questions tackled this week during a live online discussion, part of our monthly EdSurge Live series. How would you summarize that discussion?

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2018

The days of standing in front of the classroom and “lecturing” are long gone. Indeed, studies have shown that video learning has positive outcomes on multiple levels, including increased motivation and deeper learning, and can specifically impact students’ ability to facilitate discussions and identify problems.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. On the latest installment of our monthly online discussion forum, EdSurge Live , we explored accessibility in this unusual era of emergency remote teaching.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

For example, far more student respondents expressed support for turning homework in digitally than for watching lectures online or for having online conferences with their professors. “I In between these face-to-face sessions, the students watched short lecture videos that the professor posted online.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at Yale, recorded lectures for her Science of Well-Being MOOC in her home. The hope is this isn’t going to be an ordinary class or lecture series for you,” Santos tells students in an introductory video within the MOOC. He has also donated to a charity that supports children with disabilities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

David Peña-Guzman starts off his Friday class at San Francisco State University like any other professor might: students file in and pull out their note-taking materials, and he opens his laptop to begin lecture. For most of the course, there’s no lecture happening at all. The last hour of class is dedicated to discussing the reading.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

For our latest installment of the weekly EdSurge Live online discussion series that we are running jointly with Bryan Alexander’s Future Trends Forum about COVID-19 response, we invited three students from different types of colleges to share their stories and give advice to college professors and leaders. to 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The event typically draws tens of thousands of educators from around the globe for discussions, presentations and activities that highlight how technology transforms teaching and learning. The event’s broader agenda ranges from interactive lectures to sessions where thousands of attendees come together to hear speakers such as Kendi.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2024

Include Disability Materials Separately Of course, there should be a closed captioning option or a transcript for those with visual problems, but that is separate from the content itself and only used by those students with a disability. When I started teaching, I thought teaching was lecturing.” Both images are striking.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2024

Include Disability Materials Separately Of course, there should be a closed captioning option or a transcript for those with visual problems, but that is separate from the content itself and only used by those students with a disability. When I started teaching, I thought teaching was lecturing.” Both images are striking.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The Role of Assistive Technology in Promoting Inclusive Education Persons with disabilities may struggle with coordination problems, short attention spans, and limited mobility, which may or may not be obvious. Some disabilities include blindness, deafness, dyslexia, and autism. Let’s find out below.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

It is important to understand inclusive pedagogies as practices where we discern the nuance between general multicultural education or culturally responsive pedagogy and inclusive practices that specifically address the ability/disability continuum and the health dimension. Support colleagues with disabilities.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

As professors begin to digitize their curriculum and develop videos for both face-to-face and distance education, these new resources need to be ADA compliant to meet the needs of students with IEPs and documented disabilities,” she says. The result? The benefits don’t stop there.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2019

Even though 86% of universities currently educate students with disabilities, only 24% of the schools say that they offer those students assistance “to a major extent.” Students with physical disabilities that affect their mobility can often find it hard to access learning spaces. Crafting Smart, Accessible Learning Environments.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being. is Executive Director and Chief Scientist at EdTogether and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2017

The idea is to replace one-size-fits-all lectures with a range of mix-and-match educational materials, so delivering a course can be done the way a doctor might consider different treatment options for different patients. Why don’t we start monitoring them sooner, rather than waiting for them to start to fail?” she asks. “We

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Learning Disabilities Disabilities Education Students 121

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. We’re discussing how to strategically implement video feedback “now” and replicate successful models from other districts.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

The surveys included over 20 demographic questionscovering areas like housing, food security, disability status, and employmentfollowed by 1540 experience-based questions exploring academic confidence, mental health, study habits, and perceptions of inclusion. Each chapter is co-authored with students who lived the realities we discuss.

Disabilities 64

Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 64

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. We’re discussing how to strategically implement video feedback “now” and replicate successful models from other districts.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 297

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

Before each meeting, students fill out a form on Google Docs noting key issues they’d like to discuss, and each meeting ends with a “do-out,” homework for what they want to accomplish before the next week’s meeting. “In For one thing, students quickly asked her not to lecture. Students discuss a reading during a recent class session.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 21, 2025

Some simply broadcast lectures over video calls. They dont merely transplant classroom lectures to a screen. They learn to use interactive whiteboards, host breakout discussions, and embed live polls seamlessly within sessionsakin to actors trained for both stage and film. They redesign lessons around digital strengths.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Active learning, as defined by Bonwell and Eison (1991), is learning that goes beyond just listening to a lecture and includes engagement on the part of the student through reading, writing, discussion and problem solving. A new comparison of active learning strategies to traditional lectures for teaching college astronomy.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Active learning, as defined by Bonwell and Eison (1991), is learning that goes beyond just listening to a lecture and includes engagement on the part of the student through reading, writing, discussion and problem solving. A new comparison of active learning strategies to traditional lectures for teaching college astronomy.

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 58

Lab to Class

JANUARY 3, 2024

After reading this guide, teachers should begin collecting materials and creating lesson plans by discussing with their colleagues, doing further research and keeping this guide nearby to ensure no key elements are forgotten. This can be a perfect setup for watching videos, listening to lectures, and reading books. What is Preschool?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It also enabled them to record lectures or class discussions for students to watch and rewatch anytime. For all those reasons, recording those lectures and making them available was the right thing to do, and a significant number of faculty colleagues decided to do that,” Pendse says. It’s a change that some students like.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

You recorded your lectures or gathered via video call with however many students you could reach each week. No one knows yet what the next semester will bring, but there’s a good chance the spaces where you used to teach, whether cavernous lecture hall or cozy seminar room, won’t be available this fall. Can community guidelines help?

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