Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

These days students can have tools like Google’s NotebookLM turn their lecture notes into a podcast , where sunny-sounding AI bots banter and riff on key points. It’s not as simple as assuming that students are all cheaters, the instructor stresses. And those summaries aren’t just a series of quippy text in bullet points.

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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. These were not standard end-of-semester evaluations. They asked to be heard.

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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

JUNE 19, 2018

And those lists offer a telling snapshot of how MOOCs are evolving and what their impact is on the instructors and institutions offering them. Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at Yale, recorded lectures for her Science of Well-Being MOOC in her home. He has also donated to a charity that supports children with disabilities.

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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. And they'll be pretty isolated from each other during the lecture experience. So I was wondering if anyone has really started to rethink lecturing as an effective way of teaching?

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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. What are some of the accessibility needs college students have that instructors, researchers and course designers should be thinking about when moving courses online?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This suggests that many students and instructors may be open-minded about online or “blended” education, although some may have encountered particular practices they especially liked or didn’t like, the researchers conclude. In between these face-to-face sessions, the students watched short lecture videos that the professor posted online.

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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. Michelle Pacansky-Brock, a faculty mentor at California Community Colleges, has compiled a set of tips specific for instructors leading online classes.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key points : Today’s students will undoubtedly encounter generative AI in their careers Two higher-ed instructors have designed a guide for using generative AI in life design and career education See related article: A scholar’s embrace of ChatGPT-4 Innovations that have transformed education have often been met with skepticism.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

And she’s done it all while working from home part time as a university lecturer (her husband works remotely full time). A lot of mainstream education tech is not designed with folks with disabilities in mind. Fifty-six percent of the children of survey respondents had disabilities beyond a visual impairment.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Reality Sets In My first adjunct instructor position was at a community college. They were already registering for courses even though it only said “instructor.” Students with physical disabilities, mental health issues, transportation obstacles, caregiving obligations and the like opt for the convenience of it.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

Professor Gina Sipley, Instructor of Reading and Basic Education at SUNY Nassau Community College in New York, says she and her fellow educators are often looking for closed captioning technologies. “As The result? The benefits don’t stop there.

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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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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Today, many of my colleagues who remain wedded to the traditional face-to-face teaching modality share some of the same fears I experienced as a beginning online asynchronous instructor. As college professors and instructors, we are the content experts and instructional leaders of our courses. If so, please list below.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Today, many of my colleagues who remain wedded to the traditional face-to-face teaching modality share some of the same fears I experienced as a beginning online asynchronous instructor. As college professors and instructors, we are the content experts and instructional leaders of our courses. If so, please list below.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Enacting equity pedagogy as an essential component of multicultural education (Banks & Banks, 1995) requires instructors to become change agents. In this article, we will examine ability/disability as a characteristic of human diversity in education as illustrated by Cushner et al. Support colleagues with disabilities.

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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. It’s actually quite challenging as an instructor,” he says. When you go to actually answer it it gets complicated.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

Many large classes are already in the habit of posting lectures to the class website after every session, as is done at many colleges so students can rewatch later. In practice, though, she expects that most will record lecture videos in their homes or campus offices. Is That Online Teaching?

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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. These were not standard end-of-semester evaluations. They asked to be heard.

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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. Collaboration technology improves accessibility for students with disabilities, illnesses, and other impediments to in-person learning.

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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. Collaboration technology improves accessibility for students with disabilities, illnesses, and other impediments to in-person learning.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

To achieve this, an instructor must look ahead to a future where students will be able to apply their knowledge or showcase their skills, and then the professor creates a question or problem that recreates the real-life context as closely as possible in an open-ended format without being too rigid or pre-structured (Fink, 2003).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

To achieve this, an instructor must look ahead to a future where students will be able to apply their knowledge or showcase their skills, and then the professor creates a question or problem that recreates the real-life context as closely as possible in an open-ended format without being too rigid or pre-structured (Fink, 2003).

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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. Before leading a class, instructors undergo specialized training. How accessible are the programs for students with learning disabilities? Top virtual schools have transformed howand wherewe learn.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

Before coming to Wayfinding, Stewart worked as an instructor at Outward Bound, as well as at a variety of software companies. For one thing, students quickly asked her not to lecture. “In the vast majority of meetings we run out of time,” says Poe Stewart, one of the guides, who is also the director of technology for the college. “I

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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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The lone student of color, the single mother juggling child care, the disabled or depressed student no longer needs to shrink or stand out in the classroom. Before the pandemic, like many of my peers, I had been a great believer of the lecture hall, with its sense of tradition and history.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

The lone student of color, the single mother juggling child care, the disabled or depressed student no longer needs to shrink or stand out in the classroom. Before the pandemic, like many of my peers, I had been a great believer of the lecture hall, with its sense of tradition and history.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Like many first-time remote instructors, I prepped my fall semester by researching best practices in synchronous online education, fretting about bandwidth and Zoom fatigue. They pepper their lectures with personal stories of loss, persistence, and joy. Then again, I’d never taught Shakespeare during a pandemic before.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Like many first-time remote instructors, I prepped my fall semester by researching best practices in synchronous online education, fretting about bandwidth and Zoom fatigue. They pepper their lectures with personal stories of loss, persistence, and joy. Then again, I’d never taught Shakespeare during a pandemic before.

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