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. But McNamara says she ended up getting together with another classmate she met on the Discord group face to face.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. In spreadsheets, he manually recorded each interaction he had with students during discussion. Today, Teachly has been used by over 75 faculty members in 100 classrooms at Harvard’s Kennedy School.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Unsurprisingly, some of the biggest drivers of these improved metrics include making people pay for online programs, increasing the selectivity of courses, and adding program managers and teaching assistants to follow up with learners. Here are seven practices for moving completion rates for online courses from 5 to 85 percent: 1.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

3 Education Technologies Improve Blended Learning Initiatives. Artificial Intelligence: Smart assistants can help teachers and students use time more efficiently. Acting as tutors or teaching assistants, AI makes classroom time more effective and leaves educators time to address more personal needs.

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Technology Blended Learning Lecturing Exams 167

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. During in-class activities, we often collaborated in pairs or small groups.

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Science Education Learning Essay 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

The agenda included time for us to share what brought us to the meeting, review some background information about the field of MBE research, discuss our goals and collectively decide on our next steps. We engaged with literature immediately, selecting Tokuhama-Espinosa’s book “ NeuroMyths ” as our first group read.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. student and teaching assistant, began building his own homegrown adaptive tutoring technologies.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant. A common format I use is a 5-3-1 structure: where they identify five main points that stood out to them, three ways they might apply what they read and one question they have as a discussion prompt for others who read the same passages.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

GYO exposes participants to the science of early learning through workshops, videos, coursework and facilitated discussions about how participants can apply their learning.

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Special Education Teachers Education Exams 186

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

“At the intersection of cognitive sciences and computing there’s an opportunity to transform educational technology,” says Satya Nitta, IBM’s program director of cognitive science and education technology. I don’t think we deserve them. But they keep me going.”. But this stuff works now!”).

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Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 153

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Held at NovoEd’s headquarters, five speakers gave their six-minute lightning talks and then led a smaller group discussion with attendees. However, they were more open to having their teaching assistants try new approaches. So he implemented new approaches with teaching assistants for an introduction to biology course.

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Teaching Assistants Learning Beliefs Feedback 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe. A video created in Tanzania by Garrett Wilkinson, a teaching assistant in the Anth101 course. Wesch hired a consultant he knew to build a website for the course, so that it wouldn’t look like a typical college site.

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Textbooks Teaching Assistants Instructors Exams 162

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

Once a week, Turk does a live video discussion with all her interns on the platform. Using technology we are offering coursework in an online format,” says Turk “I can have an intern in Wilmington, Delaware, but I am in NYU.”

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Teaching Social Studies Teaching Assistants Participation 139

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Spending on education technology in the US now exceeds $13B. Studies show that information and computer-assisted learning boosts academic achievement, improves learner engagement and reduces teacher burden by shaving time off the day. But not all edtech is equally effective.

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Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 140

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. During in-class activities, we often collaborated in pairs or small groups.

Science 148

Science Education Learning Essay 148

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Starting each class session by asking students to recall what was discussed in the previous session. His teaching assistants have engaged with students in the class from places such as Ethiopia, Northern Ireland, Guatemala, Samoa and Vietnam. Calling students by name, even in such a large class.

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Learning Students Assignments Participation 163

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. Teachers have gained so much confidence and are finally using educational technology in a way that enhances their instruction at a scale we haven’t seen. The classroom experience will include increased technology and personalized learning.

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. Apart from course evaluation, which is embedded within the normal semester, and kind of a mandatory process, I think the other stakeholder that we often forget is the teaching assistants.

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Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 121

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Structured seating formation is not conducive to discussion. Hearing and being heard in a group discussion becomes exponentially more challenging with distance, disproportionately affecting students with quiet voices, poor hearing, or language barriers. Discussion Questions: Reflect on your challenges in teaching a large STEM class.

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

And when 43 students finally arrived, Austin, along with two teaching assistants, led their organic chemistry lab. In the mornings, she met classmates over coffee to discuss notes. She helped them figure out where to eat and where to stay. “I I became very good friends with the housing director at that time,” Austin quips.

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Science Accessibility STEM Laboratory 191

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Much of how any interactive portion will go, largely depends upon the guest speaker’s skill and comfortability with the virtual venue and meeting software, which should be discussed at length in a pre-class meeting with the guest. Intentional tech: Principles to guide the use of educational technology in college teaching.

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Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 126

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast. For example, if you look at the Jill Watson experiment at Georgia Tech, where they created a virtual teaching assistant, the students in the class didn't know that they were talking to a bot. Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity.

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Education Quizzes Writing Online Learning 167

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. Teachers have gained so much confidence and are finally using educational technology in a way that enhances their instruction at a scale we haven’t seen. The classroom experience will include increased technology and personalized learning.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 294

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Those were key points that emerged during an online panel discussion EdSurge hosted on the promises and perils of AI in education. The hour-long discussion was so rich, we’re releasing it in two installments. And so in many ways it’s a discussion that almost seems science fiction at times.

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Learning Intelligence Science Questions 89

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Much of how any interactive portion will go, largely depends upon the guest speaker’s skill and comfortability with the virtual venue and meeting software, which should be discussed at length in a pre-class meeting with the guest. Intentional tech: Principles to guide the use of educational technology in college teaching.

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Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 106

Whiteboard Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

For example, if an AI system recommends a specific learning path for a student, there should be a clear process for educators or parents to understand and discuss the recommendation. A: UK schools should start by defining clear educational objectives for AI integration, assessing current infrastructure, and ensuring staff readiness.

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Writing Ethics Schools Intelligence 52

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2020

Before the pandemic outbreak, Balogh gave lectures twice a week, on Mondays and Wednesday, and the students met in smaller groups once a week for a discussion led by a teaching assistant. Meanwhile, teaching assistants led the weekly group sessions via Zoom, at the same time each week.

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Lecturing History Teaching Assistants Learning 189

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I think something that's overlooked in a lot of educational systems is your ability to have a discussion and hold an argument about your work,” says Tey. She typically teaches mechanical engineering courses with 100 to 150 students.

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

He hopes AI bots—such as his most well-known, a virtual teaching assistant named Jill Watson —may help to ease the entrenched tensions that make education such a “ wicked problem ” to solve. And that works in very well-defined domains like arithmetic and algebra. Where does your work fit into solutions to these problems?

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Mental Models Education Ethics Learning 186

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

Most importantly, discuss matters that interest her. I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. She talks most readily about philosophy, the subject she helps teach at Notre Dame de Namur University, a small Catholic college in California. Address her by name—otherwise, she might not listen. I am, yes, thank you.

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Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 155

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He has also been selected as a Master Educator by the education technology company Course Hero , which produced a ten-minute film that features Stepanic and his crowd-pleasing class. Master Educator Stanley Stepanic discusses his course, Dracula; video source: Course Hero. I’ll keep the title.”

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

The instructor led students through a discussion about cross-cultural differences by encouraging them to respond to live polls through the LMS and asking individuals to share their opinions out loud, on screen. Additionally, Shorelight hired local, bilingual teaching assistants to staff its student studios.

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Instructors Students Participation Distance Learning 133