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. In an interview, she jokes that she’s “not a top-tier university person,” but that she thinks many of the best instructors today are at institutions like hers. And they do.

Teaching 167

Teaching Lecturing Instructors Quizzes 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Until recently, the use of OER—digital educational materials that are both more easily adaptable by instructors and more affordable than traditional textbooks—was being led by early-adopter professors driven by a desire to improve teaching and an interest in new technology. That happened in 2017. OER needs bells and whistles.

Textbooks 158

Textbooks Teaching Instructors Testing 158

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Robin DeRosa, director of Plymouth State University’s Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative, posed the question and committed to sharing her findings via a presentation soon. Do we want them to discuss their responses to three questions about what was just shared? You can pose a question for a future column here.

Discussions 166

Discussions Instructors Questions Teaching 166

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. To explore the issue, EdSurge invited a panel of experts to discuss their vision of the promises and perils of AI in education, in the first installment of our new series of video town halls called EdSurge Live.

Peer Review 106

Peer Review Ethics Science Intelligence 106

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Instead the spaces are collaborative environments where instructors must use multiple pedagogical techniques to facilitate learning (Boss & Linder, 2016). In an effort to incentivize these discussions, I offered students participation points for showing up and engaging.

Teaching 52

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Problem-Based Learning 52