Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2025

In order to best prepare our college students for their professional careers, professors and instructors should foster social and emotional learning in their learning spaces. Community is important in every classroom, in-person, synchronous, and asynchronous, as it is both a benefit to the students and the instructors. Dr. Raglena T.

Classroom Management

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2025

In order to best prepare our college students for their professional careers, professors and instructors should foster social and emotional learning in their learning spaces. Community is important in every classroom, in-person, synchronous, and asynchronous, as it is both a benefit to the students and the instructors. Dr. Raglena T.

Classroom Management

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

” “That’s going to guide our discussion for the day,” she explains. Now I’m going to remember what my instructor said or what I read in the book or the video we watched or whatever it was that corrected my knowledge.” It felt like I was right, but no, I was wrong. Come back for more.

Multiple Choice Questions

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Brill-Wynkoop heard the same pitch back in the early 2000s: Instructors could catch a student turning in a peer’s paper from a previous semester with Turnitin. billion as of June 2025.

Plagiarism

Faculty Focus

APRIL 27, 2025

Our professional science masters (PSM) in biotechnology degree is designed for working professionals, offering primarily online and evening courses that emphasize applied learning and professional development. Develop relationships with the students Building strong relationships with students fosters a sense of community and belonging.

STEM

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. Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support.

Hybrid Learning

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

From Curiosity to Campuswide Inquiry The project began in two large general education courses I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: FSHN 101: The Science of Food and FSHN 120: Contemporary Nutrition. Inclusive language, representation, and proactive instructor support all contributed to students sense of belonging and trust.

Disabilities

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Online courses can quickly become overwhelming as the emails, discussion posts, and papers roll in like the next COVID-19 variant. Small teaching online: Applying learning science in online classes. Many faculty are often unprepared for the volume of work that comes with teaching online. AAHE Bulletin, 39 , no.

eLearning

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Online courses can quickly become overwhelming as the emails, discussion posts, and papers roll in like the next COVID-19 variant. Small teaching online: Applying learning science in online classes. Many faculty are often unprepared for the volume of work that comes with teaching online. AAHE Bulletin, 39 , no.

eLearning

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Discussion Forums: Some programs include online forums where students can continue conversations beyond the classroom. Supporting your child in joining these discussions—even casually—can reinforce the material and help them feel part of a learning community. For example, how would they use a science concept to solve a problem at home?

Online Learning

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Without the constant need to defend or assert one’s ego (our preferences and aversions), the instructor’s attention can open to what is happening in the room or on the screen. Students become not coerced performers of outcomes, but a voluntary community, engaged with the instructor in shared learning. link] Brookfield, S.

Teaching

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Without the constant need to defend or assert one’s ego (our preferences and aversions), the instructor’s attention can open to what is happening in the room or on the screen. Students become not coerced performers of outcomes, but a voluntary community, engaged with the instructor in shared learning. link] Brookfield, S.

Teaching

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I For Meeks, the longtime instructor, this means students are missing out on the whole point of college. “I And just having a really frank discussion with them.” Or read a transcript below, lightly edited for clarity.

Instructors

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

But pulling off these “assignment makeovers,” as some instructors are calling them, turns out to be challenging, and what works differs significantly depending on the subject matter and type of assignment. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

Instructors

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

High school science instructor Veronica Wylie has an idea that will take her students to new heights?or The Mississippi teacher is tackling the issue of representation in the sciences by earning a diving certification, and she’s working through archaeology and marine life training with her nonprofit partners.

Science

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Better outcomes for Alaska students start with access to teachers utilizing research-grounded, evidence-based instructional practices in the science of reading,” said Jason Mendenhall, President of State Solutions Division at NWEA. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

Teachers

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

said SREB President Dr. Stephen Pruitt during a conference to discuss the group’s first meeting. The commission’s first meeting generated discussions about what, exactly, AI looks like at different levels of education and how to integrate it in useful and actionable ways for students, educators, and stakeholders. “We

Skills

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

Here’s what educators have to say about the 2023-2024 school year: Improving engagement and test scores with phenomena-based curricula April Pence, Edison High School Last year was my first time using phenomena-based units aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in chemistry. She can be reached at apence@hbuhsd.edu.

Education

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It helps instructors deliver cohesive learning experiences through structured content and interactivity. This enables the instructor to assign coursework that keeps their students moving forward on their unique learning path. With Connect, students and instructors are provided with continuous support — in or out of the classroom.

High School

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. Why College Instructors Matter: A Student’s Perspective I had a conversation with one of my students recently about this exact question. Schoeder, 2024).

Instructors

eSchool News

MAY 22, 2024

One of my biggest goals as a technology instructor is to teach my students skills and provide them with tools that I feel will best stoke their curiosity and prepare them for the world outside of the classroom. I loved using this tool in a science class. Makr Another AR tool I have utilized with students is Makr.

Students

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Cook Center for Human Connection facilitated discussions about the importance of student mental health awareness and youth suicide prevention–and the critical role parents play in these efforts. These technologies, along with Intelitek’s programs, empower instructors and inspire students to pursue careers in cutting-edge businesses.

Mobile Devices

eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

Dr. Narine Hall, data science assistant professor and academic program director at Champlain College,and leading software and video engineer Haykanush Lputyan, launchedInSpace in 2020, sparked by frustrations with how existing virtual meeting platforms limited student-teacher interactions. and Armenia.

Education

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

According to Code.org, the majority of Americans want schools to teach computer science , but only 35 percent of high schools teach it. And even though 15 states have adopted a policy to give all high school students access to computer science courses, universities prepare way fewer computer science teachers than we need.

Elementary School

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The original version of this article appeared in Toward Data Science. In summer 2020, we began a research project at Duke to explore how we could use this data to help us as instructors do our job better. The tool reads instructor-provided class quiz or homework results and the set of learning topics covered so far in the course.

Teaching

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This challenging mathematics course prepares students for further studies in engineering, computer science, data science, and natural sciences, as well as theoretical mathematics. This course is a prerequisite for many Stanford computer science and engineering courses. ” The course format is partially synchronous.

Math

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In preparation for several upcoming significant historical, cultural and societal events, the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) has curated a list of live, interactive virtual field trips that educators can access to enrich discussions surrounding Black History Month, President’s Day, Women’s History Month and Earth Day.

History

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Finally, instructors assess the student work and give feedback. “I

Lecturing

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Early in my career as a university instructor, this method was a foundational cornerstone in the classroom. As it turns out, the results of such neural fusion are intellectually enhanced when coupled with what’s known as spaced learning , a concept educators have known about for some time but only recently uncovered the science behind it.

Technology

eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2018

Still others need more STEM or computer science options, but don’t have access to qualified course instruction for these subjects. Are the courses instructor-led or self-paced? What is the role of the instructor–to actively engage in discussions/lessons or to grade work and respond to inquiries only?

Instructors

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

But he thinks that there’s information out there about how the brain works—and in particular, how empathy changes learning outcomes—that classroom instructors should understand. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast. Would you bring the brain sciences in? And it’s all complicated.

Science

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In fact, many college instructors have been downright grumpy about having been thrown into a new teaching format. Some instructors are so taken by active learning working so effectively that they expect to continue offering courses online, even when the pandemic restrictions completely lift and things are fully back in person.

Teaching

eSchool News

MAY 26, 2017

Courtney Carnes, MS, ATR-BC, holds a master’s degree in art therapy with a concentration in counseling from Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a Bachelor of Science in pre-art therapy with a minor in leadership from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. Art for Students with Autism. Join the Community.

Art

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. Three instructors at the University of California in Irvine are also piloting the app, Levy says.

Lecturing

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The discussion about the importance of class size has been ongoing for decades. Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. More positivity reported about participating in learning.

Achievement

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. Coding And Self-Help Courses Dominate Most of the top MOOCs (13 of the 20 courses) involve teaching computer science or some kind of coding. We’re counting the crypto-currency tech course.)

Teaching

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

But the shift to online instruction can be challenging for some instructors who have spent most of their academic careers teaching (and learning) face-to-face. In fact, Sharp noted, some of the instructors at Marist who face the steepest learning curves teach computer science. Setting up an online course is only half the battle.

Teaching