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JULY 10, 2025

For many families, online learning opened the door to new possibilities in education. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. If your child’s program allows it, encourage them to explore creative ways to show what they’ve learned.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. Teaching With a Self Teaching with a self is the default in Western societies and models of education. But a few years ago, I removed the slide.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. Teaching With a Self Teaching with a self is the default in Western societies and models of education. But a few years ago, I removed the slide.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

Department of Education 2016 results, would have fallen by more than 1.5 million between 2012 and 2016, says Jeff Seaman, co-director of the Babson Survey Research Group, who has been tracking the country’s virtual education lifeline for 15 years. higher education students. One reason is that digital education at U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2024

Orlando, Florida – Anthology, the leading educational technology company, revealed the latest iteration of its Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard, at Anthology Together 2024. This iteration focuses on enhancing AI literacy, improving instructor workflows, and supporting student achievement.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Teachers have three primary roles – designer, instructor, and facilitator. When I facilitate blended learning workshops, I ask participants to think about these three roles and identify the role they spend the most time and energy in. Studies in Educational Evaluation , 45 , 17-26. The responses always yield the same results.

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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 You decided you wanted to go to the university and become educated. I applaud you for that.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. There’s a fair bit of work involved with learning outcomes, and justifiably so. But why limit ourselves to student learning outcomes only? In other words, the teaching and learning principles so many of us embrace call upon us to be learners.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. There’s a fair bit of work involved with learning outcomes, and justifiably so. But why limit ourselves to student learning outcomes only? In other words, the teaching and learning principles so many of us embrace call upon us to be learners.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2020

This uncertainty is enough to cause an educator—a profession that depends on planning and preparation—to experience a wide range of unpleasant emotions. But educators are a tenacious and resourceful bunch. Highlight the reward : Educators will spend a good amount of time learning something new if it has a clear and measurable reward.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

But it’s not all bad–educators found success as they dedicated their efforts to improving student engagement and achievement, creating community-based approaches to learning, and inspiring students to become lifelong learners. A culture of continuous learning Wendy W. She can be reached at apence@hbuhsd.edu.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Generative AI is changing the landscape of higher education, in both good and bad ways (Balch, 2023). 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. This was our role as instructors prior to the advent of AI.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

What barriers make designing for deeper learning in schools challenging? In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, educators face numerous challenges when designing instruction that promotes deeper learning for all students. It’s important to note that there are no simple answers in education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT became publicly available in November 2022, the field of higher education has been focusing on its impact and applications — faculty want to understand how this will shape their work and the student experience. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

While some educators worry that technology and artificial intelligence (AI) might have a negative effect in these areas, many see the positive impact of AI on students’ ability to learn in their preferred languages, improved grades and career readiness. Canada, and in northern Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While some still argue that class size doesn’t make a noticeable difference in the quality of education, research has shown that is not the case. Understanding the connection between class size and student achievement, as well as teacher retentions, is critical to the future of our educational system.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

According to a new report, incorporating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in online courses not only benefits students with disabilities, but can have significant benefits for all students, ultimately increasing retention and improving learning outcomes. Knowing Where to Start. Next page: The 10-Step Guide.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

But not every educator who tried hybrid teaching of some kind during the pandemic has continued it. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors. He says instructors who felt forced to quickly allow for remote options or teach remotely are now eager to get back to what they consider normal.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

It is historically one of the most vexing problems in education that there is a tradeoff between scale and achievable quality of instruction : As class sizes grow larger, the ability of a teacher to provide the type of personalized guidance shown by learning science research to be most effective is diminished.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most teachers who work in education today have studied — or at least are familiar with — VARK , a learning theory first introduced by Neil Fleming in 1987. VARK suggests that students can best accelerate their knowledge acquisition via one of four core learning styles: visual (V), aural (A), read/write (R) or kinesthetic (K).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Composed of education leaders with firsthand experience in K-12 districts and schools around the county, this board will play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s strategic direction and product roadmap, building on SchoolStatus’ long history of collaboration with educators. Representing seven U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. This is a view of personalized learning that is strikingly similar to the approach Netflix has popularized with movies. prefer instructional formats that produce inferior learning outcomes.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of online education, the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications online graduate programs (UF CJC Online) stands at the forefront of innovation and quality. The state mandate established the goal of quality but allowed institutions to develop their own strategies.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

In education, the mantra is equally true. However, since I began working in edtech five years ago, I have been continuously surprised by how little emphasis there is on measuring changes and progress in individual learning, especially in higher education. Data isn’t a silver bullet, however.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of online education, the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications online graduate programs (UF CJC Online) stands at the forefront of innovation and quality. The state mandate established the goal of quality but allowed institutions to develop their own strategies.

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Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 111

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. All you need is your imagination.”

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The district was among the first in the country to test the chatbot called Khanmigo, an AI program developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that is designed for classrooms and acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers. This isn’t the first time Newark has considered a new classroom tool to improve student learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Wyzant expertly brings together students and world-class instructors. We’re excited to welcome Wyzant’s talented team to IXL and build a strong partnership rooted in a love of learning,” said Paul Mishkin, CEO of IXL. . ABCya , the creator of more than 400 educational computer games and apps for kids, joined the IXL family in 2018. .

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Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rachel Thelen , The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry Noelle Haight , Occupational Therapist and Educator Julia VanderMolen , University of the Pacific Key Statement: Four helpful tips, including backwards design, for the new instructor looking to (re)design their course. Many new instructors face this what now?

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample. That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

To improve learning outcomes for all learners, the development of several learning style assessments and neurodiversity instructional methods over the past 25 years have supported the idea that students learn in diverse ways (Dimitrov & Deardorff, 2023). Likewise, Lambeth et al.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

But some institutions are gaining traction using a novel approach: leveraging the expertise of facilities and information technology staff to support the redesign of classroom learning experiences. At UCF, the impact of redesigning teaching and learning experiences has broad appeal across the faculty.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. As we look ahead to the future in edtech, we see an industry marked by significant change and stubborn challenges.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Somewhere between our collective obsession with predictive analytics and infatuation with adaptive learning, higher education wonks and practitioners are making time to deconstruct the quality attributes of online courses. Does our current quality evaluation ensure a wonderful learning experience?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Open educational resources (OER) have long been touted as “the next big thing” in higher education, but the drawn-out hype has led many educators and administrators to wonder if it would ever live up to its expectations. Those days are over: 2017 was OER’s breakthrough year. Ohio University is doing the same.

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Textbooks Teaching Instructors Testing 157

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

At the time there was also a new effort to create standards for education technology, the Instructional Management Systems project, which helped convinced me there was real potential for what we now call learning management systems. Here are some lessons I learned about what makes the higher education market unique.

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