Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Colleges and universities in the United States are increasingly integrating technology into developmental education programs, which are designed to bring underprepared students up to college level. Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform.

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Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 158

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Nearly a thousand of the education industry’s C-level executives, private equity fund managers and investors gathered at BMO Capital’s “ Back to School ” conference in New York City. Few, if any educators were present (ironic, given the back-to-school theme). Students and teachers were not the only ones to return to class this week.

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Education Textbooks Syllabus Schools 148

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

One big barrier to sustaining education via remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic has been students’ unequal access to advanced technology tools. But educators who want to make sure they reach every student don’t have to resort to mailing printed worksheets. Of course, these programs may take significant time to develop.

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Distance Learning Syllabus Internet Learning 212

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

.—$20,000 dollars of student debt, 14 months, one thesis, two internships, $1,500 dollars worth of textbooks, and countless sleepless nights later and I finally earned those two little letters following my name. After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. Open Textbooks.

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Textbooks Syllabus Course Design Communication 123

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Is that a real A, or an A based on turning in the syllabus? The average high school textbook costs $70 and weighs about a million pounds. Filled to the brim with textbooks, binders, notebooks, and a computer, it’s no wonder so many teens suffer from early back pain. We spend the entire semester wondering what our grade is.

Quizzes 144

Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus Students 144

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. Download it here: [link] In higher education, we often track student success through grades, credit hours, and retention rates. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 55

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. Now, for those who aren’t familiar, OER, or Open Educational Resources, are course materials under an open license which allows others to access and reuse them at no cost. At the time I made my OER commitment, there were limited open textbook options available.

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Textbooks Syllabus Instructors Peer Review 116

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.),

Syllabus 122

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 122

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Josemaría Carazo Abolafia, is an educational researcher and teacher who lives in Spain–and doesn’t own a car! ” Here’s his take on the use of videos in education: Multimedia content as a way to learning process personalization. 9 Good Collections of Videos for Education.

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Learning Textbooks Lecturing Syllabus 156

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. Now, for those who aren’t familiar, OER, or Open Educational Resources, are course materials under an open license which allows others to access and reuse them at no cost. At the time I made my OER commitment, there were limited open textbook options available.

Textbooks 104

Textbooks Syllabus Instructors Peer Review 104

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

How to Collect Feedback Asking for and responding to student feedback early in the semester can be pretty straightforward, explains Kris Gorman, an education program specialist at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Education Innovation.

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Feedback Instructors Students Syllabus 195

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

Recently, Robertson became a member of the Course Hero Faculty Club , a platform where professionals in higher education share their teaching innovations, inspiration, and practical advice with the goal of helping all students learn deeply and graduate confident and prepared. Different students have different approaches to learning, he says.

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Curriculum Hybrid Courses Lecturing Gamification 156

Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

IBM Watson Education is building its own chatbot that it has added to some commercial textbooks as part of a pilot project. Outside of higher education, the era of assistive bots has arrived (just ask Siri on your iPhone or Alexa in your kitchen). Georgia Tech is not alone in developing teaching bots.

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Teaching Syllabus Teaching Assistants Textbooks 145

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.),

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Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 105

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

And Proctorio has inked deals with McGraw-Hill and other textbook publishers to bundle its proctoring tool into courseware, meaning even doing homework may now involved being watched and tracked for suspicious behavior. Is a ‘desk scan’ necessary for a syllabus quiz? But the level of outcry is unusual for an edtech product.

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Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Bean backpack along with my textbooks and kelly green Trapper Keeper. The conversation could go like this: “Let’s log on to the LMS and see if your professor said anything about ChatGPT in the syllabus or assignment directions.” Is AI going to be a game changer for higher education? The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As the lazy days of summer start to dwindle, it’s time to trade in beach reads for textbooks and flip-flops for sensible shoes. Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into higher education is increasingly common, presenting new opportunities and challenges for educators and institutions.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Clutch Prep calls themselves “the video version of textbooks” but really, that doesn’t give you the full flavor of what they offer. Their academic how-to videos are textbook-specific so you pick the ones used in your classes, even by your teacher. Education applications. Great stuff.

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Textbooks Exams Syllabus Essay 95

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This is not the kind of refresh that comes from revising a syllabus, choosing a new textbook, or working out the details of a group project. This needs to be about you and what will enable you to stand excitedly before students the next time you teach.

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Syllabus Quizzes Textbooks Motivation 126

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Bean backpack along with my textbooks and kelly green Trapper Keeper. The conversation could go like this: “Let’s log on to the LMS and see if your professor said anything about ChatGPT in the syllabus or assignment directions.” Is AI going to be a game changer for higher education? The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2023

At the same time, with Artificial Intelligence tools such as ChatGPT making their way onto the higher education landscape, and search engines such as Google, we wondered if online students still use library services provided by their institutions. The Chronicle of Higher Education. If so, what is most popular? Dr. Faye L.

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Syllabus Instructors Learning Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As the lazy days of summer start to dwindle, it’s time to trade in beach reads for textbooks and flip-flops for sensible shoes. Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into higher education is increasingly common, presenting new opportunities and challenges for educators and institutions.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

Heath, who has co-written books including “Made to Stick” and “The Power of Moments,”delivered a keynote Thursday at the 2018 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education in San Francisco. And during the keynote he challenged educators by asking: “How do we create more academic peak moments in school?” But he isn’t hopeless.

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Instructors Syllabus Textbooks Lecturing 107

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Open” textbooks. Such are the tools that many education entrepreneurs are building—and which educators are increasingly adopting—to improve outcomes for students. Our aim: to amplify the voices of students from all backgrounds to shape how higher education is evolving. The Chronicle of Higher Education). ‘I

Syllabus 107

Syllabus Students Essay Languages 107

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This is not the kind of refresh that comes from revising a syllabus, choosing a new textbook, or working out the details of a group project. This needs to be about you and what will enable you to stand excitedly before students the next time you teach.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Quizzes Textbooks Motivation 98

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Give students examples of proper citation formatting including for AI tools and textbooks and expect students to use them throughout the school year. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence , 6 , 100209. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence , v7:1-10. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education.

Academic Integrity 88

Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. Education applications. How to get started.

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Exams Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus 83

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. Download it here: [link] In higher education, we often track student success through grades, credit hours, and retention rates. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 64

k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

And while it may not look like education, it’s influencing the way students think, behave, and understand the world. The question is no longer if students are learning through digital media, it’s how and what theyre learning, and whether our education systems are keeping up. This is informal learning. And guess what?

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Online Learning Lecturing Learning Textbooks 52

Lab to Class

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Education, especially formalized education in schools, has long held that in order for students to learn effectively, they must have solid study routines, consistent teachers, and unified textbooks. This is not a new concept in education either.

Study 52

Study Lecturing Learning Activities 52

EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Heather joins EAB's Tara Zirkel to talk about how faculty advisors and administrators came together to address what appeared to be a double-digit enrollment deficit as they headed into the fall semester, what this team accomplished provides a textbook example of how to leverage people, technology and process improvements to maximum effect.

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Coaching Communication Instructors Questions 97

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That's something that hasn't really been knowable, since no one's been able to collect every syllabus out there and analyze the reading lists on them to see what pops as the top ranked. It's called the Open Syllabus Project and it's run out of a public policy center at Columbia University.

Syllabus 123

Syllabus Textbooks Assignments Education 123

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Attach your class syllabus (if ready) Encourage students to reach out to you if they have any questions and identify the best method for them to do this—email, phone, Learning Management System, etc. The syllabus is great way to show your positive and encouraging bedside manner to the class.

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Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Attach your class syllabus (if ready) Encourage students to reach out to you if they have any questions and identify the best method for them to do this—email, phone, Learning Management System, etc. The syllabus is great way to show your positive and encouraging bedside manner to the class.

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Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Each tester isn’t expected to complete the entire course, but to go through at least a week’s worth of the four- to six-week syllabus (with different testers trying different parts of the course). A Range of Approaches Coursera is hardly alone among upstart education providers in trying beta testing programs.

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Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. He loved the scope and implications of his subject.

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Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 146