Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

Recognizing their failure to prepare for a digital future—after a year of so-so emergency remote instruction—higher ed leaders are now trying to make up for lost virtual decades by rushing to partner with online program managers (OPMs), commercial vendors who help colleges deliver and market online programs.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

PSI involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2016

What community college students need is access to more flexible, personalized, individually-paced and low-cost programs to succeed — the perfect job for education technology. Before redesign, CSCC had three levels of remedial math courses, with an average drop-failure-withdraw rate as high as 70 percent.

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Lecturing Counselling Failure Textbooks 131

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. One of the failure points of international marketing is human beings’ inability to understand, appreciate, and exploit cultural differences.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

What is your tolerance for failure in education? Jess Mitchell, senior manager of research and design at the Inclusive Design Research Centre , posed the question on Wednesday to a group of around 850 educators, librarians and other open-access enthusiasts at Lumen Learning’s OpenEd conference in Niagara Falls, NY.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

After a family discussion, we decided he would repeat Algebra 1 in ninth grade,” Lynem, a journalism lecturer, wrote in CalMatters. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says. They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Ken Bain, the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do,” talks about this a lot—this idea that failure is a part of learning. So there should be failure in all of our classes. Or to think that] it’s not a big deal if I put an hour-long video [lecture]. And then I get feedback and I try again. And that’s the learning process.

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Failure Feedback Students Exams 148

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

The concept of gradual release of responsibility is second nature to me when working with students in grades K-12, but in my new role teaching graduate students in an education technology program, I am struggling to model so many of the practices I expect these teachers to use in their own classrooms.

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Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

We’ve now been able to put this lie to bed that people can actually shop on Facebook and listen to your lecture and take good notes all simultaneously. What do you think about Lecture Capture. But also, Lecture Capture is like watching a video of Spiderman the musical. But Lecture Capture is big business.

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Coaching Lecturing Teachers Motivation 141

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

Jesse Stommel, digital learning fellow and senior lecturer of Digital Studies at University of Mary Washington, shares his rationale for ungrading on his blog: “In short, the act of grading does harm to students and causes teachers unnecessary stress. I have felt like a failure some of the time.

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Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 201

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The added benefit to this is that teachers are more likely to understand student frustrations and thus be more inclined to adjust their own grading to judge improvement rather than failure as a final endpoint. It’s vital for PD leaders to use hands-on learning, and to facilitate rather than lecture.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

Historically, I approached this lesson through direct instruction, building a presentation to support a lecture. I teach my students that failure is an opportunity for growth and that they shouldn’t be afraid to try new things, but sometimes it’s hard to take my own advice.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In English courses, making curricula and instruction more culturally relevant to diverse students is a relatively “straightforward” task, Rodriguez says, whereas in math, “the traditional lecture-based approach where students practice problems and take tests and sit in lectures is the standard.

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Exams English Math Instructors 172

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

As he lectured, he would randomly pick names from the stack to call on students. I was a perfectionist who desperately wanted to please my teachers and parents and to prove myself, but so often I felt like a failure because I didn’t have the answer first. That class was a nightmare for me. I was shy and dreaded speaking up in class.

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Discussions Failure Textbooks Lecturing 168

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

Education used to be thought of as the 8-2 in a child’s day with maybe an hour or so of homework. Now, because of modern educational technology and the emergence of afterschool clubs and supplemental activities, the demand for acquiring a full-circle education is able to be met for students everywhere.

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Education STEM Failure Participation 153

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. My classroom was set up with desks in rows and my lessons included lectures with PowerPoint presentations, worksheets and textbook work. Many of my students don’t have this mindset. This viewpoint can be debilitating for a learner.

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Teachers Textbooks Lecturing Social Studies 141

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games. minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. Part of that success may be attributable to the way games are designed—e.g.,

Skills 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

If you’re looking for a crash course in digital education specifically, recordings from Stanford’s lecture series on Education’s Digital Future are all available for free online. To get serious about education technology, you have to read Seymour Papert. But listen for the underlying pain points.

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Feedback Failure Lecturing Reading 165

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 100

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A third reason is the opportunity to experiment with different identities in a safe environment where failure doesn’t matter. In the education community, we pay lip service to 21st-century skills, but they aren’t really on the high-stakes test at the end of the semester.

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Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Testing 168

Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2016

For CIOs, future proofing is about guarding against obsolescence and extending the useful life of technology investments. Famous failures abound: Blackberry remained committed to the physical keyboard as its competitors leapfrogged them with smartphones and mobile apps. How can a flipped classroom improve retention for large lectures?

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Mobile Devices Failure Lecturing Instructors 127

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

This can be a real challenge for procrastinators, multitaskers, responsibility jugglers and anyone tempted to half-listen to a lecture while scrolling through social media—in other words, many people. Leaders at institutions that specialize in online higher ed know this.

Student Engagement 200

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 200

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Research shows that for low-income students, this can be the difference between success and failure. It build rapport in a way traditional lecturing simply cannot.” Besides helping improve equity for ELLs, station rotation can also foster stronger student-teacher relationships.

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Blended Learning Learning Elementary School Elementary School 148

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I felt like a failure. I didn’t need to lecture about the anti-Asian history of California. She didn’t apologize. It was like she was just waiting for me to stop talking and send her to the office. I didn’t know what to do, so I sent her to the counselor with a note. My teacher prep program did not prepare me for these moments.

Beliefs 161

Beliefs Coaching History Attention 161

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Joining a movement around open education, he adds, “won’t help in securing tenure.” Failure to do this perpetuates the structural, social, and economic barriers that higher education is (supposedly) called to eradicate. [The notion is] do enough to be good, but don’t do more than that.”

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Textbooks Instructors Education Peer Review 134

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

What the majority of students are getting in large, state institutions, even large private institutions, because it doesn't make a lot of sense to have small Gen Ed classes, are large lecture halls. But I would say that the failure of ideals doesn't mean that the ideal is bad or unworkable.

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Gamification Art Beliefs Achievement 119

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2022

The idea was fear of failure would motivate students to do whatever it takes to stay above water academically. Faculty have been educated their whole academic lives in the lecture mode, and that’s what they reproduce in their own classrooms as instructors,” says Negar Farakish, assistant dean of the division.

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Ethics Lecturing Motivation Instructors 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Many are intimidated by their professors, see attending office hours as a failure to figure the material out on their own or simply don’t understand what their purpose is. In Vaughn’s study, students also viewed visiting office hours as a sign of weakness or a form of academic failure.

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Instructors Failure Questions Communication 192

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2022

But neither’s success depends on the other one's failure. They can celebrate in the other’s successes, lament in the other's failures, because nothing really depends on it. He taught this big introduction to ethics class, and I haven't seen a professor succeed so much at getting a whole lecture room of students just excited.

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Fairness Ethics Failure Lecturing 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But actually, learning is failure driven; it's when surprising things happen that you're forced to learn new things. So to get good grades, you have to get the answers on each test correct, which means that the kids with the best grades, generally speaking, make the fewest mistakes.

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Teaching Laboratory Motivation Testing 148