Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2017

Learning names at the beginning of the term has long been a challenge for instructors—especially when the names are ones professors have never encountered before. Dewan says her first name can be tricky to pronounce, and recalls participating less in classes where the professor mangled her name throughout the semester.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Over the last few decades, applied technology in the classroom has grown by leaps and bounds. Of course, there’s more to education technology than allowing computers in the classroom. To be successful, active learning depends heavily on the student’s participation.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Profiled and interviewed here is winner Tom Lamont , a painting and design technology instructor at Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School nominated by TechEdConcepts Inc. He has clearly had much success using “innovative education technologies” in his program.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

Our goal is to provide a uniquely collaborative online environment that complements, rather than disrupts, educators’ exceptional work.”. It allows participants to break free of static squares to create a fun, engaging environment that fosters collaboration. We’ve noticed increased excitement and involvement from participants.”.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s gratifying to see improvements in student proficiency and attendance as well as increasing parent participation in the Gadsden Independent School District (ISD),” said Courtney Lewis, Vice President of Tutoring Services at Carnegie Learning. For more information on Carnegie Learning High-Dosage Tutoring, please visit [link].

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For instructors who have had the opportunity to participate in pedagogy learning groups, there may be a lot of overlap in what they already know about teaching and what changes AI might bring to the classroom. Instructors across the disciplines question how and where their students will use AI.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

A new “playbook” aims to strike the middle ground between offering higher ed instructors and institutions too much information about teaching remotely and offering too little. Disclosure: EdSurge is a participant in the network. Course Design Instructors should ask themselves: What do you want students to learn in your course?

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

AI tutoring systems give students immediate feedback on areas of concern so they and their instructors can address problematic knowledge issues before they become severe. When students learn a topic quickly, an AI tutoring system can speed up and offer them more challenging material that remains appropriately difficult for them.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The training also had the educators plan, observe and teach classes based on these principles to eager high schoolers enrolled in a summer camp on campus. This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July. It was meant to allow the educators to see these new methods in action, and to try them out personally.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Department of Education. The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion. For instance, instructors can ask students to post a one-sentence summary or brief reflection after going through an assigned reading or watching a short video lecture.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But since the COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors around the world to try online education, something unexpected has happened: Professors have found that there are some online teaching methods that work better than what can be done in the limits of a physical classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Through the two-and-a-half yearlong effort, nearly 2,000 instructors developed and taught 6,600 OER course sections that served 160,000 students. Eleven of those institutions participated in a study about the academic and financial implications this kind of widespread OER adoption has on students, faculty and colleges.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Cost and ease of use won’t matter much if students and instructors won’t be bothered to learn how to use a device. With this single device, instructors can present a slideshow, hold interactive team contests, give a test, and play immersive videos. Students will find it more fun and engaging to participate in their lessons.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

To stave off this potential defection, how can we instructors promote virtual community? One of the most empirically supported best practices of online education is for the instructor to “be present.” In an online-only world, it’s imperative for students to see you as a human being, not merely as an instructor.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

If we really want to understand how effective educational technology tools are for improving learner outcomes, we need to stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater. As instructors consider technology tools for their courses, they are increasingly looking for evidence of effectiveness.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Without that intrinsic personal motivation, it’s hard to reach the levels we expect and hope,” says Parandeh Kia, associate provost for educational technology at the institute. Small class sizes mean instructors can give individuals assignments on topics relevant to their personal interests. Achievement is not comparable.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

To help adult learners, edtech tools should be designed for their needs and goals, support them in virtually communicating with instructors and classmates and offer them a smooth mobile experience, according to a new report published on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

And while gender parity among students was observed in early grades, participation by girls dropped 25 percent between 8th grade and high school. It’s not that makerspace instructors are bad people in any way—so many are giving up their time freely or teaching things they weren’t trained for,” Kim says.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Set video to “on” for both host and participant 2. Mute participants upon entry (otherwise there will be a lot of background noise). But now you can ask everyone to participate. Students are already much more isolated than usual, so live participation in classes helps tie the community back together.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. Others find it enriching to participate in online chat and polling.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

The likely result is that many new online faculty hires will not be moving along the tenure track, but will—like most online instructors today—enter the halls of academe as contingent workers, adjuncts with little job security. For faculty and students who participate in online classes conducted asynchronously, boundary-free time is old news.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

All participants saw the same slides, but with one of four different voices: “happy female, sad female, happy male, and sad male.” And that did happen for male participants in the study, who did better on a post-video quiz about the material when a happy voice delivered the material than when a sad one did.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Hardy is an adjunct instructor who teaches at two institutions in the greater Boston area, which means she’s had to follow two sets of instructions for dealing with the coronavirus, adhere to two timelines for preparing for distance teaching and hastily learn two separate technology systems for delivering lectures virtually.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The concept has become especially embedded in education, ever since schools and universities closed this spring and the video call service became the lifeline tethering students to instructors. And more than 35,000 people from 154 countries participated in its Zoom Academy for K-12 educators at the end of July.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

That vantage point gives her insight about what’s keeping students from feeling fully invested in showing up for class ready to truly participate in the learning process. Some schools do, but a lot of schools generally leave absence management up to individual instructors. Presumably higher education is voluntary.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

Any college professor who noticed a dramatic drop-off in attendance and participation in virtual courses that tried to preserve the existing lecture format could benefit from strategies K-12 educators learn in teacher-preparation programs regarding how to structure classroom time.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Another challenge that the sector is witnessing, perhaps more in the pedagogical dimension than the technological, involves the role of the educator, whether in-person, online, hybrid, high-flex or what have you, evolving from exclusively functioning as a lecturer to a facilitator or a coach. They wouldn't be at the institution!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So goes the origin story of many education startups born this year, like ClassEDU, which raised $16 million to put some oomph in Zoom classrooms. It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. The platform lets instructors choose how they assign students to specific tables.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all).

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Announced this week, the new offering was made possible because Lumen Learning purchased the higher education assets of a coaching company for instructors called Faculty Guild. The idea is that instructors participate in the coaching service while they are trying a new teaching approach in their courses.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Instructors are assigning more content that’s free or at least “not paid for directly” by the student, says Richard Hershman, vice president of government relations at NCAS. And it’s part of a steady decline in spending on course materials since the 2007-08 school year, when students were coughing up $701 on course materials.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

In the early days of online education, I imagined that virtual classrooms would follow the same basic model as in-person ones, with an instructor leading the same number of students typical in a campus class. Students attend WGU entirely on screen, with instructors engaging with them virtually by email, phone, text and video.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

The perpetrator later took control of the audio, and Ishmael, a senior policy manager of education policy at New America, recalls a male voice spewing misogynistic epithets. What she and about 100 other participants experienced now has a name: “Zoombombing.” Protect yourself and others from getting Zoombombed.

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Disabilities Internet Communication Participation 218

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

Early on, Christian says, he was a little reserved and shy, but participating at the gym helped improve his communication skills. Jodi Grant “While after-school programs have academic support, there's also all of these other things that are happening, whether it's workforce skills, it's participating in sports and theater.

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Schools Instructors Participation Accessibility 168

Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2020

When students participating in focus groups are asked if they have ever considered dropping out of college, many say they have. One student said this of an encounter with a faculty member after missing a class: “I ran into [the instructor]. and he says, ‘Where were you?

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2019

Iowa’s Buena Vista University (BVU) is launching a new track within their online Master’s Degree program designed from the ground up for the full-time K-12 educator powered by Discovery Education , the leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

The partnership linking the Online Learning Consortium, Quality Matters, University Professional and Continuing Education Association and WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies has been in the works for about a year, says Deb Adair, executive director of Quality Matters.

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