Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

It was just one example of how she—and many online instructors—feel like they must be always on call when they teach an online course. Teaching online means being away from a work site and away from the physical and moral support that instructors get teaching face-to-face courses, Stout said.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. It’s not as simple as assuming that students are all cheaters, the instructor stresses.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

It’s a question that some higher education instructors have asked before, and one that two Penn State University educators sought to answer on Wednesday at this year’s EDUCAUSE conference in Denver. An instructor can type in a concept or idea, such as “industrial design,” into the tool his team built, called Eureka!,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Instead of hearing only from the same six students, instructors get feedback from many more. Amazon Transcribe automatically creates text transcripts from the audio track in the videos and makes them available for students and instructors to view directly from within the classroom player. Source: Echo360.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Case studies consist of a short narrative followed by guiding questions that help learners think through the steps of solving a real-world problem. Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. The drawback is that educators cede control of the experience to the GenAI.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

“Interactive curriculum is the next wave” of opportunities in the education market, says Tim Brady, a partner at Y Combinator, in an interview with EdSurge. Brady has now overseen 11 cohorts of education technology startups over the past seven years. Prior to joining Y Combinator, the company had raised $1.5

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Case studies consist of a short narrative followed by guiding questions that help learners think through the steps of solving a real-world problem. Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. The drawback is that educators cede control of the experience to the GenAI.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 113

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2018

At colleges that Achieving the Dream worked with, about half of the cost of the OER degrees it supported went to stipends for professors and instructors, who needed to take time away from teaching in order to write the texts or otherwise adapt their courses.

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Textbooks Study Participation Assignments 163

eSchool News

MAY 17, 2024

Given that today’s students are digital natives , it makes sense for schools to invest in modern educational technology such as interactive whiteboards. Of course, maintaining this smart technology can be a hefty investment. More importantly, how can your instructors maximize the use of the equipment and minimize its downtime?

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Technology Instructors Quizzes Disabilities 294

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

The results of the study pose big questions for reform-minded educators who advocate for students to have multiple chances on exams. The MyLab Math report is one of 12 efficacy studies the company released about one month ago. It can be done before or after practice assignments.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. It’s almost like this symphony that the instructor is the heart of.” That’s not to say that the transparent whiteboard is ineffective.

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Instructors Lecturing Teachers Attention 218

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

Intelligent AI tutoring programs accomplish this feat by using machine learning algorithms to detect patterns in how students interact with the software during study sessions. While AI tutoring offers a new way for students to approach learning, educators, parents, and students must use it cautiously.

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Learning Styles Learning Students Gamification 311

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. How do we study implementation?

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Instructors Education Study Science 160

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2021

Studies have shown that students learn better from instructors displaying positive emotions—in other words, an upbeat lecturer is more effective than someone delivering in monotone. But when video lessons are led by computer animations instead of live instructors, how much do their simulated emotions matter?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or third, or fourth) language. Some want to gain better job prospects, others seek to socialize in new circles, while still others just want an educational way to entertain themselves. That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. government.

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Motivation Language Languages Learning 214

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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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 213

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Changing the way calculus is taught, proponents argue, helps more students find math approachable and relevant, making them therefore more likely to succeed while studying it. 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.

Math 218

Math Instructors Science STEM 218

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Many college leaders have looked to online course delivery as a way to reach more students at a reduced cost, in hopes of increasing access to higher education. And that makes sense, since the case studies show that the faculty role can change considerably when a college shifts strategically to serving an online audience.

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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. It’s a message I’ve been arguing for a while.

Teaching 218

Teaching Lecturing Blended Courses Instructors 218

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. Early in my career as a university instructor, this method was a foundational cornerstone in the classroom.

Technology 202

Technology Instructors Learning Styles Learning 202

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. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

Lecturing 213

Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Howard Street Charter School in Salem, Oregon, is a project-based institution that pushes students to achieve excellence in all areas of study. MATHia works hand-in-hand with MATHbook, reinforcing what students are learning from their instructors. Carnegie Learning’s math solution helped them achieve even higher.

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Math History Learning Achievement 269

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. Course Design Instructors should ask themselves: What do you want students to learn in your course? Now, a few months in, they may feel inundated with advice. (We

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Members of the CAB were selected based on their deep knowledge of education technology, passion for improving learning outcomes, and success in supporting students’ academic achievements and families’ evolving needs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. That research was conducted by SRI Education and rpk GROUP.

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Textbooks Instructors Education Participation 195

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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Instructors Textbooks Math Communication 166

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Another was Ruha Benjamin, a Princeton professor of African American studies who gave a speech about how racism can seep into and be shaped by education technology and other tools. Some speakers discussed empathy directly, like Graetz, who co-led a session about building more of it into the design of online courses.

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Exams Academic Integrity Testing Instructors 213

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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. As one instructor wrote in an essay last year , “everyone lost something in HyFlex courses.

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Teaching Instructors Lecturing Blended Courses 208

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2021

Immersing STEM Students in Storytelling Roschelle is executive director of learning sciences research at Digital Promise, an education technology nonprofit, and is a co-principal investigator on the project. Online education is boring. When you go to a physical classroom, you meet people, you’re part of study groups.

Intelligence 217

Intelligence Education Teaching Assistants STEM 217

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This distributed model of learning took off and has grown over the years to a network of nearly 300 Fulton County educators who are pioneering new approaches to education technology use, testing new tools and helping others in their schools and communities do the same. They LOVED sharing what they learned using Adobe Spark!

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Instructors Education Social Studies Coaching 164

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

The executive director and founder of the journal “ Hybrid Pedagogy ” has spent two decades researching and experimenting with alternatives to traditional methods of assessing students , and he’s concluded that the As, Bs and Cs that instructors mete out can do more harm than good, even under ideal circumstances.

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Grades Questions Instructors Motivation 217

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

Some researchers are exploring one that might sound trivial but actually could be quite thorny: What should these computer-generated educational assistants look and sound like? He points to research that shows that some students learn better from male instructors, while others learn better from female ones.

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Lecturing Instructors English Textbooks 186

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

The goal wasn’t to count the number of 3D printers or robotics clubs, but rather to take a more “ethnographic” view of the phenomena, says Youngmoo Kim, the director of Drexel’s ExCITe Center and an author of the study. And it didn’t stop there—gender bias was even more pronounced, which the report called “deeply unsettling.”

Culture 167

Culture Instructors Fairness Critical Thinking 167

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Since then, the percentage of adjunct faculty has mushroomed to occupy the vast majority of instructors on many campuses, a deeply troubling dependency on precarious academic workers. Every virtual class is taught by contingent instructors. Across higher ed, it wasn’t always this way. Online, the adjunct load is even greater.

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Attention Teachers Instructors Fairness 204

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The Newark Board of Education in March approved a data-sharing agreement with Khan Academy to study whether the tool was effective “in the North Ward schools,” according to the agreement. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 272

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Looking for an easy way to become a better online instructor? At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true.

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