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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? Even if an educator decides to cite an AI chatbot, though, the mechanics can be tricky, Yongpradit says.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. 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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in.

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APRIL 8, 2020

When Elizabeth Self starts teaching her 11 a.m. She’s in Tennessee—where she is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University—but some of the students she’s teaching are now taking the class from California, where it’s only 8 a.m. Department of Education. At first, such synchronous teaching was expensive and cumbersome.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. And now that campuses are back from pandemic restrictions, many instructors are trying to incorporate those remote practices into their in-person teaching.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

But pulling off these “assignment makeovers,” as some instructors are calling them, turns out to be challenging, and what works differs significantly depending on the subject matter and type of assignment. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. Experts have also called for more teachers and educators to be involved with the development of edtech products. McNabb, who earned a Ph.D.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The journal Contemporary Educational Psychology ranks Mayer as the No. 1 most productive educational psychologist in the world. Since the pandemic hit, his research findings are more relevant than ever, as instructors look for guidance on what works as they move their teaching online. He calls that “the multimedia effect.”

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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

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. Many are unaware that teaching online can actually open new possibilities to innovate their teaching practice.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2021

Administrators at the University of Florida are so concerned that professors will refuse to teach in person this semester that they’re asking students to use an app to report any professor who teaches online instead. Students can report instructors not in person via the gators safe app. ????They UF do better.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2022

Many classroom environments favor a certain kind of thinker, usually the students who are quick to recall a fact when the instructor asks a question. She even has a book she co-authored on the topic, called “Uncommonsense teaching: Practical Insights In Brain Science to Help Students Learn.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

It’s a simple system that matches instructors who need help teaching online with instructional designers willing to assist. But she also advises faculty teaching remotely for the first time not to worry about perfection. PhD students in instructional technology. Online teaching is a skill and should be done thoughtfully.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading.

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MAY 5, 2021

As a longtime proponent of online higher education, I thought I’d take a stab at imagining a couple of effects digital education might have on teaching and learning in the college classroom. That has already started to happen during the pandemic, with so many faculty and staff working and teaching from home.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Option 1: Paper-based teaching Point a camera at a piece of paper, write on it and lecture. And here’s what your student will see: Option 2: Whiteboard or easel teaching Point a camera at yourself while lecturing in front of a whiteboard or easel+paper pad. Here’s what your setup might look like. Ask everyone to turn on their webcam.

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MAY 9, 2025

The pure confidence-building of doing well and succeeding in a college course, having a college instructor tell you that you can do this, that youre a college student that boost of confidence is one of the first things people will say is the power of these courses, Fink says.

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APRIL 21, 2021

The top 5,000 instructors are making the vast majority of the revenue,” the Udemy CEO says, noting that that’s out of more than 70,000 instructors. Some make just a few dollars, and plenty of Udemy instructors give away their courses for free. Some popular instructors on Udemy also teach for traditional institutions.

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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. Colleges found new ways of scaling, rethinking how teaching is done online. teach remote students.

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MARCH 13, 2020

We’re not debating the merits of that journey for now—just acknowledging and looking to support the people who will be teaching online if their schools decide to go that route. Simply put, if you’re asked to teach online, we encourage you to find ways to be present for your students. We organized and sequenced our materials.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In these casual settings, it can be easy to forget that classmates and instructors can observe you. So this fall, the associate professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona instituted a few guidelines for his online seminar course—rules he never thought he’d need. What Are They Thinking?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. However, how do I know how inclusive I am in my teaching? The first step in making this goal of reaching diverse learners is to reflect on what it means to be inclusive in teaching, and letting that guide our teaching.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

Based on conversations we had with teachers, ViewSonic developed a solution to address their concerns when teaching online. The way that educators teach is exactly like they would on a video conference, but they communicate and manage a classroom as if they were in person. The pandemic brought even more attention to this issue.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the mid-1950s, schools would adopt localized, attached libraries in which librarians are considered qualified teachers, educating both students and instructors. This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Many even created special offices or programs in the hopes of teaching students how to talk with people they may disagree with. Many colleges have also begun offering faculty workshops so instructors can learn to model constructive dialogue in the classroom, Longo says. This may be tense, but that’s ok.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When Wendy Schatzberg, an associate professor at Utah Tech University, was teaching introductory chemistry, she thought her students would know how to use basic Microsoft Office tools like Excel and Word. I cannot and should not assume,” says Schatzberg, who also directs the Center for Teaching and Learning at Utah Tech. “We

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I I just could make a bigger difference in education,” he says. Education research wasn’t new to Wieman, who these days is an emeritus professor of physics and of education at Stanford University. Broadly, what do you think should change?

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2024

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation K-12 learning solutions leader, is proud to announce that CEO Bethlam Forsa has been named the “Most Influential Thought Leader in EdTech” by the 2024 SIIA CODiE Education Technology Awards.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Do you have a recommendation for how much should be curated in online classes vs. how much should be original and created by the instructor? Some of what I save has nothing to do with teaching. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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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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MAY 18, 2020

At the university where I teach, a number of our students come from a home schooling environment. This educational context, so different from my own growing up, has always intrigued me. This is is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Key points: Today’s students deserve modern tech tools that suit their learning styles and tendencies 5 of the biggest education trends in 2024 65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024 For more news on edtech trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page It’s 2024!

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

He’s Robert Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and he’s someone who spent a lot of time thinking about how to improve college teaching. The conversation gets at how much can be automated about teaching, and what is it, exactly, about having a live instructor that matters?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

She discovered multiple studies on the efficacy of peer feedback when well-guided by an instructor, some with numerous tips to be mined and applied. With teacher-guided peer review, and real-time peer review data, I had solved my greatest teaching problem. She also found the work of U.K.-based

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2022

From TikTok to Instagram to Snapchat, students are perfecting complex dances, learning, and showcasing their skills with musical instruments, teaching each other about climate change, and more. Educators are using video apps and tools to share lesson ideas, best practices, and classroom instruction. The evidence is all around us.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2021

The prestigious CODiE Awards recognize the companies producing the most innovative education technology products across the country and around the world. CoderZ is a powerful, self-paced virtual learning platform for grades 4-12 that teaches computer science integration by gamifying NGSS and CSTA-aligned curriculum.

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