Educational Technologies Instructors Teaching Assistants 
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. Well, we know the reality: it’s very difficult to do that, and that’s not really what online teaching is.” And then all the sudden we’re teaching online.
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. You could tune it to the teaching assistant interrupts you, motivates you, engages you at the times that you want it,” Goel says.
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Edsurge
JUNE 7, 2019
Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. When class is in session, the instructor or an assistant will record which students spoke during class using the app. Instructors can have biases toward picking particular students.
Edsurge
JANUARY 7, 2022
Instructors first need to consider how we use grades in our teaching—and then explore what kinds of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations exist and persist for our students. Much of our students’ educational experiences have taught them to search out the rewards for a transactional gauge of their actions in the form of points or grades.
Edsurge
APRIL 25, 2018
Meanwhile, research is also being conducted today to understand how chatbots can be used as teaching assistants. In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. But because these online platforms are easy to hide from instructors and are available 24/7, they can be trickier for students and professors to navigate.
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. Meanwhile, a human teaching assistant monitored any replies that students sent back to the chatbot.
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