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. To get in, students first have to apply and take a quiz.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Of course, there’s more to education technology than allowing computers in the classroom. School administrators should be continually on the lookout for emerging technologies that can increase student engagement, retain knowledge, and make learning more accessible.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

But the rise of alternative education providers that rely on contractors raises the question: Should these instructors be considered employees instead? 20, 2018, General Assembly began notifying former and current instructors about the settlement and their share of the sum. Overworked and Undercompensated On the week of Aug.

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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. Multimedia instruction has to include the instructor,” Andrew Stull, one of the authors of the study, recently told EdSurge.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

And we did not teach to the test. In fact, she continues, “There were a couple of kids who said they had never passed the math SBAC test in the history of their schooling, and that 6th grade was the first time.” The students who exceeded on the state test were from diverse backgrounds. We just used Carnegie Learning Math.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2022

It’s clear that education technology, also known as EdTech, has seen many changes and challenges but one thing stands out — the industry is expected to continue to grow with an even stronger focus on technology, which means there will be a high demand for individuals who can support it. Learn more at www.smarterservices.com.

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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. One of our themes is less is usually more.”

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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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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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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2024

One of my biggest goals as a technology instructor is to teach my students skills and provide them with tools that I feel will best stoke their curiosity and prepare them for the world outside of the classroom. Makr Another AR tool I have utilized with students is Makr.

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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

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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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

Designed to be flexible and alterable, educators and students can continually test how well they work and improve them as necessary, “ensuring the course materials are better every semester than they were the semester before,” says David Wiley, chief academic officer of Lumen Learning, a company that sells low-cost open textbooks and courseware.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Instructors might send students to the Khan Academy website for additional practice, or have computer stations in class where students complete online quizzes. “This product is designed to offer ways to assign work from a large body of standards and content that is vetted, and provide new reporting for teachers,” Khan tells EdSurge.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. The company has tested the tool in nine school districts and charter management organizations, and plans to launch publicly in October.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Other outlets have shared worries from students and privacy advocates over how much information these tools are collecting, through features like eye-tracking technology and requirements that students show their entire room and provide personal information during sessions which are often recorded. More than 60,000 U.S. More than 60,000 U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Remembering that most students arent looking to be cheaters can take down the temperature so that instructors dont get so worked up about it. That is causing frustration for many instructors. But the solutions that this expert recommends havent changed.

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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

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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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. Which benefits should you look for?

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The district was among the first in the country to test the chatbot called Khanmigo, an AI program developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that is designed for classrooms and acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

During the panel, research on the prevalence and perspectives of cheating was presented by Jarret Dyer, coordinator of testing services at College of DuPage, a community college of more than 28,000 students in Illinois, and Steve Saladin, director of testing and assessment at the University of Idaho, a public school of more than 9,000 students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

Double-Loop Learning Good educators are empirical in the sense that they are constantly testing to see what their students know, what they are missing, which concepts they appear to be stuck on, which lessons ignite their passion and curiosity, which activities cause them to get bored and drift, and so on.

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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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Early in my career as a university instructor, this method was a foundational cornerstone in the classroom. Technological Approaches: Next-Generation Learning The gift of technology and the digital classroom is that students can now pick the most convenient, fastest way to consume material.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2021

The academic year is winding down at schools and colleges, and some instructors are rethinking their usual approach to final exams to fit this unprecedented time. He said he has nothing against traditional tests, but he doesn’t think that should be the last three hours that instructors spend with their students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The number of instructors on the platform grew from 1,000 before the outbreak to over 7,000 today, according to Outschool CEO Amir Nathoo. These informal classes, capped at 18 students, are led by instructors who set their own lesson plans, schedules and price. On average, Nathoo says instructors earn about $40 to $60 per hour.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. Curriculum and Teaching Curriculum and teaching is top of mind for students curious about educational technology, and this was the most frequent topic that students have written about about so far.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Its product is called “Class for Zoom,” and what it’s building is pretty much that—a suite of tools that let instructors take attendance, distribute and grade assignments, and deliver online assessments through Zoom. At Arizona State University, students and instructors have held over 1.3 All of these tools are still in development.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Feldstein thinks new AI chatbots might be uniquely suited to guiding instructors through the early stages of that learning-design process. And for months he has been leading a series of workshops through which more than 70 educators have tried versions of the tool and given feedback. The question is, can AI do that?”

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

I mean, what exactly is a Mann-Whitney U stats test, anyway? Towards the end of their email message, there was some clarifying information regarding the role of the professor: “Individual instructors have the authority to establish course policies for the use of ChatGPT and other AI tools. So how can that work? So how can that work?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus. So far, Spoon reports that the changes are invigorating.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. Most people would be fine if Pearson offered either option to all users?

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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 made designs for bookmarks to hand out.

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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. So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. Instructors can have biases toward picking particular students.

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