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Learning Designers Call for More User Testing of Edtech Products and Teaching Materials

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“Many educational products are never shown to students until they have already been designed,” said Elliott Hedman, a consultant who works with edtech companies, in a talk this month at the SXSW EDU festival. That’s perhaps an extreme example, Hedman admits, but he says that lack of testing really shows when students are given the materials.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

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Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I Probably some people look the questions up online because it's an online test a lot of the time. For Meeks, the longtime instructor, this means students are missing out on the whole point of college. “I

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How Online Instructors Can Avoid ‘Burnout’

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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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Robots Won’t Replace Instructors, 2 Penn State Educators Argue. Instead, They’ll Help Them Be ‘More Human.’

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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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Dual Enrollment Numbers Are Rising. Colleges Want Them to Keep Growing.

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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. Barriers to access vary from state to state, Fink says.

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Y Combinator’s Newest Batch of Education Technology Startups

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“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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Classroom tech: The new and the tried-and-true of 2024

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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.