Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models. Its conclusion?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Changing Student Expectations Given the rapid evolution of technology and educational methods, student expectations have shifted considerably in recent years. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But with the fame brought by the Nobel, he hoped to raise the profile of educational research. So the norm is really this paradigm of, you've got a brain, and it's a sort of fixed thing, and you fill it up with knowledge. And how well it can absorb that knowledge is just determined by the characteristics of that brain.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Extensive lecturing is not a good use of your time, or learners’ time, in synchronous online learning. At a minimum, you should break up lectures with polls or discussion prompts. Students remember more and experience less mind-wandering when lectures are interpolated with other learning activities, such as short quizzes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

In response, education technology companies have been quick to create products that attempt to replicate in-person teaching. Some examples include learning management systems, lecture capture tools, and early online meeting systems. Knowing these variables, how would you have your students demonstrate their knowledge?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. Knowledge Production The content on MOOCs is typically produced in universities from the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Unfortunately, across the board, educators have not been prepared to teach well with technology, let alone teach remotely with technology. In some teacher preparation programs, pre-service teachers are not provided with any opportunities to engage with technology in meaningful ways.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Department of Education. The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion. For instance, instructors can ask students to post a one-sentence summary or brief reflection after going through an assigned reading or watching a short video lecture.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We have evidence that when you take a demanding test that requires reasoning, reading a book or listening to a lecture in preparation is no different than doing nothing. Sometimes the two agents can agree on information that is false and clashes with the knowledge of the learner. That’s a lot of what our educational system does.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. For years, it’s been a struggle for many college faculty to adapt to online instruction.

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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. I never delivered a lecture in real time on Zoom.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2016

” McMullan, who is the former executive director of educational technology at Klein ISD in Texas, was responsible for rolling out that district’s massive one-to-one program several years ago. The good news is that change can be empowering for teachers, when they notice the benefits of technology is having on their students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Well, Downes says the problems with requiring registration, even when it’s free, are many—including that it makes it more difficult or even impossible for students to easily find potentially helpful lecture videos in internet searches or for other professors to assign pieces of the courses as resources in their own teaching.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

It’s common today for colleges to invite professors from other institutions to deliver distinguished lectures on campus. On their own and in their own time, students watch pre-recorded video lectures and demonstrations, enter discussion boards and work together in groups employing collaborative software tools day and night.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And except for relatively new options by for-profit upstarts, the options haven’t changed much in decades, despite the rise of the internet and a knowledge economy. In 2016, then-MIT dean Christine Ortiz left the university to start a new type of university without lectures or classrooms. College in the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

For Pickett, it is a struggle to implement new digital learning styles with adult students as many of them are accustomed to traditional lecture models and are dismayed when they don't get what they expect. These critiques can discourage other students from taking the course or cost lectures their contract renewals.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You might be wondering how this is possible—how one might actually minimize their dependence on education technology in an era of remote instruction and screen-dependent learning. No, Edtech Minimalism doesn’t necessitate a complete abandonment of digital technology. That may seem counterintuitive.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

Flipping the Classroom Professors who recorded video lectures for online learning during the pandemic are realizing they have a new resource at their disposal. For example, some students mistakenly assume that recorded lectures are “optional resources” rather than asynchronous assignments, Roeger says. Smith University.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Students are introduced to data-science terms and asked to answer questions based on the map, which Wong calls “knowledge checks.” The app opens to reveal an interactive map with data from all 50 states. A second tab generates charts based on income, ethnicity and other population data.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The technology gives new resonance to that old “ infinite monkey theorem ,” which holds that a roomful of monkeys and typewriters, if given enough time, would eventually compose the works of Shakespeare. Except that educators aren’t laughing. They can just have the essay generator do it.” Welcome to the next frontier in cheating.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

This practice helps to keep students engaged, allows them to test their knowledge without impacting their grades , and provides Dr. Perumal with valuable insights into what material students are struggling with. And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. Source: Echo360.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2022

But I knew that you had given this interactive lecture many times before—and you knew what you were aiming for. These authors talk about learners being ready to hear deeper explanations of a concept once they have been able to differentiate their knowledge beyond that of novices. Ask questions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

And so when you talk about critiques of the lecture style of teaching, you group that under a practice that lacks authenticity. One of the things that is apparent as you start to read about the lecture-versus-active learning debates is that everyone is defining those terms in very different ways. Do I need this?

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

They’re essentially self-help courses grounded in some serious body of knowledge, and their topics are similar to self-help books that dominate print best-seller lists. Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at Yale, recorded lectures for her Science of Well-Being MOOC in her home. Some 100,000 signed up for the MOOC version.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2021

At Concourse Village, students were building the core knowledge and skills to meet grade-level standards, but students, families and educators were ready for more. In this orientation, parents weren’t just receiving a lecture. Take Concourse Village Elementary School, a South Bronx, N.Y.,

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

All of these features stand in stark contrast to traditional courses, where students are expected to attend local lectures, complete all assignments, and attain a passing grade. Seven years later, contrary to predictions , MOOCs have not replaced traditional education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. For her, that meant reducing the amount of lecture time and spending part of class sessions on team-based projects. “It

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Most online courses have some form of demerits built into them if learners miss too many lectures, or turn in assignments late. CoRise, though, actually makes learners pencil live lectures into their calendars. “It A coach can see that a student got the same question wrong four times in one lecture. It creates a cadence.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Teachers’ use of technology, especially during the pandemic, was ineffective as most teachers had little knowledge of online platforms or apps that would be the most effective for instructional delivery. Students require instruction that provides problem-solving, collaboration, and the latest in educational technology.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

The plan is to train Jill Watson on the specific materials of any course it is being used for, by feeding in the text of lecture videos and slides, as well as the contents of the textbook. “Jill Watson is the intermediary,” Goel tells EdSurge. Those courses enroll between 100 and 370 students each.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2018

The days of standing in front of the classroom and “lecturing” are long gone. Including video in classroom instruction offers numerous benefits for both educators and students. Studies have shown that video lectures are effective because they allow class time to be used in more engaging ways.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Clever techies have stepped up to the challenge with their ingenious gadgets, transforming remote students into tangible beings with a heartbeat, devising uncanny innovations, most now surprisingly part of mainstream education, right on campus. MOOC critics say that streaming lectures is not terribly innovative.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Armed with full knowledge of the issue, they dove into the research, recorded public service announcements and canvassed their community for advocates. Lecturing and quizzing on content is more efficient than coaching and mentoring groups of students through real-world problems.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The day after each lecture, students in the course would receive a text message with a one-question multiple-choice quiz about a fact presented during that lecture. The hypothesis is that doing so will improve retention of the material, something that other learning science studies suggests will be effective. “The

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2016

It’s relatively new on the education landscape and I have yet to reach a comfort level with it. Thankfully, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Lisa Michaels, has lots of knowledge and experience on this topic. Some of the most promising uses for 3D printing in education include: Math . A Revolutionized Classroom. Final Word.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

Cook argues that the countless interviews that educators are conducting and posting as episodes of their own podcasts represent what he calls an “insurgency” against the way researchers typically share their work with each other and the broader public. “I Let's open up our knowledge production processes. Let's let people in.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This digital ecosystem not only enhances academic knowledge but also cultivates digital literacy skills essential for the modern workforce. K-12 technology innovation is not just about subject-specific content but also about developing digital literacy skills. What are the educational technology trends in 2024?

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