Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Then classroom time can be used to fix student misconceptions, with a mix of a short lecture and student activities.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

That really motivated our focus toward middle school teachers and students,” Wong says. “We Our project helps teachers to motivate their students and … helps with learning simple statistical methods.” It was middle school that experienced a gap. We want students to think about data and be able to take action on that data."

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Using edtech in teaching, educators and school leaders can reduce environmental impact while enhancing student engagement and creativity. Rethinking teaching methods in the digital age Teaching methods have undergone significant transformation with the rise of educational technology.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We’re focusing on who is disappearing from higher education due to the pandemic and what professors are doing to try to keep students motivated in these challenging times. I worry that people are going to increasingly give up,” she says, “not because of their own abilities or lack of motivation even. It’s hard for all of us.”

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

There isn’t one solution for increasing learner engagement and motivation. When it comes to learning, engagement is influenced by a learner's level of motivation, focus and cognitive ability as well as online course design and a teacher's decisions regarding facilitation style.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

That’s the view of Jesse Stommel, a digital learning fellow and senior lecturer at the University of Mary Washington. “I Studies suggest, for example, that grades can frustrate students’ intrinsic motivation and make them more focused on how they’ll be measured than on the material they should be studying.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

I’ve done courses before where there wasn’t much of a structure, and I wasn’t motivated to finish them,” says Garg. I’ve done courses before where there wasn’t much of a structure, and I wasn’t motivated to finish them. CoRise, though, actually makes learners pencil live lectures into their calendars. “It It creates a cadence.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Most MOOCs, despite the claims of innovation and disruption, consisted of video lectures and text-based assignments. Thus, the impression that most people have of online education is an attempt to create an online lecture.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

It forced school systems to not only rethink their instruction but also figure out how to best use technology to facilitate instruction. Often, that meant moving completely away from replicating in-person, lecture-based models online. Team based competition is a great motivator and connector.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

They motivate and guide their students to accomplish their goals. Years ago Bowen coined the term “teaching naked,” meaning teaching without technology like PowerPoint. Since we’ve discovered that teaching is mostly about motivation, that matters because for faculty, motivation was usually not the primary problem.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Middle schoolers, they warned us, are unable to work at their own pace because they lack academic fundamentals, intrinsic motivation and basic time management skills. As our colleagues pointed out, they lacked intrinsic motivation and independent work skills. We’d heard these arguments before but we weren’t convinced.

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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

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. I had already decided that it was relevant for me," she said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

To develop innovative solutions to accessibility challenges, we need to be motivated and energized to problem-solve. This is no small lift when so many educators feel exhausted, frustrated and confused about the path forward in teaching and learning. We can innovate. We can empathize. Christina Cipriano, Ph.D., Follow her @drchriscip.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

It’s not at all an easy shift to make overnight, particularly for those who aren’t used to sitting on a computer recording or listening to lectures. But in the midst of all of this, we’re learning and experimenting together on how best to engage and motivate students and teachers online. Heck, I don’t even like doing that.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

You can record lectures. And more lectures. Having that deep motivation will help you with what typically comes next: frustration. It can be even more nefarious when you’re teaching online because the online world is built to hold and move information. You can share reams of text and bucket loads of data.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

I saw that I could use VR to do some fascinating stuff with English language education,” explains Bonner. Today, Bonner is a lecturer and researcher for the Language, Media and Learning Research Center at Kanda University of International Studies in Japan. They’re embodying this avatar in a 3D space. Read Bonner’s Research.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Interestingly, before this point, Jeslyn and her peers had always needed my guidance on these kinds of projects; all of a sudden, they were working bell-to-bell, motivated by their passion for the issue. Lecturing and quizzing on content is more efficient than coaching and mentoring groups of students through real-world problems.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Another challenge that the sector is witnessing, perhaps more in the pedagogical dimension than the technological, involves the role of the educator, whether in-person, online, hybrid, high-flex or what have you, evolving from exclusively functioning as a lecturer to a facilitator or a coach.

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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. Effectiveness Video learning is effective on both sides of the classroom; educators can use it to create time and space for active learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2020

I definitely worry about some of my teachers and the level of burnout they’re feeling,” said Stacey Roshan, a math teacher and director of innovation and educational technology at Bullis School in Potomac, Md. These questions were in the spotlight during the latest installment in our EdSurge-ISTE webinar series. “I

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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. Also, these days, students can go on YouTube and get answers to just about anything on their own.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

First, consider that two of the central gatekeepers of learning are emotion and motivation. Similarly, when motivation levels are high, students engage more deeply in the associated learning task. Ask any educator about the joys of teaching a highly intrinsically motivated student! Why should one learn this information?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stop me if you’ve seen this one before: In an effort to encourage teachers to abandon traditional, lecture-style instruction in favor of next-generation learning models, we sit them down and ask them to listen for an hour or two. Or, in other words, we lecture teachers on the merits of ditching the lecture.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

K-12 tech innovation is driving a paradigm shift in education, embracing interactive tools, personalized learning, and digital resources to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of the evolving global landscape. What are the educational technology trends in 2024? How has technology impacted K-12 education?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2020

For most of them, however, that wasn’t their real motivation; learning was, and we didn’t feel we were making much progress. Having previously leaned toward large-group lectures, we began using small groups to teach straight coding to our campers. They wanted to become real-life coders and they weren’t headed in that direction.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

If all the individuals responsible for the students’ education are not on the same page—or even worse, undermining each other’s directions—the results can be disruptive and de-motivating for student learning. is Executive Director and Chief Scientist at EdTogether and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2021

To set foot into untrodden territory can be exciting, and we must not let our unfounded fears of learning loss or misguided motivations for learning acceleration trick us into going back to what we were doing before the pandemic. This includes outdated and misguided thinking on personalized learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem is that as an educator, my natural inclination is to provide these students more direct instruction, increased support and even hand-holding at times—but in a society that values individuals who are motivated, persistent self-starters with initiative, that’s not fair. This increased motivation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Here are some ideas: Educators – as you know, we’re in a digital world, and using technology in the classroom such as video as a means of communicating messages is taking over. The days of checking books out of the library, traditional style lecturing, and writing papers with a pen are continuously becoming pastimes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

For instance, in a self-contained special education classroom, the robotics sponsor for a school’s unified coding and robotics team uses content creation to emphasize the importance of blending creativity with real-life relevance to motivate students and cultivate an environment of inclusivity and collaboration.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2020

Whether in short videos, lecture notes, or just a profile picture on Canvas, let students see you as a real human being. A personal email updating them on grades, checking in on them or reminding them about an assignment deadline can dramatically impact whether students feel motivated and connected.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There are so many acronyms that are pretty closely related,” explains Karen Cator, CEO of Digital Promise and a former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education. Cator’s organization has tried to brand CBL as challenge-based learning.) How do you engage students?

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2023

Professors and lecturers from MIT and the Education University of Hong Kong (EDUHK) provided 78 hours of training to the first batch of teachers to explore and learn the CoolThink curriculum. The CoolThink curriculum is motivating and interactive, inspiring students to create, experiment and debug with less direction from teachers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But teachers can strive to be as neutral as they can, says Dean Cantù , a professor of teacher education at Bradley University in Illinois whose research focuses on the education of history and social studies. When you look at the situation in Europe, you look at the motivation for embarking on exploration.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Online courses helped kick off a movement promising that your zipcode no longer had to determine the quality of education you received. Students at a community college could supplement their math class with lectures from MIT. The risk is that we leave out students who can’t pay in the equivalent of the large lecture hall.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Ideally, educators want students to discover the joy of learning and be motivated by intrinsic rewards. Ideally, educators want students to discover the joy of learning and be motivated by intrinsic rewards. EdSurge: Tell us about the early days of Arludo—what was the driving force to creating games for education?

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