Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. Instructors can have biases toward picking particular students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

What’s life like after quitting a tenured job as a professor to become a freelance educator, making video courses and podcasts for a living? You imagine: wouldn't it be nice if I could have a version of that lecture recorded, and it's a format that you like and then you could upload it on a web server so the students could look at it.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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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 Except—striving for continuity may be a bit delusional right now. Or it may be an effort that betrays misplaced priorities. I don’t want there to be ‘continuity.’ I want my students to deal with their lives,” he says. “I

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Former Xythos and DataHero CEO Ed Miller knows a thing or two about online collaboration and the business behind education technology, which is why we wanted to get a few words as he embarks on his new role as CEO of NovoEd , an online social learning platform that specializes in free and exclusive courseware.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

If you’re unsure where to begin, ask the chatbot for help brainstorming lesson ideas and then ask follow-up questions until you get something you can use. Educators are the experts in teaching and learning, and they need to be at the center of conversations about how artificial intelligence will be used in education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Option 1: Paper-based teaching Point a camera at a piece of paper, write on it and lecture. And here’s what your student will see: Option 2: Whiteboard or easel teaching Point a camera at yourself while lecturing in front of a whiteboard or easel+paper pad. Schedule lectures at the assigned time slot for the class 3.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

” 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

JULY 30, 2017

If a professor is delivering a lecture and he doesn’t look up to see whether half the class is asleep, we can use facial recognition to depict emotions (such as boredom) and send the professor a message. Benemann: Everywhere you look, people are asking what aspect of education (and everything else) can be touched by AI.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

For nearly four decades, Perry Samson didn’t see many students’ hands raised in his large lecture courses. “I In reality, they probably had questions but were afraid to ask them.” Your sense of identity is already kind of questioned because there are so few of you.” We believe part of that is a lack of identity,” Samson says.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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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 latest cohort, unveiled over two days at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video. None of our class time was given to me delivering lectures.

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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. And so I just tackled this as a science question, and I started reading the research on how people learn — how people learn physics. … You’ve famously compared lecturing to bloodletting. And this isn't just flippant.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet as instructors in the new world of online education, we have access to ever-increasing amounts of data—from recorded lecture videos, electronically submitted homework, discussion forums, and online quizzes and assessments—that may give us insights into individual student learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

As professors and K-12 teachers adjust to the sudden move to online teaching, one question keeps coming up: How much of class time should be done live—known in education parlance as “synchronous” teaching—and how much should be done so that students can do the work at their convenience—or “asynchronous” teaching.

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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. But it turns out that just having a professor’s face on the screen isn’t always a benefit. It’s a complicated problem,” he says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The most controversial new tech tool for colleges since the start of the pandemic is automated proctoring, which aims to detect cheating on online exams by using algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—often sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

He encouraged every student to raise a hand every time he asked a question, and if someone who was called on didn’t actually know the answer, they were encouraged to recommend someone else in class who might. His message was that classroom rituals are a training ground for power dynamics students face out in the real world.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!”

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

One of them was just listening to lectures, a core experience: “Play my next lecture.” It could also be voice acquisition, which is one of the #1 questions asked to Alexa: “Tell me about a topic.” It could be basic questions about, “Am I taking a class to become X?” With voice and education, there's something there.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

With this exceptionally valuable resource, educators get to learn about AI, by engaging with AI in a demystified manner. The course deeply addresses the question of the ethical and responsible use of AI within our world. The RAI for Educators course is a new on-demand course created with Generative AI.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true. What I would like to see is a 10- to 15-minute mini lecture, then an activity for 30 to 45 minutes” followed by group discussion, she says.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

There are still many unanswered questions about what that might look like in practice, as colleges try to balance safety through social distancing while making teaching and other campuses experiences meaningful and effective. These were the questions tackled this week during a live online discussion, part of our monthly EdSurge Live series.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing. The software will automatically use your recording to make notes, flashcards and quiz questions,” she says in the promotional video.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2022

You can pose a question for a future column here. Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. In an hour and fifteen minute class, you asked around 20 different questions. Ask questions. With abundant gratitude, Bonni.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

And finally, I've taught graduate school courses related to media and business, and am currently a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Wow, that's a tough question. On a more personal level, I have two teenage daughters and I served for 6 years on the board of their K8 school, San Francisco Friends School.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Fred Singer: The question that struck me was, ‘how could it be that kids—born to a generation in which smart phones and laptops are a part of their everyday existence—have to sit in a classroom where someone just talks to them?’ And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Student-centered approaches such as active learning , in which faculty facilitate opportunities for small-group collaboration and minimize lecture time, have been linked to improved student performance. Another version of this approach supplements large lectures with smaller interactive sections.

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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. Less frequently asked were some more fundamental questions: How might we preserve a sense of belonging and connectedness between students?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

These days students can have tools like Google’s NotebookLM turn their lecture notes into a podcast , where sunny-sounding AI bots banter and riff on key points. Naturally, all this is causing concern among some educators, who see students off-loading the hard work of synthesizing information to AI at a pace never before possible.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

The tech itself raises a host of challenging questions. Some researchers are exploring one that might sound trivial but actually could be quite thorny: What should these computer-generated educational assistants look and sound like? Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

That’s the question that San Francisco State University professor David Pena Guzman is facing during the pandemic, when, as at so many colleges, his teaching has shifted online. “I And so there is this massive question mark hovering over several people in my roster, and I’m just not sure what to do.” If so, how?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Plus, students can use them to submit work digitally. zSpace, Inc.

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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. Should they disclose that to students?

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