Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Hoping to Regain Attention of Students, Professors Pay More Attention to Them Getting and holding the attention of students is more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

Instructors 145

Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 145

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While companies such as GPTZero have responded to academic concerns by creating software designed to detect the use of AI in written work, false positives and underconfidence in the software’s assessment leaves instructors without an actionable means to promote integrity in coursework (Chaka, 2023). Kuswoyo et al. link] Granger, S.

Essay 126

Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Additional recommendations for faculty during in-person lectures involve small group interactions and calling upon students to create an atmosphere of engagement and dialogue. Small groups.

Disabilities 144

Disabilities Exams Lecturing Education 144

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

After a long weekend of grading essays, I submitted the final grades for English 101. Reality Sets In My first adjunct instructor position was at a community college. They were already registering for courses even though it only said “instructor.” Then I got an email from the scheduling coordinator. When I returned to the U.S.,

Instructors 161

Instructors English Essay Disabilities 161

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

Online Learning 111

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While companies such as GPTZero have responded to academic concerns by creating software designed to detect the use of AI in written work, false positives and underconfidence in the software’s assessment leaves instructors without an actionable means to promote integrity in coursework (Chaka, 2023). Kuswoyo et al. link] Granger, S.

Essay 111

Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Second, the tool is not designed to fully-automate grading, meaning instructors aren’t out of the process completely. “You

Grades 100

Grades Exams Instructors Teaching Assistants 100

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. Assessment is a critical component of the teaching and learning process.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? What are its merits and limitations?

Faculty Development 92

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 92

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 16, 2025

I spent weeks getting ready, thinking about what I was going to do, writing out lectures, and planning assignments. I burned through what should have been a one-hour lecture in thirty minutes, and I struggled to fill the remaining time with questions for the class. I had no frame of reference for who I was in that space.

Instructors 99

Instructors Lecturing Essay Art 99

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? What are its merits and limitations?

Faculty Development 89

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 89

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. Assessment is a critical component of the teaching and learning process.

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Additional recommendations for faculty during in-person lectures involve small group interactions and calling upon students to create an atmosphere of engagement and dialogue. Small groups.

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Exams Lecturing Education 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A professor or educator can spend a lecture or semester teaching the curriculum, but if you ask ChatGPT what the biggest takeaways from the war are, it’s possible and likely a learner is provided with even more context and historical facts via the chatbot than what is possible for an instructor to cover from a set curriculum.

Plagiarism 130

Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While faculty members might feel good when students score well in their examinations and essays, there is little long-term fruit. A combination of semi-traditional lectures and discussions with debates and tours of the research facilities sets the foundation on which the assessments can build. 2018, García et al., 2016, Gleadow et al.,

Assignments 131

Assignments Motivation Science Study 131

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 16, 2025

I spent weeks getting ready, thinking about what I was going to do, writing out lectures, and planning assignments. I burned through what should have been a one-hour lecture in thirty minutes, and I struggled to fill the remaining time with questions for the class. I had no frame of reference for who I was in that space.

Instructors 59

Instructors Lecturing Essay Art 59

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

Before coming to Wayfinding, Stewart worked as an instructor at Outward Bound, as well as at a variety of software companies. For one thing, students quickly asked her not to lecture. But as Jones explains in a recent essay she posted on LinkedIn , all of Wayfindings initial class were predominantly white.

Grades 119

Grades Discussions Assignments Curriculum 119

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Asynchronous Models Online high schools typically offer two main modes of instruction: Synchronous Learning: Students attend scheduled live classes, interacting in real-time with instructors and peers. Asynchronous Learning: Students access recorded lectures, complete assignments at their own pace, and submit work within flexible deadlines.

High School 52

High School High School Exams Schools 52

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. Thumbing through its pages, you might have discovered a brief essay penned by a prolific writer of science and science fiction, Isaac Asimov.

Teachers 155

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 155

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2015

This take on document-based questions turns students into mentors and instructors. In a field where lecture-based learning is the norm, I began to reflect on my own education experience and what kept me engaged. For as long as I have been a teacher, I have been showing videos in class.

Learning 279

Learning Feedback Essay Lecturing 279

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2024

There’s no neatly wrapped solution to tie up her essay — because her school hasn’t devised one. Gen Z Teaches History” is her Millennial take on how today’s high school students might deliver their own classroom lectures one day, with youthful slang (what’s “rizz?”) and Taylor Swift references to spare. Teaching Was My Dream.

Essay 167

Essay Lecturing History Group work 167

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On a rainy April afternoon, students in the back row of my class whispered to each other as I, increasingly irritated with their disengagement, stood at the chalkboard lecturing on Death of a Salesman. Furthermore, instructors in the humanities are well situated for this timely introspection.

Instructors 102

Instructors Essay Lecturing English 102

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On a rainy April afternoon, students in the back row of my class whispered to each other as I, increasingly irritated with their disengagement, stood at the chalkboard lecturing on Death of a Salesman. Furthermore, instructors in the humanities are well situated for this timely introspection.

Instructors 59

Instructors Essay Lecturing English 59