Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 7, 2023

During lectures, I prayed that no one would ask me a question that I couldn’t answer. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Memories of that disheartening quarter still make my stomach turn, but I have recovered and learned to use my course evaluations as a tool for growth.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

Classically, the transfer of information has occurred in class via lecture and practice has been assigned for homework. Pair the video content with an activity that encourages students to think about, analyze, or evaluate the information. Second, flip and engage. Don’t just ask students to watch a video.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

While today’s youth may be aware that not everything on the internet is true, they don’t have the tools to evaluate accuracy and authenticity. Whitehead doesn’t believe in lecturing students about news literacy. Otherwise, any conversations could result in miscommunication.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

” Challenges with Traditional Live Instruction Traditionally, educators disseminate information in real-time, relying on lectures or mini-lessons. Self-Assessment : Students can use a rubric to evaluate their understanding of the concepts learned from the video.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

First, second, and audience choice winners were selected in two tracks: the Envision track, for those who have an idea and are seeking to try it out in the real world, and the Accelerate track, for those who have already tried out their idea and are seeking to evaluate it, refine it, and/or expand its reach.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He argues that the traditional lecture method for teaching physics and other STEM fields has been proven ineffective, and that shifts to more active methods can greatly improve learning outcomes to make sure the next generation of researchers can make the next Nobel-worthy breakthroughs. You’ve famously compared lecturing to bloodletting.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

If traditional teaching methods reliant on textbooks, lecture, and rote memorization have proven anything, it’s that one size definitely does not fit all. We do that by ditching the lectures and embracing experiments, multimedia, discussions, and hands-on activities that resonate with most learners.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

These maps go beyond traditional static maps, allowing students to investigate, evaluate, and engage with spatial information. These tools are a wonderful way to make history come alive for students who may struggle with traditional textbooks or lectures. It can be challenging for them to grasp distances on a static map.

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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. This is where machine learning comes in.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Once a technology plan is adopted, superintendents needs to make sure all constituents have a laser focus on implementing it as developed, evaluating successes and failures, and then discussing how to move forward. The instructional team can only be effective when everyone agrees on the non-negotiable goals. Schools need to throw out that.

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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. Suddenly, new consumer AI tools have hit the market that can take any piece of text, audio or video and provide that same kind of simplified summary.

Study 215

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Listening to a lecture, writing notes, filling out worksheets, and taking tests will almost surely not be enough. If you are allowed to use an AI account at school, project it on a screen in front of the class and have students help you generate prompts, evaluate responses, and use the generated content.

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Intelligence Education Ethics Lecturing 344

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.

Lecturing 218

Lecturing Disabilities Assignments Learning 218

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

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Don’t just use video for lectures; the format can also be used to welcome students to your class, provide feedback (much preferred by students to print feedback) and walk through assignments. You can make lots of small videos instead of whole lectures. Fourth, be brave and conduct a mid-term, anonymous evaluation of your course.

Instructors 211

Instructors Lecturing Course Evaluations Feedback 211

eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Recently, I’ve also seen a trend of people I refer to as “reading research legends,” such as Reid Lyon, Doug Carnine, and some of the researchers from The Reading League’s virtual lecture series, finding new energy and excitement as they share research to inform practices.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2016

Sometimes the classes using the courseware got better results than those using traditional lecture mode; sometimes there is no difference; at other times the students using courseware appear to do worse. An evaluation of adaptive learning products by.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

Some examples include learning management systems, lecture capture tools, and early online meeting systems. Take lecture capture for example, even a good 45 minute in-person lecture can put the most engaged students to sleep if put online.

Exams 167

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

While the authors of the 2017 National Educational Technology Plan recommended that, “every new teacher should be prepared to model how to select and use the most appropriate apps and tools to support learning and evaluate these tools against basic privacy and security standards,” this has not come to fruition.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience. To summarize, while hybrid learning models offer promising solutions, their success hinges on thoughtful execution and consistent evaluation.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Such an approach will require students to do more than listen to lectures as they develop their own perspectives through inquiry learning and close examination of primary and secondary sources. We really want to try to help our students evaluate primary and secondary source materials and engage in interpretation analysis.

Social Studies 218

Social Studies Study History Evaluation 218

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. That’s a serious concern, Hardy explains, because "for many adjuncts, they are judged solely on student course evaluations.”

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Instructors Lecturing Course Evaluations Evaluation 176

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2021

They choose authentic and personally-relevant challenges (this past summer, discrimination was top of mind) and design solutions that they apply and evaluate. In this orientation, parents weren’t just receiving a lecture. The RevX + Concourse Village team piloted this model remotely and saw strong learner engagement.

Elementary School 206

Elementary School Elementary School Schools Lecturing 206

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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Lecturing Course Evaluations Students History 157

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

It’s a complete sea change from when she was in school, learning mainly through passive lectures. He asks students to evaluate the sources of information they’re reading and, where possible, gets them to think about how other disciplines, such as biology or the social sciences, are involved.

Science 214

Science Teaching Students Evaluation 214

Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

First, decide what class is appropriate, such as a course that you expect a good deal of unexpected issues and problems due to the newness of teaching the course topics; experimenting new curriculum materials; new pedagogical approaches to a course; or improving and addressing student course evaluation and student feedback.

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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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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

These were not standard end-of-semester evaluations. Together, we weren’t just evaluating survey results. Flexibility in format and modality such as recorded lectures, alternative assignments, or extended deadlinesmade students feel supported, capable, and seen. Textbook format and cost mattered. They asked to be heard.

Disabilities 54

Disabilities Course Design Students Lecturing 54

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The IRB hack at Duke was something that emerged there about six months ago as a project of a Learning Innovation team, says Kim Manturuk, associate director of research, evaluation, and development at Duke University.

Teaching 167

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. The final consideration for developing an asynchronous guest lecture is the “shelf-life” of a video.

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Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 126

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2023

Our institution, teaching and evaluation methods, and follow-on industry rely on the use of computers to assist with common work tasks every day. That’s among the professors open to change, she notes: “The other prevailing mood is terror, thinking ‘This throws everything that I do into chaos.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Language 205

Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

In one focus group I attended, faculty members recommended that online courses include real-time sessions, that the school stream on-campus lectures and events to remote students, and that faculty establish a uniform and consistent online course evaluation rubric following industry best practices.

Lecturing 208

Lecturing eLearning Instructors Course Evaluations 208

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Promethean has awarded 11 schools across the US with a Promethean ActivPanel package worth more than $6,000 after a panel evaluated video submissions from the Promethean Classroom Stories competition. The digital pen allows teachers to enhance lectures and maintain eye contact with students while working remotely.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Gives Kids a Break from Their Academic Studies As mentioned, kids don’t learn only by listening to lectures and reading books. This explains why most high schools and colleges now include extracurricular activities when evaluating admissions. Classroom activities aren’t enough measure of their brightness and abilities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2019

Sessions like these are often a firehose of show and tell with no time to reflect and evaluate. Some are “sit and get” lectures with very little opportunities to ask meaningful questions. After: Evaluating and Sharing Your Learning When the session is over, it is easy to not fill out an evaluation. That’s a problem.

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Evaluation Feedback Participation English 164

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

More Human’ Another idea Bowen and Sparrow are working on right now is how to use AI to evaluate audio recordings of classroom lectures to provide feedback to instructors. Bowen thinks this type of tool could nudge professors to look to a range of sources for quiz questions, such as discussion board postings.

Instructors 163

Instructors Intelligence Quizzes Textbooks 163

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Interactive Lectures: Instead of passive listening, interactive lectures involve activities such as quizzes, polls, or small group discussions interspersed throughout the lecture to keep students engaged and reinforce key concepts. This approach maximizes classroom time for interactive, hands-on learning experiences.

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