eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning tools like textbooks and whiteboards to innovative techniques such as flipped classrooms and educational software, these resources aim to optimize educational outcomes and engage students effectively. What are tools and techniques in education?

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Textbooks Metacognitive Skills Education Teaching Methods 130

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

This can be a real challenge for procrastinators, multitaskers, responsibility jugglers and anyone tempted to half-listen to a lecture while scrolling through social media—in other words, many people. Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 200

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth.

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Teaching Textbooks Learning Styles Teaching Methods 130

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Here are three strategies for digital tool use to consider, particularly at the start of a new term or when organizing for exams. For example, faculty often create lecture materials and documents directly in Notability that students can edit immediately. Providing students documents in a format that aligns with this tool is key.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Clutch Prep calls themselves “the video version of textbooks” but really, that doesn’t give you the full flavor of what they offer. Their academic how-to videos are textbook-specific so you pick the ones used in your classes, even by your teacher. Videos cover each chapter and can be used as a preview or review.

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Textbooks Exams Syllabus Essay 95

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. The Echo360 video platform use Amazon Transcribe to provide real-time transcriptions of lectures at the University of Michigan. Our system is also able to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide, automatically.

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 100

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture. As he started to design MEDSKL in 2015, Sharma realized he didn’t feel comfortable lecturing on topics outside his focus area—so he asked colleagues for help. I’d contact a school and ask, ‘Do you have a lecturer who’s passionate about a certain topic?’”

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Lecturing Exams Textbooks Learning Styles 84

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As Pachai, Acai, LoGiudice, and Kim (2016) say, “It is unreasonable to expect students to continuously pay attention while listening to a lecture, reading a textbook, or studying for an exam. Textbooks are long, generally with considerable new vocabulary and often on topics students don’t think of as interesting.

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Lecturing Attention Textbooks Exams 84

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2017

For years, my teaching revolved around textbooks as my resources. But blended learning is more than simply replacing lectures and books with web-based technology. But that has changed. Using the Internet in classrooms has morphed from optional to organic. CK-12 Flexbooks. Roll them out one at a time or all at once.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Internet Learning 98

k12

MAY 2, 2025

Like their brick-and-mortar peers, their influence goes far beyond textbooks and test scores, leaving a lasting imprint on students lives. Understanding the Role of Teachers in Youth Education Teachers do far more than lecture in front of the class. Teachers impact students as mentors, motivators, role models, and leaders.

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Lab to Class

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Education, especially formalized education in schools, has long held that in order for students to learn effectively, they must have solid study routines, consistent teachers, and unified textbooks. Imagine a student doctor who listens to a lecture on a new form of surgery. Absolutely not. Videos changed that.

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Study Lecturing Learning Activities 52

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology.

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Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2024

As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist By Jeffrey R. One idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams. Can oral exams be delivered at the scale needed for today’s class sizes? Should more colleges adopt the methods of this free university? Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work?

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Exams Education Essay Lecturing 169

Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

For example, a typical college classroom today does not appear much different from one in the last century; they both revolve around a center-staged professor lecturing to a few-rows-deep audience. Occasionally, an electronic slide with bullet-point text appears in the lecture, the digital equivalent of chalk-writing on the blackboard.

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Technology Teaching Exams Intelligence 122

Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

For example, a typical college classroom today does not appear much different from one in the last century; they both revolve around a center-staged professor lecturing to a few-rows-deep audience. Occasionally, an electronic slide with bullet-point text appears in the lecture, the digital equivalent of chalk-writing on the blackboard.

Technology 98

Technology Teaching Exams Intelligence 98

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2022

That was a time of expensive science textbooks and long lectures in big halls. In 2017, Jackie took board exams required to become a nurse. From outside the building, Jackie points toward the long flight of steps that descends to the rest of campus. Down there is where, at 19, she had studied to become a nurse.

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Art Exams Textbooks Lecturing 172