Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Squirrel—so named because, like the furry, nut-gathering rodent, it is fast, agile, plans ahead and “cracks tough nuts,” according to founder and CEO Derek Haoyang Li—uses an AI adaptive learning system and human instructors to give students a personalized education on subjects ranging from Chinese language to physics.

Teachers 167

Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

Study 165

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 165

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

For example, in a political science class, students might find a community activist, someone who is ideally active in a topic that is interesting to the students, and talk to them about what it’s like to be a community activist, how they got started, what they do to create action, how to be an activist, and questions of that sort.

Laboratory 98

Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? Communicate with students about interpreting instructor feedback.

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

How can instructors best manage growing class sizes, decreasing budgets and an increasingly diverse base of learners—including first time college students and adults returning to school to learn new skills? Offer highly selective degree programs in health sciences and technology. Address local workforce needs.

Failure 154

Failure Instructors Evaluation Feedback 154

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. For example, during group problem-solving, ask students to identify and reflect on common mistakes, transforming failure into an opportunity for growth (Dweck, 2006). Proceedings of the national academy of sciences , 111 (23), 84108415.

Plagiarism 116

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 116

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

But I’ve come to believe that contemporary instructional design sits at the intersection of three core disciplines: learning science, human-centered design, and digital marketing. Lesson 2: Ground yourself in the fundamentals of learning science. But listen for the underlying pain points.

Feedback 164

Feedback Failure Lecturing Reading 164

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

A high school science teacher looking to blend her classroom to increase student agency might create a timeline with two weeks to conduct a series of student interviews to determine when and how her students learn best, and another two weeks to analyze the interviews. Now it’s postsecondary instructional designers and instructors.

Teaching 163

Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? Communicate with students about interpreting instructor feedback.

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2015

Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened to the chapter being reviewed, homework as worksheets based on the text, tests regurgitating important facts. Failure is a learning tool.

Critical Thinking 163

Critical Thinking Textbooks Gamification Knowledge 163

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

In this way, backchannels serve as a formative assessment for instructors to identify ways to improve the delivery and impact of our teaching. They also allow instructors to generate a steady stream of signals we can use to support our students. Great instructors go a step further by asking more of their students.

Course Design 128

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Even as learning sciences offer stronger evidence of how video can support learners, CIOs continue to invest in commercial video platforms that solve for yesterday’s use case—often without a clear picture of how demand will evolve in the coming years. Passive video linked from an LMS no longer cuts it.

Mobile Devices 123

Mobile Devices Failure Lecturing Instructors 123

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

For example, in a political science class, students might find a community activist, someone who is ideally active in a topic that is interesting to the students, and talk to them about what it’s like to be a community activist, how they got started, what they do to create action, how to be an activist, and questions of that sort.

Laboratory 77

Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 77

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. For example, during group problem-solving, ask students to identify and reflect on common mistakes, transforming failure into an opportunity for growth (Dweck, 2006). Proceedings of the national academy of sciences , 111 (23), 84108415.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Critical systems hosted on-premises are often a single point of failure, and schools run the risk of losing access to valuable student data—whether that is at the hands of a squirrel that chewed through a line or a snowstorm taking down power. Watch the video to see how it works.

Education 167

Education Intelligence Failure Testing 167

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It is based on and necessitates analyzing one’s theories of teaching and learning, the alignment of these theories with the class experience, and critically assessing the student, teacher, and class experience along with successes and failures (Brookfield, 1998). It is not intended that it all be completed in one sitting.

Teaching 115

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 115

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It is based on and necessitates analyzing one’s theories of teaching and learning, the alignment of these theories with the class experience, and critically assessing the student, teacher, and class experience along with successes and failures (Brookfield, 1998). It is not intended that it all be completed in one sitting.

Teaching 111

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

In this way, backchannels serve as a formative assessment for instructors to identify ways to improve the delivery and impact of our teaching. They also allow instructors to generate a steady stream of signals we can use to support our students. Great instructors go a step further by asking more of their students.

Course Design 111

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

The best teachers have more in common with fitness instructors, he argues. His latest book, “ Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes ,” expands on his arguments and offers practical advice for instructors who want to rethink how they design their classes.

Coaching 143

Coaching Lecturing Teachers Motivation 143

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

For instructors, rubrics expedite grading with standards; at the same time, they reinforce learning objectives and standardize course curricula. How can instructors ensure that students engage with rubrics when they work on their assignments? Wide consensus confirms the usefulness of rubrics. Both options are possible with Google Docs.

Instructors 64

Instructors Failure Assignments Students 64

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

As such, entrepreneurs come to be depicted as those who are dealing with novelty and complex scenarios, and they make decisions in ways that go beyond the rational models of normal social science. For both instructors and their students, that means adopting a mindset that avoids persistence in favor of pivoting and changing course.

Teaching 59

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 59

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

Study 100

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 100

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

We’ve done it both ways, and have found that unless you have years of experience working with students and with technology and science, putting together makerspace projects can be quite difficult,” explains Tammy DiBartolo, youth services and outreach coordinator. “In Some of the Alexandria, La.,

Failure 107

Failure Instructors Elementary School Elementary School 107

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

As such, entrepreneurs come to be depicted as those who are dealing with novelty and complex scenarios, and they make decisions in ways that go beyond the rational models of normal social science. For both instructors and their students, that means adopting a mindset that avoids persistence in favor of pivoting and changing course.

Teaching 52

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 52

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Students with sufficient margin between these competing forces have the capacity to take on new challenges, including the hard work of learning; students with insufficient margin fall into overwhelm and have a higher rate of failure. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Undergraduate Retention and Graduation Rates.

Motivation 64

Motivation Students Instructors Failure 64

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

For instructors, rubrics expedite grading with standards; at the same time, they reinforce learning objectives and standardize course curricula. How can instructors ensure that students engage with rubrics when they work on their assignments? Wide consensus confirms the usefulness of rubrics. Both options are possible with Google Docs.

Instructors 52

Instructors Failure Assignments Students 52

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Students with sufficient margin between these competing forces have the capacity to take on new challenges, including the hard work of learning; students with insufficient margin fall into overwhelm and have a higher rate of failure. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Undergraduate Retention and Graduation Rates.

Motivation 53

Motivation Students Instructors Failure 53

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Or, a neurodiverse student who struggles with verbal communication and is not able to show their true understanding of the course content when the instructor cold calls them as a form of assessment. Instructors should take reasonable steps to address academic misconduct. Why students cheat – and what to do about it.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Or, a neurodiverse student who struggles with verbal communication and is not able to show their true understanding of the course content when the instructor cold calls them as a form of assessment. Instructors should take reasonable steps to address academic misconduct. Why students cheat – and what to do about it.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Minecraft Education Edition: Useful for collaborative projects in history, science, and architecture. Real School Example In a virtual science class, students at a K12 schools were asked to submit final projects on any topic connected to the environment. It can be baked into how we teach science, math, language, and even history.

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2022

The idea was fear of failure would motivate students to do whatever it takes to stay above water academically. Faculty have been educated their whole academic lives in the lecture mode, and that’s what they reproduce in their own classrooms as instructors,” says Negar Farakish, assistant dean of the division.

Ethics 168

Ethics Lecturing Motivation Instructors 168

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

While we should challenge students to think about topics outside their comfort zones, this challenge should be met with appropriate support on behalf of the instructor (see Saucier et al., Ultimately, content disclosures serve as an explicit demonstration of instructors’ regard for their students’ well-being. Boysen, 2017).

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 119

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

While we should challenge students to think about topics outside their comfort zones, this challenge should be met with appropriate support on behalf of the instructor (see Saucier et al., Ultimately, content disclosures serve as an explicit demonstration of instructors’ regard for their students’ well-being. Boysen, 2017).

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 111