eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Jamie Graber, a 6th and 7th grade math teacher at Polk County Middle School, says, “I think Alef Math paired with targeted lessons is helping by ensuring students are truly able to apply the content they learn. Alef Math allows students to review the content just taught and then practice without fear of failure.

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Math Education Failure Learning 152

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Though there are many ways to implement a blended learning program, there are a few commonalities in what works, what doesn’t and what is destined for failure. The Good The best blended learning programs seem to have some common threads. One of the biggest indicators of a successful program is intentional technology use.

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Blended Learning Failure Learning Learning Outcomes 147

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes. E-portfolios are digital collections of student work that showcase achievements and learning progress and have the power to transform the educational experience for students.

Student Engagement 126

Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 126

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I integrated project-based learning and technology in all kinds of ways. I asked them to create blogs to interact through blended learning. Did we have failures? But I would tell my students, We will learn from this. I asked my English language learners to create films. I asked them to create websites. Absolutely.

Learning 185

Learning Gamification History Learning Outcomes 185

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

Yet the results revealed that devices, by themselves, have a limited impact, at best, on learning outcomes. Two and a half million laptops later, some critics point out the project’s failures with its Western-centric approach and “technologically utopian” vision that hailed technology as the answer to difficult social problems.

Educational Technologies 167

Educational Technologies Technology Mobile Devices Education 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. Though it might also have to do with the conditions for learning espoused by Salen (who has since stepped away from Quest, but still sits on the Institute’s board). But make no mistake: game design is very important for learning.

Skills 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

With the looming threat of students taking advantage of gap year opportunities for the 2020 to 2021 school year, and the unknown of just how long COVID-19 will last, colleges must commit ample resources to ensure high-quality learning for the students who decide to brave the unchartered waters of online, remote education for the fall 2020 semester.

Education 206

Education Learning Outcomes Failure Study 206

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In addition, he says there’s a “strong relationship growth mindset and resilience” and the data suggests it can boost motivation and reduce fear of failure. It’s “absolutely fascinating” to see the relationship between teachers’ enthusiasm, students’ social-emotional wellbeing and their learning outcomes, Schleicher notes.

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Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 141

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 16, 2015

Policymakers are fond of noting that teachers are the number one school-level influence on student learning outcomes (note: non-school influences are far more significant). rollbacks of educators’ collective bargaining rights. elimination of teacher tenure. underfunding of public schools. underfunding of public universities.

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Education Failure Evaluation Learning Outcomes 111

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

The new law asks school leaders to not only consider grade-level proficiency, but encourages them to deploy funds to ensure that all students have access to a “well-rounded” education, that achievement gaps are closed, and that programs address the seemingly limitless causes of “academic failure” for at-risk students.

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Failure Education Secondary Education Exams 106

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

This is tricky in education, in part because colleges and universities strive to achieve multiple, sometimes conflicting, outcomes. Yet selling against the proposition of improved learning outcomes is dangerous. And Pearson became about delivering learning outcomes. Learning outcomes are difficult to measure.

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Learning Outcomes Instructors History Evaluation 136

eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

There has been a fundamental change in the nature of education over the last two years that confirms the high value and impact on student engagement and learning outcomes of virtual educational simulations offered in tandem with in-person, teacher-led coursework in a post-pandemic world.”. A shared commitment to education.

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Laboratory Science Learning Outcomes STEM 130

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

But despite the compelling nature of this "Netflix of Education" vision, it can encourage a misleading view of personalized learning. Examining several key areas where the educational Netflix analogy breaks down can help us better understand the qualities of an effective personalized learning solution. Do Learners Really Know Best?

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Education Evaluation Failure Essay 156

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes. E-portfolios are digital collections of student work that showcase achievements and learning progress and have the power to transform the educational experience for students.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 98

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

I taught a business ethics course this semester in which I had honed the learning outcomes down into the most essential ones. It has caused me to reflect on much about teaching and learning these past few months. I have felt like a failure some of the time. I modified the final assignment to be a manifesto.

Teaching 195

Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 195

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

After identifying the barrier to learning, the faculty mentor assists in directing the student to available resources. These barriers, if not addressed, will often lead to academic failure. Help students develop realistic classroom expectations, build a growth mindset, and a desire to learn.

Lecturing 130

Lecturing Instructors Knowledge Failure 130

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Udemy has also created a great toolkit to help online course instructors market their learning experience. Finally, share your data, your lessons, and your failures with the broader learning design community when possible. But listen for the underlying pain points. The field is fast-moving but still has a lot to figure out.

Feedback 164

Feedback Failure Lecturing Reading 164

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

In the life of our schools, we have seen the powerful way that our students through project-based learning have embraced deeper learning outcomes, and exhibited the habits of effective critical thinking, collaboration, and personal character.

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History Critical Thinking Learning Interdisciplinary 132

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 164

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

For example, research in educational psychology often is characterized by efforts to investigate isolated interventions, in carefully controlled laboratory conditions, under short time frames, using motivated participants and focusing on learning outcomes like retention. We believe this to be an astounding moral failure.

Laboratory 97

Laboratory Failure Education Study 97

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2023

It’s not indicative of weakness or failure. Facing the AI Frontier: A Dean's Initiative Grasping the pressing necessity to improve learning outcomes and streamline processes to increase administrative efficiency with finite resources, I recognized the potential of integrating AI into our educational environment.

Technology 148

Technology Education Intelligence Communication 148

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Helping faculty make the best use of tech starts with including faculty in the identification of learning outcomes and selection of the tools that support meeting them,” Nori Barajas-Murphy said. Johnson reminded the community: “To support faculty experimentation, you have to allow for failure.

Teaching 142

Teaching Instructors Culture Failure 142

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

With the growing demand for contemporary online education, it is crucial to analyze instructional design – a systematic process that applies psychological principles of human learning to develop effective instructional solutions.

Student Engagement 110

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 110

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

After identifying the barrier to learning, the faculty mentor assists in directing the student to available resources. These barriers, if not addressed, will often lead to academic failure. Help students develop realistic classroom expectations, build a growth mindset, and a desire to learn.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Instructors Knowledge Failure 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In the absence of rigorous, externally-validated learning outcomes, the ability for students to move quickly through an online course has instead become one of its signature problems, as stories of students passing whole courses in just a few days have abounded. Missing the potential for transformation.

Attention 92

Attention Learning Outcomes Failure Online Learning 92

Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

A few of you may be like me, for instance, and don’t like learning anything to do with technology. There’s lots of frustration and failure, and I’d much rather stick with what I know I can do. Do they have to like it to learn from it? Students’ experiences, group dynamics, and learning outcomes in group research projects.

Group work 64

Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 64

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).

Teaching 116

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 116

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The change that #DLNchat-ters want innovation to bring varies, but many shared similar aims: increasing access to learning opportunities or improving learning outcomes. Asking them to take risks and explore the possibilities of (perceived) failure.” #DLNchat — Scott Finkelstein (@SBF02) December 11, 2018.

Culture 119

Culture Failure Feedback Study 119

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).

Teaching 111

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2016

Assess whether students meet this goal by observing them in class and having other teachers/parents anecdotally report successes (or failures). Make sure students recognize these and can solve them wherever they are–class, home or at a friend’s house. 3: Student demonstrates use of tech tools outside of class.

Students 90

Students Knowledge Failure Assignments 90

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

With the growing demand for contemporary online education, it is crucial to analyze instructional design – a systematic process that applies psychological principles of human learning to develop effective instructional solutions.

Student Engagement 86

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 86

Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

A few of you may be like me, for instance, and don’t like learning anything to do with technology. There’s lots of frustration and failure, and I’d much rather stick with what I know I can do. Do they have to like it to learn from it? Students’ experiences, group dynamics, and learning outcomes in group research projects.

Group work 59

Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

I discussed how we won’t see desired changes in student learning outcomes until we change what students experience in their schools on a day-to-day basis. I talked about how investment in deeper learning also is workforce development. It was an interesting process (e.g.,

Questions 111

Questions Schools Fairness Failure 111

Time 4 Kindergarten

JUNE 25, 2024

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Reading 52

Reading Science Failure Beliefs 52

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

With desk tops touching and knapsacks piled high, we maneuvered through introductions and the kind of icebreakers that research indicates can strengthen learning outcomes. Eighteen students crammed themselves into a stuffy classroom assigned for my first-year seminar course on a sunny day in September.

Motivation 64

Motivation Students Instructors Failure 64