Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In the evolving landscape of online education, post pandemic, it has become increasingly essential to use technology to foster student engagement. Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes.

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Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. As students and educators adapt to digital platforms, student engagement has emerged as a key concern in online learning.

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Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 110

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

The material feels irrelevant or unvaluable to students One of the primary reasons students cheat is that they dont perceive the material being tested as valuable or relevant to their lives. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments?

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Academic Integrity Failure Culture Students 213

eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Jobs to be done hinges on the fact that consumers “hire” products and services to do a specific job in their lives, and that they are motivated to do so by particular circumstances. We’ve spent the better half of the past year conducting in-depth research on why students “hire” college (the results of our surveys will be published next year).

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Schools Motivation Students Failure 257

eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is a good thing, because it will take motivation from all sides to achieve simpler data connections between systems. Neuroscience, and the measurement of emotional immersion, will become a key innovation and a new precision metric of student engagement. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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Failure Learning Outcomes Communication Activities 280

eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Ironically, students seem to enjoy the failures even more than the successes.). Gamified learning is another way to increase engagement. For example, using Slooh, students can compete for gravity points when they reserve time on the online telescopes, capture images, and complete Quests.

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STEM Science Failure History 286

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Before, students were mostly concerned with getting the work done; now, they are motivated to reflect and improve. Through online portfolios, students know if they are meeting standards and are able to adjust as necessary. Students are taking ownership of their writing and focusing on their improvements, not their failures.

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Essay Failure Writing Students 204

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. As students and educators adapt to digital platforms, student engagement has emerged as a key concern in online learning.

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Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 86

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Students are more likely to take ownership of their mistakes and apply their newfound knowledge and skills to the task. It promotes student learning and understanding of the task, and helps students develop a stronger foundation for future assignments. It develops critical thinking skills. Learning environment becomes stressful.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Students are more likely to take ownership of their mistakes and apply their newfound knowledge and skills to the task. It promotes student learning and understanding of the task, and helps students develop a stronger foundation for future assignments. It develops critical thinking skills. Learning environment becomes stressful.

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Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 97

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Early Assessment First, it’s essential that teachers get an accurate understanding of each student’s reading level as early as possible. If struggling students are asked to read and practice at a level that is too challenging, they’re simply being set up for failure. Parents also have a role to play here.

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Failure Motivation Assistive Technology Reading 191

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

These students appeared motivated to learna direct contrast to the disengagement narrative that permeates todays education circles. But despite the enthusiasm, research points to a far more sobering reality: approximately half of all college students fail to graduate within six years of enrollment.

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Motivation Students Instructors Failure 64

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Gameful Learning Lab is one of three, large-scale labs supported under a new enterprise at the university called Academic Innovation , currently made up of 66 initiatives “charged with developing a culture of innovation in learning” that can bring about “personalized, engaged and lifelong” learning experiences. Gameful Design.

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Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 167

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

These students appeared motivated to learna direct contrast to the disengagement narrative that permeates todays education circles. But despite the enthusiasm, research points to a far more sobering reality: approximately half of all college students fail to graduate within six years of enrollment.

Motivation 54

Motivation Students Instructors Failure 54

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

As a recent graduate who is new to the field of academic innovation I asked, “How can students engage meaningfully with institutional change?” My question was followed by a 40-minute session with a group of the college and university officials, who offered solutions and insights on the relationship between students and innovation.

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Motivation Students Failure Participation 117

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Working in tech and media for the past 20 years, I’ve seen some of these changes firsthand, and one thing has proven consistently true: Engagement is critical when learning new information and mastering new skills. If we’re going to make school relevant to today’s students, we must learn to leverage play in new ways.

Gamification 149

Gamification Learning Culture Students 149

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

Without considering the emotional and social aspects of a student’s educational journey, particularly the connections they build with faculty and peers, institutions risk overlooking the things that keep students engaged, motivated, and ultimately enrolled. Simply put, data is not enough.

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Motivation Counselling Intelligence Failure 105

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

She says that many students, especially if theyre the first in their family to attend college, dont know what a writing center is and even if they do, they believe getting help is a sign of failure. Without extra support early on, many students dont know how to play what she calls the game of school, Johnson says.

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Students Math Writing Skills 168

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Ralphie was forced back into a setting where he was already behind and set up for failure—he was 16 years old and in his second year of high school, but still on the roll as a freshman. Ralphie’s story is not unique for the students at MAPs. During the circle, he opened up about the source of his pain—that his father was in prison.

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Counselling Students Failure Motivation 178

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

Without considering the emotional and social aspects of a student’s educational journey, particularly the connections they build with faculty and peers, institutions risk overlooking the things that keep students engaged, motivated, and ultimately enrolled. Simply put, data is not enough.

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Motivation Counselling Intelligence Failure 103

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

Even when it happens individually, having a supporting community can provide learners with the motivation and opportunities for applying and connecting knowledge. With more and more students learning remotely, the #DLNchat community set out last week to answer the question: How can universities create meaningful community for online students?

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Failure Instructors Discussions Culture 135

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

However, each failure is a learning experience. This resulted in several of my students engaging in lengthy and demanding composition tasks. One group of junior high students who were very reluctant writers took it upon themselves to create their own guide in the form of a blog. They fail.and fail a great deal.

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Languages Language Skills English 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

What followed was an amazing example of student motivation, creativity, resourcefulness and personalized learning at its best. Personalized learning can muddy the waters as students (and their teachers) navigate through uncharted territory. And how do I equitably account for diversity in assessing student work?

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Motivation Failure Students Knowledge 117

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

.” Based on the work of Hans Selye, a pioneering stress researcher, this gets students to identify and place their stress on a continuum from “good stress” to “distress.” Since mental well-being is foundational for effective learning (Seligman, 2012), it’s important to acknowledge when students aren’t doing well.

Course Design 128

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation. As educators, giving students a safe place to fail, to learn, and practice these skills to better prepare them for college and professional environments is crucial. The excitement comes from the possibility of both success and failure.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

What he found was that the right messages, delivered at the right time, can boost attendance and reduce course failure, as results published in The Journal of Human Resources in 2019 showed. Based in Boston, AllHere has developed tools to help schools track and improve student attendance. Course failures dipped by 28 percent.

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Failure Students Assignments Beliefs 113

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

That research indicates that students in these schools generally have higher scores on both traditional state tests and international assessments. They also tend to report greater collaboration skills, greater feelings of belongingness, higher levels of academic engagement, greater motivation to learn, and higher levels of self-efficacy.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Cognitive Development 104

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

want to increase student-student engagement, try these tools). If faculty are learning through an online student experience, make sure it can reflect positive experiences in online courses, too said Michelle Pacansky-Brock. Yes, yes, yes—but students in an online course where they have a caring and engaged instructor.

Teaching 142

Teaching Instructors Culture Failure 142

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

.” Based on the work of Hans Selye, a pioneering stress researcher, this gets students to identify and place their stress on a continuum from “good stress” to “distress.” Since mental well-being is foundational for effective learning (Seligman, 2012), it’s important to acknowledge when students aren’t doing well.

Course Design 111

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Effective teaching transcends mere information transmission; it is built on relational experiences and a nurturing, supportive, and compassionate environment that fosters student engagement, learning, and well-being. Building compassionate connections with students with us starts on day one.

Attention 105

Attention Communication Failure Achievement 105

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Effective teaching transcends mere information transmission; it is built on relational experiences and a nurturing, supportive, and compassionate environment that fosters student engagement, learning, and well-being. Building compassionate connections with students with us starts on day one.

Attention 105

Attention Communication Failure Achievement 105

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

According to a University of Colorado study, incorporating game elements into e-learning environments can boost engagement and performance by as much as 89 percent. Dopamine release during gaming motivates repeated effort, turning repetitive tasks into enjoyable ones. Why It Works Belonging is a core driver of motivation.

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

Lab to Class

JANUARY 3, 2024

In addition to this, it is important to keep instructional methods varied as research shows that a variety of teaching styles is more effective at keeping students engaged and giving information than simply expecting students to sit in rows and listen to lectures. Maksimenko et al.,   Want more like this?

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Teaching Teachers Activities Reading 52

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2022

The idea was fear of failure would motivate students to do whatever it takes to stay above water academically. What came back was a flood of responses with dozens of approaches, showing that this audience was putting plenty of thought and care on how to encourage students to participate and succeed online and on campus.

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Ethics Lecturing Motivation Instructors 160

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Sports Reading Club - resilience, motivation. Technology Reading Club - impulse control, self motivation. Art Reading Club - self motivation. His continuous failure—or iteration, as we’d call it today— taught him to innovate. Discuss how despite repeated failures, all heroes complete their journey.

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Failure Motivation History Learning 134

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our motivational centers that drive a lot of our action are buried deep in the brain. All the complex reasoning and storytelling abilities that we have involve brain structures that are literally built on top of that other structure, and they don't have great access to what's going on in the motivational system.

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Teaching Laboratory Motivation Testing 141

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Design your program to cultivate these characteristics If you assume that implementing “personalized learning” (whatever that means to you) will make your students independent, self-directed, intrinsically motivated learners, you will be sorely disappointed.

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Achievement Failure Blended Learning Evaluation 120