Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Then last week, the company, which helped colleges save students money on textbooks, abruptly shut down. But those rising prices also seem to have led more students to skip buying textbooks altogether , which professors worry can put them at a disadvantage academically.

Textbooks 127

Textbooks Failure Technology Educational Technologies 127

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In response, open educational materials, or OER, have emerged as an alternative to expensive textbooks that disproportionately affect low-income students. Mitchell: I think that open education resources for many years have been focused on textbook costs. Each of us are making decisions about where we are okay with failure happening.

Textbooks 139

Textbooks Ethics Failure Attention 139

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

There’s a lot to be learned from failure. Here’s more detail on how students learn fro m failure. One of the many benefits of using digital textbooks is users can write in them. I’ll give you ideas. Don’t be afraid to fail in front of students. In fact, you can’t. There are too many. Annotate a PDF.

Skills 167

Skills Failure Learning Knowledge 167

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials. I first came into the open education field as an educator frustrated with many traditional textbooks in my discipline.

Textbooks 126

Textbooks Instructors Education Peer Review 126

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

These will be beyond what is required of the State or National standards and may or may not align perfectly with the textbooks you use. CBA, while it doesn’t provide explanations of why or solutions, does help to identify issues and measure the success or failure of selected strategies. More on standards-based grading.

Curriculum 153

Curriculum Textbooks Evaluation Achievement 153

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

When students at Virginia’s Tidewater Community College (TCC) earn their Associate of Science in Business Administration, chances are, they will never have purchased a single textbook. Thanks to the school’s Z-degree program—for zero dollars spent on textbooks—students are saving up to 25 percent on college costs. A Pilot Takes Off.

Textbooks 99

Textbooks Failure Instructors Learning 99

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

software and electronic textbooks, as is the case in New Mexico ) to physical devices (e.g. The Takeaway Schools and districts are forced to haphazardly fund technology-enabled learning because of failures to do so in a consistent way at the federal and state level. The National Educational Technology Plan , created by the U.S.

Technology 200

Technology Internet Schools Coaching 200

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The big players at the time were the large textbook publishers. Here’s a look at some of edtech’s notable successes and failures that might shed light on the decade to come. The largest companies in 2010 were the textbook providers. They were the most powerful companies in education. What's been most disappointing in edtech?

Education 140

Education Textbooks Blended Learning Failure 140

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

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Khan Academy) also fall within the category of instructional technology, as do digital textbooks and “open educational resources,” materials that are available online for free or at a low cost. Online videos (e.g. Course management technology organizes and presents course structure and materials on an electronic platform.

Technology 152

Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 152

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2016

Before redesign, CSCC had three levels of remedial math courses, with an average drop-failure-withdraw rate as high as 70 percent. free online textbooks ) could ease the financial burden. With over one-fourth of community college students living below the national poverty level, open educational resources (e.g.,

Lecturing 124

Lecturing Counselling Failure Textbooks 124

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

My flipped classroom is not just about having students watch videos at home and do textbook work in class. I was a perfectionist who desperately wanted to please my teachers and parents and to prove myself, but so often I felt like a failure because I didn’t have the answer first. I was shy and dreaded speaking up in class.

Discussions 168

Discussions Failure Textbooks Culture 168

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. My First Big Risk: Flipping the Script When I became a teacher, I promised myself that I wouldn’t teach from the textbook and bore my students with presentations. Many of my students don’t have this mindset.

Teachers 141

Teachers Textbooks Lecturing Social Studies 141

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

To kick off the project, I used ChatGPT to generate an outline based on positive psychology as aligned with the textbook chapters and student-led ideas and topics. Failure is an inevitable part of life, but it is through our setbacks that we find opportunities for growth and success. Think of failures as learning opportunities.

Collaborative Research 105

Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

True, it has long since been time to transform the classroom from a boring place of black and white textbooks to a virtual experience filled with 21 st century tools and projects. Perhaps most importantly, there is no wrong way in a makerspace – failure is seen as just another opportunity to learn.

Education 149

Education STEM Failure Participation 149

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Actively reviewing and summarizing lecture notes, textbooks, and supplementary materials will deepen understanding and retention. Here are some strategies to foster a growth mindset: Embrace failure as a learning opportunity: Encourage students to see failure as a steppingstone towards improvement.

Failure 98

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Actively reviewing and summarizing lecture notes, textbooks, and supplementary materials will deepen understanding and retention. Here are some strategies to foster a growth mindset: Embrace failure as a learning opportunity: Encourage students to see failure as a steppingstone towards improvement.

Failure 98

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

in analyzing the use of computer in education, helped start companies—and then watched as many of those early startups got swallowed up by large textbook publishers or other companies and faded from sight. She earned an Ed.D. Statistically more startups fail than succeed.

Failure 137

Failure Textbooks Educational Technologies Attention 137

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

For example, when MIT changed its freshman physics class from a model of hundreds of students listening passively to lectures in an auditorium to a model of smaller, interactive classes that emphasized hands-on, collaborative learning, it found that attendance increased and that the failure rate dropped more than 50 percent. Related Posts.

Active Learning 105

Active Learning Activities Learning Cognitive Development 105

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

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

To kick off the project, I used ChatGPT to generate an outline based on positive psychology as aligned with the textbook chapters and student-led ideas and topics. Failure is an inevitable part of life, but it is through our setbacks that we find opportunities for growth and success. Think of failures as learning opportunities.

Collaborative Research 89

Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 89

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

To test this out, the institution partnered with researchers from Brown University and edtech company Mainstay to select an online political science course that has high enrollment—and high rates of failure—because every student is required to take it.

Student Engagement 200

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 200

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Schoolzilla claims its tools help address issues like absenteeism, course failures and disproportionality in suspensions. His company has already started a partnership with published Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to deliver personalized textbook and assessment offerings, combining HMH math and reading programs with STAR Reading and STAR Math.

Schools 96

Schools Failure Learning Exams 96

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Rivard Report that “placing an emphasis on connecting the surrounding community and supporting the student is the missing piece as the nation increasingly looks to community colleges to compensate for a broken K-12 system, skyrocketing tuition costs, and universities’ failure to meet the diverse needs of students in poverty.”

English 137

English Achievement Counselling Secondary Education 137

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure. I would remind the students of some of the things about nursing school that were still the same, such as using the textbook as a resource.

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure. I would remind the students of some of the things about nursing school that were still the same, such as using the textbook as a resource.

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The popularity of online learning tools, web-based rich content such as video, interactive digital textbooks, e-books, online assessment and the increasing dependence on the internet for student and teacher learning is growing rapidly. They had failures. What’s fueling innovation in schools right now? They had a vision.

Education 93

Education Textbooks Failure Feedback 93

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Her goal is to reach the students that struggle the most—their success or failure is her evidence of the school model’s efficacy. “Fatigue comes in when the setbacks happen, and that’s when I come in to have conversations and offer solutions.” ALEKS uses artificial intelligence to scaffold independent study for struggling students.

Blended Learning 96

Blended Learning Culture Technology Learning 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. Here’s more information on that option.

Exams 76

Exams Quizzes Textbooks Mobile Devices 76

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

ASAP ensures that students complete an Associate’s degree within three years and transfer to a 4-year college or to the workforce, by supporting students with everything from a MetroCard to advising, counseling, tutoring and additional financial assistance to cover textbooks and other fees.

Learning 109

Learning Counselling Failure Textbooks 109

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

The end result is often a very high-bandwidth human discussion about the classroom subject material, wherein metrics for success and failure are critically engaged by students. They may consult the textbook or lecture notes. What are the tell-tale signs? Putting students in the position of an evaluator helps to challenge them.

Instructors 64

Instructors Assignments Failure Students 64

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2017

There’s a lot to be learned from failure. Here’s more detail on how students learn from failure. One of the many benefits of using digital textbooks rather than print is that users can write in them. I’ll give you some ideas. Don’t be afraid to fail in front of students. In fact, you can’t.

Skills 75

Skills Teachers Failure Learning 75

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 99

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 99

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. How a teacher handles conflict, treats others, or responds to failure sends powerful messages to students. These everyday moments can shape a students values and beliefs in subtle but lasting ways.

Teachers 52

Teachers Education Failure Beliefs 52

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

The end result is often a very high-bandwidth human discussion about the classroom subject material, wherein metrics for success and failure are critically engaged by students. They may consult the textbook or lecture notes. What are the tell-tale signs? Putting students in the position of an evaluator helps to challenge them.

Instructors 52

Instructors Assignments Failure Students 52

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

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. When teaching fictional texts, you can apply lessons in resilience to the hero’s journey ; discuss how heroes aren’t successful all the time.

Failure 140

Failure Motivation History Learning 140

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

From its onset, then-President Donald Trump, eager to distract from the failures of his leadership, glibly referred to COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus” and “kung flu,” using racist slurs to blame China for the virus. This stoked existing anti-Asian sentiment throughout the U.S., For some, efforts were met with hostility.

Education 161

Education Culture History English 161