Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

We broke through the temporary status of contingent higher ed employment under a framework that offers some semblance of job security,” said Amy Higer, a lecturer at Rutgers’ Newark School of Arts and Sciences and president of PTLFC-AAUP-AFT, unions representing part-time employees. Every virtual class is taught by contingent instructors.

Attention 206

Attention Teachers Instructors Fairness 206

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

At Purdue University, leaders have famously announced they are installing plexiglass barriers in some classrooms that teachers will stand behind to lecture. And they'll be pretty isolated from each other during the lecture experience. So I was wondering if anyone has really started to rethink lecturing as an effective way of teaching?

Lecturing 177

Lecturing Instructors Communication Questions 177

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. Should they disclose that to students?

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Sink or swim. All you need is your imagination.”

Online Learning 153

Online Learning Lecturing Learning Instructors 153

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

There’s a fair bit of work involved with learning outcomes, and justifiably so. Both approaches, learner-centered and transformative, require us to shuttle between various roles: the lecturer, who leads students; the facilitator, who guides them; and perhaps most importantly, the collaborator, who learns from and with them.

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Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Teaching Philosophy 64

Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

In one focus group I attended, faculty members recommended that online courses include real-time sessions, that the school stream on-campus lectures and events to remote students, and that faculty establish a uniform and consistent online course evaluation rubric following industry best practices.

Lecturing 207

Lecturing eLearning Instructors Course Evaluations 207

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

There’s a fair bit of work involved with learning outcomes, and justifiably so. Both approaches, learner-centered and transformative, require us to shuttle between various roles: the lecturer, who leads students; the facilitator, who guides them; and perhaps most importantly, the collaborator, who learns from and with them.

Learning Outcomes 59

Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Teaching Philosophy 59

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? But there is literature on how to adapt the grading process to avoid the drawbacks above, and improve student motivation and engagement, as well as instructor satisfaction.

Grades 122

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 122

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

There are large lecture halls, hard-wired lecture capture technology, smaller classrooms, casual study spaces and brightly colored swivel chairs. For starters, the space is dedicated to “active learning,” a term that often refers to teaching styles that go beyond a one-way lecture format.

Active Learning 122

Active Learning Activities Lecturing Teaching 122

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

The difficulties in student engagement with instructor-directed reading, both in terms of the amount of reading undertaken and the participation and benefit from in-class discussion around readings, can be a prevalent problem. Bovill et al., academic journal article or specific industry press).

Discussions 115

Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 115

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

What do these newly virtual classrooms look and feel like, for both the instructors and the students? And it highlights some of the issues that are coming up unexpectedly, for instructors and students, doing education online for the first time. College has suddenly moved online in the time of the coronavirus. So it’s really 5:00 a.m.

Instructors 151

Instructors Fairness Lecturing STEM 151

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? But there is literature on how to adapt the grading process to avoid the drawbacks above, and improve student motivation and engagement, as well as instructor satisfaction.

Grades 98

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2024

In the first part, I introduced you to the translation process, the instructor-translator relationship, and the before, during, and after elements of the process. It is virtually impossible to translate a lecturer who reads a paper which the translator has not received beforehand. Certain accents are easier for translators than others.

Teaching 108

Teaching Lecturing Language Languages 108

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

The difficulties in student engagement with instructor-directed reading, both in terms of the amount of reading undertaken and the participation and benefit from in-class discussion around readings, can be a prevalent problem. Bovill et al., academic journal article or specific industry press).

Discussions 95

Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 95

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2024

In the first part, I introduced you to the translation process, the instructor-translator relationship, and the before, during, and after elements of the process. It is virtually impossible to translate a lecturer who reads a paper which the translator has not received beforehand. Certain accents are easier for translators than others.

Teaching 106

Teaching Lecturing Language Languages 106

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Whichever route taken to move religion and interfaith from voluntary to required subjects, instructors should go beyond traditional group interactions and collaborative work to design more invitational pedagogies, such as assigning students to share virtual meals or swap life histories. Through and post-COVID, such spaces must still exist.

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Students Instructors Study Exams 137

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Teachers who used to lecture with a chalkboard or whiteboard may now lecture with an expensive interactive whiteboard. In such schools, replicative uses of technology are quite common, but transformative uses that leverage the unique affordances of technology are quite rare.

Schools 112

Schools Internet Lecturing Mobile Devices 112

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Additionally, the tablet has Bluetooth, so I am able to carry on a lecture while walking around the classroom monitoring students as they take notes or work through problems. Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Additionally, the tablet has Bluetooth, so I am able to carry on a lecture while walking around the classroom monitoring students as they take notes or work through problems. Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 294

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

In a wide-ranging survey of about a thousand students and instructors, merely eight percent of those online during the crisis say their experience was very effective. To avoid feelings of alienation online, skilled digital instructors encourage active student participation. It was a lost opportunity.”.

Online Learning 215

Online Learning Grades Lecturing Instructors 215

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

During two intense hours, three adult students and an instructor read aloud from the “Odyssey.” Or,” the instructor counters, “it’s a healthy response to a guest who seems emotionally laden.” Fair is fair, speak out! Fair is fair, speak out! Seminars are free, and instructors volunteer.

Art 218

Art Instructors Study Reading 218

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. Perhaps students would learn more if they could query a robot themselves, instructors hypothesized. The cadets were a bit dubious.”

Teachers 155

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 155

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2020

That was the case for Kathleen Arnold, assistant professor of psychology at Radford University, who started taping her lectures when the Virginia campus closed and didn’t get much virtual facetime with her students after spring break. Even when she did host live office hours and exam reviews, not many students participated. “I

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Counselling Fairness Students Exams 182

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2022

So he’s pointing out that while we might think the employer-based health care system is fair because anyone can compete for those jobs, a different design would be better from a moral standpoint because it would separate this basic need from a competition for jobs? And he says there's something about that that isn't about fairness.

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Fairness Ethics Failure Lecturing 168

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2018

Lecture halls overfill with students and Berkeley residents eager to hear him boil down big ideas about inequality and how to fix it. And so we've got to make sure that they have a fair chance. I mean, it's based on lectures. The problem is it's still viewed as putting lectures online. Well, that's not educational reform.

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