eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

MindSpark defines RAI with the following 5 pillars – RAI is community-centric; it is monitorable and secure; ethical and fair; justifiable and accountable; as well as explainable and transparent. Educators need an understanding of what AI is and is not. The RAI for Educators course is a new on-demand course created with Generative AI.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Then classroom time can be used to fix student misconceptions, with a mix of a short lecture and student activities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

Purdue University has famously installed plexiglass in lecture halls across campus in preparation for bringing most everyone back to campus in the fall. But he said that lectures were not a high priority for using campus space, since MIT prides itself on student research projects. This pandemic—it’s not fair in a lot of ways.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Check out our related article, " The Pandemic Pushed Colleges to Record Lectures. Tara Carpenter, lecturer at UMBC Officials for Chegg and Course Hero, for their part, argue that their services are not intended as cheating tools, and they point to acceptable use policies and other efforts that discourage cheating. Carpenter agrees.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

This activates student engagement and creates opportunities to job shadow, explore short-term employment options, or attend job fairs and lectures. Close the exposure gap and reveal opportunities: Aptitude assessments connect aptitudes to best-fit career options that expand a student’s view of what is possible.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

It’s common today for colleges to invite professors from other institutions to deliver distinguished lectures on campus. On their own and in their own time, students watch pre-recorded video lectures and demonstrations, enter discussion boards and work together in groups employing collaborative software tools day and night.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

That’s the view of Arthur Levine, in a new book called “ The Great Upheaval: Higher Education’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future ,” which he co-wrote with Scott Van Pelt, a lecturer and associate director of the Communication Program for the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

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Fairness Lecturing Achievement Communication 191

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?

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Lecturing Instructors Communication Questions 177

Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Via Microsoft Translator , a translation service, students in classes and lectures can get automated transcriptions on their mobile and desktop devices. Huang tells EdSurge the technology supports 60 languages, meaning a student listening to a professor lecture in English can get a transcription to, say, German.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

I have trouble opening up my classes, viewing lectures, downloading lectures or material, and can never hand my assignments in on time even if I finish them before the deadline because my laptop is so slow it takes forever to upload work. You do need a device that is fairly new—not more than five years old.

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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.

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Lecturing eLearning Instructors Course Evaluations 207

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. Our labor is our power,” Higer told me recently. “We

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Attention Teachers Instructors Fairness 206

eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2021

Other services include Virtual Open Day to share information about the campus, programs, faculty and admissions; Alumni Networking Events that allow students to meet with alumni and faculty from anywhere with the world; and Virtual Job Fairs that connect students and alumni with prospective employers in a virtual setting that accelerates hiring.

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Fairness Schools Lecturing Participation 130

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

MOOCs Recent virtual upstarts, MOOCs—massive open online courses—catapulted onto the global learning stage when Stanford University computer scientists Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig in 2011 came upon the bright idea of streaming their robotics lectures over the Internet. MOOC critics say that streaming lectures is not terribly innovative.

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Online Learning Lecturing Learning Instructors 151

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.

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Active Learning Activities Lecturing Teaching 120

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In fact, he predicted that the changes he’s experimenting with this semester might be jarring to students accustomed to lecture classes. His course expects a “new workflow,” he explains, since it uses adaptive courseware software, as well as a flipped classroom model where lectures are replaced with the interactive material.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

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. Watkins is a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing, an optional program for faculty. “We

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It incorporates students’ own information about their learning, creating a more robust, valid, and fair measure. Brett Whysel is a full-time lecturer in the Business Management Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Prior to that he was an adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York in the MPA program.

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Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 122

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

And I don’t know how they’re going to figure out attendance, because it is completely not fair to expect kids to wake up at 5:00 a.m. You can just read a lecture online, or watch a video that he’s prerecorded, take a test and it’s that easy. But a lot of people have moved back to the west coast. So it’s really 5:00 a.m.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem is that as an educator, my natural inclination is to provide these students more direct instruction, increased support and even hand-holding at times—but in a society that values individuals who are motivated, persistent self-starters with initiative, that’s not fair.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

She serves as a lecturer in the faculty of education at the Mico University College (a teacher-training institution in Jamaica). ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence tool that was released in November 2022. It has become a game changer in classroom assessment. What if my students decide to use this app?

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Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

There’s a critical need for more funding for schools, including fair pay for teachers. Educators in K-12 and higher education environments will adapt new tools and technologies in 2021 that will make lectures and lessons engaging for students wherever they are physically located. Collin Earnst, CEO, LearnWell.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Accounting for the widest range of learners with different abilities, backgrounds and motivations is the only way to provide all individuals with fair and equal opportunities to learn. is Executive Director and Chief Scientist at EdTogether and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Christina Cipriano, Ph.D.,

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

from lecture to the following seminar class), with instructor direction of the subsequent seminar including design of questions for students to address, perhaps in a roundtable discussion. Bovill et al., qualitative studies in crime or UK business effects of Brexit) and with regard to level/type of publication (e.g.

Discussions 115

Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 115

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It incorporates students’ own information about their learning, creating a more robust, valid, and fair measure. Brett Whysel is a full-time lecturer in the Business Management Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Prior to that he was an adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York in the MPA program.

Grades 98

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2024

It is virtually impossible to translate a lecturer who reads a paper which the translator has not received beforehand. If you use a lot of small group discussion, you will lose less time than if you are predominantly reliant on lecture as a methodology. Certain accents are easier for translators than others.

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Teaching Lecturing Languages Language 110

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2024

It is virtually impossible to translate a lecturer who reads a paper which the translator has not received beforehand. If you use a lot of small group discussion, you will lose less time than if you are predominantly reliant on lecture as a methodology. Certain accents are easier for translators than others.

Teaching 109

Teaching Lecturing Languages Language 109

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

She serves as a lecturer in the faculty of education at the Mico University College (a teacher-training institution in Jamaica). ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence tool that was released in November 2022. It has become a game changer in classroom assessment. What if my students decide to use this app?

Education 98

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

First, online interactions for children have to be fun, not lecture-like. For instance, it now groups student users who are at the same level of mastery together, to make competition more fair. And second, kids want to share experiences and play together online. A softer, more nuanced form of gamification is on the rise.

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Gamification Motivation Game-Based Learning Math 205

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Lack of Agency over Learning: "I felt that you didn't teach us anything in class.with so many students telling you we learn better with lectures, I feel you are ignoring our feedback and just taking the easier path." Anonymous student. Anonymous student.

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Feedback Culture Science Teaching 167

Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2024

Appeal to fairness or competence: If the request is unfair or if there are others better placed to perform the task, say so. Brett Whysel is a full-time lecturer in the Business Management Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. He has been teaching at BMCC since 2019.

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Lecturing Motivation Fairness Coaching 105

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

A former wildlife biologist and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, he has been teaching since 2005. Students in his research classes are assessed when they enter into the regional science fair, where 13 of his students took home 7 of the 20 trophies last year.

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STEM Laboratory Peer Review Schools 143

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

I think this platform has allowed our faculty to experiment and do less lecturing and more digitizing of their content,” says Lynn’s CIO, Chris Boniforti. “As We know from research that sitting in a lecture and typing everything is actually counterproductive and causes your brain to process less.

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Mobile Devices Textbooks Teaching Lecturing 107

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

I mean, I think most kids would rather chat or talk to their friends than go to school altogether, than sit through a lecture, than do their homework, etc. “The kind of math that we saw on there,” Meyer said, referring to the demo, “was an operational problem well summarized in a single diagram that results in a single number.

Intelligence 198

Intelligence Teaching Assistants Laboratory Assignments 198

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

from lecture to the following seminar class), with instructor direction of the subsequent seminar including design of questions for students to address, perhaps in a roundtable discussion. Bovill et al., qualitative studies in crime or UK business effects of Brexit) and with regard to level/type of publication (e.g.

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Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 97

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2015

That’s a fair questions considering learning is no longer done sitting in auditoriums nodding off to the wisdom of a guest speaker behind a podium. Paper Desk — Leave behind your paper notebook for your next class lecture or meeting. If you aren’t a veteran conference attendee, you may wonder what you should bring.

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Fairness Lecturing Curriculum Attention 116

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Lecture halls and dormitories circle them, busy with faculty members and students coming and going on campus. The university is often portrayed as a place where young men and women loaf freely on a soft, grassy quad under a noble bell tower.

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Fairness Lecturing Course Design Internet 130