Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. Blum (2020) argues that grades provide minimal feedback, they deemphasize learning, and what they actually measure is inconsistent (10-14). You cant learn without laboring (76).

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 74

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Inclusivity and feelings of psychological safety in the classroom should not be reserved solely for K-12 learning environments. Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level.

Assignments 66

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 66

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

eLearning 69

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 69

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. What innovations might redefine the learning environment? Data indicates that online learning offers flexibility that traditional classrooms often can’t match. A study from the U.S.

Hybrid Learning 128

Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 128

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

eLearning 67

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 67

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Inclusivity and feelings of psychological safety in the classroom should not be reserved solely for K-12 learning environments. Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level.

Assignments 61

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 61

k12

JULY 10, 2025

For many families, online learning opened the door to new possibilities in education. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. Supporting your child’s engagement helps them thrive academically and strengthens their enthusiasm for learning.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 27, 2025

Our professional science masters (PSM) in biotechnology degree is designed for working professionals, offering primarily online and evening courses that emphasize applied learning and professional development. A required industry internship ensures graduates enter the biotech workforce with real world experience.

STEM 53

STEM Science Activities Student Engagement 53

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Those students had spent half their junior year and nearly all their senior year in remote learning. billion and spent some of that on technology to accommodate remote learning. I had to learn on my own,” said Banda, now 22. “I I honestly didn’t learn much that year. In 2020 32% fell into the bottom tier.

Math 88

Math English Lecturing High School 88

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

However, what we really should be striving to develop are self-sufficient classrooms where students are driving the learning. Ideally, by surpassing compliance goals and student-driven learning, we can get to an even more important goal — critical thinking. The instructor can leave comments for students (i.e.,

Reading 413

Reading Technology Feedback Instructors 413

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Teachers have three primary roles – designer, instructor, and facilitator. When I facilitate blended learning workshops, I ask participants to think about these three roles and identify the role they spend the most time and energy in. Blended learning can help! The responses always yield the same results.

Blended Learning 498

Blended Learning Feedback Learning Instructors 498

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). Engagement. Self-Regulation.

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Universal Design Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning 545

eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Time and technological constraints, however, often prevent every instructor from providing intensive feedback. This is why providing spaces for peer writing feedback is a vital component of the educational experience. The Value of Peer-to-Peer Writing Feedback. And feedback does more than smooth syntax.

Feedback 261

Feedback Writing Skills Instructors 261

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

About a month into each semester, Gayle Golden sets aside a little time to ask her students about their learning. The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? This practice is called early-term feedback.

Feedback 193

Feedback Instructors Students Syllabus 193

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2023

To facilitate effective teaching and learning, modern schools must equip every classroom with interactive touchscreens and utilize gamification techniques. Understanding the Basics of Gamification in Education Gamification means adding interactive gaming elements to processes such as learning. Finally, gamification is more fun.

Gamification 318

Gamification Interactive Learning Disabilities Learning 318

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. My challenges with the feedback load were officially impacting my health and family life. Students were getting the feedback they needed faster.

Feedback 218

Feedback Peer Review Teaching Writing 218

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

AI tutoring systems spearhead this learning revolution by reimagining the tutoring concept, offering interactive and adaptive learning experiences customized to each individual’s learning capabilities. A significant advantage of AI tutoring systems is the personalized learning experiences they can offer students.

Learning Styles 299

Learning Styles Learning Students Gamification 299

eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

Blackbird’s Educational Version of JavaScript, for the first time, makes it feasible for middle school students and teachers to learn to code – and forms the foundation of Blackbird’s online system for middle school-focused code education. Traditionally, code teaching systems use unmodified programming languages.

Middle School 356

Middle School Middle School Instructors Education 356

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

We’ve witnessed how the thoughtful integration of artificial intelligence can elevate learning experiences, but perhaps the most profound lesson has been the reaffirmation of the irreplaceable role educators play in this journey. Educators bring nuance, empathy, and context that technology alone cannot provide.

Learning Styles 254

Learning Styles Learning Hybrid Learning STEM 254

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

In my Art of Blended Learning Online Course this week, we continued our work on the playlist model. The number of learning activities and complexity of the playlist will also affect the time needed to complete it. I began our synchronous session by addressing frequently asked questions about this model. the online station).

Blended Learning 436

Blended Learning Feedback Universal Design Art 436

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I believed that team teaching and sharing the same population of students in a shared space would allow us to make important cross-curricular connections, delve into more meaningful project-based learning, and provide more individualized support and feedback. 1 Learning from Another Perspective. 2 Sharing the Load.

Teaching 386

Teaching English Feedback Assignments 386

eSchool News

MAY 12, 2020

In collaboration with these partners, our instructors and leaders have been working to develop tools and best practices to not just meet but exceed requirements. Teacher candidates took courses online, received support online, and utilized video-based observations and feedback.

Teachers 303

Teachers Instructors Feedback Coaching 303

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. Schools or instructors adopting this stance may wish to emphasize traditional methods of learning and assessment.

Ethics 309

Ethics Instructors Education Academic Integrity 309

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002).

Feedback 107

Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 107

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

He says the ideal approach is to put an edtech product or learning material in front of a diverse group of students — without a researcher in the room — and videotape how they use the tool. The challenge of having materials that are not good user experiences is they make the learning more difficult,” says Kayla B.

Testing 211

Testing Teaching Instructors Learning 211

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Maybe you were curled up by the fire, reading a good book, and perhaps considering how you were going to integrate feedback, change up your courses, and add some jazz, flavor, and maybe a little bit of spice to your courses. Now that we’ve got all of that settled, let’s travel forward in time to the winter of 2022.

Feedback 111

Feedback Secondary Education Teaching Philosophy Assignments 111

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

They may learn, for example, that the Q&A portion of their lecture class was actually the part where students learned the most, rather than from the meticulously crafted presentation from the lectern. But there is such a discipline focused on teaching practice, and it’s called learning engineering.

Learning 201

Learning Feedback Testing Instructors 201

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

“Those weekly face-to-face sessions are as much about seeing people’s faces—seeing how tired they look, seeing how engaged they are in the material, seeing all of those kinds of things, and having that back and forth—as it is learning new content together,” she noted. Department of Education.

Teaching 218

Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2022

The revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has been a long time coming. Just four years ago, a study predicted that AI in education and learning would increase 47.5% Since the mid-1980s, scholarly journals have been predicting the widespread adoption of AI in education. However, momentum is accelerating.

Instructors 254

Instructors Intelligence Evaluation Achievement 254

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. Tutoring can make writing less of an isolating process because students can access different audiences and, as a result, receive feedback that is in the function of its message and not only for the sake of a grade. To help writers grow, feedback doesn’t have to be only evaluative.

Evaluation 119

Evaluation Feedback Writing Languages 119

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002).

Feedback 94

Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 94

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

QM’s robust framework, encapsulated in the QM Rubric, evaluates various facets of online course design through eight categories, including learning objectives, alignment, assessment strategies, instructional materials, learner interaction, course technology, learner support, accessibility, and usability.

Feedback 121

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 121

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In fact, many college instructors have been downright grumpy about having been thrown into a new teaching format. Some instructors are so taken by active learning working so effectively that they expect to continue offering courses online, even when the pandemic restrictions completely lift and things are fully back in person.

Teaching 182

Teaching Lecturing Instructors Learning 182

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

QM’s robust framework, encapsulated in the QM Rubric, evaluates various facets of online course design through eight categories, including learning objectives, alignment, assessment strategies, instructional materials, learner interaction, course technology, learner support, accessibility, and usability.

Feedback 110

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 110

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The concept has become especially embedded in education, ever since schools and universities closed this spring and the video call service became the lifeline tethering students to instructors. Here’s what we learned. Zoom is adapting in response to feedback from students and educators. It’s high energy.” Screen fatigue is real.

Education 207

Education Instructors Learning Communication 207

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. The researchers do think that flipped learning has merit — if it is done carefully.

Lecturing 213

Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2022

As Covid-19’s Omicron variant is pushing some school districts back into distance learning, teachers may be frustrated at the return of video meetings. They record themselves, self-reflect, observe, and learn from each other. Its teacher-preparation program had already been using video-based feedback for seven years.

Coaching 305

Coaching Education Distance Learning Evaluation 305