Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Enacting equity pedagogy as an essential component of multicultural education (Banks & Banks, 1995) requires instructors to become change agents. Provide Closed Captioning on posted videos (lectures, resources, etc.). Hartman is an Instructor-ABD in the Special Education Department at Niagara University. Jennifer E.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience.

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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. Finally, instructors assess the student work and give feedback. “I

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. In fact, many college instructors have been downright grumpy about having been thrown into a new teaching format.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

In a face-to-face class, students see the instructor and other students and, even if not interacting with them directly, know they are not alone. But asynchronous courses, and especially asynchronous independent study courses, present a different scenario with challenges for both instructors and students. Who is my instructor?”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 23, 2017

Annie Murphy Paul said: a growing body of evidence suggests that the lecture is not generic or neutral, but a specific cultural form that favors some people while discriminating against others, including women, minorities and low-income and first-generation college students. Related Posts.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion. Then the professor can either respond to each video with feedback or ask the students to post video responses to each other. Everyone sends in their reply by a set deadline.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

These days students can have tools like Google’s NotebookLM turn their lecture notes into a podcast , where sunny-sounding AI bots banter and riff on key points. It’s not as simple as assuming that students are all cheaters, the instructor stresses. And those summaries aren’t just a series of quippy text in bullet points.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Option 1: Paper-based teaching Point a camera at a piece of paper, write on it and lecture. And here’s what your student will see: Option 2: Whiteboard or easel teaching Point a camera at yourself while lecturing in front of a whiteboard or easel+paper pad. Schedule lectures at the assigned time slot for the class 3.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

And those lists offer a telling snapshot of how MOOCs are evolving and what their impact is on the instructors and institutions offering them. In other words, students aren’t just passively watching videos—they’re doing projects, and they get instant feedback from the software. Self-help courses might be one viable competitor. “I

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key points : Today’s students will undoubtedly encounter generative AI in their careers Two higher-ed instructors have designed a guide for using generative AI in life design and career education See related article: A scholar’s embrace of ChatGPT-4 Innovations that have transformed education have often been met with skepticism.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. But because these online platforms are easy to hide from instructors and are available 24/7, they can be trickier for students and professors to navigate.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 25, 2025

” –Albert Einstein Peer-to-peer learning–acquiring knowledge from a peer group–has become a popular strategy as teachers move from a teacher-lecturer education model to teacher-guide. P articipants exchange ideas, explain concepts, ask questions, and provide feedback. coding a program).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. 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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He argues that the traditional lecture method for teaching physics and other STEM fields has been proven ineffective, and that shifts to more active methods can greatly improve learning outcomes to make sure the next generation of researchers can make the next Nobel-worthy breakthroughs. You’ve famously compared lecturing to bloodletting.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

But getting and holding the attention of students has become more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country. A couple months ago I visited a big public university – Texas State University – and observed three large lecture classes, to get a sense of what teaching looks like these days.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

The new model can also accept not just text, but spoken voice inputs and visual inputs , so that users can do things like share a still photo or image of their screen with the chatbot to get feedback. New AI tools can make audio recordings of lectures and automatically create summaries and flashcards of the material.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2025

This contrasts with the typical assessment arrangement where feedback is considered a product offered to the student in exchange for what they submit. In the field of engineering, which is my academic background, traditional methods such as lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions are the dominant content delivery vehicles.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

Every new version of Microsoft PowerPoint allowed instructors to embed more and more media and wow students with visually appealing graphics. And improved access to devices and high-speed Wi-Fi means that traditional classrooms lectures need not be limited to the physical classroom space. Provide opportunities for students to reflect.

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Technology Teaching Intellectual Development Instructors 167

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors, we want to motivate and engage the whole class and bring everyone to mastery of the course. For example, pause for one or two of the above activities after lecturing for eight to 10 minutes. Allow them access to their peers’ work as well as to provide constructive feedback. How can we do that?

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

That’s the view of Jesse Stommel, a digital learning fellow and senior lecturer at the University of Mary Washington. “I Giving each other feedback. Except—striving for continuity may be a bit delusional right now. Or it may be an effort that betrays misplaced priorities. I don’t want there to be ‘continuity.’

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Each semester, the surveys were refined based on student feedback and changing classroom dynamics. Flexibility in format and modality such as recorded lectures, alternative assignments, or extended deadlinesmade students feel supported, capable, and seen. Textbook format and cost mattered. They asked to be heard.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Often, that meant moving completely away from replicating in-person, lecture-based models online. Students in this environment often have to offer critical, yet productive feedback to an authority figure (their teacher), a skill that is essential in higher learning and the workplace.

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Education Lecturing Learning Feedback 218

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. These courses usually teach faculty how to create good feedback loops in an online environment. The loop on the left is the new one.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Most MOOCs, despite the claims of innovation and disruption, consisted of video lectures and text-based assignments. Thus, the impression that most people have of online education is an attempt to create an online lecture. The empathy shown by [our instructor] drove me to wanting to get it done.

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Technology Lecturing Instructors Beliefs 162

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Instead of hearing only from the same six students, instructors get feedback from many more. With our system, you get feedback that tells you, say, only 5 percent of the class gets it, so you immediately shift gears and focus on the underlying learning. Of course, this is also essential assistive technology. Source: Echo360.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2020

In fact, when instructors prioritize building rapport with their students—making real human connections with them and creating relationships grounded in trust and communication—they can eliminate the retention gap entirely. Whether in short videos, lecture notes, or just a profile picture on Canvas, let students see you as a real human being.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors, we want to motivate and engage the whole class and bring everyone to mastery of the course. For example, pause for one or two of the above activities after lecturing for eight to 10 minutes. Allow them access to their peers’ work as well as to provide constructive feedback. How can we do that?

Motivation 111

Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 111

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam. MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers.

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Exams Lecturing Textbooks Instructors 165

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Washington (2019) studied the face-to-face instructor experience, and we already had anecdotal information, along with some survey data, from our own faculty regarding their use and preferences regarding the LMS. We sought feedback from our undergraduate students regarding their preferences for faculty use of the LMS.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2018

The convergence of these challenges is making it much harder for faculty to engage students in traditional lecture-style classes. To adapt to these changes, professors need to be better equipped with the resources, technology or otherwise, that facilitate better interactions and useful feedback to students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He’s even written a book about an approach called “ Flipped Learning ,” where professors ask students to watch lecture videos before they come to class so that class time can focus more on experiences and other forms of learning. But [I expected] that the feedback loop isn't there. What did you expect the answer to be going in?

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

We can’t approach this simply as an authoritarian relationship, where the instructor has the power, and the students just do what the instructor says,” he says. “We Most online courses have some form of demerits built into them if learners miss too many lectures, or turn in assignments late. It creates a cadence.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 16, 2022

One of the main benefits of using asynchronous videos in your online class is that the videos provide a sense of intimacy in the classroom which leads to increased instructor presence. Instructors can create prompts in programs, such as VoiceThread and Flipgrid, that require students to interact through asynchronous videos. .

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Traditional classroom learning is now modernizing Debates remain about online vs. classroom learning Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Classroom learning remains a cornerstone of education, fostering a dynamic environment where students engage with peers and instructors in real-time.

Learning 130

Learning eLearning Instructors Learning Styles 130

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Students now expect the use of this tool by their professors for more than simply providing lecture slides or links to readings. When preparing for a new term, there is much to consider.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Unlike the end-of-semester feedback, when gathering formative feedback on what’s helping or hindering student learning might be too late, mid-term analysis of our teaching and student learning may help motivate students and enhance their learning. Sound familiar? Adding small activities for engagement.

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