Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Dear Bonni, You have shared often about active learning strategies and the impact they have on student learning. He suggests a simple truth about learning : “You can’t just think your way into a new way of living. Or even hundreds?

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

While teachers may always be the best line of defense for students falling behind, busy schedules don’t always permit the special attention and feedback that students need. That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. AI Solutions Drive Higher STEM Test Scores. For Tacoma (Wash.)

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

Through their work, Murphy and his team discovered that online learning solved many of their PD challenges, and allowed them to quickly build capacity for remote learning. We learned about teacher pain points and what PD would look like if they could be the architects of their own learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. student and teaching assistant, began building his own homegrown adaptive tutoring technologies.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

AI tutors, virtual assistants, and adaptive learning platforms are being adopted by schools, colleges, and universities around the world. Personalized Learning: AI allows educational content and instruction to be tailored to individual students’ abilities, needs and interests.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

17, more than 100 people gathered to hear speakers present how their organizations are embracing the future of digital learning. She described the advances in cognitive science, including the work of Carol Dweck, Geoffrey Cohen, and Claude Steele, that have led her to work on creating even more supportive and effective learning environments.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

Many international students bring deeply ingrained learning experiences from their home countries, which may differ significantly from those in the U.S. This article explores these experiences, offering insights for educators on how to foster supportive and inclusive learning environments, particularly from an Asian perspective.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

However, since 2012—when MOOCs gained widespread recognition —instructional designers have made significant strides in designing scalable learning experiences that people successfully finish. If your goal is having more students finish a learning experience, require students to demonstrate upfront commitment.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Building Community Most college courses these days offer official online forums where students in a class can chat, often through learning management systems. He says he has noticed that students typically organize channels in Discord and GroupMe only when they are frustrated by the level of assistance or timely feedback from instructors.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

Many international students bring deeply ingrained learning experiences from their home countries, which may differ significantly from those in the U.S. This article explores these experiences, offering insights for educators on how to foster supportive and inclusive learning environments, particularly from an Asian perspective.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

But the groundswell of artificial intelligence (AI) that surrounds us marks a particularly fragile moment for teaching. In this context, educators must be especially mindful that our uses of technology do not undermine meaningful learning. And doing this requires knowledge about technology and teaching.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

But very quickly, I learned that teaching in a Title I school, where a high percentage of low-income students face significant educational gaps , was far more challenging than I had anticipated. Early Mentorship in Jacksonville As a new teacher in Jacksonville, I faced a steep learning curve.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. is an AI-powered teaching assistant designed to help teachers with lesson planning, instructional design, and generating educational content. You can add and edit any of the slides.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As generative AI evolves rapidly, it is essential to explore and discuss its impact on teaching and learning for both faculty and students. We also asked faculty who were using AI to share how it impacted their teaching and learning. Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. Look no further.

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Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Even more confounding is all three Classrooms offer functionalities that one might find in a learning or device management system. Streamlines feedback on student work. More on how Apple, Google and Microsoft are growing their K-12 presence: A Timeline of Google Classroom’s March to Replace Learning Management Systems.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Studies show that information and computer-assisted learning boosts academic achievement, improves learner engagement and reduces teacher burden by shaving time off the day. Today’s students, who have grown up with iPads and YouTube, seamlessly use technology at home and in the classroom to bring learning to life.

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Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Taken together, open access admission policies and challenges to student engagement in the community college context present a unique opportunity for utilizing student workers as learning assistants. Learning assistantships also offer a range of benefits for the near peer tutors themselves. 2021; Close et al.,

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Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As generative AI evolves rapidly, it is essential to explore and discuss its impact on teaching and learning for both faculty and students. We also asked faculty who were using AI to share how it impacted their teaching and learning. Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. Look no further.

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Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. is an AI-powered teaching assistant designed to help teachers with lesson planning, instructional design, and generating educational content. You can add and edit any of the slides.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

In Susan Blum’s “ Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (And What to Do, Instead) ,” we discover that when it comes to concerns about grade inflation: “The trouble isn’t that too many students are getting As but that too many students have been led to believe the primary purpose of schooling is to get As,” she writes.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Law: Given that most evaluation forms are filled out at the end of the semester, a lot of students feel like, "Well even if I provide that feedback, it doesn't really benefit ourselves in that scenario." Law: For me, classes that have the element of action learning would be something that excites me a lot.

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Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 118

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Specifically, JCT outlines that jobs facilitating 1) skill variety, 2) task identity, 3) task significance, 4) autonomy, and 5) feedback will be the most motivating and interesting. For students: Allow for variety in the way students learn the information (e.g., For example, maybe there is a new software youd like to learn.

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Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 105

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

More importantly, the available evidence suggests that outside perspectives are viewed overwhelmingly positively by students because it adds to their learning by providing insight into the real-world application of course material and/or provides real-world evaluative perspectives (Bruff, 2019; Jablon-Roberts & McCracken, 2022).

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Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 126

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Specifically, JCT outlines that jobs facilitating 1) skill variety, 2) task identity, 3) task significance, 4) autonomy, and 5) feedback will be the most motivating and interesting. For students: Allow for variety in the way students learn the information (e.g., For example, maybe there is a new software youd like to learn.

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Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 94

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

But how do we infuse warmth in digital learning spaces through written communication ? Demonstrate our enthusiasm for teaching the course. Acknowledge our interest in meeting and learning from them. Share former students’ feedback about the course. Tip #1: Make it your mission to learn more about who your students are.

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Culture Communication Writing Languages 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

All of this also requires feedback from both of your audiences. But what you don’t see is the feedback the host gets from the director and staff of the show. This acts as a stand-in for the remote audience since the host can’t see any online reactions, and the director often provides feedback to the host during commercial breaks.

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Feedback Minute Papers Mobile Devices Discussions 105

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

She uses the video system to offer comments and feedback to students regularly since she cannot meet them all in person. Instead, the partner district is positioning the residents as teaching assistants in the district, providing them with a $23,000 salary. Turk has 15 students in different districts and states.

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Teaching Social Studies Teaching Assistants Participation 131

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

More importantly, the available evidence suggests that outside perspectives are viewed overwhelmingly positively by students because it adds to their learning by providing insight into the real-world application of course material and/or provides real-world evaluative perspectives (Bruff, 2019; Jablon-Roberts & McCracken, 2022).

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Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 110

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Historically, with its fixed curriculum and standardized methods, traditional instruction often fell short of accommodating every student’s unique learning needs. The feedback loop, though vital, is time-delayed. This fluidity of response, facilitated by AI, fundamentally reshapes the learning environment.

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Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 122

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

As a teacher, mathematician and cyclist, TrueShelf CEO and founder Dr. Shiva Kintali knows from experience that not everyone moves at the same pace when learning—whether inside the classroom or out. EdSurge: What prompted you to develop an adaptive approach to learning math? This leads naturally to an adaptive learning process.

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Textbooks Intelligence Math Beliefs 102

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We invited three guests: Candace Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford Graduate School of Education; Mark Milliron, co-founder and chief learning officer at Civitas Learning; and Kyle Bowen, educational technology services director at Penn State University. Here’s Part 1 if you missed it.)

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Learning Intelligence Science Questions 90

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Historically, with its fixed curriculum and standardized methods, traditional instruction often fell short of accommodating every student’s unique learning needs. The feedback loop, though vital, is time-delayed. This fluidity of response, facilitated by AI, fundamentally reshapes the learning environment.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

College settings foster collaborative learning environments, where students engage in dynamic discussions and group activities. These include over-reliance, plagiarism, bias, limited creativity, ethical considerations, accessibility issues, oversimplification, distraction, and dehumanization of the learning experience. CalMatters.

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Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

We want to make sure that we are serving our students to the best of our abilities and, thereby, creating inclusive, engaging, and meaningful learning experiences. High Impact Practices High impact practices (HIPs) are a set of strategies for improving the student learning experience. or creating of a story in language arts.

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Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 108

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

But how do we infuse warmth in digital learning spaces through written communication ? Demonstrate our enthusiasm for teaching the course. Acknowledge our interest in meeting and learning from them. Share former students’ feedback about the course. Tip #1: Make it your mission to learn more about who your students are.

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Culture Communication Writing Languages 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Attention is a so-called gateway between information and learning and is compared to a spotlight on a large stage (Keller et al., Students cannot make connections and learn a topic if their spotlight isnt turned on or focused in the right area. Small-group discussion Use occasional small-group discussions to get everyone focused.

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