eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hybrid learning has numerous benefits for your students, parents, and teachers, including increased flexibility, accessibility, and the ability to use innovative learning tools. Use hybrid learning to enhance educational experiences. Students like to feel seen and heard.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Communication Teaching Methods 266

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2018

One person pushing to put learning science into practice on college campuses is Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She'd walk into the classroom, and the poor teacher wouldn't know what to do because the kids walked in knowing Spanish. So what did he do?

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Science Exams Learning Motivation 167

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” EdSurge: The app you developed helps teachers test out their learning materials to see if they’re effective. What’s new in your approach?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 124

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

She referenced three examples of creative uses by IDEO U students, from Jess in Melbourne, who formed her own in-person local learning circle to employees at an architecture firm in Italy who used a prototyping leader’s guide to help them work on a common project during their weekly happy hours.

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Teaching Assistants Learning Beliefs Feedback 105

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

In other words, students aren’t just passively watching videos—they’re doing projects, and they get instant feedback from the software. They’re not letting their teachers shine,” she argues. Barbara Oakley recorded lectures for her MOOC on Learning How to Learn in her basement.

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Teaching Lecturing Instructors Quizzes 167

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool. Thille: The Open Learning Initiative, which is the project that I founded at Carnegie Mellon, started with a desire from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to get access to high-quality post-secondary education to those who would not otherwise have access.

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Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 96

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

However, the scholarship of teaching and learning suggests the importance of using learner-centered pedagogical strategies and the powerful results such strategies have on student learning (Campbell et al., Learning-centered teachers create environments that positively impact students through shared governance of the learning space.

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Teaching Syllabus Instructors Problem-Based Learning 52