Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In recent years, technology has played a significant role in reshaping the landscape of college teaching, and it will surely continue to do so. But the groundswell of artificial intelligence (AI) that surrounds us marks a particularly fragile moment for teaching. And doing this requires knowledge about technology and teaching.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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. That’s what Joseph Ching, an affiliate scholar at James Madison University, has experienced.

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Exams Instructors Students Lecturing 205

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Spending on education technology in the US now exceeds $13B. Studies show that information and computer-assisted learning boosts academic achievement, improves learner engagement and reduces teacher burden by shaving time off the day. For teachers, technology can help create engagement and a more immersive learning experience.

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Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 140

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

It’s terribly confusing, but perhaps no coincidence, that three of the world’s most prominent consumer technology companies—Apple, Google, Microsoft—each boast a “Classroom” tool aimed at K-12 educators and students. Streamlines feedback on student work. Streamlines feedback on student work. Students can collaborate online.

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Mobile Devices Assignments Feedback Quizzes 157

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps! Giving Feedback : Using custom criteria, AI can identify areas of strength and areas for growth in student work. generates feedback based on your input. MIT Technology Review. 2023, March).

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Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. For over a year now, the focus has been on getting technology into the hands of students. Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic.

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Unsurprisingly, some of the biggest drivers of these improved metrics include making people pay for online programs, increasing the selectivity of courses, and adding program managers and teaching assistants to follow up with learners. Here are seven practices for moving completion rates for online courses from 5 to 85 percent: 1.

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Assignments Teaching Assistants Motivation Failure 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These relationships have not only provided practical guidance and feedback on my teaching but have also given me emotional support during difficult times. Helping these new educators navigate their first year of teaching was one of the most rewarding experiences of my career.

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Culture Motivation Classroom Management Teaching Assistants 205

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps! Giving Feedback : Using custom criteria, AI can identify areas of strength and areas for growth in student work. generates feedback based on your input. MIT Technology Review. 2023, March).

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Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype.

Learning 137

Learning Textbooks Feedback Teaching Assistants 137

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In addition to full slideshow lessons, Curipod has interactive activities such as co-writing a fairy tale with AI, getting feedback from a historical figure, a “convince the evil AI ruler” prompt, brain breaks, and more! It offers a resource generator, teaching assistant, feedback bot, and AI chat. Eduaide.ai

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 124

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

Dr. Don Murphy, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction and Technology at Hauppauge Public Schools, which serves almost 4,000 students, says his district faced the same struggles as many others. When we rolled out OTIS, there was so much positive feedback from teachers about how simple it is to use.

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Learning Culture Failure Disabilities 162

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

First of all, there are approaches that can help reduce grading time while still giving useful feedback to students. And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant. Instructors wish students did the work before class without needing to be awarded points for their effort.

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Motivation Reading Instructors Assignments 203

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. Then actively pick sometime within their lecture to say, "Here's a summary of the collection of the feedback I've received, here's what I would do based on this feedback."

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Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 121

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Yet many have been met with skepticism that such tools can provide as accurate or personal feedback as a human can.

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Grades Exams Instructors Teaching Assistants 99

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

So Sankar proposed an online system that would be open to everyone in a class , where when any student wrote in asking for help or clarification, all would benefit from the answer posted by the professor or a teaching assistant. She called her startup Piazza. We learned,” said Sankar last week.

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Communication Learning Culture Students 196

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Fortunately, classroom guests for online courses are increasingly easy and convenient to add given the ubiquity of recording and meeting technology like Zoom, as well as everyone’s general experience and basic skills using it.

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Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 126

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

However, they were more open to having their teaching assistants try new approaches. So he implemented new approaches with teaching assistants for an introduction to biology course. Katzman discussed the unique advantages of designing a pedagogy from the ground up, including building the technology that will be utilized.

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Teaching Assistants Learning Beliefs Feedback 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. Using technology we are offering coursework in an online format,” says Turk “I can have an intern in Wilmington, Delaware, but I am in NYU.” Turk has 15 students in different districts and states.

Teaching 139

Teaching Social Studies Teaching Assistants Participation 139

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In addition to full slideshow lessons, Curipod has interactive activities such as co-writing a fairy tale with AI, getting feedback from a historical figure, a “convince the evil AI ruler” prompt, brain breaks, and more! It offers a resource generator, teaching assistant, feedback bot, and AI chat. Eduaide.ai

Multiple Choice Questions 109

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 109

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. Beheshti, IEEE Senior Member, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology. — Babak D.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 294

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The feedback loop, though vital, is time-delayed. This instantaneous feedback and support prevents these gaps from snowballing into more considerable challenges. To tap into the full potential of AI-driven education, schools and institutions must prioritize building solid technological infrastructure.

Intelligence 122

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 122

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in West Bengal, India Kintali fell behind in a course on complexity theory (which is too complex to explain here). Kintali spoke with EdSurge about why he created TrueShelf, why technology can never replace teachers, and what led him down this path in his career. Shiva Kintali, TrueShelf CEO.

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Textbooks Intelligence Math Beliefs 107

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. Where flexibility of how a project is completed can be given, encourage students to try something new or try a new technology to implement their idea.

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Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 96

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Fortunately, classroom guests for online courses are increasingly easy and convenient to add given the ubiquity of recording and meeting technology like Zoom, as well as everyone’s general experience and basic skills using it.

Lecturing 106

Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 106

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

His teaching assistants have engaged with students in the class from places such as Ethiopia, Northern Ireland, Guatemala, Samoa and Vietnam. These structured experiences allow Spencer to identify when students misunderstand concepts early on, before they have gone too far into the case without receiving feedback.

Learning 163

Learning Students Assignments Participation 163

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The feedback loop, though vital, is time-delayed. This instantaneous feedback and support prevents these gaps from snowballing into more considerable challenges. To tap into the full potential of AI-driven education, schools and institutions must prioritize building solid technological infrastructure.

Intelligence 110

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 110

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. Where flexibility of how a project is completed can be given, encourage students to try something new or try a new technology to implement their idea.

Course Design 87

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 87

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

“Advances in technology are inevitable. I’m taking four courses this term and this is the only time that the impact of AI has been brought up, even though my other courses are computer science and engineering where this technology is going to be most disruptive. Single word responses can be turned into a word cloud to spur discussion.

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Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

One study found that students perceived the phone polls as engaging, making them think and providing feedback on their learning (Voelkel & Bennett, 2014). Teachers also highlighted the benefits of using polling, noting how valuable it was to see student responses in real time to assess understanding and adjust their teaching as needed.

Lecturing 102

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 102

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Additionally, feedback loops in educational contexts where students inadvertently provide incorrect information during interactions with chatbots can reinforce inaccurate patterns and perpetuate hallucinations in subsequent interactions. Despite the potential benefits in classroom settings, their use also raises concerns.

Academic Integrity 135

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

“Advances in technology are inevitable. I’m taking four courses this term and this is the only time that the impact of AI has been brought up, even though my other courses are computer science and engineering where this technology is going to be most disruptive. Single word responses can be turned into a word cloud to spur discussion.

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

One study found that students perceived the phone polls as engaging, making them think and providing feedback on their learning (Voelkel & Bennett, 2014). Teachers also highlighted the benefits of using polling, noting how valuable it was to see student responses in real time to assess understanding and adjust their teaching as needed.

Lecturing 94

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 94

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

This setting typically requires the use of technology, structured activities, and clear organization to manage the diverse needs of a larger audience. Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022).

Teaching 82

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 82

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

This setting typically requires the use of technology, structured activities, and clear organization to manage the diverse needs of a larger audience. Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022).

Teaching 79

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 79

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. I think they’re going to happen simultaneously.

Learning 89

Learning Intelligence Science Questions 89

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Additionally, feedback loops in educational contexts where students inadvertently provide incorrect information during interactions with chatbots can reinforce inaccurate patterns and perpetuate hallucinations in subsequent interactions. Despite the potential benefits in classroom settings, their use also raises concerns.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111