Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

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Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

To create the videos, we filmed mentor and mentee pairs of students who identify as Black, Latino/a, South Asian, and Persian as they shared lunches and laboratories while studying material science, chemistry, microbiological organisms and neurological brain functions.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

From career and technical education (CTE) to STEM learning and AI’s evolution, here are five priority areas for educators in the 2024-2025 school year: Student achievement and well-being Now more than ever, the need to focus on educating the “whole child” is a top priority for our schools. — Jonah M. Schenker, Ed.D.,

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2016

A growing number of today’s instructors also fall into this group. Do one-to-one laptop programs improve learning? Today, our library makerspace has developed into a 21st century learning laboratory, with funding from grants and through the generosity of individuals and organizations that support our DonorsChoose projects.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has presented districts everywhere with new teaching and learning opportunities. Vrain Valley School District Career-connected learning will become more important than ever. This year at St. –David Baker, Professional Development Coordinator.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Many students are drawn to Laney’s Fabrication Laboratory (FabLab), for various reasons. Instructor: Heather Lee. Heather Lee is a mother of two children, a creative maker, and a Hacker Lab instructor at Sierra College. Here’s a snapshot of the making that’s already happening around California: Student: Dev Varat. Maker Media.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

The Computer Science professor has helped them discover the full potential of technology that surrounds them and learn to use it ways they never dreamed possible, changing their lives forever. Why don’t you go learn to do hair?’” She also worked previously at Texas Instruments and Bell Laboratories. “I That’s for your brother.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

Ubiquitous learning—the idea that everywhere you go, you’re learning all the time—lets us take advantage of the concept that in every interaction, there may be opportunities for students to engage with our subject matter if we can just get them into that holistic thinking mode. I am an avid knitter and like to knit all the time.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 110

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In mission statements across the country, references to personalized learning abound, hanging proudly from schoolhouse walls. Our 1:1 initiative, for example, began at the first grade level, proving that these tools could extend and enhance learning and be used successfully even by a 5-year-old.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). In 1993, Kolb brought reflection to the forefront in his description of its role in experiential learning (Kolb, 1993).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Apart from careful studies conducted in complex laboratories, science also runs on data collection, observations, and statistical analysis. Practical Learning Scientific research involves several ground realities and interdisciplinary aspects that students and the general public are not exposed to.

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Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

Kimberly Ideus , Emporia State University Ning Sui, North Carolina State University Key Statement: Transparency in a lab report template and rubric enhances the scientific integrity for undergraduate biochemistry students in laboratory courses. Different instructors have disparate expectations when it comes to completing these reports.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 96

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). In 1993, Kolb brought reflection to the forefront in his description of its role in experiential learning (Kolb, 1993).

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Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

Ubiquitous learning—the idea that everywhere you go, you’re learning all the time—lets us take advantage of the concept that in every interaction, there may be opportunities for students to engage with our subject matter if we can just get them into that holistic thinking mode. I am an avid knitter and like to knit all the time.

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Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 77

Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2025

In recent years, the discourse around effective assessment has steered towards incorporating the assessment for learning strategy into curriculum development. Overcoming these impediments is crucial to accelerating progress with assessment for learning. This thus limits students active knowledge consumption and self-regulated learning.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

And she thinks one of the earliest scholarly research tools, the campus library, could help limit that risk and also bring instructors to the table to weigh-in on publishing decisions. “I Higher education leaders have been watching Elsevier’s overall strategy with caution—and some concern.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Algorithms will one day play a pivotal role in teaching and learning, so colleges need to pay close attention to how they work and who builds them. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool.

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Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 96

Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2025

In recent years, the discourse around effective assessment has steered towards incorporating the assessment for learning strategy into curriculum development. Overcoming these impediments is crucial to accelerating progress with assessment for learning. This thus limits students active knowledge consumption and self-regulated learning.

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Feedback Lecturing Laboratory Students 53

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. But at a university? “We Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The SAMR (substitution, augmentation, modification, redefinition) model for technology use is a great way for educators to develop digital learning experiences. Inoa has an extensive background in research both as an instructor and analyst. Harry Moore School, which is the university laboratory school. by Rafael Inoa.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2018

Augmented Reality (AR) is exactly what it sounds like — students learn more about what they see. When students unpack learning via augmented reality, they want more, don’t want to leave, and are willing to solve complex math problems and understand deep concepts just so they can see what else comes with augmented reality.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. So what have we learned so far?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 9, 2023

Faculty and pedagogists alike have been aware of the illness and many attempted to replace the traditional lecture with some alternative learning approaches which have been housed under various buzzwords such as “flipped classroom” (Milman, 2012), “experiential learning” (Wurdinger, 2005), and “blended learning” (Pavla, 2014).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 9, 2023

Faculty and pedagogists alike have been aware of the illness and many attempted to replace the traditional lecture with some alternative learning approaches which have been housed under various buzzwords such as “flipped classroom” (Milman, 2012), “experiential learning” (Wurdinger, 2005), and “blended learning” (Pavla, 2014).

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

Ng is seen as one of the leading figures in artificial intelligence, having founded and directed the Google Brain project and served as the chief scientist at the Chinese search giant Baidu, as well as having directed the artificial intelligence laboratory at Stanford University. has “a pretty standard rev share.” After all, the Deeplearning.ai

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