Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

When Melissa Hardy took over a biology laboratory class at Salt Lake Community College, she inherited a commercial lab manual that left much to be desired. Contrast doing something and revising quickly with a textbook company that spends seven years to devise a textbook and hopes to hell that it works.” It was out of date.

Textbooks 210

Textbooks Instructors Laboratory Education 210

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2019

How Learning Science Happens Cognitive psychologists interested in the science of learning use the laboratory-to-classroom model to conduct research (Weinstein & Sumeracki, 2019). Our research most often begins in the basic laboratory level.

Laboratory 195

Laboratory Science Textbooks Lecturing 195

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. We can’t just use a college textbook, we go through it so fast.” We’re trying to do this unnatural thing in this unnaturally compressed time.

Motivation 214

Motivation Language Languages Learning 214

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. Like textbooks—that's a classic example. So at that point, when you're using textbooks in that way, the pedagogical decision making is still being made by the institution or by the faculty member.

Teaching 94

Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 94

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

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. After all, the Deeplearning.ai certificate program.

Teaching 138

Teaching Textbooks Laboratory Intelligence 138