Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support. Teacher Roles in Modern Education The role of teachers in modern education is evolving rapidly, necessitating a shift from traditional instructor-led models to more facilitative approaches.

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JULY 10, 2025

Here are some of the benefits of prioritizing online engagement: Improved learning outcomes Increased motivation and self-esteem Enhanced understanding and retention Reduced isolation and increased community Improved completion rates These are the kinds of outcomes every parent hopes for.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Earlier in my teaching career, my first-day-of-class deck included a slide about my professional and personal history to build trust and transparency. I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college.

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Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 72

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Earlier in my teaching career, my first-day-of-class deck included a slide about my professional and personal history to build trust and transparency. I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college.

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Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 71

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

In a survey conducted not long ago by John Vivolo, who was my colleague at New York University when I headed the engineering school’s online unit, more than half of the faculty believed that virtual instructors have no personal relationship with their students. On the whole, they concluded that digital quality is not as good as on campus.

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Achievement Instructors Online Learning History 295

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects. The class covers how humans change over different points in their lives, and it’s taught by Amy Meeks, a senior lecturer who has been teaching for 20 years.

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Instructors Lecturing Students Textbooks 213

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. It’s a practice he started at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many students were in quarantine and needed ways to continue learning remotely.

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Teaching Instructors Lecturing Blended Courses 207

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on September 30, 2019 © Magna Publications. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. There’s a fair bit of work involved with learning outcomes, and justifiably so. All rights reserved.

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Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Students 64

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in.

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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 210

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on September 30, 2019 © Magna Publications. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. There’s a fair bit of work involved with learning outcomes, and justifiably so. All rights reserved.

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Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Students 59

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Having a philosophical basis for grading helps instructors explain grades, their meaning, and their value to students, who may then see the grade as less arbitrary.Two common approaches to further mitigate this arbitrary nature include normative-based grading and criterion- or standards-based grading.

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Grades Teachers Instructors Exams 265

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. Why College Instructors Matter: A Student’s Perspective I had a conversation with one of my students recently about this exact question. Schoeder, 2024).

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 114

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

Through our online series, we explored the power of universally designed blended learning models to achieve deeper learning outcomes. Our discussions culminated in selecting specific challenges to explore in-depth, with the goal of prototyping solutions at the Learning Leaders Summit in Dubai.

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Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Motivation 460

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Do you have a recommendation for how much should be curated in online classes vs. how much should be original and created by the instructor? The role of a teacher is to facilitate learning, not “deliver” content.

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Teaching History Instructors English 176

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. Wieman has led efforts to improve science teaching. Well, I always hesitate to use myself as data.

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Teaching Lecturing Evaluation Teaching Evaluations 203

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Deeper learning competencies serve as “North Star” for a new vision of teaching, according to a new report. There are more than 500 schools across the country that incorporate various types of deeper learning methods. Next page: Practices of teachers who achieve deeper learning outcomes.

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Learning Learning Outcomes Instructors Achievement 190

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

At the university where I teach, a number of our students come from a home schooling environment. This is is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. This role also has me reading around 20 articles a day and attempting to synthesize what I learned in some meaningful way.

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Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 198

eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

At this year’s Commencement ceremonies, she was named the recipient of the 2022 Gladys and Raymond Pearlstine Award for Teaching Excellence. Martin’s legacy began 23 years ago when she accepted a position at MCCC, following past teaching stints at Ursinus College and Villanova University. wrote one student.

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Science Teaching Laboratory Art 171

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Until recently, the use of OER—digital educational materials that are both more easily adaptable by instructors and more affordable than traditional textbooks—was being led by early-adopter professors driven by a desire to improve teaching and an interest in new technology. They need to know where to go to find the best OER materials.

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Textbooks Teaching Instructors Testing 157

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

“Online teaching is the joy, fun, and magic of bringing teaching and learning into the online environment,” Karen Costa tweeted last Tuesday, January 8, kicking off the #DLNchat. So last week, the #DLNchat community shared ideas about how to best support instructors making the transition to the online classroom.

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Teaching Instructors Culture Failure 136

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

According to a new report, incorporating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in online courses not only benefits students with disabilities, but can have significant benefits for all students, ultimately increasing retention and improving learning outcomes. Knowing Where to Start. Next page: The 10-Step Guide.

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Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Instructors 189

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). Reflective teaching defined Reflection has many definitions. There are many reflective tools and frameworks available.

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Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 116

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors. Teachers who can spend more time with each student is able to tailor their teaching to specific students’ needs and, in turn, learning outcomes improve. Classrooms Become More Collaborative.

Achievement 267

Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 267

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Early in my career as a university instructor, this method was a foundational cornerstone in the classroom. While there are benefits to utilizing the VARK approach in the classroom , there is uncertainty about its overall effectiveness when it comes to learning outcomes.

Technology 203

Technology Instructors Learning Styles Learning 203

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2020

Instead of waiting for guidance from above, instructors will be doing a detailed COVID-19 overhaul of their curricula when they do all their yearly planning and strategizing: during summer break. It’s really the only time they have to evaluate and revise their lesson plans and teaching methodologies.

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Instructors Education Distance Learning Science 218

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). Reflective teaching defined Reflection has many definitions. There are many reflective tools and frameworks available.

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Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Columbia University’s Science of Learning Research Initiative (SOLER), our work is dedicated to examining the academic experience of our students and instructors through a scientific lens. To advance the teaching and learning experience. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.

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Academic Integrity Education Instructors Assignments 206

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Members of the CAB were selected based on their deep knowledge of education technology, passion for improving learning outcomes, and success in supporting students’ academic achievements and families’ evolving needs. so we can continue innovating and providing the best solutions to support all students.”

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Special Education History Interdisciplinary Instructors 264

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

It has renewed my excitement for teaching because my students feel connected to the material. I have more confidence in my instruction because they aren’t always asking, “Why are we learning this?” A culture of continuous learning Wendy W. Ultimately, though, good teaching is really only measured in student learning outcomes.

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Education Schools Math Science 305

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Here’s just a glimpse of what we learned about during FETC 2023: AVer Information Inc. The A30 is a multi-functional classroom tool that enhances the teaching experience by combining a document camera, web camera, microphone, and speaker. VEX Robotics demonstrated its VEX GO and VEX 123 solutions.

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Mobile Devices Gamification Science STEM 343

Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

The most obvious sign that measuring learning is not a priority in higher-ed is that administrators and educators throw away so much data about it. Instructors grade the vast majority of high-stakes summative assessments on paper, and collapse student performance down to a single number for entry into the grade book.

Instructors 141

Instructors Learning Assignments Learning Outcomes 141

Faculty Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

University faculty members are usually immersed in various tasks related to teaching, research, committees, and office hours. This isolation can hinder their professional development and growth, especially if they do not take the time to reflect on their own teaching methods and practices.

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Evaluation Teaching Teaching Methods Faculty Development 102

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cavazos , The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Ryan McBride , The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Key Statement: Student-faculty partnerships can foster asset-based approaches in teaching and learning that challenge implicit linguistic bias and enhance students’ linguistically diverse resources. 2024; Cook-Sather, 2020).

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Teaching Instructors English Language 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Sink or swim. All you need is your imagination.”

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Online Learning Lecturing Learning Instructors 151

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

Although a wealth of research suggests that active learning increases student engagement and improves academic outcomes, many college campuses struggle to get faculty to shift away from traditional, sage-on-a-stage style teaching practices. Now, pods for group work circle monitors connected to a video wall.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Spaces Instructors 167

Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2023

As a faculty member in a graduate program in educational leadership, I underestimated how the pandemic would impact my teaching—and change the way I approached pedagogy and implemented learner-centered practices. This lighthearted, quirky comedy became the basis for the four critical lessons I learned while teaching through the pandemic.

Teaching 119

Teaching Assignments Syllabus Counselling 119

Faculty Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

University faculty members are usually immersed in various tasks related to teaching, research, committees, and office hours. This isolation can hinder their professional development and growth, especially if they do not take the time to reflect on their own teaching methods and practices.

Evaluation 96

Evaluation Teaching Teaching Methods Faculty Development 96