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. Next page: The 10-Step Guide.

Accessibility 189

Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Instructors 189

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors. Tyrone Howard, a professor of education who writes about research into students’ relationships with their teachers, said “I think schools in many ways have put the cart before the horse. Classrooms Become More Collaborative.

Achievement 267

Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 267

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. Which is completely 100 percent valid,” he says.

Teaching 207

Teaching Instructors Lecturing Blended Courses 207

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

apply, analyze, evaluate, create), and have been shown to be an effective way of learning (Lee et al., Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., What is GenAI? for this prompt.

Study 124

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 124

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most teachers who work in education today have studied — or at least are familiar with — VARK , a learning theory first introduced by Neil Fleming in 1987. VARK suggests that students can best accelerate their knowledge acquisition via one of four core learning styles: visual (V), aural (A), read/write (R) or kinesthetic (K).

Technology 203

Technology Instructors Learning Styles Learning 203

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

apply, analyze, evaluate, create), and have been shown to be an effective way of learning (Lee et al., Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., What is GenAI? for this prompt.

Study 114

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 114

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Banning GenAI tools is not the solution Many students use GenAI tools to aid their learning. Additionally, non-native English speakers and students with language and learning disabilities often turn to these tools to support their thinking, communication, and learning. Write your own GenAI policy to include in your syllabus.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample. software with or without encouraging messages, she writes. “If Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform.

Ethics 207

Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 207

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. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.

Academic Integrity 206

Academic Integrity Education Instructors Assignments 206

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo was launched last year in grades 5-8 and used in core content areas, which are typically math, reading, writing, and science, according to the district. It can also assist teachers with tasks such as planning lessons, tailoring instruction, creating texts and images, and providing recommendations on what students could work on next.

Schools 266

Schools Math Testing Intelligence 266

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). Write each question so it can receive its own response.

Feedback 107

Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 107

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

In a world filled with intelligent agents and easily-accessed answers, the need for tools that guide, enhance and support active learning is critical. Initially focusing on student writing, Instructure and Khan Academy aim to support students and their learning through Khanmigo’s tutoring capabilities.

Essay 130

Essay Ethics Instructors Writing 130

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

It includes institutional and college policies, plus support service resources to ensure that students and instructors have easy access to vital information, fostering both a sense of community and compliance. The template, housed in Canvas, is easy to update to reflect resource and content information changes. since 2007.

Feedback 121

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 121

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). Write each question so it can receive its own response.

Feedback 95

Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 95

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

It includes institutional and college policies, plus support service resources to ensure that students and instructors have easy access to vital information, fostering both a sense of community and compliance. The template, housed in Canvas, is easy to update to reflect resource and content information changes. since 2007.

Feedback 111

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 111

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Collaborating with students through student-faculty partnerships is one way to foster an asset-based mindset t hat draws on students’ linguistically diverse resources as tools for learning and growth in and beyond the classroom. Savini suggests that we ask ourselves what makes someone else’s writing unclear to us.

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Languages 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Collecting, recording, and analyzing what happens in the preparation and delivery of a course helps the teacher move from just sharing information to understanding and shaping their teaching and the student learning experience. From this, areas of success and improvement can be identified and learning outcomes improved.

Teaching 116

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 116

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2023

Many instructors have observed variability in students’ motivation to learn and grow. Positive academic mindsets motivate students to learn Mindset science has uncovered actionable insights into the academic behaviors of students. [i] Every student learns at a different pace.

Beliefs 116

Beliefs Motivation Instructors Students 116

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Collecting, recording, and analyzing what happens in the preparation and delivery of a course helps the teacher move from just sharing information to understanding and shaping their teaching and the student learning experience. From this, areas of success and improvement can be identified and learning outcomes improved.

Teaching 111

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

If you are like most of those with whom I work, you spend hours identifying the desired learning outcomes, essential understandings and skills, and appropriate materials. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This is critical work.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Some students already possess a well-established sense of community in academic and non-academic digital spaces (Plotts, 2020), which they bring into their learning environments for additional support. In essence, social media offers a portable and customizable sense of community across various spaces, enriching the learning experience.

Culture 128

Culture Learning Instructors Discussions 128

Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

To improve learning outcomes for all learners, the development of several learning style assessments and neurodiversity instructional methods over the past 25 years have supported the idea that students learn in diverse ways (Dimitrov & Deardorff, 2023).

Learning Styles 111

Learning Styles Instructors Education Learning 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2023

Many instructors have observed variability in students’ motivation to learn and grow. Positive academic mindsets motivate students to learn Mindset science has uncovered actionable insights into the academic behaviors of students. [i] Every student learns at a different pace.

Beliefs 98

Beliefs Motivation Instructors Students 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Laptops and tablets can be powerful learning aids, but many faculty feel uneasy about the role such devices play in their classrooms. they may be a distraction and deter from learning outcomes. How, then, can we be sure that digital tools are integrated into the higher education experience in ways that encourage deeper learning?

Lecturing 155

Lecturing Exams Assignments Textbooks 155

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

I taught a business ethics course this semester in which I had honed the learning outcomes down into the most essential ones. The learning management system (LMS) I use allows the instructor to see the course from a student’s view. This less-is-more approach has been cascading into my teaching more in recent years.

Teaching 198

Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 198

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). 2014; Agarwal, 2019). Nilson, L. Ifelebuegu, A.

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

But he thinks that there’s information out there about how the brain works—and in particular, how empathy changes learning outcomes—that classroom instructors should understand. I mean, we still don't know how you know how to pick up a pencil and write your name with it. And it’s all complicated.

Science 167

Science Teachers Fairness Study 167

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 16, 2025

In the service of my job responsibilities and course learning outcomes, do I really become someone else? I spent weeks getting ready, thinking about what I was going to do, writing out lectures, and planning assignments. In the classroom, to put it as The Fixx did in 1984, Are we ourselves?

Instructors 95

Instructors Lecturing Essay Art 95

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

To be an effective instructional designer, you also arguably need to know the basics of digital marketing and how to write compelling copy to get someone to click through, enroll in, and persist in your course. Udemy has also created a great toolkit to help online course instructors market their learning experience.

Feedback 163

Feedback Failure Lecturing Reading 163

Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

To improve learning outcomes for all learners, the development of several learning style assessments and neurodiversity instructional methods over the past 25 years have supported the idea that students learn in diverse ways (Dimitrov & Deardorff, 2023).

Learning Styles 97

Learning Styles Instructors Education Learning 97

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Some students already possess a well-established sense of community in academic and non-academic digital spaces (Plotts, 2020), which they bring into their learning environments for additional support. In essence, social media offers a portable and customizable sense of community across various spaces, enriching the learning experience.

Culture 109

Culture Learning Instructors Discussions 109

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Simple active learning techniques such as a quick temperature check or low stakes writing activity (Lang, 2021) can allow space for students to express their feelings, particularly when discussing challenging or emotive material, which simultaneously builds empathy and inclusion. This atmosphere is important for the faculty as well.

Activities 111

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

If you are like most of those with whom I work, you spend hours identifying the desired learning outcomes, essential understandings and skills, and appropriate materials. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This is critical work.

Syllabus 101

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 101

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2018

However, in the current educational environments where technology is used to enhance learning outcomes, educators have consciously allowed for and are making use of technology to facilitate learning online. Rest assured, online learning will impact social learning. 15 Take-aways from Online Grad School Classes.

Gamification 103

Gamification Teaching Teachers Blended Learning 103

Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2023

The shift to emergency remote teaching in 2020 was a challenging time for students and instructors. However, we think that it would be a mistake to abandon the accommodating policies many instructors have adopted. The exercises are relatively short (e.g., References: D’Agostino, S. Should professors still record lectures?

Student Engagement 102

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Exams 102

Faculty Focus

MARCH 5, 2023

Understanding the goals of learning and how they benefit one’s life are critical. A faculty member should make learning outcomes clear, but also provide a broader context for how those outcomes relate to the world outside of the classroom. In pedagogy, students are dependent on the instructor to teach them.

Universal Design 124

Universal Design Learning Motivation Authentic Assessment 124

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). 2014; Agarwal, 2019). Nilson, L. Ifelebuegu, A.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98