Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2019

Despite its name, the Learning Management System (LMS) is not about learning. While it’s great for instructor workflows, it has always been a course management tool, not a learning tool. Today, the LMS is a technological staple for all courses across higher ed, whether online or traditional brick-and-mortar institutions.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Building Digital Citizens. Certificate. digital law.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

Not only does Mayer think that upbeat virtual tutors will work better than those with other emotional tones, but he thinks that some students might learn better from an optimized agent than from a human tutor. He points to research that shows that some students learn better from male instructors, while others learn better from female ones.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This flexibility allows for adaptable AI integration while maintaining openness and transparency between instructors and learners. It's going to come from… the instructor. Elizabeth Alvarez Racine acknowledges that there is often concern that new technology might stifle creativity or make students too robotic in their thinking.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

Better Than the Sum of Their Parts: Coupling Course + Learning Space Redesign In 2015, IU launched the Mosaic Initiative to support active learning in all learning spaces, but especially in its active-learning “Mosaic classrooms.” One of IU’s early redesign efforts saw it transform an old indoor swimming pool.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. Rochester Institute of Technology : Sandra Connelly, Instructor.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2025

FLVS instructors who teach Algebra 1 will lead this innovative program, teaching the online courses while also supplementing students learning with activities that build students’ understanding of math and AI concepts. FLVS teachers will also complete 40 hours of online professional development as part of the program.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

And people in those roles follow a playbook for helping subject-matter experts (the teachers they work with) organize their material into a series of compelling learning activities that will get students the required knowledge and skills on a given subject. He calls his system the AI Learning Design Assistant, or ALDA.

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MAY 25, 2022

Irritation and stress from such tasks are like poison that makes instructors lose energy and harms their nerves. . Since the COVID-19 pandemic has made the workload even heavier, many instructors have felt how awful it is to use an unreliable plagiarism checker. Still, let’s take a look at the actual pros and cons of Turnitin.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Looking for an easy way to become a better online instructor? At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true. The in-depth workshop or multi-day training can come later.)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It’s solution: Create a new marketplace where instructors can find them. It’s not the first time that someone has tried a marketplace for courseware, notes Stephen Downes, a national expert in online learning technology who runs the long-running OLDaily newsletter. A key premise of the Lexington, Mass.-based

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Electude is in use today globally by over 900,000 students and over 50,000 instructors in 70 nations, translated into 35 languages. Electude North America provides a localized version of Electude to customers in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2020

“If you provide a safe space to learn technology, they want to learn, and they are willing to put in the work,” he adds. Key to making Getsetup’s classes hum are the instructors, called guides, who are all retired teachers or professionals with teaching backgrounds. It’s something that he’s taking seriously.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

What I’ve observed at UNC is that the most innovative instructors use the learning management systems provided by the college the least. We need a more pluralistic ecosystem in which learning is at the center, students and their instructors use tech to support creativity and community, and evidence drives decisions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2020, the digital proctoring company Proctorio brought a lawsuit against Ian Linkletter, who was then a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia. The hearing will test what critics of the case say was a suit meant to silence concerns about a controversial edtech service.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

But when a scaled implementation leverages faculty expertise and feedback during all stages, the culture shifts, and faculty move from being skeptical of adaptive learning to being advocates for it. Classroom technology is not plug and play. The result of that has been success with buy-in and implementation.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

Over the past few months, EdSurge has spoken with a number of these constituents to find out what floats their boat; here’s what we learned. "So So many community colleges are place-bound, where students have not had the opportunity to explore the world." . Developing captions and interactive transcripts. The result?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In a 2021 survey from the College Innovation Network, 20 percent of students at four-year colleges said they struggled learning new edtech tools. So some colleges and instructors have started to think about how to help students get up to speed on their digital and technical skills.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

However, these statements are either written so broadly that there can be different interpretations of the language, or these statements indicate that the responsibility of determining what is allowable depends on the instructor, or both! Unfortunately, most instructors do not make their perspectives regarding GenAI tools clear to students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Learning technology company HMH announced it has acquired award-winning software company Writable , building on a longstanding partnership between the organizations that includes the integration of Writable’s research-backed writing assessment and practice solution with HMH’s core ELA offerings for grades 3-12.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2018

One of the most prominent researchers and critics of how learning technologies are built and used in higher education is joining, temporarily, one of the biggest tech companies in the world. That’s a problem, she argues, as these tools increasingly inform the decisions that instructors make.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

These adaptable and personalized digital learning resources are proving invaluable as the nation seeks to get students back on track after several years of online and hybrid learning. While the pandemic did cause learning loss, it also pushed forth an increased use of online and hybrid/blended learning technologies for students.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Assessment is project-based so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-taker.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Hatcher’s commitment to providing equitable opportunities for all students, including those with diverse needs, led him to offer services that cater to both traditional and online learning environments, recognizing that some students require different support structures for academic success.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

Jody Britten, a senior associate at the Metiri Group , talked about how 3D technologies and data visualization tools lead to better learning outcomes with EdTech. Active-learning technology allows them to move from consuming information to creating and thinking on a deeper level ,” Britten said.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

Hybrid classroom technology purchases may also relate to other priorities on the list, such as addressing the needs of low-income students or planning for long-term school closures (including how to provide online learning ).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Gather student data, make predictions about their learning—and perhaps their future. For years education companies have tried to apply technologies to better understand students and tailor their learning experiences, or support instructors who can intervene when human help is needed. said Grant.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

At Blackboard we packaged learning management into three tiers. Since instructors are autonomous, we allowed them to create a CourseSite on Blackboard.com. You (and your product) probably can’t drive learning outcomes in isolation. Learning outcomes are difficult to measure. Though that’s getting better and can be fixed.)

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

After a chance meeting with Rob Warren of Curriculum Associates, Ray, the founder of the consultancy K20Connect and former executive director of learning technology for Nashville public schools, took him along to visit Stratford STEM Magnet School Lower Campus, a middle school in Nashville that was failing at the time.

Counselling 136

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JULY 24, 2020

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Building Digital Citizens. Certificate. digital law.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2022

Meanwhile, universities will need to put in time, money and effort to integrate their physical and digital learning offerings, argues Lee Skallerup Bessette, assistant director for digital learning at Georgetown University, in an essay in the report.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Flipgrid started when Charles Miller, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota and former co-director of its Learning Technologies Media Lab, was traveling abroad for a research project and wanted to continue class discussions with the 12 graduate students in a course he was teaching.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“This past year has allowed us insight into how disruptive innovation can harness the power of technology to ignite a new generation of empowered citizens,” enthuses Martha Bongiorno, a Media and Education Technology Instructor in Fulton County, Georgia.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

To help students get comfortable testing out tech tools, professors should make their first digital assignments low-stakes, she explains, “so students don’t feel so pressured to use the technology in an amazing way.” Or professors can be proactive and try to get a sense of student edtech self-efficacy from day one.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

I have a pretty good guess: zero billion,” tweeted Jesse Stommel, executive director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at University of Mary Washington. “How much of that $1.75B do you think is going to the students who have fed their database for years?

Plagiarism 167

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 1, 2019

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments.

Instructors 92

Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 92