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For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video

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Many instructors see them as drudgery as well. The threaded discussion felt always like the wrong medium for learning,” says Joyce Valenza, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, who has been teaching online since 2001.

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Designing For Deeper Learning: Identifying Challenges and Prototyping Solutions

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What questions do you have about these challenges in the context of your own teaching experience? I’d like to continue this conversation and work together to create more effective, equitable, and meaningful learning experiences for all students. Technology is good at transferring information.

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? What innovations might redefine the learning environment?

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Inside an Effort to Build an AI Assistant for Designing Course Materials

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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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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?

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The tech itself raises a host of challenging questions. 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.

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Online Classes! On Your Schedule

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For questions, email askatechteacher@gmail.com. The 21 st Century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. They start at $750 for a group of five or more. Certificate.

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The Post-LMS World: Social, Simple, Modern, Mobile and Student-centric

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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.