Edsurge

JULY 14, 2017

There is no lack of evidence to suggest that online classes have deeply transformed the teaching and learning landscape in higher education. But as more faculty are being encouraged to teach online, how often are they aware of why creating the option to take online classes supports their students’ ability to graduate?

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Mind, brain and education science combines knowledge in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to inform methods of teaching and explore the impact of those strategies on learning, helping to transform the field of education.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Subsequently, instructor facilitated classroom conversations intended to enhance understanding of course content may stagnate and falter. The frame of content engagement can look different based on course, instructor and level of student. Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A., H., & Bailey, E. Briggs, W. Sullivan, N., & Towler, 2005).

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

This teaching helps students blend ideas, think deeply across fields, and work well with people from varied backgrounds. Drawing from my experience teaching across subjects at Zayed University in Dubai, UAE, I want to share real ways teachers can build and run cross-subject courses that truly help students handle today’s complex world.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

The pure confidence-building of doing well and succeeding in a college course, having a college instructor tell you that you can do this, that youre a college student that boost of confidence is one of the first things people will say is the power of these courses, Fink says.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation. What new words or expressions did you learn?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Implement a universally designed framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

As a learning designer in a centralized teaching and learning unit, it’s my job to explore new technologies, particularly AI. I create original work as a learning designer, as well as personally as a writer and artist, and I don’t want GenAI to train on my work. But I’ll admit, I didn’t jump right in.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Mind, brain and education science combines knowledge in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to inform methods of teaching and explore the impact of those strategies on learning, helping to transform the field of education.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

As a learning designer in a centralized teaching and learning unit, it’s my job to explore new technologies, particularly AI. I create original work as a learning designer, as well as personally as a writer and artist, and I don’t want GenAI to train on my work. But I’ll admit, I didn’t jump right in.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. Blum (2020) argues that grades provide minimal feedback, they deemphasize learning, and what they actually measure is inconsistent (10-14).

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation. What new words or expressions did you learn?

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

If there is one learning strategy I’ve probably talked the most about on this platform, it’s retrieval practice. In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Inclusivity and feelings of psychological safety in the classroom should not be reserved solely for K-12 learning environments. Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? As teaching and learning increasingly shifted online throughout the early 2000s and 2010s, Turnitin became more embedded in classes. This year, the college paid almost $47,000. billion as of June 2025.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2025

Perhaps, state and local leaders thought, newly unemployed civil servants might be interested in shifting their professional energy away from processing Social Security benefits and deploying foreign aid and toward teaching students in the classroom. had 288, according to the Learning Policy Institute. Job fairs were scheduled.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. What innovations might redefine the learning environment? Data indicates that online learning offers flexibility that traditional classrooms often can’t match. A study from the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

For 60 years, SkillsUSA has provided these types of hands-on learning opportunities for students in the form of regional, state, and national competitions–and participants in these contests have gained valuable career experience.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Inclusivity and feelings of psychological safety in the classroom should not be reserved solely for K-12 learning environments. Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

During this process, the students practiced using complex sentence structures to explain their game, with the instructors using scaffolding techniques such as sentence frames to help them. Additionally, the students broadened their vocabulary by learning language thats critical to their academic success.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

For many families, online learning opened the door to new possibilities in education. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. Supporting your child’s engagement helps them thrive academically and strengthens their enthusiasm for learning.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 27, 2025

Our professional science masters (PSM) in biotechnology degree is designed for working professionals, offering primarily online and evening courses that emphasize applied learning and professional development. A required industry internship ensures graduates enter the biotech workforce with real world experience.

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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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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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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Those students had spent half their junior year and nearly all their senior year in remote learning. billion and spent some of that on technology to accommodate remote learning. I had to learn on my own,” said Banda, now 22. “I I honestly didn’t learn much that year. In 2020 32% fell into the bottom tier.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

If you could teach a class on anything, what would it be? 10 8th Grade Social-Emotional Writing Prompts Social-emotional learning is a way for students to find their place in the world around them while staying in touch with their own wants and needs. What chore do you secretly like to do at home? What would you do?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

By comparison, for example, learning management systems captured more than 90 percent of universities years ago. They also thought teaching online offers little interaction with students and that there is little student-to-student engagement. Why doesn’t it occupy a greater share of the market? At the current rate of 5.6

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Old and new players are rethinking how, what and where people learn, and, in particular, how to master the digital skills that are increasingly vital to jobs in a widening swathe of industries. Salesforce recently unveiled Trailhead for Students , a free digital learning platform and community.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

Like some of my peers, I began to feel that physically going to class did not help facilitate my learning. Factor in the chances that I am going to be ready to learn at precisely 4-5:30 p.m. Online education and improved access to resources are changing the learning landscape. each Tuesday and it's an easy decision.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

What couldn’t super-spy Carmen Sandiego teach us? . Today, it seems every edtech company out there wants to gamify learning. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing v. Mario Teaches Typing. If you learned to type in the '90s, it was likely thanks to one of these two. Undoubtedly. But so sterile, so flat. Women’s fashion.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2021

In a landscape where online instruction has become more commonplace due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some educators face challenges associated with operating as an online instructor in a virtual environment. The following 5 tips can help you to be an innovative online instructor who engages students: 1.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2020

As teachers embrace their new roles as designers, instructors, and facilitators of online learning, many are grappling the details associated with teaching remotely. Below are five lessons I learned as an online professor that helped me to adapt to and navigate the challenge of teaching online. #1

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). Engagement. Self-Regulation.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2022

Many students –– and instructors –– were abruptly forced to transition from traditional classroom learning to adopt a new remote format. It accelerated the emergence of a new dynamic learning environment, where students learn in innovative ways far different from how education systems were originally designed.

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