Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. These actionable, collaborative strategies help educators navigate their role as facilitators, guiding and responding rather than lecturing and directing.

Assignments 60

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 60

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Brill-Wynkoop heard the same pitch back in the early 2000s: Instructors could catch a student turning in a peer’s paper from a previous semester with Turnitin. billion as of June 2025.

Plagiarism 118

Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 118

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience.

Hybrid Learning 128

Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 128

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Flexibility in format and modality such as recorded lectures, alternative assignments, or extended deadlinesmade students feel supported, capable, and seen. Inclusive language, representation, and proactive instructor support all contributed to students sense of belonging and trust. Textbook format and cost mattered.

Disabilities 53

Disabilities Course Design Students Lecturing 53

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. Now I’m going to remember what my instructor said or what I read in the book or the video we watched or whatever it was that corrected my knowledge.” It felt like I was right, but no, I was wrong.

Multiple Choice Questions 80

Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

A professor lectures students during class at Sacramento State University on Oct. And the university introduced a freshman course with tips on identifying their interests, participating in campus events and even asking instructors for help. The following year 29% of incoming students started at the lowest writing level.

Math 88

Math English Lecturing High School 88

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Without the constant need to defend or assert one’s ego (our preferences and aversions), the instructor’s attention can open to what is happening in the room or on the screen. Students become not coerced performers of outcomes, but a voluntary community, engaged with the instructor in shared learning.

Teaching 69

Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 69

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Without the constant need to defend or assert one’s ego (our preferences and aversions), the instructor’s attention can open to what is happening in the room or on the screen. Students become not coerced performers of outcomes, but a voluntary community, engaged with the instructor in shared learning.

Teaching 69

Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 69

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

What’s the Use of Lectures? Let’s start with one of education’s most hallowed traditions: the lecture. In his 1971 book “ What’s the Use of Lectures? The author’s work did not discount the fact that there are inspirational teachers whose lectures are so compelling they can hold student attention for hours.

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Lecturing Questions Learning Attention 206

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. 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.

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Instructors Lecturing Students Textbooks 213

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models. Its conclusion?

Instructors 199

Instructors Lecturing STEM Study 199

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. Instructors can have biases toward picking particular students.

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Lecturing Participation Instructors Beliefs 161

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2015

For the past four years, Landry, 40, has incorporated the flipped educational model, in which lectures are delivered electronically outside of the class and homework is done during class. At Memorial Middle School in Fitchburg, Mass., Supporters say the method is growing in popularity, but Landry is the only one who uses it in his school.

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Teachers Lecturing Teaching Methods Instructors 278

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

So then, why do so many educators lecture and click through PowerPoints for 30-,40-, or even 60-minutes at a time with no breaks or learning activities? Reflecting on my experiences as a student, I know how tough it is to pay attention during these longer lectures and wish instructors had a different way to deliver them.

Lecturing 104

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 104

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

But pulling off these “assignment makeovers,” as some instructors are calling them, turns out to be challenging, and what works differs significantly depending on the subject matter and type of assignment. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

Instructors 148

Instructors Assignments Writing History 148

eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2015

A growing number of today’s instructors also fall into this group. Next page: Turn lectures into conversations. Most of them grew up playing video games, and ever since they can remember, they’ve been in constant contact with friends via social media platforms and text messages.

Gamification 279

Gamification Game-Based Learning Teachers Lecturing 279

Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. It’s almost like this symphony that the instructor is the heart of.” That’s not to say that the transparent whiteboard is ineffective.

Instructors 218

Instructors Lecturing Teachers Attention 218

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

So then, why do so many educators lecture and click through PowerPoints for 30-,40-, or even 60-minutes at a time with no breaks or learning activities? Reflecting on my experiences as a student, I know how tough it is to pay attention during these longer lectures and wish instructors had a different way to deliver them.

Lecturing 96

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 96

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2021

Studies have shown that students learn better from instructors displaying positive emotions—in other words, an upbeat lecturer is more effective than someone delivering in monotone. But when video lessons are led by computer animations instead of live instructors, how much do their simulated emotions matter?

Teaching 193

Teaching Instructors Lecturing Motivation 193

eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2016

On the most basic level, flipped learning occurs when instructors make use of video lectures outside the class in order to bring what was being done in the homework space back into the classroom. In short: lecture at home, homework in class. First and foremost, we should define some terms.

Lecturing 262

Lecturing Instructors Assignments Active Learning 262

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Gone are the days of teachers lecturing in front of students who are taking furious notes. Students can be too easily distracted to hang on most instructors’ every word. This allowed teachers to complete a module of lecture-based learning, generally a week of class, and imprint the knowledge into long-term memory via these tools.

Gamification 246

Gamification Lecturing Internet Instructors 246

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2020

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin – lecturers have to function within many environments. Factor in a wide variance in physical traits and you have a challenge accommodating instructors. Yet there is an increased expectation for use of technology and expanded mobility within that same classroom.

Instructors 230

Instructors Lecturing Technology Education 230

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 113

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet as instructors in the new world of online education, we have access to ever-increasing amounts of data—from recorded lecture videos, electronically submitted homework, discussion forums, and online quizzes and assessments—that may give us insights into individual student learning. This is where machine learning comes in.

Teaching 213

Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 213

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But since the COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors around the world to try online education, something unexpected has happened: Professors have found that there are some online teaching methods that work better than what can be done in the limits of a physical classroom. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video.

Teaching 218

Teaching Lecturing Blended Courses Instructors 218

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

In a face-to-face class, students see the instructor and other students and, even if not interacting with them directly, know they are not alone. But asynchronous courses, and especially asynchronous independent study courses, present a different scenario with challenges for both instructors and students. Who is my instructor?”

Instructors 105

Instructors Syllabus Assignments Feedback 105

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

First, the tips: The Simplest Way to Go Online is to Shift to a Video Conference Platform Stachowiak says that just lecturing to a webcam instead of an in-person class isn’t the best way to teach online, but it is the easiest way to switch. Or read the highlights here, edited and condensed for clarity and readability.

Instructors 206

Instructors Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Ethics 206

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Finally, instructors assess the student work and give feedback. “I

Lecturing 213

Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2020

The SMP Series makes it easy for instructors to quickly and inexpensively record and stream live or ad-hoc content to communicate virtually with students on almost any device in any location. Popular applications include lecture capture, presentation streaming, corporate training, and meeting and conference recording.

Online Learning 246

Online Learning Learning Lecturing Instructors 246

eSchool News

MAY 9, 2019

Through the program, NextFlex sends instructors to classrooms to give short lectures on career readiness, entrepreneurship tips, block diagram development, and business pitch preparation. As the FlexFactor instructors taught, I could see the students finally become excited about school work and what it means for their futures.

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Instructors Lecturing Students Science 228

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. In fact, many college instructors have been downright grumpy about having been thrown into a new teaching format.

Teaching 182

Teaching Lecturing Instructors Learning 182

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

To stave off this potential defection, how can we instructors promote virtual community? One of the most empirically supported best practices of online education is for the instructor to “be present.” In an online-only world, it’s imperative for students to see you as a human being, not merely as an instructor.

Instructors 210

Instructors Lecturing Course Evaluations Feedback 210

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

One of the things that I talk about in the book is the presence of the instructor, and how felt that presence is in the actual space of a classroom. When you watch a lot of classes, what you’ll notice is that there is this kind of invisible fence, right at the front of the room that the instructor often will stay behind.

Instructors 218

Instructors Attention Education Lecturing 218

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to research , in a typical classroom lecture students will generally retain only five percent of the material presented. The videos consumed in a flipped classroom are usually lectures pre-filmed by instructors, but less attention has been placed on the learning potential of assigning feature films to students outside of class.

Lecturing 188

Lecturing Textbooks Instructors Attention 188

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Option 1: Paper-based teaching Point a camera at a piece of paper, write on it and lecture. And here’s what your student will see: Option 2: Whiteboard or easel teaching Point a camera at yourself while lecturing in front of a whiteboard or easel+paper pad. Schedule lectures at the assigned time slot for the class 3.

Teaching 210

Teaching Lecturing Instructors Disabilities 210

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors. He says instructors who felt forced to quickly allow for remote options or teach remotely are now eager to get back to what they consider normal. As one instructor wrote in an essay last year , “everyone lost something in HyFlex courses.

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Teaching Instructors Lecturing Blended Courses 208