Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As highlighted in our report—published by Just Equations and the California Education Learning Lab—forward-thinking math departments across the country are implementing promising instructional approaches to make calculus classes more engaging and effective for students from various backgrounds.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Research shows fewer students are starting the year prepared for math and ELA, fewer are on target to learn to read, and there are more gaps in phonics, and sophisticated math skill comprehension. The digital pen allows teachers to enhance lectures and maintain eye contact with students while working remotely.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

At Purdue University, leaders have famously announced they are installing plexiglass barriers in some classrooms that teachers will stand behind to lecture. And they'll be pretty isolated from each other during the lecture experience. So I was wondering if anyone has really started to rethink lecturing as an effective way of teaching?

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing. New AI tools can make audio recordings of lectures and automatically create summaries and flashcards of the material.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

self-paced experiences with very little instructor engagement). You can record lectures. And more lectures. In the first online course we designed and taught together, one of us had never taught in a strictly online environment before, and the other had only designed asynchronous online learning experiences (i.e.,

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

Classes include engineering, computer science, design and modeling, automation and robotics, and math application through “hands-on” learning experiences and research-based courses. IT Labs, two each, contain 30 student computers and an instructor computer at a mobile station, and electronic marker board.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2020

There’s an outsized focus today on science, technology, engineering and math, known as STEM (or STEAM if you prefer to include “arts”) and for good reason. Having previously leaned toward large-group lectures, we began using small groups to teach straight coding to our campers. Do the math. How cool is that?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

It’s a statistic no educator—or student—would boast about: Half a million high school graduates , or about one in four, can’t perform math or write English well enough to avoid having to take remedial classes when they get to community college. It really shakes up how a student experiences math.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He’s Robert Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and he’s someone who spent a lot of time thinking about how to improve college teaching. The conversation gets at how much can be automated about teaching, and what is it, exactly, about having a live instructor that matters?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Instructors can use this data to assess what additional supports students may need on their way to fully understanding each lesson. By adopting the adaptive tool, we were able to completely integrate the lab and lecture during the class meeting times. Established in 1963, North Carolina’s. Are you using adaptive tools in other courses?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Students at a community college could supplement their math class with lectures from MIT. A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

Robert Talbert would get the nagging, unsettling sense that the lectures he gave in his Calculus courses just weren’t sinking in. “I So a few years ago Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University, tried a new approach, known as flipped learning—a method catching on these days in college classrooms.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In the past, faculty could stand objectively in front of the class and provide didactic information to students via lecture. Students came to the classroom expecting information from a book and verbal lecture covering the content. How can faculty meet the many challenges facing higher education?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

From high school valedictorian to game company CEO to computer science instructor, all I really needed to know, I’ve learned from video games. My evenings and nights were quite active but I would rarely wake up in time for lectures the next morning. As you might imagine, I didn't do to well in class.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Additional recommendations for faculty during in-person lectures involve small group interactions and calling upon students to create an atmosphere of engagement and dialogue. Small groups.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

But there’s a reasoning behind what’s happening on screen: The idea is to trigger different parts of the brain which maybe aren’t flexing their full potential in a traditional one-way lecture format. Some researchers have criticized the model for lacking scientific evidence and relying on misleading information about how the brain works.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? But there is literature on how to adapt the grading process to avoid the drawbacks above, and improve student motivation and engagement, as well as instructor satisfaction. Student self-grading.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Traditional classroom learning is now modernizing Debates remain about online vs. classroom learning Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Classroom learning remains a cornerstone of education, fostering a dynamic environment where students engage with peers and instructors in real-time.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2018

That’s a problem, she argues, as these tools increasingly inform the decisions that instructors make. “To These efforts include TenMarks, an online math and writing program, along with Inspire, a directory of online educational materials where teachers can find and share teaching materials. To just say: ‘Trust us.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Regardless, we’ve met great success, with more than 40 percent of SMA graduates intending to pursue college majors in math or science. Many flip lessons , using videos, websites, and digital presentations rather than traditional lectures. It’s been inspiring, sometimes scary, and it’s still a work-in-progress. Students at St.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Apart from cost, another obstacle to 3D printing in schools is the lack of familiarity in most instructors for utilizing this technology or the techniques for applying it to everyday educational use. Some of the most promising uses for 3D printing in education include: Math . Final Word.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In the past, faculty could stand objectively in front of the class and provide didactic information to students via lecture. Students came to the classroom expecting information from a book and verbal lecture covering the content. How can faculty meet the many challenges facing higher education?

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? But there is literature on how to adapt the grading process to avoid the drawbacks above, and improve student motivation and engagement, as well as instructor satisfaction. Student self-grading.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

And she’s done it all while working from home part time as a university lecturer (her husband works remotely full time). He is still meeting with mobility instructors. That’s where he and Lopez start their daily routine by talking about the date, then move on to a little reading, math and some self-help skills.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. You would go to a university and you would study for four years, and you'd go to lectures and go to your discussion groups. And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. The student knew the material, but she just wasn’t a good test-taker.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? What are its merits and limitations?

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Additional recommendations for faculty during in-person lectures involve small group interactions and calling upon students to create an atmosphere of engagement and dialogue. Small groups.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2016

ST: The students and the instructors benefit. We can also improve how we deliver instruction and to partially (if not completely) move away from the “sage on the stage” lecture format and rather support other kinds of practices that help students learn more deeply in a way that's accessible to them as individuals.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? What are its merits and limitations?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Through the use of humor, storytelling, or stimulating questions, instructors can create a space where students build up confidence and are equal and active participants in the learning process. This might come naturally in government courses during an election year but can be more challenging in a math class.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Through the use of humor, storytelling, or stimulating questions, instructors can create a space where students build up confidence and are equal and active participants in the learning process. This might come naturally in government courses during an election year but can be more challenging in a math class.

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Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 97

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Additionally, the tablet has Bluetooth, so I am able to carry on a lecture while walking around the classroom monitoring students as they take notes or work through problems. Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A professor or educator can spend a lecture or semester teaching the curriculum, but if you ask ChatGPT what the biggest takeaways from the war are, it’s possible and likely a learner is provided with even more context and historical facts via the chatbot than what is possible for an instructor to cover from a set curriculum.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Additionally, the tablet has Bluetooth, so I am able to carry on a lecture while walking around the classroom monitoring students as they take notes or work through problems. Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom.

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