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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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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning. Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Active learning Lectures and memorization are taking a back seat to active learning. To be successful, active learning depends heavily on the student’s participation. New technology enables students to participate in the way that’s most comfortable for them.

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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.

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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. Set video to “on” for both host and participant 2.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 23, 2017

Annie Murphy Paul said: a growing body of evidence suggests that the lecture is not generic or neutral, but a specific cultural form that favors some people while discriminating against others, including women, minorities and low-income and first-generation college students. Related Posts.

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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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. Others find it enriching to participate in online chat and polling.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

It’s common today for colleges to invite professors from other institutions to deliver distinguished lectures on campus. For faculty and students who participate in online classes conducted asynchronously, boundary-free time is old news. Conventional instructors often limit class discussion the minute the bell rings.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

All participants saw the same slides, but with one of four different voices: “happy female, sad female, happy male, and sad male.” And that did happen for male participants in the study, who did better on a post-video quiz about the material when a happy voice delivered the material than when a sad one did.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion. For instance, instructors can ask students to post a one-sentence summary or brief reflection after going through an assigned reading or watching a short video lecture.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

UNIVERSE helps teachers solve the engagement problem with a metaverse concept—students and teachers can feel more present and participate in natural conversation. There's a lecture mode in UNIVERSE. And, with UNIVERSE as a solution, you can bring in an instructor or lecturer from a different country.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. But the burden may be especially heavy for adjunct instructors like Hardy. She thinks it went pretty well.)

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in participating states are invited to submit a 500-word essay addressing a community issue. The full list of participating states can be found on the map available at this link. ” You can learn more and sign up to participate in the National Civics Bee by visiting this link.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 25, 2025

” –Albert Einstein Peer-to-peer learning–acquiring knowledge from a peer group–has become a popular strategy as teachers move from a teacher-lecturer education model to teacher-guide. Increased Engagement : Learning feels more interactive and less hierarchical, boosting motivation and participation.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The educators sat through lectures on pedagogy, the finer points of math and how to apply it to actual biological problems. This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July. The session was meant to catalyze change, encouraging those instructors to open their own revised courses modeled on the ones being taught at UCLA.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Most MOOCs, despite the claims of innovation and disruption, consisted of video lectures and text-based assignments. Thus, the impression that most people have of online education is an attempt to create an online lecture. The empathy shown by [our instructor] drove me to wanting to get it done.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. She says she used a Discord server as a student recently, in an online course she took at the campus. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The group held an invitation-only summit where they encouraged participants to identify projects that they can share with colleagues elsewhere. The day after each lecture, students in the course would receive a text message with a one-question multiple-choice quiz about a fact presented during that lecture.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

K-12 classroom instructors, instructional coaches, and educational administrators are invited to enroll. Each session includes expert video screencasts, classroom video clips, readings and resources, and assignments that will help participants create a strong foundation of communication within the classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Sink or swim. All you need is your imagination.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam. MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers.

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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. And whoever's not present in the classroom is going to be participating online.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

Engage Faculty in the Decision to Go Online “If faculty don’t participate, you won’t have a program,” says Lisa Springer, provost at LIM College, a small Manhattan fashion-management school. Most early online units sent virtual instructors off on their own, with little or no support.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

That vantage point gives her insight about what’s keeping students from feeling fully invested in showing up for class ready to truly participate in the learning process. Some schools do, but a lot of schools generally leave absence management up to individual instructors. And they immediately wanted to write those students off.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We want to interact, not just listen to lectures. We need to participate, verbally and through projects, to show what and how we’re learning. Engageli, which is targeting higher ed users, organizes students into “tables” of up to eight participants each. We also track how students are sending direct feedback to the instructor.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Often, that meant moving completely away from replicating in-person, lecture-based models online. We minimized the “sage on the stage” instructional model where lecture dominates learning time, and intentionally built our traditional classes around small group learning structures.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

The new labs are designed to help boost Bartlesville’s student participation and achievement in STEM-related curricula and job skills. IT Labs, two each, contain 30 student computers and an instructor computer at a mobile station, and electronic marker board. Madison and Central Middle Schools. —

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

In the early days of online education, I imagined that virtual classrooms would follow the same basic model as in-person ones, with an instructor leading the same number of students typical in a campus class. Students attend WGU entirely on screen, with instructors engaging with them virtually by email, phone, text and video.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

The announcement, from The Minerva Project, enters a longstanding debate about whether online education can drastically cut the cost of education by reducing the number of instructors needed to teach. Such a class for 400 students may require very different staffing than a traditional large lecture, he adds.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors, we want to motivate and engage the whole class and bring everyone to mastery of the course. For example, pause for one or two of the above activities after lecturing for eight to 10 minutes. Exit checks benefit both the students and the instructor. How can we do that? Provide variety in assignments.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2023

Lecturing has long been the primary method of conveying information to groups of students. It gives instructors great control over what is taught within a limited time, allowing them to explain complex concepts and clarify confusing points for students. These strategies are adaptable for any length of lectures and easy to follow.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2023

Lecturing has long been the primary method of conveying information to groups of students. It gives instructors great control over what is taught within a limited time, allowing them to explain complex concepts and clarify confusing points for students. These strategies are adaptable for any length of lectures and easy to follow.

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Lecturing Instructors Minute Papers Students 98

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all).

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

What she and about 100 other participants experienced now has a name: “Zoombombing.” The note began: “We are sorry to report we learned today that some of our online Zoom classes were disrupted by people who used racist and vile language that interrupted lectures and learning. Zoombombing doesn’t always involve internet strangers.

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