Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Enacting equity pedagogy as an essential component of multicultural education (Banks & Banks, 1995) requires instructors to become change agents. Provide Closed Captioning on posted videos (lectures, resources, etc.). Hartman is an Instructor-ABD in the Special Education Department at Niagara University. Jennifer E.

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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. She champions equitable instruction for all learners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support. What innovations might redefine the learning environment?

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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. She champions equitable instruction for all learners.

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Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 62

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.

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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.

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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. Psychology Teacher Network.

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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. Psychology Teacher Network.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

I had a very knowledgeable teacher, but lecture slides were available online, and they covered almost all of the material for the course. It seems an hour can be better spent reading slides and doing a practice problem than sitting through a lecture.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

In my 2014 book “ MOOCS Essentials ,” I reflected on each aspect of the residential learning process and how developers of massive open online courses were trying to replicate those experiences virtually, or come up with ways to keep students engaged without direct teacher-student interaction. What’s the Use of Lectures?

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2015

science teacher Christopher Landry spends most of his time crouching down like a catcher, talking to his students one-on-one, instead of standing in front of the board. At Memorial Middle School in Fitchburg, Mass.,

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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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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.

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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?

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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.” We don’t just assume, or say, ‘that’s cool let’s use it.’”

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2015

Resource is blueprint for statistical education of preK–12 instructors. SET was commissioned by the ASA to clarify the recommendations for teacher statistical preparation in the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences’ Mathematical Education of Teachers II report.

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Teachers Lecturing Instructors Science 192

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Keywords: Active Learning, Think-Pair-Share, STEM Background Introductory undergraduate STEM classes are notoriously painful experiences, both for the students and for the teacher. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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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.

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 104

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2016

Specifically, flipping can change the type of work students complete and the way in which class time will be used; it can modify the nature of assessment, and it can alter the way in which teachers will report student work. In short: lecture at home, homework in class. First and foremost, we should define some terms.

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Lecturing Instructors Assignments Active Learning 256

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. The more you treat education as a game, the more likely students are to pay attention and be engaged in class.

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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.

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 97

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?

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Teaching Instructors Lecturing Motivation 188

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

We broke through the temporary status of contingent higher ed employment under a framework that offers some semblance of job security,” said Amy Higer, a lecturer at Rutgers’ Newark School of Arts and Sciences and president of PTLFC-AAUP-AFT, unions representing part-time employees. Every virtual class is taught by contingent instructors.

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Attention Teachers Instructors Fairness 206

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

It is historically one of the most vexing problems in education that there is a tradeoff between scale and achievable quality of instruction : As class sizes grow larger, the ability of a teacher to provide the type of personalized guidance shown by learning science research to be most effective is diminished.

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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 210

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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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2016

A growing number of today’s instructors also fall into this group. Teachers can “gamify” lessons by integrating competition into classroom presentations in a number of ways. Turn lectures into a 2-way conversation. This approach is also useful for instructors who need to gauge students’ grasp of the topic on a real-time basis.

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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.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

This has thrust an unprecedented number of teachers into a format for which they may have little or no training. That is something that seems like an educational teachable moment for professors and teachers. So EdSurge asked our teaching advice columnist, Bonni Stachowiak, to offer a quick primer.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While I was looking at these classes to see how effective the teacher was in general, you can usually get a pretty good sense of that within the first 15 or 30 minutes of a class period. 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.

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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.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2019

Being the lead teacher of California’s Santa Teresa High’s Computer Science Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathway means that I need to do more than just teach computer science: I also need to make sure that I give students the academic skills, technical chops, and employability needed for postsecondary and workplace success.

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Instructors Lecturing Students Science 220

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to research , in a typical classroom lecture students will generally retain only five percent of the material presented. Today’s teachers are looking to new methods of teaching and learning to improve student engagement and achievement, including tech-based solutions like the flipped classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

He points to research that shows that some students learn better from male instructors, while others learn better from female ones. He says initial results show that students responded more positively to computer-generated instructors that read as female. One possible solution? Devising a “genderless” virtual voice.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2016

Flipping your class by having students watch lecture videos for their homework can lead to richer discussions about the content, but only if students come to class prepared. It also makes sure teachers are prepared to address students’ key questions and areas of confusion—without creating more work for the instructor.

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Lecturing Textbooks Instructors Discussions 189

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

As professors and K-12 teachers adjust to the sudden move to online teaching, one question keeps coming up: How much of class time should be done live—known in education parlance as “synchronous” teaching—and how much should be done so that students can do the work at their convenience—or “asynchronous” teaching.

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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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