Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

All too often, they would wind up needing to ask their instructor a question about the assignment but had no time to receive an answer before the deadline passed. This means removing distractions like mobile devices and unrelated browser windows and soliciting the help of friends and family to honor their space.

Online Learning

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Lisa Wills, executive director of curriculum and instruction for Ector County Independent School District (ISD) in Odessa, Texas, answered these questions and more in a 45-minute session at FETC. These technologies, along with Intelitek’s programs, empower instructors and inspire students to pursue careers in cutting-edge businesses.

Mobile Devices

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In addition, Kiddom’s full suite of interactive question types makes it easy for students to demonstrate understanding in multiple ways. Smartpads pair with any paper and can project onto a PC or mobile device in real-time. Teachers can use pen displays to present lessons, illustrate learnings, take notes, and answer questions.

STEM

Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2019

While it’s great for instructor workflows, it has always been a course management tool, not a learning tool. Learning is the product of inputs from students and instructors. Students want to chat, share and ask questions safely and spontaneously among their peers, and on their own terms.

Mobile Devices

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

And because the Zoom platform uses a generous slice of computer memory, mobile devices or locations with patchy bandwidth struggle. We also track how students are sending direct feedback to the instructor.” (More staff means adding more licenses.) Using Class means the school must pay for both a Zoom and a Class license.

Learning

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

As one player uses the Oculus Quest (playing as a tree), the other players (squirrels) work together on mobile devices. The following resources are applications for your mobile devices. The instructor supports you in getting the best workout through encouragement, reminders and guidance.

Activities

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The district used its own Chromebooks for this initiative, which was followed by a 10-grade pilot program with the same devices. The audit also opened the district’s eyes to another fact: Its instructors were teaching much differently than they did ten or twenty years ago.

Internet

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In addition, the district deeply appreciated that IXL Learning’s tutoring service, Wyzant, could seamlessly connect its students with experienced instructors to grow their math skills away from the classroom. With Wyzant, learners can book a tutor anytime they need one, and meet online from a computer or mobile device.

Math

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In addition to providing an instructor guide with troubleshooting tips and answers to questions, Vernier Video Analysis: Conservation Laws and Forces outlines the student materials needed for the investigations with two levels of scaffolding: guided and abridged.

High School

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2018

You can pose a question for a future column here. A Canvas-specific resource I have found helpful in thinking more creatively about embedding is a CanvasLIVE video featuring Laura Gibbs, an online instructor at the University of Oklahoma: Beautiful Curation: Flickr & Pinterest (+Diigo & Padlet).

Syllabus

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

Google Voice allows you to share a professional phone number that will be routed through your personal device (thus hiding your personal info from students.) Since students are more apt to reach out with questions using their mobile devices, the messaging option is important.

Online Learning

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That’s enough to give most instructors pause and has set off a flurry of activity in reimagining how we assess learning in order to reduce the risk of student cheating. To prepare for the discussion, assign readings that provide different perspectives on AI along with comprehension questions for students to complete before class.

Minute Papers

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That’s enough to give most instructors pause and has set off a flurry of activity in reimagining how we assess learning in order to reduce the risk of student cheating. To prepare for the discussion, assign readings that provide different perspectives on AI along with comprehension questions for students to complete before class.

Minute Papers

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2018

As conversations began about how I might make the greatest contribution, I quickly identified the sense of meaning and purpose I get out of addressing questions that people have about teaching through my Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Do you have a question about teaching in a higher education context?

Art

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

Google Voice allows you to share a professional phone number that will be routed through your personal device (thus hiding your personal info from students.) Since students are more apt to reach out with questions using their mobile devices, the messaging option is important.

Online Learning

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

They take the question out to their home, to their relatives, to their children, to their classmates in other courses. Sometimes they’ll post the questions on social media. There are all sorts of ways in which go out and ask that question, and it inevitably generates discussion. Sometimes they’ll ask their peers at work.

Laboratory

EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Below are four key lessons from the experience, and three broad questions to consider as we all contemplate what VR and the ‘metaverse’ might mean for higher education: 1. As instructors seek new ways to connect to students and keep them focused, the power of narrative ought to be a core tool at their disposal.

Mobile Devices

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2019

One company, for instance, sells a chatbot for a college’s admissions website that can answer questions from applicants and then carefully log each interaction for follow-up, while another promises to provide colleges a high-tech geographic map of their alumni, overlayed with income levels and indications of how likely they are to donate.

Mobile Devices

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Classroom support staff arrange for a permanent or temporary multimedia setup in the room with a camera, a microphone for the instructor, and a means to show your slides or computer screen to both the in-person and online students.

Feedback

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

They take the question out to their home, to their relatives, to their children, to their classmates in other courses. Sometimes they’ll post the questions on social media. There are all sorts of ways in which go out and ask that question, and it inevitably generates discussion. Sometimes they’ll ask their peers at work.

Laboratory

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

When nearly all information is digital or online, multi-modal and multi­media, accessed by mobile devices that fit in our pockets, the question should not be whether schools prepare students for a digital learning landscape, but rather how. It’s particularly tricky for educators who feel they need to cover certain content.

Schools