Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

“You want just enough to get people motivated, but not so much that people feel anxious,” Blunt explains. 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

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

As in the example below, sometimes sharing progress, such as how far they are in the course, can help students stay motivated and engaged near the end of the semester. Small teaching online: Applying learning science in online classes. Faculty can also use announcements to show encouragement and progress for students.

eLearning

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

As in the example below, sometimes sharing progress, such as how far they are in the course, can help students stay motivated and engaged near the end of the semester. Small teaching online: Applying learning science in online classes. Faculty can also use announcements to show encouragement and progress for students.

eLearning

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Here are some of the benefits of prioritizing online engagement: Improved learning outcomes Increased motivation and self-esteem Enhanced understanding and retention Reduced isolation and increased community Improved completion rates These are the kinds of outcomes every parent hopes for. That can lead to distractions or a drop in motivation.

Online Learning

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

It can be constructive, motivating, and well-meaning in certain contexts. 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. This perspective is not inherently bad. Ironic processes of mental control.

Teaching

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

It can be constructive, motivating, and well-meaning in certain contexts. 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. This perspective is not inherently bad. Ironic processes of mental control.

Teaching

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

She might know the theory behind data science but not how to use Tableau. Educators can access instructor kits and other resources to help them use Trailhead in the classroom, and they can interact with other educators. When a shortfall in skills snowballs it throws the brakes on economic growth.

Skills

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

So programs intended to make that process easier and faster are tapping into the science of motivation to improve their methods. Without that intrinsic personal motivation, it’s hard to reach the levels we expect and hope,” says Parandeh Kia, associate provost for educational technology at the institute.

Motivation

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. I think there's less willingness to just do the thing because somebody told you to do it.” — Sarah Z.

Instructors

eSchool News

MAY 5, 2020

But, instead of kicking back and joining their friends for marathon Fortnite sessions while occasionally completing a long-distance school assignment, the pair of highly motivated problem solvers have chosen to work 12- to 16-hour days designing, building, programming, and tweaking a low-cost Ambu Bag Ventilator System.

Instructors

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

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2023

Many instructors have observed variability in students’ motivation to learn and grow. In other words, can we foster greater motivation? Positive academic mindsets motivate students to learn Mindset science has uncovered actionable insights into the academic behaviors of students. I can succeed at this.

Beliefs

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).

Instructors

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It helps instructors deliver cohesive learning experiences through structured content and interactivity. This enables the instructor to assign coursework that keeps their students moving forward on their unique learning path. With Connect, students and instructors are provided with continuous support — in or out of the classroom.

High School

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

And with Outlier, students can choose from popular dual-enrollment courses, such as Intro to Psychology and Computer Science , that are delivered online and asynchronously, allowing them to earn high school and college credit from the comfort of their own school building.

Exams

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2023

Many instructors have observed variability in students’ motivation to learn and grow. In other words, can we foster greater motivation? Positive academic mindsets motivate students to learn Mindset science has uncovered actionable insights into the academic behaviors of students. I can succeed at this.

Beliefs

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

K-12 educators are consistently more likely than higher education instructors to say their school lacks adequate funding for technology. Seventy-two percent believe that their school needs to provide more guidance on the use of emerging technology.

Academic Integrity

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And just as our eight-person research team was about to launch our years-in-the-making classroom intervention to boost science outcomes, the pandemic changed everything. However, unanticipated roadblocks tested our own resolve—giving us our own experience of struggling through science. Record levels of anxiety, depression, stress.

STEM

eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

24, 2021 — Blackbird , bridging the gap in Computer Science curriculum, today announced updates and improvements inspired by student and teacher feedback to their code education app and platform. It can be administered by either non-technical or technically-trained instructors and parents. PORTLAND, Ore.,

Instructors

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This challenging mathematics course prepares students for further studies in engineering, computer science, data science, and natural sciences, as well as theoretical mathematics. This course is a prerequisite for many Stanford computer science and engineering courses. ” The course format is partially synchronous.

Math

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors.

Achievement

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Whatever their motivation, it’s clear they felt their local school system wasn’t aptly meeting their needs. For example, students in rural areas are less likely to have access to Advanced Placement (AP)® courses—and only half of all high schools offer computer science courses.

Online Learning

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

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Tesoriero has developed this belief over the past 10 years in the classroom—and she attributes much of it to her involvement with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). “We Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI.

Science

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It motivates people to reach reading goals by tracking when, how much, and what they read. For The Win Robotics focuses on fostering critical thinking and lifelong curiosity through the power of experiential STEM and computer science education through drone technology.

Mobile Devices

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

As colleges ask faculty to prepare for a possible online, hybrid or altered in-person fall semester—or all three simultaneously—many instructors are wondering how to best measure student learning. But it was an experience that would give the instructor a chance to see who did his students or her students turn into over the semester?

Exams

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. When class is in session, the instructor or an assistant will record which students spoke during class using the app. The difference may be more pronounced in science classes.

Lecturing

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2021

They’re getting a boost through 11 grants of $20 million each that the National Science Foundation has awarded to establish new AI research programs for education and other fields. COVID-19 has changed our world,” says Ashok Goel, a Georgia Tech computer science professor who will serve as the institute’s executive director.

Intelligence

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. For most of them, however, that wasn’t their real motivation; learning was, and we didn’t feel we were making much progress. Principal, on your middle school’s new STEM curriculum.

Teaching

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Columbia University’s Science of Learning Research Initiative (SOLER), our work is dedicated to examining the academic experience of our students and instructors through a scientific lens. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.

Academic Integrity

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

These students appeared motivated to learna direct contrast to the disengagement narrative that permeates todays education circles. Academics demands coupled with the pull of daily life can negatively tip the balance of student outcomes, siphoning away student motivation, according to educational scholar Howard McClusky.

Motivation

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus. So far, Spoon reports that the changes are invigorating.

Math

Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. AI can considerably improve engagement in the classroom (A. Huang et al.

Instructors

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.

Learning

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.

Online Learning

Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Staying more holistic when developing my teaching—whether facilitating learning in person or online—has been central in my reading motivations. Even the book that I wrote about productivity was envisioned initially by the publisher as for online instructors, and then they asked if I would be willing to broaden the audience.

Online Learning

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).

Student Engagement