Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college. Later, the teachers can meet with their instructors to discuss the lab.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

A nonprofit organization for career and technical education (CTE), SkillsUSA serves more than 413,000 middle school, high school, and college students and instructors nationwide. They connect students with practicing industry professionals and help them gain hands-on experience that empowers them to excel in their chosen field.

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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. Schoeder, 2024).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S. Department of Education found that 77% of online students reported a better balance between their studies and personal life.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J. However, I have learned that many students tend to be reluctant to reach out for a variety of reasons.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Ask a Tech Teacher crew has ideas on those skills that will not only serve you well in your academics but beyond: 4 Highly Important Study Skills to Develop During College and Beyond We spend a lifetime learning, so it makes sense to develop a few study skills that will make our lives easier.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

Intelligent AI tutoring programs accomplish this feat by using machine learning algorithms to detect patterns in how students interact with the software during study sessions. Enhancing student engagement and motivation Beyond academic support, AI tutoring systems can also improve student engagement and motivation.

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Learning Styles Learning Students Gamification 311

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Subsequently, instructor facilitated classroom conversations intended to enhance understanding of course content may stagnate and falter. The frame of content engagement can look different based on course, instructor and level of student. Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A., H., & Bailey, E. Briggs, W. Sullivan, N., & Towler, 2005).

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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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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J. However, I have learned that many students tend to be reluctant to reach out for a variety of reasons.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Perhaps one of the most famous studies to come to this conclusion was the Tennessee Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) project in the 1980s. In the kindergarten years alone, the study found a “definite advantage for small classes in achievement.”. More positivity reported about participating in learning.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

The executive director and founder of the journal “ Hybrid Pedagogy ” has spent two decades researching and experimenting with alternatives to traditional methods of assessing students , and he’s concluded that the As, Bs and Cs that instructors mete out can do more harm than good, even under ideal circumstances.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. Students saved an average of $65 per OER course at colleges participating in the study.

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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. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Whatever their motivation, it’s clear they felt their local school system wasn’t aptly meeting their needs. This allows students to explore subjects they’re curious about from knowledgeable and qualified instructors worldwide, which can be a powerful incentive for families to choose a school system.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 25, 2025

What is Peer-to-peer Learning Peer-to-peer learning is where individuals learn from and with each other rather than relying on a traditional teacher or instructor. Examples include study groups, coding boot camps where participants critique each others work, or online communities where users share expertise. coding a program).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Recent studies have shown alarming gaps in Americans’ understanding of our democratic processes and systems. This challenging mathematics course prepares students for further studies in engineering, computer science, data science, and natural sciences, as well as theoretical mathematics. More than one third of U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Largely missing from many conversations, however, is a discussion of how scientific approaches may be used to study ChatGPT and other generative AI tools in the context of higher ed. Our instructors have questions about retention and academic success — they want to understand how the use of these technologies relate to student outcomes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Funded by the National Science Foundation, this project uses documentary-style storytelling videos to capture unscripted interactions and authentic stories from high school student mentees and undergraduate student mentors to motivate students of color and other underrepresented young people to pursue science careers.

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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. Instructors can have biases toward picking particular students.

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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. Huang et al. 2023, 396).

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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?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2021

Goel says ALOE will be part of the solution by developing highly personalized virtual assistants— a specialty of Goel’s previous research —to support students through their studies and address three main problems with online education. When you go to a physical classroom, you meet people, you’re part of study groups.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

We definitely know that we have to make these courses shorter,” agrees Rene Kizilcec, director of the Future of Learning Lab at Cornell University, who’s studied online student behavior closely. I’ve done courses before where there wasn’t much of a structure, and I wasn’t motivated to finish them,” says Garg. It creates a cadence.

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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.

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Motivation Students Instructors Failure 64

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? Golden collects the results, which students give anonymously, then studies the feedback and makes a list of all the information she’s received.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Modern learning environments seamlessly integrate technology into spaces that are designed around teaching and learning , giving instructors and students the tools they need to succeed in a physical setting that promotes collaboration and supports multiple learning styles. Schools Must Support Educators While Keeping Tabs on Tech Trends.

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Instructors Education Schools Learning Styles 159

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Most of those teachers taught English or social studies, where the applications of chatbots are more obvious. Younger students are stickier because the tools really have to address their motivation more, Grom says. Overcoming initial resistance from a student can require an instructor to build a relationship with the child.

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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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I When we start masquerading machines as humans, we undermine trust, which is the foundation of student-instructor relationships.

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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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Learning eLearning Instructors Learning Styles 130

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Studies by Derek Muller have shown that while videos that explain physics concepts clearly are often positively received by students, tests show they don’t necessarily lead to durable learning. Relate” videos get the student to feel connected to the instructor. They seek to establish instructor presence.

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Instructors Education Lecturing Knowledge 144

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

The challenge is further compounded by students balancing their studies with household chores which can lead to decreased motivation if adequate support is not provided by the instructor. Many students struggle with motivation and time management, often due to external distractions.

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Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 110

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Work that is interesting is inherently more motivating, more satisfying, and reduces turnover (Parker et al., Specifically, JCT outlines that jobs facilitating 1) skill variety, 2) task identity, 3) task significance, 4) autonomy, and 5) feedback will be the most motivating and interesting. 2017 for a summary).

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Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 105

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Their motivations are similar too. “In As its name suggests, Engageli aims to foster social interactions among students and instructors. Congregate, built by a Harvard student, is also trying to recreate the group-study feeling through virtual tables and classrooms. million seed round for Engageli.

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