Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Each factor plays a role in shaping various academic achievements: Prior knowledge of the subject matter Motivation and engagement Learning goals Learning strategies Prioritization of the course Outside responsibilities College students take a course for various reasons, for example, to meet a major or minor requirement or for personal interest.

Motivation 111

Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 111

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.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Motivate students to act by incorporating action planning into assignments. References Understanding AI Writing Tools and Their Uses for Teaching and Learning at UC Berkeley | Center for Teaching & Learning. Instructors rush to do “assignment makeovers” to respond to CHATGPT – Edsurge News. 2023, July 27).

Teaching 344

Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 344

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 98

Beliefs Motivation Instructors Students 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

In a meta-analysis on the use of AI chatbots in education, Wu and Yu (2023) found that AI chatbots can significantly improve learning outcomes, specifically in the areas of learning performance, motivation, self-efficacy, interest, and perceived value of learning. Write your own GenAI policy to include in your syllabus.

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Next semester, my students will spend time working with prompt writing, reflecting on LLM output and reflecting on when knowledge and learning matter versus when human-AI hybrid writing makes sense. Instructors across the disciplines question how and where their students will use AI.

Teaching 204

Teaching Instructors Knowledge Writing 204

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. I’m also a writing specialist in a support center. I work with students from all disciplines and cultural and linguistic backgrounds where I cover the whole spectrum of writing instruction. For students continuing to graduate school, the writing stakes are even higher.

Evaluation 119

Evaluation Feedback Writing Languages 119

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

“The concept of universal design is as longstanding as cuts in sidewalks, which were originally mandated to allow access for wheelchairs, but which ultimately ended up with the unintended consequence of benefiting babies in strollers, people on bicycles, and children on skates,” the authors write. Next page: The 10-Step Guide.

Accessibility 189

Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Instructors 189

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors. Tyrone Howard, a professor of education who writes about research into students’ relationships with their teachers, said “I think schools in many ways have put the cart before the horse.

Achievement 268

Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 268

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.

Grades 217

Grades Questions Instructors Motivation 217

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.

Online Learning 269

Online Learning Schools Learning Hybrid Learning 269

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Much of the initial reaction around AI focused on its ability to spit out prose on command, which threatened traditional writing instruction. In math classes before digital technology, he says, it was actually rare to write out how you think about a problem at length. But the tools were also targeted at math teaching.

Math 211

Math Motivation Writing Intelligence 211

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Pre-requisite: the 21 st Century Tech-infused Teacher or permission of the instructor.

Instructors 31

Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 31

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Everyone knows that outside of the school building, creative writing workshops aren’t graded. But if you’re teaching creative writing in a K–12 classroom or a community college, at the end of the day you’re most likely required to stamp a letter grade—or at least a percentage score—on your students’ work.

Writing 113

Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 113

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Some instructors have opposed companies like Chegg and Course Hero, as trying to get content related to the courses they teach removed can cause a headache. For Newton, the primary motivation of a student using homework-help services is laziness or a lack of preparedness. The cost of the subscription service currently starts at $15.95

Students 183

Students Motivation Writing Instructors 183

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Through the two-and-a-half yearlong effort, nearly 2,000 instructors developed and taught 6,600 OER course sections that served 160,000 students. It’s possible that the students who chose to enroll in new OER courses were more motivated and organized than their peers, and therefore they were more likely to succeed anyway.

Textbooks 191

Textbooks Instructors Education Participation 191

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. I’m also a writing specialist in a support center. I work with students from all disciplines and cultural and linguistic backgrounds where I cover the whole spectrum of writing instruction. For students continuing to graduate school, the writing stakes are even higher.

Evaluation 98

Evaluation Feedback Writing Languages 98

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key points : Today’s students will undoubtedly encounter generative AI in their careers Two higher-ed instructors have designed a guide for using generative AI in life design and career education See related article: A scholar’s embrace of ChatGPT-4 Innovations that have transformed education have often been met with skepticism.

Ethics 339

Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 339

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 194

Exams Motivation Learning Instructors 194

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Writing With Tech. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Teach Writing with Tech. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. Building Digital Citizens. Differentiation.

Instructors 158

Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 158

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 64

Motivation Students Instructors Failure 64

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

In a meta-analysis on the use of AI chatbots in education, Wu and Yu (2023) found that AI chatbots can significantly improve learning outcomes, specifically in the areas of learning performance, motivation, self-efficacy, interest, and perceived value of learning. Write your own GenAI policy to include in your syllabus.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

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 201

Academic Integrity Education Instructors Assignments 201

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Britannica Kids goes on to list the different kinds of documentation that might qualify as a primary source to include “any piece of writing, image, film, sound recording, or human-made object can be a primary source.” Our kids should be writing them, creating them, reflecting on the moment with them. Writing a song.

History 191

History Students Writing Instructors 191

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 111

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

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 119

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 119

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. She discovered multiple studies on the efficacy of peer feedback when well-guided by an instructor, some with numerous tips to be mined and applied.

Feedback 218

Feedback Peer Review Teaching Writing 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Student writing develops faster through word processing because it facilitates the review and revision learning process. Efficient usage of computers as writing, editing, and computing tools. Better attitude toward writing—less frustration looking for keys; more satisfying entering information. But don’t take my word for it.

Motivation 158

Motivation Writing Knowledge Curriculum 158

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). Write each question so it can receive its own response.

Feedback 108

Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 108

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Blunt says her use of whiteboards includes “anything they want and anything I want,” she has four frequently-used prompts for making retrieval a regular part of her classes: brain dump: Ask students to write down everything they remember about a topic for 2 minutes. So we want to keep it that way by not making it high stakes.”

Multiple Choice Questions 77

Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Meditation : Instructors ask students to move slowly through positions while being mindful of their breathing and various body parts. I am…” statements: Have students write three statements about themselves that express something positive, such as “I am good at basketball.”

Instructors 122

Instructors Intelligence Motivation Writing 122

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 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

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 54

Motivation Students Instructors Failure 54

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

To effectively conduct high-dose education, teachers need not only to explain and repeat but also to find novel ways to help students understand difficult concepts, including encouraging students to take a central role, solve various examples themselves and explain their understanding to the instructor to be educationally effective.

Instructors 159

Instructors Achievement Communication Attention 159

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

When we start masquerading machines as humans, we undermine trust, which is the foundation of student-instructor relationships. But students need to know, from the beginning, that this personal assistant is a robot and that their instructor is a human.

Teaching 145

Teaching Instructors Teaching Assistants Counselling 145

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. It’s not writing papers for them,” Renick says. “It

Student Engagement 194

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 194

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin. This motivates them to complete their classes and gives them a person they can trust throughout their time in college.

Students 168

Students Math Writing Skills 168