Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. But don’t expect to see them on screens just yet.

Textbooks 152

Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Fairness 152

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. Smart courses aren’t just about simple plug and play or digitized textbook content. Designed Adaptivity.

Multiple Choice Questions 127

Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 127

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” As with any distance learning program, teachers at the school level are also reviewing content before they are assigned, similarly to how textbooks are used for instruction.”

Learning 211

Learning Schools Multiple Choice Questions Distance Learning 211

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Learners will have the autonomy to guide their own learning experiences, marking a departure from instructor-mediated programs. Roger Sands, CEO & Co-Founder, Wyebot Students and teachers will have a wider and wider choice of materials. I see that continuing in the future.

Gamification 360

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A professor or educator can spend a lecture or semester teaching the curriculum, but if you ask ChatGPT what the biggest takeaways from the war are, it’s possible and likely a learner is provided with even more context and historical facts via the chatbot than what is possible for an instructor to cover from a set curriculum.

Plagiarism 130

Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Learners will have the autonomy to guide their own learning experiences, marking a departure from instructor-mediated programs. Roger Sands, CEO & Co-Founder, Wyebot Students and teachers will have a wider and wider choice of materials. I see that continuing in the future.

Gamification 130

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. Even that human, though, is told never to give the student the answer, but only to ask more questions.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218