Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Over multiple semesters, more than 2,000 students voluntarily participated in IRB-approved surveys and follow-up interviews. Many were enrolled in leadership-focused sections of FSHN 101 and 120 and took on active roles in the analysis, writing, and design of the final open-access book: What Your Students Arent Telling You.

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Disabilities Course Design Students Lecturing 54

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Active, engaged learners retain information better, participate more fully, and develop a deeper understanding of the material. Polls and Quizzes: Encourage your child to participate in polls or mini quizzes if their online platform offers them. Encourage your child to participate!

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

UC Riverside found that math and writing skills were lower among the students who graduated from high school during the pandemic than for previous high school graduates. Likewise, 25% of freshmen entered the university at the lowest writing level in 2019. The following year 29% of incoming students started at the lowest writing level.

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Math English Lecturing High School 88

k12

JULY 24, 2025

Students might attend live video sessions, participate in digital office hours, and even form virtual study groups with classmates. Additionally, homeschoolers typically can’t write off costs in their tax deductions. The accredited online institution takes care of that. The IRS tends to see homeschooling as a personal expense.

Exams 52

Exams Schools Learning Styles Grades 52

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Teachers have three primary roles – designer, instructor, and facilitator. When I facilitate blended learning workshops, I ask participants to think about these three roles and identify the role they spend the most time and energy in. The responses always yield the same results.

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Instructors 498

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I For Meeks, the longtime instructor, this means students are missing out on the whole point of college. “I Or read a transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. I gladly did that because I love being in the classroom.

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Instructors Lecturing Students Textbooks 213

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

For many students, participating in online class discussions feels like a chore—a box to check off for participation points rather than a lively dialogue. “I He’s taking three online courses this semester, all of which require him to participate in online discussion forums as part of his grade.

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Instructors Discussions Course Evaluations Writing 148

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.

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Teaching Instructors Knowledge Writing 208

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2022

On the first day of classes two years ago, I had students in my professional and technical writing course send me an email with their goals for the semester. Their attempt to write specific goals demonstrates an inability to effectively move from essay and reflective language to professional language. © Magna Publications.

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Writing Teaching Assignments Essay 116

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The University of Michigan’s M-Write program is built on the idea that students learn best when they write about what they’re studying, rather than taking multiple-choice tests. Senior lecturer Brenda Gunderson teaches a statistics course that will be first to adopt the automated element of M-Write.

Essay 139

Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 139

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Cost and ease of use won’t matter much if students and instructors won’t be bothered to learn how to use a device. They can effectively serve three different roles: writing instrument, video output display, and multimedia player. Students will find it more fun and engaging to participate in their lessons.

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Schools Instructors Internet Testing 278

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

What’s interesting to me is that students are more concerned about their writing being effective and well done, knowing their peers or people outside their school are going to read it versus just the teacher. Cotton has committed his own community to making sure its students learn how to write effectively; here too technology plays a role.

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Writing Feedback Exams Middle School 121

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Once onboard, those instructors participated in three different professional learning dates, plus additional ones that were added during the school year. That way, students would be able to write on the tables with dry erase markers. Get teachers onboard and acclimated early. Pick a design partner that “gets” you.

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Learning Spaces Learning Elementary School Elementary School 274

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More positivity reported about participating in learning. Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors. This means they will stick around longer, giving every school or university the benefit of expert instructors.

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Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 267

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. Eleven of those institutions participated in a study about the academic and financial implications this kind of widespread OER adoption has on students, faculty and colleges.

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Textbooks Instructors Education Participation 195

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.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 110

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

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK? software with or without encouraging messages, she writes. “If

Ethics 207

Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 207

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Option 1: Paper-based teaching Point a camera at a piece of paper, write on it and lecture. Set video to “on” for both host and participant 2. Mute participants upon entry (otherwise there will be a lot of background noise). But now you can ask everyone to participate. Here’s what your setup might look like.

Teaching 208

Teaching Lecturing Instructors Disabilities 208

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion. For instance, instructors can ask students to post a one-sentence summary or brief reflection after going through an assigned reading or watching a short video lecture.

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Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Learning 218

eSchool News

MAY 26, 2017

Since her older students like to share songs with each other through platforms like YouTube, she makes lessons out of song-sharing that involve writing and presentation skills, and how to appropriately comment on songs. She also uses instrument playing to teach elements of music like tempo, dynamics, pitch, tonality and mood.

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Art Counselling Students Disabilities 260

eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“D&D saved my life, I’ve seen it save and change the lives of others, and I watch as it shapes the lives of the children who learn to play in my class,” said Kade Wells, Harrisburg North Middle School ELA Instructor in South Dakota and founder of Building Heroez.

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Schools Middle School Middle School Art 262

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Across the participating schools, the bulk of the money went to developing the course materials. While it is popular to complain about the high sticker price of commercial textbooks, it does take time for professors to research and write or compile them.

Textbooks 159

Textbooks Study Participation Assignments 159

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Participants will get objective, honest and useful information from admissions experts and learn what it takes to choose the right college and build the strongest college application possible. The School’s first Symposium, an intensive one-day event for students and parents preparing for the college admissions process, will take place on Oct.

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Instructors Culture History Art 163

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Announced this week, the new offering was made possible because Lumen Learning purchased the higher education assets of a coaching company for instructors called Faculty Guild. The idea is that instructors participate in the coaching service while they are trying a new teaching approach in their courses.

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Coaching Textbooks Instructors Faculty Development 134

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

This includes topics like how to build your tech-infused classroom, using tech to differentiate for student needs, teaching reading and writing with tech (you can learn more about that in the class, Teaching Writing with Tech ), and favorite digital tools. Teach Writing with Tech. Certificate. Group enrollment. Certificate.

Coaching 158

Coaching Authentic Assessment Participation Writing 158

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

However, as of 2023, the effectiveness of high-dose tutoring has gradually declined due to low student participation rates and skepticism from education authorities regarding the actual educational impact of online high-dose tutoring. Some school districts have opted for in-person high-dose tutoring.

Instructors 163

Instructors Achievement Communication Attention 163

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

That vantage point gives her insight about what’s keeping students from feeling fully invested in showing up for class ready to truly participate in the learning process. Some schools do, but a lot of schools generally leave absence management up to individual instructors. And they immediately wanted to write those students off.

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Students Instructors Lecturing Participation 202

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 200

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 200

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

Early on, Christian says, he was a little reserved and shy, but participating at the gym helped improve his communication skills. He’s writing a speech about gang violence for a youth public speaking competition called Project Soapbox and recently got elected to the gym program’s student council. Teenagers participate in a band class.

Schools 172

Schools Instructors Participation Accessibility 172

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

Their studies take a look at how simple assignments that ask participants to read about how other older students have felt out-of-place at school — the first year of middle school and first year of college, to be precise — can build resistance to that sneaky inner voice that says, “I don’t belong here.”

Middle School 171

Middle School Middle School Schools Students 171

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

After all, students quickly spread the word on TikTok and other social media platforms that with a few simple prompts, a chatbot could write an essay or answer a homework assignment in ways that would be hard for teachers to detect. The measure has stalled for now. People figured out very [quickly] that we cannot be replaced” with tech.

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Teachers Education Instructors Languages 217

eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2024

The resources are available for students in grades three through eight who are participating in the ALL In Tutoring Reading Initiative and who are not proficient on the Virginia Standards of Learning. Lexia will help participating schools, divisions, and VDOE in effectively implementing Core5 Reading and PowerUp Literacy programs. “We

Reading 139

Reading Instructors Blended Learning Participation 139

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Without adequate reading, students will be reluctant, or unable, to participate in class discussions and conversations for lack of understanding and fear of not measuring-up to peers (Severe, E., Subsequently, instructor facilitated classroom conversations intended to enhance understanding of course content may stagnate and falter.

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Instructors Assignments Participation Students 100

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

It serves as a contract between instructors and students (Eberly, Newton, & Wiggins, 2001), outlining the entire semesters expectations, assignments, and deadlines. Yet, as instructors, we still rely on the syllabus to provide a clear roadmap for the semester. Yet, many students simply arent motivated to read it.

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Syllabus Students Activities Instructors 124

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

What do you think is important for an instructor to do when using classroom response systems (polling software or clickers)? Studies have suggested that these tools, which allow students to respond in real time to questions provided by an instructor, can improve student learning. Select all that apply. What’s the consequence?

Instructors 137

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 137

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Yet the contract terms for these subscription arrangements—which some publishers call “inclusive access” programs—raise questions about whether publishers and colleges pressure students into participating. That’s the conclusion of a new report from U.S. Pearson has typically seen opt-out rates below 5 percent, according to Osborne. “At

Textbooks 166

Textbooks Accessibility Confidentiality Instructors 166