eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Cengage Learning’s MindTap is a fully built course experience that integrates reading, homework, quizzing, multi-media assets and more. Using MindTap Mobile helps on-the-go students stay organized, optimize small pockets of study time and interact directly with their instructor.

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Quizzes Instructors Learning Feedback 162

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet as instructors in the new world of online education, we have access to ever-increasing amounts of data—from recorded lecture videos, electronically submitted homework, discussion forums, and online quizzes and assessments—that may give us insights into individual student learning.

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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 210

eSchool News

MAY 17, 2024

Academic studies confirm that interactivity and active learning can greatly enhance student engagement in the classroom. More importantly, how can your instructors maximize the use of the equipment and minimize its downtime? This lets instructors hold competitive quizzes or have multiple students solve puzzles at the same time.

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Technology Instructors Quizzes Disabilities 294

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Poptential , a family of free, award-winning social studies course packages that infuse lessons with digital storytelling, offers an array of engaging content about the Civil Rights Movement for instruction during Black History Month. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet. history and society.

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History Curriculum Social Studies Quizzes 246

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At Course Hero, we’ve interviewed hundreds of instructors from around the country to share their best lessons. Course Hero is an online learning platform where you can access course-specific study resources contributed by a community of students and educators. You’ve been restoring classic cars since you were a teenager.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Poptential curriculum includes everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. All content is available via our digital platform, which allows students to access lessons even in poor bandwidth environments.

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Curriculum History Quizzes Social Studies 246

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

The results of the study pose big questions for reform-minded educators who advocate for students to have multiple chances on exams. The MyLab Math report is one of 12 efficacy studies the company released about one month ago. It can be done before or after practice assignments.

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Study Quizzes Math Exams 128

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

INDIANAPOLIS — Certell, the creator behind the Poptential family of free social studies course packages, announced a significant update to its digital curriculum and platform designed to help students better understand the principles that have shaped American history while giving teachers tools to better manage their classroom and improve learning.

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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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Math Quizzes Instructors Students 176

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. But are colleges paying attention to what online students want most?

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Mobile Devices Lecturing Quizzes Participation 212

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Recent studies have shown alarming gaps in Americans’ understanding of our democratic processes and systems. “We are excited to help students practice for the National Civics Bee through quizzing and conversations with Khanmigo,” said Kristen DiCerbo, Khan Academy’s chief learning officer.

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Math Middle School Middle School Essay 265

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or third, or fourth) language. That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay.

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Motivation Languages Language Learning 214

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The Newark Board of Education in March approved a data-sharing agreement with Khan Academy to study whether the tool was effective “in the North Ward schools,” according to the agreement. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 273

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

Instructors first need to consider how we use grades in our teaching—and then explore what kinds of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations exist and persist for our students. Two common concerns that I’ve come across are that: Grading takes up too much time for instructors, and that.

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Motivation Reading Instructors Assignments 202

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Instructors might send students to the Khan Academy website for additional practice, or have computer stations in class where students complete online quizzes. Students will have the study resources and teachers get a clear read of where students are at so they can choose what to go over again in class.”

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Testing Quizzes Teachers Assignments 164

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

To be impactful, we can’t teach the way we did 20 years ago and expect to keep them involved engaged in their studies, because our students today don’t learn the same way.”. If you, as a college instructor or administrator, don’t want to adopt digital learning tools, you need to retire. Full size image here.

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Textbooks Instructors Students Quizzes 137

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Flipped Research The flipped learning model may seem commonplace to faculty and instructors in the humanities, where courses often ask students to read materials and come to class ready to discuss. But Barba believes it is still uncharted territory for many science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines and instructors.

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Lecturing Learning STEM Instructors 159

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

If anything, Course Hero has doubled down on its model by replicating its resource-sharing platform for instructors and faculty members. It has an in-house team that has created study guides for more than 1,200 book titles (think animated Cliff Notes). These concerns have not deterred or disrupted the company’s growth.

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Quizzes Lecturing Textbooks Instructors 159

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

As part of the experiment, students at randomly selected colleges were shown encouraging messages after choosing an incorrect answer during online quizzes, and Pearson later published a paper on its “social-psychological interventions.” Especially if you do so without any form of informed consent or the involvement of the instructors.”

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Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 207

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

The majority of online learning environments are no more than video-hosting platforms with quizzes and a discussion forum. These default features force online instructors to use a style of teaching that feels more like shouting to the masses than engaging in meaningful conversations. This type of structure is not revolutionary.

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Online Learning Instructors Learning Quizzes 159

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).

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 200

eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages, explores the historical significance of global trade in its World History curriculum, equipping high school educators with media-rich content to help students gain a deeper understanding of the importance of free trade. the nonprofit behind Poptential.

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History Social Studies Quizzes Instructors 141

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

They do not require the same level of planning or execution as a summative assessment, so they are easier to insert into a lesson when the instructor needs to take a quick ‘temperature check.’”. One elementary school involved in the study used digital forms to regularly quiz all third-grade students. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Quizzes Students Elementary School Elementary School 159

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash.

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Lecturing Active Learning STEM Activities 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With so many perspectives, how can instructors meaningfully address them in college or university classrooms? Systems thinking is the study of communication patterns and relationships that impact people individually, interpersonally, and environmentally (Caplan & Luisi, 2014). A systems approach offers a bimodal solution.

Teaching 119

Teaching Instructors Quizzes Exams 119

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Poptential , a family of free, award-winning social studies course packages that infuse lessons with digital storytelling, offers an array of engaging content about the Civil Rights Movement for instruction during Black History Month. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet. history and society.

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History Curriculum Social Studies Quizzes 130

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2022

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — (May 6, 2022) — Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages that pair pop culture media with engaging digital storytelling, provides teachers and students media-rich lessons on the American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, celebrated July 4. Click to tweet. the maker of Poptential.

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History Curriculum Social Studies Culture 130

Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rachel Thelen , The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry Noelle Haight , Occupational Therapist and Educator Julia VanderMolen , University of the Pacific Key Statement: Four helpful tips, including backwards design, for the new instructor looking to (re)design their course. Many new instructors face this what now?

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Instructors Curriculum Quizzes Lecturing 52

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

“It’s never too early for teachers to engage students in discussions about the history of the stock market, its impact on economic growth or decline, and how it can potentially empower students to invest in their own futures,” said Julie Smitherman, a former social studies teacher and director of content at Certell, Inc.,

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High School High School Curriculum History 130

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 Instructors eLearning Learning Styles 130

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. A big and growing body of research tells us that when we study with retrieval, we learn and remember things much better than we do by other review methods.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 78

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With so many perspectives, how can instructors meaningfully address them in college or university classrooms? Systems thinking is the study of communication patterns and relationships that impact people individually, interpersonally, and environmentally (Caplan & Luisi, 2014). A systems approach offers a bimodal solution.

Teaching 110

Teaching Instructors Quizzes Exams 110

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This can be an advantage for instructors. In today’s fast-paced academic environment, instructors are often hard-pressed for time to provide comprehensive feedback to each student. In the Stanford and MIT study referenced here, Stanford and MIT study: A.I.

Student Engagement 133

Student Engagement eLearning Authentic Assessment Instructors 133

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. during a unit of study) Occurs after the instruction is complete (e.g.,

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2022

“Summer school teachers have to work extra hard to keep students engaged,” said Julie Smitherman, who taught high school social studies for eight years and is now director of content management for Certell, Inc.’s s Poptential family of free social studies courses. Poptential courses are used by more than 30,000 teachers in 50 states.

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Social Studies Quizzes Schools Culture 109

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

In this way, backchannels serve as a formative assessment for instructors to identify ways to improve the delivery and impact of our teaching. Conducting regular assessments using real-time polls and quizzes allow students to understand how well they’re doing and where they may need to place additional effort. Dillinger, K (2023).

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Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

But it wasn’t until her current gig, serving as an instructor for a course on water supply and demand in California, that she got her feet wet with open educational resources. Water is a unique discipline, it’s not like math or history or communication studies were major publishers put out multitudes of textbooks on,” she says.

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