Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. As I prepared to teach my first educational videography course earlier this year, I found that we lacked a common vocabulary for talking about how we design learning with video in mind.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If you teach online, you know what I mean. The ease with which it differentiates for student needs, focuses on what’s important (which rarely is a due date), and provides much-needed flexibility has changed the way many of us teach our physical classes. See if any of these traits sound familiar: Model a Good Instructor.

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Online Learning Teaching Quizzes Learning 174

eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

As Tax Day approaches, Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors media-rich content to teach key concepts about taxation in the United States. Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers , quizzes, and tests.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses. But both Coursera and EdX, two of the largest providers, do release lists of their most popular courses.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

As a career and technical education (CTE) instructor, I see firsthand how career-focused education provides students with the tools to transition smoothly from high school to college and careers. For more on CTE and career readiness, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. Poptential uses a variety of pop culture media to illustrate concepts, including those taken from sitcoms, movies, animations, cartoons, late-night shows, and other sources.

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History Culture Social Studies Quizzes 281

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

I NDIANAPOLIS, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — When teaching about the labor movement in the United States, instructors often focus on Cesar Chavez and Peter McGuire to illustrate the rise of unions and workers’ rights. They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

These, in turn, have earned him a raft of teaching honors, including the Sherwin-Williams Distinguished Teaching Award. EdSurge caught up with Branch to learn more about his innovative teaching techniques, the 12-minute rule, and why designing a course is a lot like restoring a 1963 Porsche 356. And then I build it up.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. Poptential uses a variety of pop culture media to illustrate concepts, including those taken from sitcoms, movies, animations, cartoons, late-night shows, news programs, and other sources.

History 244

History Curriculum Social Studies Quizzes 244

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 245

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With so many perspectives, how can instructors meaningfully address them in college or university classrooms? Using a linear teaching approach, the subject matter is presented in a way that enhances the understanding of content across standard taxonomies (Meadows, 2015). A systems approach offers a bimodal solution. What comes next?

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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.

Math 178

Math Quizzes Instructors Students 178

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With so many perspectives, how can instructors meaningfully address them in college or university classrooms? Using a linear teaching approach, the subject matter is presented in a way that enhances the understanding of content across standard taxonomies (Meadows, 2015). A systems approach offers a bimodal solution. What comes next?

Teaching 111

Teaching Quizzes Instructors Exams 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. 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. To incentivize that, I typically assign reading exercises and quizzes.

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Motivation Reading Instructors Assignments 203

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. The sharp difference in results comes from whose opinion counted.

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Mobile Devices Lecturing Quizzes Participation 212

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. The lessons use a variety of pop culture media to illustrate concepts, including those taken from sitcoms, movies, animations, cartoons, late-night shows, and other sources.

Social Studies 177

Social Studies Study Curriculum Quizzes 177

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Dubbed simply “Nearpod for Higher Education,” the product lets faculty and instructors upload lessons and presentations, add interactive features and assessments, create polls and quizzes, and then beam them directly to students’ devices. Students can follow at their own pace and deliver responses back to the instructor.

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Quizzes Education Instructors Attention 146

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.

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 337

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Instructors can use AI for editing as well. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. Students and instructors were learning to ask new questions in new ways. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We can’t teach them if they don’t come back.” 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. Small class sizes mean instructors can give individuals assignments on topics relevant to their personal interests.

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Motivation Language Languages Learning 214

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on October 22, 2018 © Magna Publications. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. The grading scheme gives instructors the flexibility to vary the points as they see fit.

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Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 101

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

.” National Civics Bee Teams Up With Khan Academy This year, for the first time, students who advance to the local competitions will receive free tutoring support through Khan Academy’s new AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant, Khanmigo. Khanmigo includes important guardrails to encourage proper use of the innovative AI tool.

Math 258

Math Middle School Middle School Essay 258

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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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

Within the Purdue Globals Math Department within the School of Multidisciplinary and Professional Studies, many innovative and inspiring ideas are combined with active learning tactics to promote high-presence teaching in the online classroom. Instructors can monitor the chat but allow a student-driven community to converse and share.

Online Learning 93

Online Learning Activities Multidisciplinary Teaching 93

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Teaching in a large-size classroom differs significantly from teaching in a small-size classroom in terms of engagement, interaction, and instructional methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022).

Teaching 82

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 82

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. The majority of online learning environments are no more than video-hosting platforms with quizzes and a discussion forum. The answer may be that we need to balance massiveness with miniaturization.

Online Learning 159

Online Learning Instructors Learning Quizzes 159

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on October 22, 2018 © Magna Publications. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. The grading scheme gives instructors the flexibility to vary the points as they see fit.

Quizzes 94

Quizzes Lecturing Course Evaluations Exams 94

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Teaching in a large-size classroom differs significantly from teaching in a small-size classroom in terms of engagement, interaction, and instructional methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022).

Teaching 79

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 79

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. We’re trying to help educators find and create teaching materials and assessment materials, while helping them get recognized and celebrated for what they do,” says Grauer.

Quizzes 163

Quizzes Lecturing Textbooks Instructors 163

Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. Instructors should aim to deliver the material with enthusiasm and engagement, which will help to pique the interest of students.

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Instructors Quizzes Students Assignments 116

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Sink or swim. All you need is your imagination.”

Online Learning 153

Online Learning Lecturing Learning Instructors 153

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?

Instructors 52

Instructors Curriculum Quizzes Lecturing 52

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s crop of winners demonstrated progress and innovation in student and teacher engagement, student retention, and teaching and learning efficiencies that resulted in cost savings. The Awards for Excellence celebrate inspiration and innovation in the delivery of a teaching and learning experience that is both unique and collaborative.

Online Learning 116

Online Learning Quizzes eLearning Learning 116

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. Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash. Why Start With Think-Pair-Share? Buil et al.,

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

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. This is how our students learn,” she says. “If

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Textbooks Instructors Students Quizzes 140

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.’”. I’ll give a Forms quiz before a topic to get an idea of what students already know and use that to inform my teaching.

Quizzes 159

Quizzes Students Elementary School Elementary School 159

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

Within the Purdue Globals Math Department within the School of Multidisciplinary and Professional Studies, many innovative and inspiring ideas are combined with active learning tactics to promote high-presence teaching in the online classroom. Instructors can monitor the chat but allow a student-driven community to converse and share.

Online Learning 78

Online Learning Activities Multidisciplinary Teaching 78