Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

When a student with Autism arrives in the classroom this changes how interactions occur between a neurodiverse (ND) student and a neurotypical (NT) instructor. How does this impact the classroom when the ND academic is the expert, and the NT is the enrolled student?

Instructors 124

Instructors Learning Styles Students Communication 124

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

Students can add ideas, pros and cons, and vote on items. The instructor can decide if you want to let anyone who has the link be able to collaborate, protect your ideas with a password, or require people to set up accounts before they can engage. Trello : a virtual stack of index cards where students can add their ideas.

Instructors 161

Instructors Syllabus Peer Review Students 161

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement.

Instructors 199

Instructors Lecturing STEM Study 199

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A., H., & Bailey, E. Briggs, W.

Instructors 93

Instructors Assignments Participation Students 93

eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

Had I been asked what I thought about online teaching two years ago, I would probably have given you quite an earful of the many known shortcomings of virtual teaching modalities, including the challenges to student engagement and community building. which serves a very diverse student body of mostly first-generation college students.

Teaching 301

Teaching Instructors Student Engagement Technology 301

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

When a student with Autism arrives in the classroom this changes how interactions occur between a neurodiverse (ND) student and a neurotypical (NT) instructor. How does this impact the classroom when the ND academic is the expert, and the NT is the enrolled student?

Instructors 110

Instructors Learning Styles Students Communication 110

eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2021

Hybrid-remote learning provides the flexibility and freedom schools, parents, and students need in the current pandemic. With only these basic tools, remote students may be positioned to fail while teachers are burdened with an unnatural way to teach and a heavier workload. Enter the multiscreen classroom.

Quizzes 335

Quizzes Instructors Motivation Study 335

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2020

As teachers embrace their new roles as designers, instructors, and facilitators of online learning, many are grappling the details associated with teaching remotely. For example, in a real-time class discussion, students share what comes to mind at the moment and only a fraction of the class will likely participate.

Teaching 545

Teaching Assignments Discussions Communication 545

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. As students and educators adapt to digital platforms, student engagement has emerged as a key concern in online learning.

Student Engagement 108

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 108

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Below, let me share instructional strategies that I use in my courses (virtual, asynchronous, and in-person) to recover student engagement. I’ve been utilizing mid-semester check-ins for several years now and have noticed that students respond best when I send out informal invitations to reflect on their learning experiences.

Student Engagement 131

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 131

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI.

Instructors 115

Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 115

Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

Students who opt for e-learning likely prefer it for the flexibility it affords, but that doesnt mean they want to miss out on engaging with their classmates or instructor in a meaningful way. Student and faculty behavior became more meaningful as they shared these personal emotions in the weekly session together.

Student Engagement 94

Student Engagement Instructors Students Feedback 94

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

AI can even provide feedback on open-text answers, guiding students towards more comprehensive and thoughtful responses. 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.

Student Engagement 133

Student Engagement eLearning Authentic Assessment Instructors 133

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2025

This edition, which surveyed over 3,000 higher-ed students and instructors and over 1,000 K-12 teachers and administrators, found similarities among higher-ed instructors and K-12 teachers optimism for GenAI specifically.

Instructors 303

Instructors Textbooks Academic Integrity Coaching 303

Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

In the spring, the long winter months can add to this fatigue, making it even harder to keep students engaged (Rohan and Sigmon, 2000). This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation.

Languages 96

Languages Language Instructors Culture 96

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Having a philosophical basis for grading helps instructors explain grades, their meaning, and their value to students, who may then see the grade as less arbitrary.Two common approaches to further mitigate this arbitrary nature include normative-based grading and criterion- or standards-based grading.

Grades 274

Grades Teachers Instructors Exams 274

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

I encourage teachers to design lessons that allow them to pull feedback into the classroom so that students received focused feedback while they are working. Building this into a station rotation lesson, as pictured above, it one strategy. That is much easier to do when teachers are not shepherding an entire class through a single lesson.

Universal Design 545

Universal Design Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning 545

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Use Polls to Keep Students Engaged There are many tools available to pose multiple-choice questions to students remotely. Or professors can just ask students to respond to a prompt in the text chat included in most video conference platforms.

Instructors 206

Instructors Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Ethics 206

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

One of the biggest challenges for teachers is what to do with students who finish their playlists before the rest of the class is done. There are several strategies that can be used to keep these students engaged and challenged: One approach is to use the Modern Classroom Project’s must-do, may-do, and aspire-to-do.

Blended Learning 436

Blended Learning Feedback Universal Design Art 436

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2022

Many students –– and instructors –– were abruptly forced to transition from traditional classroom learning to adopt a new remote format. It accelerated the emergence of a new dynamic learning environment, where students learn in innovative ways far different from how education systems were originally designed.

Learning Styles 337

Learning Styles Teaching Learning Knowledge 337

eSchool News

MAY 17, 2024

Instead, students learn from an all-in-one multimedia machine that features full interactivity. Academic studies confirm that interactivity and active learning can greatly enhance student engagement in the classroom. What’s more, both teachers and students seem to enjoy learning better when they use interactive whiteboards.

Technology 300

Technology Instructors Quizzes Disabilities 300

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

AI can even provide feedback on open-text answers, guiding students towards more comprehensive and thoughtful responses. 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.

Student Engagement 111

Student Engagement eLearning Authentic Assessment Instructors 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. As students and educators adapt to digital platforms, student engagement has emerged as a key concern in online learning.

Student Engagement 84

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 84

Faculty Focus

MAY 19, 2024

Faculty members can explore this technique with their students in class as an overarching problem-solving approach or during office hours to enhance understanding of specific concepts. Academic advisors can implement the technique with students who would benefit from making changes in their lives. Associate, associate, associate.

Student Engagement 120

Student Engagement Exams Learning Students 120

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.

High School 301

High School High School Social Studies Teachers 301

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. While students can learn at their own pace, they have the disadvantage of limited contact with instructors and reduced opportunity of immediate feedback.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

It is important to build this type of classroom environment so students can feel safe to respond freely and ask questions all throughout the semester (Ricevuto & McLaughlin, 2022), which of course, increases student engagement. Some students asked questions, but they were still very quiet and not saying much during class.

Student Engagement 116

Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 116

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

They are meant to help students organize existing knowledge, pull relevant information into working memory, and encourage reflection and metacognition. Then, the instructor proceeds to conduct a short lecture where course materials such as the syllabus, slides, or videos might be shared with everyone through a QR code (see Figure 1).

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Below, let me share instructional strategies that I use in my courses (virtual, asynchronous, and in-person) to recover student engagement. I’ve been utilizing mid-semester check-ins for several years now and have noticed that students respond best when I send out informal invitations to reflect on their learning experiences.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 98

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This situation is particularly pertinent in education, where bonds formed with teachers and classmates can profoundly impact students’ engagement, attainment, and life choices. Often, these students had to work on the material independently, with their families, or with private tutors.

Hybrid Learning 312

Hybrid Learning Distance Learning Instructors Discussions 312

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. While students can learn at their own pace, they have the disadvantage of limited contact with instructors and reduced opportunity of immediate feedback.

Student Engagement 97

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 97

eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2024

Schools should reimagine the learning processes and leverage in-person and hybrid learning to help students achieve the best possible results. The potential for innovation and student engagement are only scratching the surface when it comes to the advantages of online learning.

Hybrid Learning 307

Hybrid Learning Motivation Online Learning Instructors 307

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It helps instructors deliver cohesive learning experiences through structured content and interactivity. When students engage with Connect, their individual needs become clear. This enables the instructor to assign coursework that keeps their students moving forward on their unique learning path.

High School 283

High School High School Schools Instructors 283

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2023

Traditionally, the one-size-fits-all approach to assessment has been dominant, with all students completing the same activities throughout the course. This method, however, often leads to a lack of student engagement and, consequently, less effective learning.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Assignments Instructors Students 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2023

The shift to emergency remote teaching in 2020 was a challenging time for students and instructors. Many universities embraced the idea of increased flexibility to enable greater autonomy and allow students to pursue their education while managing other challenges in their life. Studies in Higher Education , 45 (11).

Student Engagement 103

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Instructors 103

Faculty Focus

MAY 19, 2024

Faculty members can explore this technique with their students in class as an overarching problem-solving approach or during office hours to enhance understanding of specific concepts. Academic advisors can implement the technique with students who would benefit from making changes in their lives. Associate, associate, associate.

Student Engagement 111

Student Engagement Exams Learning Students 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. It’s almost like this symphony that the instructor is the heart of.” We don’t just assume, or say, ‘that’s cool let’s use it.’”

Instructors 218

Instructors Lecturing Teachers Attention 218