Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), microlearning, and learning analytics provides new dimensions to this pedagogical approach, enhancing both student preparation and in-class engagement. model, the learning process is amplified by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, which help personalize student learning pathways.

Critical Thinking 87

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 87

Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

I recently attended a student panel on use of AI in college classes. Even, or especially, in an AI age, we know our students need to think critically and learn authentically to be productive and engaged citizens and future employees. We can teach students to critically analyze AI-assisted work and promote authentic learning as we do.

Critical Thinking 127

Critical Thinking Assignments Academic Integrity Intelligence 127

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. By aligning instructional strategies with how the brain naturally learns, educators can create environments where students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

Science 247

Science Education Motivation Lecturing 247

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Dual enrollment courses are considered some of the best ways to prepare students for the rigor and content in college-level curricula. The number of dually enrolled students has boomed in recent years. Often state policies require students to take complicated exams or pay to take the classes.

Instructors 131

Instructors Math Study High School 131

eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Students in the pilot program saw a significant improvement in their literacy skills over the course of only three months. The program gives educators one possible model to follow as they look to reverse the trend of declining student proficiency in reading. The program spanned 14 weeks and was aimed at third and fourth graders.

Skills 243

Skills Students Instructors Reading 243

eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

For 60 years, SkillsUSA has provided these types of hands-on learning opportunities for students in the form of regional, state, and national competitions–and participants in these contests have gained valuable career experience.

Skills 153

Skills Students Middle School Middle School 153

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

A faculty vision of inclusive pedagogy informed by equity and social justice transcends bias and makes diversity functional and beneficial to all students. Enacting equity pedagogy as an essential component of multicultural education (Banks & Banks, 1995) requires instructors to become change agents.

Accessibility 95

Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 95

Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

Halfway through the semester, it’s not uncommon to notice a shift in your students’ energy levels (Baghurst and Kelley, 2013; Kumari et al., Some students prioritize subjects they perceive as more directly tied to their major or career, while others simply feel the weight of mid-semester exhaustion.

Languages 95

Languages Language Instructors Culture 95

Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

I recently attended a student panel on use of AI in college classes. Even, or especially, in an AI age, we know our students need to think critically and learn authentically to be productive and engaged citizens and future employees. We can teach students to critically analyze AI-assisted work and promote authentic learning as we do.

Critical Thinking 98

Critical Thinking Assignments Academic Integrity Intelligence 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments.

Disabilities 53

Disabilities Course Design Students Lecturing 53

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

I read Susan Blums Ungrading as a first-year graduate student and was immediately smitten. At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. My first attempt at alternative assessment didnt go very well. My system improved.

Grades 74

Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 74

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

eLearning 69

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 69

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

eLearning 67

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 67

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. By aligning instructional strategies with how the brain naturally learns, educators can create environments where students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

Science 130

Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

Halfway through the semester, it’s not uncommon to notice a shift in your students’ energy levels (Baghurst and Kelley, 2013; Kumari et al., Some students prioritize subjects they perceive as more directly tied to their major or career, while others simply feel the weight of mid-semester exhaustion.

Languages 65

Languages Language Instructors Culture 65

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

In summary Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever. Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them?

Plagiarism 117

Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Students in higher education also deserve nurturing spaces that focus on utilizing their personalized strengths and needs to foster increased academic and social development. According to a recent survey by Salesforce (2022), just 12% of college students felt a strong sense of belonging in their institutions.

Assignments 66

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 66

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it. Janell Blunt , an associate professor of psychology at Anderson University in Indiana, uses personal mini-whiteboards with her college students in every class. It’s crickets.

Multiple Choice Questions 80

Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Students in higher education also deserve nurturing spaces that focus on utilizing their personalized strengths and needs to foster increased academic and social development. According to a recent survey by Salesforce (2022), just 12% of college students felt a strong sense of belonging in their institutions.

Assignments 61

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 61

Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. This teaching helps students blend ideas, think deeply across fields, and work well with people from varied backgrounds. They need tools from many fields to tackle these issues. Yang et al.

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Interdisciplinary Teaching Knowledge Peer Review 53

Faculty Focus

APRIL 27, 2025

Creating a sense of belonging is crucial to student success and persistence, especially for nontraditional, working students in online programs. The programs rigorous nature, combined with students full-time jobs and family commitments, leaves little time to build peer connections or a sense of community.

STEM 53

STEM Science Activities Student Engagement 53

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. Something broke in American education these past years. You might wonder why this preference exists.

Hybrid Learning 128

Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 128

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2025

Perhaps, state and local leaders thought, newly unemployed civil servants might be interested in shifting their professional energy away from processing Social Security benefits and deploying foreign aid and toward teaching students in the classroom. Job fairs were scheduled.

Teachers 96

Teachers Fairness Instructors Teaching 96

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Virtual classrooms are now a trusted and permanent part of the K-12 landscape, offering flexibility and customization to help students thrive. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. The good news?

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. I had begun to worry it widened the gap between me and my students by highlighting differences rather than commonalities. But a few years ago, I removed the slide.

Teaching 70

Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 70

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

10 8th Grade Social-Emotional Writing Prompts Social-emotional learning is a way for students to find their place in the world around them while staying in touch with their own wants and needs. Use these SEL writing prompts to help students stay aware of their own emotional health and social understanding. What would you do?

Writing 52

Writing Grades Middle School Middle School 52

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. I had begun to worry it widened the gap between me and my students by highlighting differences rather than commonalities. But a few years ago, I removed the slide.

Teaching 70

Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 70

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

In summary Five years after COVID shut down most California high schools, today’s college students describe a difficult transition to adulthood, marked by fear, loss and a lack of preparation. Across California students grappled with transitioning to college during the pandemic. In 2020 32% fell into the bottom tier.

Math 87

Math English Lecturing High School 87

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

If a California community college wants its faculty to be able to detect plagiarism and AI writing in student papers, it can buy software from a company called Turnitin at a discounted price. They don’t have much money, they don’t have [many] students, and they’re paying the most,” he said. per student for its Turnitin license.

Plagiarism 89

Plagiarism Instructors Writing Technology 89

Scholarly Teacher

MAY 27, 2025

Paul Parkison, University of North FloridaJeff Thomas, University of Southern IndianaKey Statement: When instructors commit to excelling at the normal things using a Personalist lens they can promote classroom norms, community, and happiness.Keywords: Engaging Students, Improving Teaching, Course DesignThere are many aspects of teaching that are extremely (..)

Teaching 52

Teaching Instructors Students 52

Organized Classroom

JUNE 3, 2025

This is often short-lived when the educator realizes how much planning will be devoted to not only incorporating the devices into the curriculum effectively, but also topics come up such as behavior management, care of the units, rules for student use, internet safety, and more! This 83 page digital book has you covered!

Instructors 83

Instructors Internet Assignments Accessibility 83

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

However, what we really should be striving to develop are self-sufficient classrooms where students are driving the learning. Ideally, by surpassing compliance goals and student-driven learning, we can get to an even more important goal — critical thinking. The instructor can leave comments for students (i.e.,

Reading 413

Reading Technology Feedback Instructors 413

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But there is a disconnect between the skills that students are being taught and those that employers require, and we face the stark prospect that one-third of jobs in 2020 will require skills that aren’t common today. Salesforce recently unveiled Trailhead for Students , a free digital learning platform and community.

Skills 293

Skills Course Design Instructors Achievement 293

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

The latest data on the nation’s college and university enrollment shows that online is steadily climbing its way up to more than a third of the student population—as face-to-face continues to plummet. Today, online students represent 31.6 higher education students. They rose 5.6 percent from 2015 to 2016 to reach 6.4

Achievement 293

Achievement Instructors Online Learning History 293

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

I’ve developed somewhat of a complex in the last year being a college student with an interest in the education system. Among the challenges that this class exposed me to, one that stood out was how many high school students lack access to important resources before they apply for or enter college. giving info sessions and recruiting.

Study 211

Study Lecturing Education Internet 211

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Students were like moths to a flame. 2017 Equivalent: These days Typing Instructor ($19.99) is top dog but with plenty of solid online options that are free, we say try ‘em all. But at thousands of bucks a pop, they’d better come with some adorable stylized puppies surrounded by rainbows or we’re not investing a penny. Slap Bracelets.

Teachers 289

Teachers Gamification Internet Math 289

eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2021

In a landscape where online instruction has become more commonplace due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some educators face challenges associated with operating as an online instructor in a virtual environment. The following 5 tips can help you to be an innovative online instructor who engages students: 1.

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Instructors Discussions Participation Communication 354