Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. I had a very good student come to me and say, ‘I can’t afford this textbook.’

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Textbooks Instructors Education Participation 198

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

When it comes to the education librarians receive, a lot of it still focuses on literature and reading, writing and media literacy, said Mega Subramaniam, an associate professor at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. Will Future Textbooks Include Chatbot Tutors? It must be integrated with other curriculum.”

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Textbooks Questions Instructors Critical Thinking 122

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 27, 2017

Ask a Tech Teacher guest blogger, Karen Dikson, has put together a collection of online gamified sites that will help your students with their writing: You think the textbooks for today’s generations of students are way more interesting than the once you had? Well, organize a quiz and write the results on the board.

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Writing Gamification Textbooks Students 100

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

However, not everyone feels the same about the famous (or in some people’s opinion, infamous) writing style guide, which is over 50 years old. Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2009, Geoffrey K. She views it as a suggested style guide for how to write in an engaging voice.

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Writing Textbooks English Assignments 109

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Lumen Learning, a company that sells low-cost OER textbooks and courseware, plans to start offering professional development services for faculty that can be bundled with its titles. In other words, some of its textbooks are now sold with coaching on how to teach with OER more effectively.

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Coaching Textbooks Instructors Faculty Development 137

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

High school science instructor Veronica Wylie has an idea that will take her students to new heights?or And it matters in learning materials as well, say six colleges and universities in Massachusetts that have teamed up to create a new catalog of culturally relevant textbooks in hopes of improving student outcomes.

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Science Teachers Textbooks Culture 187

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

Valerie Schreiner, chief product officer at plagiarism detection service provider Turnitin, said the cost continues to decrease to hire someone to write your paper or gain remote access to a computer to take an exam. “I Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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Exams Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments 218

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials. When I attend professional gatherings on open education, however, instructors like myself are often the minority.

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Textbooks Instructors Education Peer Review 134

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

As one writing instructor posted to an e-mail list in 2005: “Am I being a stick-in-the-mud for for being horrified by students’ use of this source?”. One of the biggest proponents of the power of Wikipedia in the classroom is Robert Cummings, associate professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi.

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Peer Review Textbooks Education Writing 147

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam. “This isn’t a typical MOOC. .”

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Exams Lecturing Textbooks Instructors 165

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

To effectively conduct high-dose education, teachers need not only to explain and repeat but also to find novel ways to help students understand difficult concepts, including encouraging students to take a central role, solve various examples themselves and explain their understanding to the instructor to be educationally effective.

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Instructors Communication Achievement Attention 166

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 Exams 200

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. At the time I made my OER commitment, there were limited open textbook options available. After bouncing around a few, I finally settled on OpenStax , a free online textbook platform through Rice University.

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Textbooks Syllabus Instructors Peer Review 116

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

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. Sheza Shaikh centered mental health and belonging in her writing. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 55

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” As with any distance learning program, teachers at the school level are also reviewing content before they are assigned, similarly to how textbooks are used for instruction.”

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Learning Schools Multiple Choice Questions Distance Learning 213

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A number of instructors say it’s partly reconsidering how calculus, a crucial step toward STEM careers and often a “weed out” course in higher ed, is taught. Memorizing formulas and equations is about as useful as memorizing poems as way of learning to write in English. That was geography.”

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STEM Exams Math Languages 172

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. At the time I made my OER commitment, there were limited open textbook options available. After bouncing around a few, I finally settled on OpenStax , a free online textbook platform through Rice University.

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Textbooks Syllabus Instructors Peer Review 104

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

What Smart Sparrow and a slew of other upstarts now offer are course-building platforms that let instructors and supporting staff design online courses completely from scratch. Dror-Naim believes in giving instructors full control over designing all the different paths of content that learners may encounter. Will Schools Pony Up?

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Teachers Instructors Learning Quizzes 137

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 eLearning Instructors Learning Styles 130

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

These stories also show that innovative teaching was top of mind this past year, from shaking up the way instructors teach online, to talking about race in the classroom, to experimenting with augmented and virtual reality. In other words,” writes EdSurge writer Jeffrey R. Cheating on Chegg? What Do Edtech and IKEA Have in Common?

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Education Textbooks Attention Teaching Assistants 138

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As the lazy days of summer start to dwindle, it’s time to trade in beach reads for textbooks and flip-flops for sensible shoes. Often, there are suggestions on what AI can do, but instructors might struggle with figuring out how to use it effectively. But fear not! Magic School AI has a rubric generator that is magic!

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Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2018

I have experimented with writing open textbooks, thanks to the inspiration I received from Robin DeRosa on episodes 183 and 195. Doug McKee In early summer, I was approached to see if I had an interest in doing some writing for EdSurge as a columnist. If teaching isn’t hard, you’re probably not doing it right.”

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Art Science Teaching Mobile Devices 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2018

They’re really engaged and supportive, especially when it comes to writing curriculum. They provide the software and the technology to instructors like me as well as students for free. There are resources, such as webinars, updates on software changes and links to textbooks on their website to help instructors learn about the software.

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Instructors Writing Textbooks Lecturing 112

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As the lazy days of summer start to dwindle, it’s time to trade in beach reads for textbooks and flip-flops for sensible shoes. Often, there are suggestions on what AI can do, but instructors might struggle with figuring out how to use it effectively. But fear not! Magic School AI has a rubric generator that is magic!

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Professor: During our orientation session, this is the image I often share with students: myself in my student days, filing away every notebook, every textbook and every paper, knowing that the information was valuable and that one day it might be useful. Tagging helps me to ask better questions of my own work and make deeper connections.

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Lecturing Exams Assignments Textbooks 159

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

While MasterClass offers taped lectures on cooking by chef Gordon Ramsay, guitar shredding by musician Carlos Santana and creative writing by youth fiction author Judy Blume, the first Outlier courses teach calculus I and introductory psychology. Although the Outlier topics are decidedly more staid, they may serve a higher purpose.

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Lecturing Textbooks Course Design Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Instructors can broaden community and connection, going beyond traditional classroom boundaries while retaining academic standards by leveraging social media. They are deeply involved in role-play writing communities, finding them central to their social life. The Write Center. link] Montgomery, B. Digital Learning Innovations.

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Culture Learning Instructors Discussions 128

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

It’s a cost per student comparable to a subscription to a digital textbook , Grubbs says. She believes that, once more instructors get the opportunity to try teaching with virtual reality, they’ll feel similarly. “My That’s not to say colleges won’t pay anything for their metaversities. My favorite thing to do is put educators in it.

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Participation Attention Study Accessibility 218

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For retrieval practice to be effective at building and strengthening neural links, students must try to pull the information from memory and not simply glance over their course notes or the textbook (Miller, 2022, p. Likewise, any review at the end of class needs to be done by the students, not the instructor.

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Learning Languages Language Instructors 92

Faculty Focus

MARCH 5, 2023

In pedagogy, students are dependent on the instructor to teach them. Faculty should provide hands-on activities, videos, podcasts, as well as textbooks, articles, and lectures to cover content. Using audio and video, as well as writing, can help mimic the real world.

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Universal Design Learning Motivation Authentic Assessment 124

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Instructors can broaden community and connection, going beyond traditional classroom boundaries while retaining academic standards by leveraging social media. They are deeply involved in role-play writing communities, finding them central to their social life. The Write Center. link] Montgomery, B. Digital Learning Innovations.

Culture 110

Culture Learning Instructors Discussions 110

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

For instructors, rubrics expedite grading with standards; at the same time, they reinforce learning objectives and standardize course curricula. How can instructors ensure that students engage with rubrics when they work on their assignments? Wide consensus confirms the usefulness of rubrics. Both options are possible with Google Docs.

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Instructors Failure Assignments Students 64

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

With this move, Knewton says it is eschewing relying on expensive authors to write textbooks and, as a result, can pass on the cost savings to students. The tool will also flag frequently-missed problems for instructors to review in class. Sample screenshot of instructor dashboard in Alta. per month. “For

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Instructors Textbooks Culture Math 80

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A professor or educator can spend a lecture or semester teaching the curriculum, but if you ask ChatGPT what the biggest takeaways from the war are, it’s possible and likely a learner is provided with even more context and historical facts via the chatbot than what is possible for an instructor to cover from a set curriculum.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

While many schools are looking at the ramifications of students using AI to “cheat” or “avoid” classwork and writing papers, it is important to note that teachers themselves will be thrust into the AI world. Every year, we move further away from the “one size fits all” mentality that was the original textbook.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Like textbooks—that's a classic example. And people are perfectly fine developing their courses, buying large textbooks, or asking your students to buy large textbooks, and then just selecting stuff out of that that they're going to use as the foundational material to teach from. And the "us" being faculty or teachers.

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