Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video. None of our class time was given to me delivering lectures.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2020

There is a caveat: They all hinge on internet connectivity, a challenge that both public and private efforts are moving quickly to try to solve. In Flipped Classroom setups, students learn at home via online coursework and video-recorded lectures, and teachers use class time for teacher-guided practice or projects.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2022

It’s an early morning wake up call for Trinity Smith, lead teaching fellow and student studying business data analytics at Arizona State University (ASU). The course uses Canvas to manage the online, asynchronous portion of learning – this includes recorded lectures by ASU faculty, along with weekly assignments and quizzes.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2017

Instead of orienting a classroom to have all student desks facing a whiteboard at the front of the room, a flexible learning center model often includes modular workstations where students can break into groups as well as quiet spaces for individual study.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Talk of the metaverse is everywhere, even though the new, more immersive internet isn’t exactly here yet. A lot of us who study what we call the science of learning have been very, very interested in the quick rise in technological alternatives for young children. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek: That's actually why we decided to enter this space.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Today, as an associate teaching professor of economics at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, Wooten is on the flip side of the camera; he creates his own short educational videos to enhance traditional reading materials and lectures. Video study guides, he says, were a natural next step. “We

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The project began when Tiina Syrjä, a lecturer in voice and speech at the University of Tampere, in Finland, met an administrator from Coventry University, in Britain, and they decided to organize a collaborative long-distance theater seminar. Coventry University sent Tom Gorman, a senior theater lecturer, to Finland to come up with a plan.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

Spotty internet service makes remote learning hard for many college students. The study results point to one more way that the past year has exposed the divide between the technology-haves and have-nots, according to D. Almost three-quarters of students in the EDUCAUSE study said they try to resolve their technology issues themselves.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2023

Bir, who’s now a freshman studying computer science at Diablo Valley College in California, could relate. “As Lightning struck: There didn’t seem to be a place where teachers could share educational resources with each other, which might help them sort through it all.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et. This same study identifies one student-based reason for instructor reluctance—though students in an active classroom learn more, they feel like they learn less.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Bowen argues that unlike an internet search, where an instructor would simply change the term she’s searching for if she doesn’t like the results, the instructor is helping the machine learn the subject area, teaching it what she means by a term within the context of her instruction.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. For instance, teachers may consider replacing one-sided lectures with more group discussion, or they may make sure to ask follow-up questions to students’ answers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2016

From desktop printers to professional online services using high-grade printers, 3D technology is becoming a valuable creative tool in many courses of study beyond 3D computer design. 3D printing adds new emphasis to the proven theory that hands-on learning is more easily grasped and retained than pencil-and-paper classroom lectures.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2020

In other words, we don’t want teachers to be lecturing and just expecting students to be sitting in front of a screen and taking notes,” Gallagher adds. During class, teachers should engage in learning activities with their students, such as working through a homework problem in a collaborative manner. “In But teachers need help.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

Do a quick internet search for “whole-brain teaching” and it will pull up a string of videos of young students repeating words back to a teacher in unison, waving hands or conducting other movements, and turning to their neighbor every few minutes to share. According to Biffle, a formal study is too expensive for the group to engage in.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. We can’t meaningfully listen to the deafening roar of the internet. Participants gathered online each week for seminar-style conversations, case study discussions and peer critiques.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

A classroom where healthy competition motivates students to study and collaborate. Quizlet: Personalization for Effective Learning Widely recognized as a popular platform, Quizlet offers a diverse range of tools for creating and sharing quizzes, flashcards, and study materials.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

Several meta-analysis research studies have already shown that blended learning leads to consistently better effects on students’ academic outcomes compared to traditional in-person learning (e.g., If you are simply going to lecture at students, they do not need to be in the same physical space as you. 2019; Vallée et al., Blacher, J.,

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et. This same study identifies one student-based reason for instructor reluctance—though students in an active classroom learn more, they feel like they learn less.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

With virtual reality headsets, students are forced to interact with their studies by excluding all else, making the technology ideal for educators who work with kids who have varying levels of ADD/ADHD. . AR and VR technology can make lectures and books more immersive and interactive, which can reduce distraction.”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

We’ve now been able to put this lie to bed that people can actually shop on Facebook and listen to your lecture and take good notes all simultaneously. Without having to get political, the internet has opened up lots, and lots, and lots of alternative facts. What do you think about Lecture Capture. Do you not do that at Goucher?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Here’s what a joint study from Legends of Learning and Vanderbilt University found: “…students who played the games outperformed their peers on standardized tests. Additionally, teachers saw dramatic increases in engagement and performance. An alternative is a class reading program like RAZ-Kids.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Jenny Billings, Chair of Curriculum English, Developmental Reading, and English and Study skills at Rowan Cabarrus Community College (RCCC) in Salisbury, NC, jumped at the chance to spearhead an e-textbook initiative when the college’s Vice Principal approached her with the idea in 2012.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I heard about blockchain at a conference about two years ago,” says Sue Alman, the project’s co-principal investigator and a lecturer at San Jose State who teaches a course on emerging technologies. They got excited about our research, and we’re going to be presenting next month at their conference,” Alman says.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

We heard from Albat and Stephanie Del Tufo, assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, who studies individual differences in learning, language and literacy. Do they have internet connections? Physical accessibility. Do the students have computers? Do they have access to the software they need?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2017

Everyone took notes and used those to study for exams. OneNote can even tape lectures and then search the recording for keywords. Like many other cross-platform webtools, OneNote can be used offline and will then sync when the Internet is available. If students wanted to share notes, they had to find a copy machine.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

A satirical student newspaper recently wrote that Stanford University installed facial recognition cameras in the front of some lecture halls to take attendance and analyze the expressions on students’ faces. These entities draw on databases of faces, some scraped from photos posted to the internet.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

A new study says college students may prefer the flexibility of hybrid classes—but that doesn’t mean they want to leave campus. Yet, she hopes professors continue to record and distribute lectures for those rare occasions when she can’t be in the room. You just don’t get that with the internet.”.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In their survey-based study, Martin and Bollinger (2018) found that online students prefer regular announcements from their instructors. Interviews are also a good way to break up the number of lecture videos used in online classes.). Internet and Higher Education, 13 (1-2), 5-9. Tips for creating asynchronous videos.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Hardware, internet availability and connectivity, alongside learning materials to support instruction—from age-appropriate books to paper, pencils, glue and scissors—vary substantially from household to household, just as the capacity to provide and respond to these needs varies from one district to the next. Christina Cipriano, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

At the time, the online cheating business was sort of just kicking off, in the early days of the Wild West internet. It was a lot of big lecture halls and a really bureaucratic system of administration that made it very difficult to get anything done. You know, you call it a study guide [or say] these are editorial services. ‘We

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Afternoons, however, were available for flexible tutorial time, during which students could work independently, study with peers, or meet with teachers—focusing on whatever they might need that day. This included improving the wireless internet, ensuring access to mobile devices and a high standard of tech and training support.

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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. Here’s how.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

It’s called Deakin University, and started about 40 years ago—before the internet really got going—when distance education often meant sending lessons through snail mail. While such a tool may make sense for students needing to fit in studies amid work, family and life, it also raises thorny privacy issues.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

At its core, classroom learning provides a structured environment conducive to focused study and exploration. Within this setting, instructors deliver curriculum content through lectures, presentations, demonstrations, and other instructional methods tailored to meet the diverse needs of learners.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Sharma says he hears time and time again from parents that tools are important to manage different types of concerns on the internet, but there’s no substitute for a conversation with a child. Flipd is an app students can use to stay off their phones in class and any time they don’t want to be interrupted, such as when they study.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2016

class Internet start page. Class Internet Start Page. A class Internet start page is a website that comes up when the student opens the Internet. The upside of a flipped classroom is it puts students in the driver’s seat and insures teachers act as guides rather than lecturers. backchannel devices.

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