Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience. Issues like digital inequality and over-reliance on devices can hinder learning outcomes.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

In this mode, the professor’s authority, preferences, expertise, and goals (“learning outcomes”), even body, take center stage. In the classroom, this might mean that the more we try to avoid “failure” or enforce rigid learning outcomes and preferred behaviors, the more we may create resistance or disengagement.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

In this mode, the professor’s authority, preferences, expertise, and goals (“learning outcomes”), even body, take center stage. In the classroom, this might mean that the more we try to avoid “failure” or enforce rigid learning outcomes and preferred behaviors, the more we may create resistance or disengagement.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Step #2: Define the Desired Results or Intended Outcomes. Likewise, a teacher must identify the target learning outcomes or goals for a particular learning experience if they are going to design with purpose and intentionality. An architect sketches a blueprint, which clearly defines what the builders are working toward.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

How are teachers learning to operate as professionals in the 21st century? lecture-style settings, the gist of which is “Tell me something and maybe I will do it.” Other teachers, though, strive for more dynamic personalized learning opportunities (like the ones our students receive).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Students’ learning outcomes improve with Labster because we engage them with game-based elements that inspire them to explore science. About Labster. Labster is the world’s leading platform for virtual labs and science simulations. Students then apply their knowledge to solve a real world problem within the context of a story.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. There’s a fair bit of work involved with learning outcomes, and justifiably so. But why limit ourselves to student learning outcomes only? In other words, the teaching and learning principles so many of us embrace call upon us to be learners.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

Concerns arose about the long-term effects on learning outcomes, particularly for younger students and those with special educational needs. How do we give teachers the data they need to understand what their students already know, what theyve learned, and how to support them going forward?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. There’s a fair bit of work involved with learning outcomes, and justifiably so. But why limit ourselves to student learning outcomes only? In other words, the teaching and learning principles so many of us embrace call upon us to be learners.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 30, 2023

Leveraging Blended Learning Models to Ensure Equity The teacher-led whole-group lesson design makes it challenging to ensure ELs get an equitable experience since it limits how much time teachers can spend supporting individual students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He argues that the traditional lecture method for teaching physics and other STEM fields has been proven ineffective, and that shifts to more active methods can greatly improve learning outcomes to make sure the next generation of researchers can make the next Nobel-worthy breakthroughs. And this isn't just flippant.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Students and teachers alike are seeking alternatives to the traditional lecture- and test-based approach that has predominantly been used in schools for decades. Instead, new educational methods focus on innovation, collaboration, and the use of technology to engage students and improve learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

It is historically one of the most vexing problems in education that there is a tradeoff between scale and achievable quality of instruction : As class sizes grow larger, the ability of a teacher to provide the type of personalized guidance shown by learning science research to be most effective is diminished.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2018

The days of standing in front of the classroom and “lecturing” are long gone. Video is also proving to have solid results when it comes to learning outcomes—from higher test scores to increased engagement with learning materials to increased comprehension.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Students and teachers alike are seeking alternatives to the traditional lecture- and test-based approach that has predominantly been used in schools for decades. Instead, new educational methods focus on innovation, collaboration, and the use of technology to engage students and improve learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes. In the most recent annual Campus Computing Survey , a majority of academic CIOs concluded that “adaptive technology has great potential to improve learning outcomes.” MOOC critics say that streaming lectures is not terribly innovative.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The proponents of HyFlex classes are often making a larger argument against the standard lecture model of teaching that is the norm at colleges. He argues that the process of redesigning a course to be taught in various formats — online or in person — pushes instructors to rethink how to best help students achieve the learning outcomes. “I

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With increasing coursework and extracurricular activities, a structured approach to studying helps manage time effectively, reduces stress, and boosts learning outcomes. Numerous online resources exist where you can find lecture notes, study guides, and other helpful materials. homework, lecture notes, practice tests).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And as I began to research this issue, I discovered that most of the technology investment in educational institutions really doesn’t impact learning engagement for learning outcomes. And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. Source: Echo360.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2022

To compete, companies will have to “relentlessly” focus on learning outcomes, just as educational institutions will have to focus on the business outcomes of their institution, Chou said. They’ve each focused on their own concerns historically, but it’s no longer possible for them to be so siloed, Chou suggested.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

Five years ago, I ditched whole-class lectures in my fifth grade brick-and-mortar classroom in favor of small group rotations. But there is some research supporting its impact on learning outcomes when executed well. And many educators have experimented with this kind of teaching.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

This means that the learning not only has meaning, but the students also have ownership of it and work together to produce learning outcomes and collaborative projects. Immersive Reader , available in Flip, read prompts out loud for students who needed additional support and provided translations for those learning English.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

lectures)” (p. This work often involves extremely sophisticated proficiency scaling of desired learning outcomes, student leveling diagnostics, and individualized instruction and student interventions. The language that the authors use in the book to introduce their key concepts also emphasizes lower-level learning (e.g.,

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

This approach maximizes classroom time for interactive, hands-on learning experiences. Interactive Lectures: Instead of passive listening, interactive lectures involve activities such as quizzes, polls, or small group discussions interspersed throughout the lecture to keep students engaged and reinforce key concepts.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2018

The convergence of these challenges is making it much harder for faculty to engage students in traditional lecture-style classes. Instructors are innovating, and technology could serve to drive cross-departmentally and cross-institutional sharing of best practices, which, in turn, could fuel massive improvements in learning outcomes.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In the past, faculty could stand objectively in front of the class and provide didactic information to students via lecture. Students came to the classroom expecting information from a book and verbal lecture covering the content. Help students develop realistic classroom expectations, build a growth mindset, and a desire to learn.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

These solutions promise to broaden access to quality education, engaging learners who might not make it through impersonal introductory lectures. Students receive individual feedback on their progress and their learning experiences change based on their performance. I get more insight into students.”. Promises and Pitfalls.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Laptops and tablets can be powerful learning aids, but many faculty feel uneasy about the role such devices play in their classrooms. they may be a distraction and deter from learning outcomes. How, then, can we be sure that digital tools are integrated into the higher education experience in ways that encourage deeper learning?

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Think-Pair-Share Students need opportunities to process information during lectures. This not only facilitates comprehension and learning but also makes it easier for reserved students to engage with a large audience, fostering a sense of comfort. In conclusion, my first year as a full-time professor has been a transformative journey.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2023

One concern is that more accommodating course policies may disincentivize in-person attendance, which may undermine the development of a rich classroom learning environment ( Holstead, 2022 ; Sloan, et al., Throughout the 18 lectures, there were 14 activities each worth five points (11 counted towards the grade; 13.75% of the overall grade).

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning allows students to be engaged and active participants in their own learning by sharing ideas, analyzing problems, and finding solutions to them. Together, they create knowledge and achieve learning outcomes (Downing, 2017; Ramos, Cattaneo, de Jong, Espadeiro, 2022).

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

There are concrete benefits to engaging students in experiential learning inside the classroom: It enables us to “flip” the classroom, which prevents students from passively receiving material in class. Set up the experience by introducing students to the concept and practice of experiential learning and cover the basic material (e.g.,

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Think-Pair-Share Students need opportunities to process information during lectures. This not only facilitates comprehension and learning but also makes it easier for reserved students to engage with a large audience, fostering a sense of comfort. In conclusion, my first year as a full-time professor has been a transformative journey.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 21, 2023

Through the use of Professional Learning Communities, the development of our institution’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is an effort to enhance faculty professional development capacity and to systematically assess student learning outcomes. Dr. Dimple J. Martin is the director of the Quality Enhancement Plan at Miles College.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth. This method promotes independence and confidence in learning.

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