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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

Scholarly Teacher

At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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ClassIn Launches its World-Class Teaching and Learning Platform in the United States

eSchool News

Offering Strategic Hardware Solutions: ClassIn X transforms traditional classrooms into outcome-driven hybrid learning spaces through an IoT hardware package that digitizes the physical classroom.

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The Future of MOOCs Must Be Decolonized

Edsurge

or Europe and transferred almost uni-directionally to enormously diverse global participants who are treated as mere recipients of content. Such a model assumes a deficit of knowledge in other parts of the world and a belief that non-Western parts of the world have less or even nothing to contribute to online learning.

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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

Edsurge

An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. These design choices have noticeable implications.

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Running a Workshop: Guidelines for Engagement and Impact

Faculty Focus

Most of us have the experience of registering for a workshop only to discover that it is a lecture or (worse) an advertisement for the presenter. A genuine workshop aims to empower the participants such that they leave with new ideas and skills. Principle 1: Come early and “own” the learning space.

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Running a Workshop: Guidelines for Engagement and Impact

Faculty Focus

Most of us have the experience of registering for a workshop only to discover that it is a lecture or (worse) an advertisement for the presenter. A genuine workshop aims to empower the participants such that they leave with new ideas and skills. Principle 1: Come early and “own” the learning space.

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Why Students Living on Campus Take Online Courses

Edsurge

They’re participating in student government. One thing University of Central Florida has become known for is large lecture classes. As I recall, some in-person courses are so big you have overflow rooms where students watch the lectures on TV. How does what you’re learning in online play into those large classes?

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