eSchool News

JULY 3, 2018

In schools, design thinking complements inquiry- and project-based approaches to teaching and learning. I had the privilege of attending a couple of deep dives into design thinking at Stanford’s d.School. Design thinking is a social-scientific approach to solving human-centered problems. The inquiry cycle.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Assessments are more than just measuring how well students are doing in particular subjects in school, and they can actually improve student learning. The testing effect, also known as retrieval practice, practice testing, or test-enhanced learning, needs a place in today’s modern learning. The Testing Effect and LMS Technology.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

A study co-authored by MIT scholars concludes that widely disseminated school quality ratings reflect the preparation and family background of their students as much or more than a school’s contribution to learning gains. Conventional ratings, the research makes clear, are highly correlated with race.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

Well, I’ve spotted some tools and strategies that have amazing potential to empower students and teachers to engage and learn more with the world beyond their school. Another student could find photographs of places or inventions he wants to study and then create augmented reality-triggered videos of himself explaining what he’s learned.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

Bdeir said her experience in learning engineering as an undergraduate was “completely hands-off; as a result, many other students and I were turned off to it.” Every week was a new project, a new learning challenge. “We need to find ways of approaching STEAM education differently.”.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Our work at the nonprofit Education Development Center’s Center for Children and Technology focuses on how education technology can be used to support learning. The truth is edtech products that foster more learning than would happen in analogue settings can be difficult to find.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2018

When educators first consider redesigning learning spaces, they might immediately conjure up mental images of free-flowing Starbucks lounges or something out of the Cult of Pedagogy blog’s Classroom Eye Candy series. Yet the impulse to tackle aesthetics first is often premature, according to Rebecca Hare, who teaches art and design in St.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

BOSTON – Lexia , a Cambium Learning Group brand , is celebrating its 40th anniversary as a leader in science of reading-based solutions. Nevertheless, in the year following its founding, Lexia won a major grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to fund product research, design, and development.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Two recent studies, both asking different research questions and using different methodologies, offer still more evidence that the relationship between teachers and students is an integral part of the learning experience. They also used a unique research design. References Grantham, A., Robinson, E. and Chapman, D.,

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 30, 2023

Pifer (2010) said, “Trust enables faculty members to be open to the vulnerability that can be attached to academic work, such as seeking and obtaining feedback on classroom management, teaching style, grant writing, research design, and other skills. Frontline Learning Research , 2 (2), 4–14. link] Pifer, M.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. Large language models 1 Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are complex algorithms developed through a type of machine learning called deep learning.

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Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When students see that these scientific discoveries impact society, it will help to make the connection between what they are learning in the classroom and the outside world. Project-Based Learning Project-based learning involves actively involving students in real-world scenarios and challenges. Here are a few ideas.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Two recent studies, both asking different research questions and using different methodologies, offer still more evidence that the relationship between teachers and students is an integral part of the learning experience. They also used a unique research design. References Grantham, A., Robinson, E. and Chapman, D.,

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2023

Students often enter undergraduate research-based courses feeling academically underprepared and/or intimidated by the task of understanding and presenting research to their peers and professionals. The courses that focus on research are foundational for social sciences majors. What were your personal learning goals?

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

It jumpstarted a moment in research for us. I will say the other good thing that I think came out of MOOCs.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. Large language models 1 Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are complex algorithms developed through a type of machine learning called deep learning.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 30, 2023

Pifer (2010) said, “Trust enables faculty members to be open to the vulnerability that can be attached to academic work, such as seeking and obtaining feedback on classroom management, teaching style, grant writing, research design, and other skills. Frontline Learning Research , 2 (2), 4–14. link] Pifer, M.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Future City challenges middle-school students to take four months to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future using the free platform SimCity. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Future City. When done, they build a scale model of their city and present it to a panel of judges.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

If education researchers hope to see more of their findings influence everyday learning and instruction—and they desperately do—then their best bet may be to encourage education technologists to hone their design research skills. Most interventions in educational research are not designed with educators in mind.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

I learned a great deal about strategic planning, budget models, and student success. Learn more about the program and future cohorts. In particular, I appreciated the wide-reaching presentations about all elements of higher education. Interested in the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Agile project management does this by minimizing the need to predict and maximize learning, postponing prediction and deciding just in time, predicting with less precision, and enabling adaptation. Learn more about the program and future cohorts. During COVID-19, higher education was forced to make a big change and adapt in real time.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Learn more about the program and future cohorts. Within the software, we have also created schedules around employee salaries to aid in annual increases and to see how this will impact the budget moving forward in our forecasts. Interested in the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Learn more about the program and future cohorts. Third opportunity : Identify growth areas that are in alignment with the university strategy and college strategic planning. Interested in the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Learn more about the program and future cohorts. Pluff and others participated in EAB’s Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship in fall 2022 Read more Explore EAB research BIT/CARE Team Assessment January 23, 2023 Higher Ed Employment Website Checklist January 17, 2023 What’s in a research designation?

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

As the budget tightened we needed to learn what student characteristics should we incorporate into the long-range budget plan to improve the forecasting precision of student enrollment. Learn more about the program and future cohorts. Feeding enrollments through this model resulted in forecasting errors of $1.9M

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Learn more about the program and future cohorts. Not only did this process push me to complete a necessary and impactful project, I learned so much from the sessions and from my peer group. Interested in the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship? I greatly appreciated the opportunity to be a Rising Higher Education Leader Fellow.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Learn more about the program and future cohorts. What we’ve learned from surveying 336 higher ed data users and stewards. The data strategy will guide the university in identifying which data are most important to track and how they should be collected, shared, and used. EAB Resources Dwyer, Maggie. 2022, July 29). EAB Infographics.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Learn more about the program and future cohorts. We have future-state mapping on the horizon and will be taking the lessons learned forward. Get Started Here's an example of one of our process maps: Click the image to view larger in a new window.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Public perception of higher ed value: How the public gets ROI wrong, and how that’s impacting your campus Student readiness and well-being: Reckoning with intersecting crises in youth mental health and unfinished learning The hybrid campus: Flexible work and the future of multi-modal campuses 1.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

There appeared to be an insufficient amount of funding to support shared research facilities, including a lack of specific funds for repairs or replacement of large (and usually expensive) research equipment. Learn more about the program and future cohorts. Interested in the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

Contact your Strategic Leader to learn more or schedule an expert consultation. Blueprint for Growth Blueprint for Growth is EAB’s signature, multi-year research initiative on the future of post-secondary enrollment, from undergraduate to graduate, domestic to international, and degree to alternative credentialing.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Answering that question through null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), which explores whether an intervention or product has an effect on the average outcome, undermines the ability to make sustained progress in helping students learn. There is minimal ability to build on research of this sort.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Shonkoff argued that breakthroughs in other medical fields offer inspiration for how early-childhood research can be more effective. In the neurosciences, findings in neuroplasticity and how stress shapes human development should inform how researchers design and test new interventions. Reflection Sciences , based in St.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2018

It kind of reminds people that we don’t all know everything and there’s a lot to be learned from diverse perspectives,” says Caroline Mehl, director of the Open Mind project, in an episode of Heterodox Academy's podcast. “It It’s an opportunity to learn from the other perspective and learn and find growth from it.”

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