Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Given this reality in which AI can provide and synthesize information for and to our students at their requests in seconds, it is not completely paranoid to ask the question, What can we, as college instructors, offer our students in the age of AI? that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. Saucier, Ph.D.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

One half is described as entrepreneurial, image-conscious and highly motivated. Jeff LeBlanc (image courtesy of Jeff LeBlanc) I’m a business and leadership lecturer, and I’ve worked with Gen Z since the earliest wave entered higher education. Younger ones have been forced to question it more openly.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. Studies show that students in remote settings often feel isolated, which can lead to decreased motivation and engagement.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. The fundamental question becomes: How can educators plan for and deliver instructional content that is relatable and meaningful?

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

From a young age, I was captivated by a single question: “Can learning be more meaningful than memorization?” I grew up in Vietnam at a time when education was often delivered through rigid lectures and rote learning. This kind of structured choice fosters agency and motivation.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. “You want just enough to get people motivated, but not so much that people feel anxious,” Blunt explains. “Present students with a multiple choice question.” ” Rivers explains.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

is a question that has reverberated from the minds of learners for decades. Notice that for Tara and Tim, completing any of these tasks without any other coursework, reading, video lectures, tutorials, or information would be a challenge. Tara describes how she uses psychological motivation techniques with her team of employees.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Some questioned whether they even belonged on a college campus, said UC Riverside Dean of Students Christine Mata. A professor lectures students during class at Sacramento State University on Oct. One of her few in-person classes was a math course, but it was held in a large lecture hall and required students to wear masks. “I

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

Over a series of three meetings, my architect asked me countless questions about what I wanted in a home and how I used the space. This is a critical shift if we want to cultivate expert learners who are resourceful, strategic, and motivated. In much the same way, teachers must get to know their students.

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Blended Learning Learning Lecturing Motivation 518

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

First, online interactions for children have to be fun, not lecture-like. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. The idea is to keep learners motivated in a class. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. No one wants to be at the bottom of a leaderboard.

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Gamification Motivation Game-Based Learning Math 205

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Instead, teachers must strive to design student-centered learning experiences that challenge the students to think, discuss, problem-solve, collaborate, question, create, and reflect. A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. What did they do well?

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. Instructors can have biases toward picking particular students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

That’s the view of Jesse Stommel, a digital learning fellow and senior lecturer at the University of Mary Washington. “I Studies suggest, for example, that grades can frustrate students’ intrinsic motivation and make them more focused on how they’ll be measured than on the material they should be studying.

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Grades Questions Instructors Motivation 216

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Each factor plays a role in shaping various academic achievements: Prior knowledge of the subject matter Motivation and engagement Learning goals Learning strategies Prioritization of the course Outside responsibilities College students take a course for various reasons, for example, to meet a major or minor requirement or for personal interest.

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Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 126

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

So then, why do so many educators lecture and click through PowerPoints for 30-,40-, or even 60-minutes at a time with no breaks or learning activities? Reflecting on my experiences as a student, I know how tough it is to pay attention during these longer lectures and wish instructors had a different way to deliver them.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

So then, why do so many educators lecture and click through PowerPoints for 30-,40-, or even 60-minutes at a time with no breaks or learning activities? Reflecting on my experiences as a student, I know how tough it is to pay attention during these longer lectures and wish instructors had a different way to deliver them.

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 97

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Students can see and experience the relevance of what they are learning, which can have a profound impact on their motivation and comprehension. If traditional teaching methods reliant on textbooks, lecture, and rote memorization have proven anything, it’s that one size definitely does not fit all. Try, fail, learn, repeat.

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Teaching Methods Lecturing Schools Beliefs 297

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Each factor plays a role in shaping various academic achievements: Prior knowledge of the subject matter Motivation and engagement Learning goals Learning strategies Prioritization of the course Outside responsibilities College students take a course for various reasons, for example, to meet a major or minor requirement or for personal interest.

Motivation 111

Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 111

eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2017

In fact, he has seen achievement gains that are three times greater than what he experienced when he used to lecture. In Professor Mazur’s process, students first take an assessment alone; then, they are placed together in small groups to discuss those same questions and decide what the right answers are and why.

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Achievement Teachers Middle School Middle School 258

eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

The “Bored Board” can help give students options and eliminate the question, “ I’m done, now what? Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting! Wrong Answers Only: Have students come up with the best wrong answers to a question.

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Critical Thinking Middle School Middle School Lecturing 305

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Bored Board can help give students options and eliminate the question, I’m done, now what? Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting! Wrong Answers Only: Have students come up with the best wrong answers to a question.

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Students Critical Thinking Lecturing Culture 280

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

If you’re unsure where to begin, ask the chatbot for help brainstorming lesson ideas and then ask follow-up questions until you get something you can use. Questions such as these can help guide the conversation: What do you need to learn about AI, and how can you gain that knowledge? Engage in the conversation.

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Intelligence Education Ethics Lecturing 335

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Focus on learning more about the student’s goals and motivations, and look into potential professors before the semester starts. When trying to figure out the best major for a prospective student, focus on understanding their needs and motivations. What questions keep them up at night? million more over their entire lifetime.

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Students Beliefs Motivation Lecturing 261

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Then classroom time can be used to fix student misconceptions, with a mix of a short lecture and student activities.

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Students are introduced to data-science terms and asked to answer questions based on the map, which Wong calls “knowledge checks.” That really motivated our focus toward middle school teachers and students,” Wong says. “We Our project helps teachers to motivate their students and … helps with learning simple statistical methods.”

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Middle School Middle School Motivation Lecturing 212

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

That’s the question that San Francisco State University professor David Pena Guzman is facing during the pandemic, when, as at so many colleges, his teaching has shifted online. “I And so there is this massive question mark hovering over several people in my roster, and I’m just not sure what to do.” If so, how?

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Lecturing Students Motivation Assignments 208

eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

So the question becomes: What kinds of spaces naturally lend themselves to drawing out, rather than pushing in? These are the questions of an educational space designer. In this space, educators are not positioned as lecturers, at the front of a class. The cultivation of the student, the child, the learner is all that matters.

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Learning Spaces Learning Game-Based Learning Teaching Methods 279

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. Building skills and confidence As I had hoped, the class learned more efficiently and enthusiastically about STEAM topics through this hands-on learning approach than they would have from my standard PowerPoint presentations and lectures.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

The crucial question that has emerged is: how do we engage learners when we are not together physically? There isn’t one solution for increasing learner engagement and motivation. K-12 learners need the support of a caring adult to build executive functioning, manage their workload and maintain motivation.

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Motivation Education Learning Feedback 218

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

It’s going to be a thinking and writing partner in multiple languages,” he says, typing questions into the chatbot on his iPad. I’ve done courses before where there wasn’t much of a structure, and I wasn’t motivated to finish them,” says Garg. CoRise, though, actually makes learners pencil live lectures into their calendars. “It

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Coaching Lecturing Motivation Assignments 195

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 329

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Often, that meant moving completely away from replicating in-person, lecture-based models online. The expectation of the students was to digest these lessons while also learning to be resourceful, structure and ask questions and collaborate with their peers—things we have always valued in our programs.

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Education Learning Lecturing Feedback 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

Record lectures so students can review them at their convenience. Another great way to use technology for exam prep is to record your lectures so that students can review them at their convenience. His main mission is to make the classroom innovative and students motivated. –Image credit Deposit Photos.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

They motivate and guide their students to accomplish their goals. Since we’ve discovered that teaching is mostly about motivation, that matters because for faculty, motivation was usually not the primary problem. This fitness coach knows about equipment, knows about your body but mostly they get paid because they’re motivators.

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Coaching Lecturing Teachers Motivation 141

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called “ How Humans Learn.” Eyler: That is the perennial question. And so when you talk about critiques of the lecture style of teaching, you group that under a practice that lacks authenticity. EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science?

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

It’s not at all an easy shift to make overnight, particularly for those who aren’t used to sitting on a computer recording or listening to lectures. But in the midst of all of this, we’re learning and experimenting together on how best to engage and motivate students and teachers online. Heck, I don’t even like doing that.

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Online Learning Lecturing Learning Coaching 187

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

The plan is to train Jill Watson on the specific materials of any course it is being used for, by feeding in the text of lecture videos and slides, as well as the contents of the textbook. “Jill Watson is the intermediary,” Goel tells EdSurge. Those courses enroll between 100 and 370 students each.

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