Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. These design choices have noticeable implications.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. By looking at research into online learning and human development, we can begin to grapple with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Let’s start with the basics.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Now is the time to fully embrace how physical classrooms can be improved by online techniques. Making Learning Active Students, in particular, seem sold on the upsides of techniques they encountered during online learning. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. But are colleges paying attention to what online students want most?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

While traditional lecture-based sessions still exist, an increasingly common approach is to offer a dynamic range of opportunities–from hands-on workshops and interactive learning experiences to flexible, self-paced online learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Here are four areas we can start: Rapidly Train Our Teachers to Harness Tech Amid historic challenges, with no roadmap and often no experience in remote learning, educators worked tirelessly to keep students learning during the heigh of the pandemic. It’s one thing to learn about U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

Kevin Chu Chu: Online learning has been growing over the past decade. Remote learners miss out on many key elements of in-person learning when using the tools currently available. There's a lecture mode in UNIVERSE. And, with UNIVERSE as a solution, you can bring in an instructor or lecturer from a different country.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

The paper describes an experiment in which college students, some male and some female, each watched a short online slide presentation narrated by a computer-generated voice. All participants saw the same slides, but with one of four different voices: “happy female, sad female, happy male, and sad male.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Most MOOCs, despite the claims of innovation and disruption, consisted of video lectures and text-based assignments. Thus, the impression that most people have of online education is an attempt to create an online lecture. But there are powerful and exciting alternative.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

Spotty internet service makes remote learning hard for many college students. I Feel Ashamed’ To enjoy full access to digital textbooks, video software and other online learning systems, college students ideally would have their own, modern computers, according to Francis. So does lacking reliable access to a computer.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

A college has a better chance of establishing a helpful and productive learning environment if it invests in its students’ well-being. Some students prefer the energy of large lecture halls, while others thrive in small, discussion-based classes. What opportunities exist for study abroad, research, or experiential learning?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

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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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

That was driven home as I checked in with a handful of former colleagues from NYU Online and others—most now at other programs—to hear what advice they have for college leaders today. It met only once and was never invited to participate in the work of the wider committee.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The group held an invitation-only summit where they encouraged participants to identify projects that they can share with colleagues elsewhere. The day after each lecture, students in the course would receive a text message with a one-question multiple-choice quiz about a fact presented during that lecture.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Synchronous Works Better For Some Students Than For Others Holding an online class via a live video platform like Zoom or Google Meet can closely resemble an in-person classroom dynamic. The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

I remember scrambling to learn all I could about the features of Blackboard and reviewing all of my textbook’s eLearning-related ancillaries, assigning self-paced modules and online quizzes to my students. Reflecting on the process of shifting from on-campus to online teaching reminds me of a recent experience in my personal life.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

If you are simply going to lecture at students, they do not need to be in the same physical space as you. In fact, a recent study showed that in a HyFlex class, online students were more engaged and felt it was easier to ask questions during lectures compared to in-person students (University of Copenhagen, 2021).

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Being one of the first, and largest, online learning platforms in the world, Coursera has gained some insights from its 124 million-strong user base about what it really takes to help people succeed in its digital classes. She’s now completing an online MBA from Western Governors University (WGU). It creates a cadence.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 17, 2024

The Ask a Tech Teacher team dug into this: Building Community in Virtual High Schools As educators, we often hear concerns about the lack of socialization in online learning environments. Use the online format to bring diverse experiences to students. Virtual Field Trips and Guest Speakers. Social Media Integration.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

When the Sloan Foundation had the bright idea to stimulate digital education at the nation’s colleges and universities a quarter of a century ago, it christened online learning as “asynchronous learning networks,” an eccentric name for what is now known simply as online learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? Anastasia Betts, VP of Curriculum Planning & Design, Age of Learning. education system.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

Flipping the Classroom Professors who recorded video lectures for online learning during the pandemic are realizing they have a new resource at their disposal. For example, some students mistakenly assume that recorded lectures are “optional resources” rather than asynchronous assignments, Roeger says. Smith University.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Our approach with this MOOC is to provide university-style concept lectures with problem-solving strategies from expert AP physics teachers,” said award-winning Rice physicist Jason Hafner, who co-teaches the course with veteran high school AP physics teachers Gigi Nevils and Matt Wilson.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

And that has led to new teaching practices, mainly flipped classrooms where professors require students to watch video lectures for homework and use class time for more active discussions or hands-on activities. Video also has greater “bandwidth” for communication, than text discussion forums, adding images to audio.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2020

EdSurge: Did you experiment with online courses while you were leading Barnard College? So we set up this committee that I called the COOL committee—the Committee Of Online Learning. We asked, “How do you take a small women’s liberal arts college in Manhattan and how should we go online?” Debora Spar: Barnard is small.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2023

Startups are hard and I want to commend our participants for their decision to focus in this space to solve some of our communities’ biggest problems.” All contest participants and all other Michigan edtech innovators are eligible to attend a free Innovation Bootcamp the week of July 17.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

As Crisp said, “New degree programs should honor the knowledge and skill students bring to the table by eliminating lectures over content that is repetitive from other courses or life experiences.”. This approach improves access and learning as well when students play a role in the design of content, said some of the chat participants.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

Samson gave his students what he considered reasonable options: They could come to class, participate remotely during class time, or review recorded material and contribute to class discussions asynchronously, so long as it was on the same day as the class. Since then, though, “we learned that this is not the case,” Aoun said. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

EdSurge: I wanted to talk about online learning. I understand that for University of Central Florida, many of your online students are actually residential students taking a course or two online and the rest in traditional classrooms. They’re participating in student government. They don’t anymore.

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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. One effective teaching technique within active learning is problem-based learning (PBL).

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

If you are simply going to lecture at students, they do not need to be in the same physical space as you. In fact, a recent study showed that in a HyFlex class, online students were more engaged and felt it was easier to ask questions during lectures compared to in-person students (University of Copenhagen, 2021).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. However, delivering online education is crucial in this circumstance as it is really challenging to effectively engage students in the learning process.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Here’s what they had to say: The demand for online learning will continue to grow in 2022 and possibly lead to the creation of virtual schools, which would introduce new AR and VR learning processes. This will encourage ongoing communication and collaboration as students participate in meaningful, real-world STEM learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Providing courses to companies, and adults not enrolled in a full-time degree program, has long been a way for universities to extend their reach (and pockets) beyond the physical lecture hall. In 2013, MIT began offering online programs for working professionals to meet learners across the globe. says Piloto.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

They’ve been engaged, they’ve participated. This week’s podcast is brought to you by “The State of Online STEM Education'' an upcoming national survey of the online STEM landscape created by Every Learner Everywhere and Online Learning Consortium. The students] have not taken online classes before.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Overall, my top three recommended practices include: self-regulating strategies, video-based learning, and formative assessments. At their core, self-regulating strategies naturally support growth mindsets in the way they encourage independent learning practices. Proceedings of the European Conference on E-Learning , January, 726–30.

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