Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

“It’s one of the easiest things to do to really understand what that environment looks like, feels like and behaves like,” says Kerry Rice, a professor at Boise State University who has studied effective online learning.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

I like to compare the teacher’s work designing learning experiences to the work of an architect. In my new book with Dr. Katie Novak, UDL and Blended Learning , I share a story about working with an architect to design a new home after my family lost our house in the Tubbs Fire in 2017. 1 Get To Know Your Students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Similarly, in their earliest days, online courses were basically lectures and readings made digital. The interactive medium was used for one-way communication, from teacher to student. Television turned popular radio programs into TV shows like “The Lone Ranger,” “Life of Riley,” and “Jack Benny.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

deLaplante: I started creating videos as an extension of my classroom teaching—some version of the flipped classroom where you're doing lectures all the time, you're doing the same intros to this figure, or whatnot. One thing that happened is that the academic institutions all bought into online courses. Is it sustainable?

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2015

A new, intuitive platform lets educators design their online courses—easily. As an educator, it’s hard to please today’s tech-savvy students with PowerPoints and lecture-on-video—but those are exactly the kinds of tools available for educators who don’t have time to learn online learning design 101.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Teachers got a crash course in creating video content when schools shifted online. They relied on videos out of necessity to explain concepts and model strategies while students learned from home. As teachers transitioned back into classrooms, many abandoned video in favor of live instruction.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Recently, a teacher posted a comment to my blog lamenting that direct instruction consumed much of the class period. Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. This is not unusual.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2020

In an Enriched Virtual arrangement, students complete the majority of coursework online at home or outside of school, but attend school for required face-to-face learning sessions with a teacher a few times a week. Combining independent online learning with face-to-face instruction.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Teachers spend hours designing and setting up their classrooms. They know that when it comes to learning and productivity, space matters. One of EdSurge’s most popular articles described how a teacher used flexible seating to create a classroom that resembled Starbucks, spawning a movement to “ Starbucks your classroom. ”

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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. Yep, he had no pants on.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Why Would a Teacher Use the Flipped Classroom Model? First, let’s establish the value of the flipped classroom in case you have never used this blended learning model. Moving practice and application into the classroom provides students with peer and teacher support as they attempt to apply new information.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2018

Ubiquitous access to technology means that acquiring knowledge is no longer dependent solely on a classroom teacher. Consequently, students are not interested in sitting through lectures only to be required to regurgitate information back to the teacher on a test. The case for blending and online learning.

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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.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Even back in 2001, an in-depth study of an online-education effort at the State University of New York reported that most faculty who taught remotely found the techniques they discovered online positively impacted their campus instruction when they returned to the classroom. None of our class time was given to me delivering lectures.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In an Enriched Virtual arrangement, students complete the majority of coursework online at home or outside of school, but attend school for required face-to-face learning sessions with a teacher a few times a week. Combining independent online learning with face-to-face instruction.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The conversation has quickly shifted from whether technology should be used in learning to how we can use it to improve learning and ensure that all students have access to high-quality educational experiences. But it’s not the fault of teachers – they weren’t trained for remote instruction. We can’t wait for the next pandemic.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Beyond that, educators and others have pointed out additional disparities in the amount of face time students have with teachers and peers, and insufficient accommodations for students with disabilities. ISTE Live is slated to have an inspiring start.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

But Kevin Chu, director of ViewSonic, purports a 3D immersive environment fosters healthy social interactions while reducing learning barriers for any kind of learning that happens online. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chu about how a metaverse application benefits both teachers and students. Teachers love that feature.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

In 2024, this momentum will continue, bringing forth new edtech, innovative teaching approaches, and inspiring learning spaces. This year, schools are directing their energy towards supporting teacher well-being and reengaging students through innovative learning spaces and edtech.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2019

According to LinkedIn’s 2018 Workforce Learning Report, 93 per cent of employees would stay at a company longer if their employers invested in their careers. Continued professional development (CPD) is something that a lot of employees, including teachers, are keen to invest their time and energy into. Online learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. I took a very similar approach when I taught online at The New School in Manhattan a few years ago.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

He points to research that shows that some students learn better from male instructors, while others learn better from female ones. Sarin compared a white professor having a computer agent deliver their lecture video in a “Black voice” to a performer in blackface. One possible solution? Devising a “genderless” virtual voice.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

In 2024, this momentum will continue, bringing forth new edtech, innovative teaching approaches, and inspiring learning spaces. This year, schools are directing their energy towards supporting teacher well-being and reengaging students through innovative learning spaces and edtech.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

(Credit: Mike Zetlow) I know from my year teaching at VIPKid that students can learn online , a conclusion researchers have also reached. This online learning model doesn’t work for every child, but it is right for some. Create online teaching positions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

Dear Teachers, Last week, the two of us had a conversation about school leaders who would be leading and making decisions related to the spread of COVID-19. That conversation turned into a set of guidelines that we published first with Global Online Academy and later with EdSurge. You can record lectures. And more lectures.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

Thoughts about online proctoring have been taking up more of my time and energy than I’d like to admit. Rather than spending most of my time time helping people become better online teachers, I have been figuring out how to meet two competing objectives: increase online course offerings and avoid adopting an online proctoring system.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

As university professors and researchers who work closely with K-12 online teachers and learners, we’ve heard from many newly remote educators who are struggling. Some teachers report that their students lack interest and in the worst cases, that students are dropping from classes entirely.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

That’s the view of Arthur Levine, in a new book called “ The Great Upheaval: Higher Education’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future ,” which he co-wrote with Scott Van Pelt, a lecturer and associate director of the Communication Program for the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

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. You do need a device that is fairly new—not more than five years old. I do not have money for a new or used one, and it is extremely slow.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2017

By Tommy Peterson The innovative learning model involves making videos for students to view at home, so class time is spent interacting.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

“Those weekly face-to-face sessions are as much about seeing people’s faces—seeing how tired they look, seeing how engaged they are in the material, seeing all of those kinds of things, and having that back and forth—as it is learning new content together,” she noted. In a 2010 meta-analysis of online-learning research compiled by the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 28, 2020

Corona virus has been difficult not just for teachers and students but for parents. Here are thoughtful suggestions on how to make that work from Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Emily, from over at My Tech Classroom. Today, she’s focused her considerable experience on how parents and teachers can support remote teaching.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

While the authors of the 2017 National Educational Technology Plan recommended that, “every new teacher should be prepared to model how to select and use the most appropriate apps and tools to support learning and evaluate these tools against basic privacy and security standards,” this has not come to fruition.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools. Mobiliya Edvelop, a digital classroom platform , is delivering remote lectures to rural schools in some corners of the world — providing tablets that help rural students tap into lessons taught in urban areas.

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