Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A recent Titan Partners survey found that students are eager to participate in on-campus courses with digitally embedded exercises. Students greatly favored hybrid options, and they preferred digital course materials over print textbooks. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With a majority of schools participating in distance learning this year, Schell Games announced its virtual reality education tool HistoryMaker VR is now available for free on Steam for all to use. HistoryMaker VR is an immersive content creation tool that helps students learn history in an entertaining and engaging way.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Students have more options to actively participate in their learning, instead of absorbing information from textbooks or teacher lectures. The introduction of digital whiteboards in classrooms has altered teachers’ and students’ roles.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to research , in a typical classroom lecture students will generally retain only five percent of the material presented. In most flipped classrooms, educators provide materials for students to review before class such as readings from textbooks, worksheets or videos.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. First, OpenStax came for textbooks. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Baraniuk recalls thinking.

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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. Others find it enriching to participate in online chat and polling.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

history in a textbook or online classroom, but it’s entirely another to visit the Statue of Liberty or the Lincoln Memorial and walk in the footsteps of those who changed history. “Parents and educators should take time to learn more about TikTok to understand the platform and how to reach kids where they are.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

All participants saw the same slides, but with one of four different voices: “happy female, sad female, happy male, and sad male.” And that did happen for male participants in the study, who did better on a post-video quiz about the material when a happy voice delivered the material than when a sad one did.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

College costs go beyond tuition–housing, meal plans, textbooks, and personal expenses add up. Some students prefer the energy of large lecture halls, while others thrive in small, discussion-based classes. A college that invests in academic excellence and career readiness can set you up for long-term success.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Traditional classroom settings are evolving, integrating tools and techniques that prioritize active participation and collaboration. Instead of delivering lectures in class and assigning homework, teachers provide pre-recorded lessons or materials for students to review at home.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

But even students who do have Wi-Fi and digital devices for schoolwork may not be able to fully participate in their courses if the technology they have is old, outdated or not powerful enough to handle the demands of today’s higher ed software and streaming services. So does lacking reliable access to a computer.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In fact, he predicted that the changes he’s experimenting with this semester might be jarring to students accustomed to lecture classes. His course expects a “new workflow,” he explains, since it uses adaptive courseware software, as well as a flipped classroom model where lectures are replaced with the interactive material.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. Yet she has had to do double the adapting of most full-time faculty. She thinks it went pretty well.)

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Interactive technologies and multimedia tools now replace traditional textbooks and lectures, creating more dynamic and engaging learning environments. Digital collaboration spaces encourage broader participation in classroom activities. This approach aligns with how modern students naturally process information.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2019

In the applied laboratory, we often use learning materials that are realistic, such as video lectures, portions of a textbook or diagrams. The way participants engage in the learning strategies is much more realistic, but we maintain control using the laboratory.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Over multiple semesters, more than 2,000 students voluntarily participated in IRB-approved surveys and follow-up interviews. Flexibility in format and modality such as recorded lectures, alternative assignments, or extended deadlinesmade students feel supported, capable, and seen. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

When colleges in the California State University system sent students home from campus in spring 2020, it quickly became clear that some students lacked reliable access to the internet or computers through which to participate in their pandemic-era emergency remote courses. The Practice May Be Here to Stay.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2024

With digital access, learning is no longer confined to textbooks and classroom materials. Teachers now integrate multimedia content like interactive simulations, virtual labs, and expert guest lectures from around the world. Students and parents can access resources and participate in educational activities from anywhere.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2018

For example, a professor might have to toggle between a learning management system ( LMS) for grading, an e-reader that delivers the textbook, a platform used to present information in class, an app that helps with student participation and a homework solution for out-of-class assignments.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. The Echo360 video platform use Amazon Transcribe to provide real-time transcriptions of lectures at the University of Michigan. Our system is also able to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide, automatically.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials. I first came into the open education field as an educator frustrated with many traditional textbooks in my discipline.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Join us in Houston, April 5-6, 2018 for the first Creator Fest , where educators and subject experts will collaborate to develop additional resources to use with OpenStax textbooks. ?. I like to start a series of lectures with a real-world scenario. The contextualized approach. Why should one learn this information? Check it out!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The days of checking books out of the library, traditional style lecturing, and writing papers with a pen are continuously becoming pastimes. Students can relate to media and technology, whether it be through watching or making videos with mysimpleshow , using apps on smartphones, or logging in to LMS systems to access their online textbook.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

At first, the university provided iPad Minis to incoming undergraduates and worked to build a library of custom electronic textbooks written by faculty members. I think this platform has allowed our faculty to experiment and do less lecturing and more digitizing of their content,” says Lynn’s CIO, Chris Boniforti. “As

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The educators sat through lectures on pedagogy, the finer points of math and how to apply it to actual biological problems. As part of that, the college instructors observed and taught lessons to teenagers participating in a summer program being hosted at the same time at Harvard. And I just find that really cool,” he adds.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

True, it has long since been time to transform the classroom from a boring place of black and white textbooks to a virtual experience filled with 21 st century tools and projects. The inclusive environment that makerspaces provide results in a sense of community for participating students and functions as a safe place for gathering feedback.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

As he lectured, he would randomly pick names from the stack to call on students. My flipped classroom is not just about having students watch videos at home and do textbook work in class. When I was in grad school, I had a teacher who carried a stack of name cards around the room. That class was a nightmare for me.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Within these walls, knowledge transcends textbooks, as discussions, debates, and collaborations spark deeper understanding. 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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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

For example, when MIT changed its freshman physics class from a model of hundreds of students listening passively to lectures in an auditorium to a model of smaller, interactive classes that emphasized hands-on, collaborative learning, it found that attendance increased and that the failure rate dropped more than 50 percent. Related Posts.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning. This can be a real challenge for procrastinators, multitaskers, responsibility jugglers and anyone tempted to half-listen to a lecture while scrolling through social media—in other words, many people.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Thus, posing questions before new lectures will encourage richer connections to the learning experience by fostering self-questioning, which has been seen as strongly associated with enhanced student achievement (Hailikari et al., He also lectured in the Biology and Human Health Sciences Department at The College of Lake County.

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Instructors Lecturing Learning Textbooks 111

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Among examples of technologies that improve student learning is interactive whiteboards, which enable teachers to create interactive lessons, annotate content, and encourage student participation through touch and gesture-based interactions. This fosters engagement by allowing students to actively participate in the learning process.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics.

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