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Do Instructional Videos Work Better When the Teacher is On Screen? It Depends.

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As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. But it turns out that just having a professor’s face on the screen isn’t always a benefit. It’s a complicated problem,” he says.

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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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At least, that’s according to a randomized study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Science. The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement. Its conclusion?

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

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that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. Saucier has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and is a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and the Midwestern Psychological Association.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. For her, that meant reducing the amount of lecture time and spending part of class sessions on team-based projects. “It

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How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research

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Other people do sort of mini-lectures as podcasts and give them to their students. And for that to be counted as such, people are also going to want to subject it to the rigor of different forms of peer review. People actually are really hungry, thirsty, for deep dives into complex topics. And that's the problem.

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Enhancing Face-to-Face Education: Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Student Success? 

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Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference.  Easy access to lecture materials and study guides added to their convenience.  The method of organization does not really matter as long as it is user-friendly.

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How Improving Student Feedback and Teaching Data Science Restored Our Classroom Culture

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Lack of Agency over Learning: "I felt that you didn't teach us anything in class.with so many students telling you we learn better with lectures, I feel you are ignoring our feedback and just taking the easier path." Students use peer feedback to quickly revise their work and pose at least one question before I provide in-app feedback.

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