Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

For nearly four decades, Perry Samson didn’t see many students’ hands raised in his large lecture courses. “I In reality, they probably had questions but were afraid to ask them.” Your sense of identity is already kind of questioned because there are so few of you.” We believe part of that is a lack of identity,” Samson says.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

When third-year students in strategy classes at BI Norwegian Business School have a question about their assignments next semester, odds are a robot will provide their answer. Students have a lot of the same questions over and over again. Assisting the Teaching Assistants. They’re afraid of being judged.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

or middle China, you will see one teacher and 50 students, or 20 students, each behind a desk, raising their hands, and the teacher lecturing. But the lecturing should be done by the masters. It should be getting a physics lecturer from the Nobel prize winner, who also is a great teacher. Lectures should be given by masters.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Meanwhile students are setting up unofficial online channels of their own, where they can ask questions of classmates, gripe about the professor and sometimes share homework and test answers. I loved it,” she says, noting that the students got to know each other by asking questions like what they planned to do next year.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The questions that remain concern which of these resources are available and how can they continue to help students. MORE FROM EDTECH: CSee how schools use virtual reality to improve assistive learning programs. Blended Learning Programs Improve the Learning Without the Lecture. At Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C.,

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In contrast, the ungraded, complex assignments I encountered in college allowed me to struggle through difficult concepts, ask questions, and refine my understanding in a way that simply wasnt possible in high school. I cant recall a single homework assignment that was easier than a test question. The struggle was the entire point.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. A video demo of the latest version of ChatGPT tutoring a student that went viral on YouTube has brought fresh attention to this question.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

These self-paced teams watch recordings of the professor and pair up with teaching assistants for about five live sessions—a necessary alteration to make the program free, given that mentor professors are paid by Pioneer for their time. This is not a research program,” Jaskol clarifies. Sweden, China, Brazil.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

Key points: This pivot presents a remarkable opportunity for teachers and society at large AI is changing the role of teaching assistants Navigation and guidance in the age of AI: 5 trends to watch For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Picture your favorite teacher from your childhood.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. The final consideration for developing an asynchronous guest lecture is the “shelf-life” of a video.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2025

I refined my TPS process after attending Jeremy Rentzs workshop Put Your Hammer Down (detailed in the Best of the 2021 Teaching Professor Conference ). I thought about how to get my students to do more work in my large lecture-based classes. His key idea was The person doing the learning is the person doing the work.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. When we teach large classes, what approaches can we employ that will have a greater opportunity to engage students and help students learn more?

Learning 163

Learning Students Assignments Participation 163

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. The final consideration for developing an asynchronous guest lecture is the “shelf-life” of a video.

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Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 110

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

We also asked faculty who were using AI to share how it impacted their teaching and learning. Some faculty expressed that using AI tools has significantly reduced the time spent on creating lecture materials, allowing them more time to focus on creating engaging and exciting student activities. Look no further.

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Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

We also asked faculty who were using AI to share how it impacted their teaching and learning. Some faculty expressed that using AI tools has significantly reduced the time spent on creating lecture materials, allowing them more time to focus on creating engaging and exciting student activities. Look no further.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2025

I refined my TPS process after attending Jeremy Rentzs workshop Put Your Hammer Down (detailed in the Best of the 2021 Teaching Professor Conference ). I thought about how to get my students to do more work in my large lecture-based classes. His key idea was The person doing the learning is the person doing the work.

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Lecturing Teaching Assistants Discussions Activities 80

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. To use Gradescope, a grader scans exams or assignments into the platform and each question is given a rubric.

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Grades Exams Instructors Feedback 92

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Students in smaller classes often feel more comfortable asking questions and engaging in discussions, fostering a collaborative learning environment.

Teaching 91

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 91

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

There's the option of just directly approaching them with an immediate concern or question. Then actively pick sometime within their lecture to say, "Here's a summary of the collection of the feedback I've received, here's what I would do based on this feedback." We have a question from one of our attendees right now, Jerry Reed.

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Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 118

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Students in smaller classes often feel more comfortable asking questions and engaging in discussions, fostering a collaborative learning environment.

Teaching 87

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 87

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

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. Meanwhile, a human teaching assistant monitored any replies that students sent back to the chatbot. Are we part of the problem?”

Student Engagement 194

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 194

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

As English professors and educational developers, we think this question is essential when creating a sense of belonging for all students. For example, invite them to informally share their experiences, goals, concerns, and questions with you and their classmates. Certainly, videos are one means of doing this, as is audio.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Additionally, the tablet has Bluetooth, so I am able to carry on a lecture while walking around the classroom monitoring students as they take notes or work through problems. Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom.

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Shiva Kintali: As a teaching assistant at Georgia Tech and while teaching at Princeton, I developed an interest in helping my students learn mathematical concepts in a fun and intuitive way. I observed that students have different readiness levels, but the way we teach is week-by-week lectures with homework.

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Textbooks Intelligence Math Beliefs 102

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some online students might view the lecture on a tablet or phone where these details are lost. You can get that kind of feedback from your own in-person and remote audience just by remembering to stop frequently and ask for questions or comments, or just to pause to find out if everyone can see or read the visual material you’re presenting.

Feedback 105

Feedback Minute Papers Mobile Devices Discussions 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

As English professors and educational developers, we think this question is essential when creating a sense of belonging for all students. For example, invite them to informally share their experiences, goals, concerns, and questions with you and their classmates. Certainly, videos are one means of doing this, as is audio.

Culture 98

Culture Communication Writing Languages 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Additionally, the tablet has Bluetooth, so I am able to carry on a lecture while walking around the classroom monitoring students as they take notes or work through problems. Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 294

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. As I ask Maria Bot questions, Barry taps a button on his smartphone to cue her to listen.

Teachers 152

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 152

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

Even allowing for the famously low completion rates of MOOCs, it still means that hundreds of thousands of people have sat through lecture videos by Ng. In other words, Andrew Ng probably teaches more people than anyone else on the planet, putting him in a position to have an unprecedented impact on an emerging field. (The

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Teaching Laboratory Textbooks Intelligence 132

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

After turning their webcams on, which the program requires, they hit the “join lecture” button to enter a Zoom call with a cheerful instructor who appeared in high-definition, and who said he was calling in from Florida. Additionally, Shorelight hired local, bilingual teaching assistants to staff its student studios.

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