eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2018

Districts around the country are moving away from teaching models based on lectures and textbooks—but transition isn’t always simple. As the director of curriculum, I help students answer the age-old question, “Why do I need to know this?” Caroline Messenger, director of curriculum at Naugatuck Public Schools.

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APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. As a result, your role involves creating a learning atmosphere that encourages questioning and exploration.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online. 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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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A new survey of K-8 teachers and students from LEGO Education found that nearly all (98%) of students say purposeful play helps them learn and the majority (96%) of teachers believe it’s more effective than traditional methods like lectures or textbooks. said Dr. Jenny Nash, Head of Education Impact, U.S. for LEGO Education.

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APRIL 23, 2025

Making Math Fun for Young Students Turn Math into Learning Stations Textbooks alone wont cut it for young learners, they need movement, hands-on activities, and variety. It also takes the stress out of flipping through a textbook and brings math to life. Learning stations are a great way to keep them engaged.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There is no question that edtech has brought new ways to support the learning process and was used extensively by schools to connect remotely to students who could not attend classes in-person during the worst parts of the pandemic. Hate it or love – technology in education is here to stay. Parents can feel it, and the numbers back them up.

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JUNE 22, 2023

The plan is to train Jill Watson on the specific materials of any course it is being used for, by feeding in the text of lecture videos and slides, as well as the contents of the textbook. It can do some verification,” is how Goel puts it. Those courses enroll between 100 and 370 students each.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In that light, the obvious question is, “Why blend?” If some of the more rote sorts of lessons (think lectures, reviewing math facts, etc.) Parents remember bells ringing, textbooks, and the teacher as ultimate authority. Parents remember bells ringing, textbooks, and the teacher as ultimate authority.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Finally, if a teacher isnt an engaging presenter, the lecture is likely even worse on video than in person. More than three-quarters (77 percent) of teachers who relied on curriculum outside of textbooks created their own materials in 2023, and that pattern is likely to continue.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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MAY 17, 2022

Record lectures so students can review them at their convenience. Another great way to use technology for exam prep is to record your lectures so that students can review them at their convenience. Supplement traditional textbooks with digital versions that can be accessed online. –Image credit Deposit Photos.

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APRIL 27, 2023

The tech itself raises a host of challenging questions. And he suggests that in the future students may be able to choose the “gender” and “race” of the interactive agent delivering a lecture or serving as their AI tutor, much as people today can select the gender and accent of the Siri assistant on their iPhone.

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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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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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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Joseph Ching, a junior at Purdue University, says many of his professors have warned students not to use sites like Chegg, where students are posting homework and quiz questions and getting answers from tutors. is a student will post a graded question in its entirety to Chegg.com,” she adds. Students pay for a subscription of $14.99

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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. Blended Learning Programs Improve the Learning Without the Lecture. There is no doubt that the marriage of online and physical classroom experiences is a boon for K–12 educators and students.

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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.

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MARCH 11, 2019

In this system, students choose from a menu of content delivery options (textbook, downloadable study guides, lectures) and interaction options (in-person or online). Creating modules, one step at a time In 2002, Robertson began to “chunk” his long lectures into short videos, each focusing on a specific topic.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

With teachers, parents, administrators, taxpayers, politicians, employers, academics and students themselves all concerned about learning success, it is no surprise that the questions asked and answers proposed about which education practices are best differ widely.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

It’s a question that some higher education instructors have asked before, and one that two Penn State University educators sought to answer on Wednesday at this year’s EDUCAUSE conference in Denver. BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Textbook format and cost mattered. But it takes intentionality.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Fred Singer: The question that struck me was, ‘how could it be that kids—born to a generation in which smart phones and laptops are a part of their everyday existence—have to sit in a classroom where someone just talks to them?’ And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The same problems that hinder learning when using textbooks occur when using videos. Lack of variety -not related to the content but the format: video, text, website, lecture, and so on. . In textbooks, for instance, elements to facilitate memorization are frequent. There’s no doubt, it’s frustrating for anyone.

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APRIL 14, 2022

One model that seems to be working well, says Frizell, is one where a tutor is embedded in a large lecture class, an approach called the “ supplemental instruction program.” “If Supplemental instruction programs embed a student tutor in a large lecture class. We’re teaching students how to read their textbooks.

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JUNE 26, 2018

That’s a separate issue from the question of how we structure our education system so we are optimally meeting the kids where they are. We were reading textbooks in black and white. The question is how do educators meet them halfway. Is it ADHD if they can’t pay attention to a boring lecture? It’s an interesting question.

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JUNE 19, 2018

In some ways a key question for MOOCs, even after all these years, is: Can other subjects be delivered online as well as computer science? Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at Yale, recorded lectures for her Science of Well-Being MOOC in her home. Self-help courses might be one viable competitor.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

That ruffled feathers early on, particularly as professors claimed copyright over their lecture and test materials, and said that services like these made it easier for students to cheat. Sharing clearly copyrighted print or digital materials is a no-go, as is posting a verbatim transcription of a lecture, says Grauer.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook. That’s a good point. Be yourself.

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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. To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates.

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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. Another highly effective technique is inquiry-based learning.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

So, the big question for me as an educator is: how can I ensure that learning is meaningful and help my students to connect more deeply with any learning activity? I really want to see my students connect with the topic and ask more and more questions as they immerse themselves in the learning. The contextualized approach.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

From traditional tools like textbooks and whiteboards to innovative technologies and instructional strategies, these resources shape the classroom learning environment and promote academic success. One method is direct instruction, where teachers deliver content through lectures, demonstrations, and guided practice.

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JULY 13, 2019

As he lectured, he would randomly pick names from the stack to call on students. As teachers, we see it every day: Some students are less likely to raise their hand when they have a question or an answer to provide. Technology has helped me answer those questions. That class was a nightmare for me.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Desks lined up, students facing forward, teacher up at the front giving a lecture. You see pictures of kids from 20 years ago, where they are sitting in rows with a textbook and a teacher is still standing in the front of the room. And then, to hear these things–these three questions that I hear asked in modern classrooms.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. At the time I made my OER commitment, there were limited open textbook options available. After bouncing around a few, I finally settled on OpenStax , a free online textbook platform through Rice University.

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APRIL 10, 2017

Rather than rush to catch up, he opted to move through the textbook at his own pace so he could truly understand the concepts. It also sparked his belief that textbooks could evolve from something static into more fluid resources that adapt to students’ readiness levels. Kintali’s answer to the evolution of the textbook is.

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