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. Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles.

Textbooks

Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As students move into middle and high school , it becomes increasingly challenging for them to maintain excitement and enthusiasm for subjects like math and science. Here we’ll explore a few key areas to help you make science class more appealing so your older students will get excited about science class again.

Science

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Little did I know that by 2019 I would find a way to apply the data science strategies I learned as a geologist to bring joy and engagement back to my classroom. This Class is Unfair The pivotal class I was teaching at the time was a physical science course, consisting of three sections of 15 to 17 eighth graders. Anonymous student.

Feedback

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.

Instructors

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

Goel, a professor of computer science and human-centered computing at the university leading the creation of Jill Watson, devised an unusual plan. 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.

Teaching Assistants

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.

Exams

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2019

That’s because researchers from the fields of psychology, education and learning sciences apply the tools of science to distinguish what works from what doesn’t. I am a cognitive psychologist, which means that I use science to study mental processes. Cognitive science alone won’t improve student outcomes.

Laboratory

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

Coding And Self-Help Courses Dominate Most of the top MOOCs (13 of the 20 courses) involve teaching computer science or some kind of coding. 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? We’re counting the crypto-currency tech course.)

Teaching

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

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.

Lecturing

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Blended Learning Programs Improve the Learning Without the Lecture. However, educators have expanded its use to cover a wide variety of subjects, such as biology and computer science , creating lesson plans more engaging than simply reading from a textbook or tablet. At Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C.,

Technology

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning tools like textbooks and whiteboards to innovative techniques such as flipped classrooms and educational software, these resources aim to optimize educational outcomes and engage students effectively. What are tools and techniques in education?

Textbooks

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.

Teaching

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.

Study

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. Thousands of students go through the university’s life sciences department, he adds, but a lot of them don’t graduate with degrees in those fields.

Math

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

He’s also the founder of the Center for Science and Law, which studies how advances in brain science can shape the legal system (although his work also focuses on brain plasticity, or how we learn and absorb new information). We were reading textbooks in black and white. That’s not ADHD, that’s just a boring lecture.

Lecturing

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The proliferation of educational apps and online resources has expanded learning beyond the confines of textbooks. The science of reading is another big piece of modern education. Information access: The internet and digital resources connect students with a vast array of information beyond traditional textbooks.

Learning Styles

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.

Textbooks

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

While studying computer science at the. 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.

Textbooks

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

Mobile Devices

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.

Active Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Clutch Prep calls themselves “the video version of textbooks” but really, that doesn’t give you the full flavor of what they offer. Their academic how-to videos are textbook-specific so you pick the ones used in your classes, even by your teacher. Videos cover each chapter and can be used as a preview or review.

Textbooks

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.

Instructors

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.

Textbooks

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

By adopting the adaptive tool, we were able to completely integrate the lab and lecture during the class meeting times. Kathy Watkins: Within the science division, approximately 15 CPCC courses are experimenting adaptive tools. We also replaced the $150 textbook we were using with open education resources (OER).

Lecturing

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

We can’t build something and throw it over the fence and expect it to work in your context,” Richard Scheines, dean of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, told the audience of leaders from colleges around the U.S. They’ve developed the process and tools, and they’ve refined those and collected data.

Learning

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.

Learning

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

At this year’s SXSWedu, the annual education technology conference in Austin, Texas, he heard from provosts at large public university systems in states including Florida and Maryland commit to phasing out textbooks in favor of creating in-house online courseware design teams. Yer Dror-Naim isn’t shy about jumping the gun.

Teachers

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

What’s different: The campus will have no classrooms and no lectures. The college is moving away from textbooks to free open-source online materials. The goal is to create a major research university from scratch, but one that breaks down traditional disciplinary barriers and focuses more on experiential and project-based learning.

Laboratory

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

Fitting with the conference’s theme this year around improvement science, Heath’s talk started off with a lesson in psychology, in particular around what and why people remember. Heath also called upon college and university instructors to think about ways their lessons can leave a lasting memory on students.

Instructors

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.

Study

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications bring subjects to life by immersing students in virtual environments or overlaying digital content onto the real world, enhancing understanding in subjects like science, history, and geography. Educational apps and software play a crucial role in diversifying instructional methods.

Technology

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.

Instructors

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. Leaders at institutions that specialize in online higher ed know this.

Student Engagement

Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

For example, students learn about metal absorption, evolution of plant species, and trait adaptation in science by engaging in real-world hydroponics and phytoremediation projects. And so on… The work that East Campus students do isn’t sitting at a desk regurgitating facts from a textbook.

Students

k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

This community produces short, impactful educational content on everything from science facts to mental health tips. The catchy format, music, and visual effects activate episodic memory, helping information stick better than a dry textbook paragraph. Expect your feed to fill up with other science hacks and tutorials.

Online Learning

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

From Curiosity to Campuswide Inquiry The project began in two large general education courses I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: FSHN 101: The Science of Food and FSHN 120: Contemporary Nutrition. Textbook format and cost mattered. Students appreciated transparency and choice when it came to required materials.

Disabilities

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

They may consult the textbook or lecture notes. Razmus Kerwin, Missouri University of Science and Technology. I remind them that opinions are often subjective and fluid, but that grades should be based on objective standards and identified best practices. Putting students in the position of an evaluator helps to challenge them.

Instructors