Lab to Class

JULY 3, 2025

We have all seen the stereotypical portrayal of the traditional school setting where a teacher stands at the front of the classroom and spends the entirety of class time giving a lecture and asking questions of the students. These types of videos are better than just a single person talking about a topic.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Jeff LeBlanc (image courtesy of Jeff LeBlanc) I’m a business and leadership lecturer, and I’ve worked with Gen Z since the earliest wave entered higher education. It’s a neat storyline — and it makes for a great headline. But from where I sit — in a college classroom, year after year — it’s not that simple.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Students in higher education also deserve nurturing spaces that focus on utilizing their personalized strengths and needs to foster increased academic and social development. A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led.

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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. Changing Student Expectations Given the rapid evolution of technology and educational methods, student expectations have shifted considerably in recent years.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 3, 2025

Lets encourage our students to be aware of what they want to achieve when using AI tools and be proactive in selecting, rearranging, editing and refining the visuals to suit their purposes. Aileen Wanli Lam is a Senior Lecturer and technology enthusiast at the National University of Singapore. 23268-23275.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

He said that college instructors are not needed to give information to their students, at least not the foundations, definitions, etc., that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. Saucier, D. Miller, S.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at Residential College 4, NUS. Bellam Sreenivasulu earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the National University of Singapore. He has taught at NUS, SUTD, and MDIS, and co-taught with MIT faculty at SUTD in Singapore.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 3, 2025

Let’s encourage our students to be aware of what they want to achieve when using AI tools and be proactive in selecting, rearranging, editing and refining the visuals to suit their purposes. Aileen Wanli Lam is a Senior Lecturer and technology enthusiast at the National University of Singapore. 23268-23275.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Shift to a student-centered classroom 8. Reward the journey, not the result How to Identify Reluctant Learners What Does Student Engagement Look Like? Create an engaging learning environment for all abilities 1. Begin with a fresh start No student wants to enter your classroom with their reputation already on your mind.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

All 15 arrangements were created with student engagement in mind. Print off the desk arrangements and add student names to create seating charts. The traditional grid is a classic favorite for larger class sizes of 24-40 students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The days when students filed into a classroom, sat at individual desks, and listened to a teacher lecture from behind a podium are a thing of the past. Today, flexible learning environments and classrooms offer more opportunities for students to practice 21st century skills like critical thinking, collaboration, and teamwork.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

In my 2014 book “ MOOCS Essentials ,” I reflected on each aspect of the residential learning process and how developers of massive open online courses were trying to replicate those experiences virtually, or come up with ways to keep students engaged without direct teacher-student interaction. What’s the Use of Lectures?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2022

SAN MARCOS, Texas — As a digital media course got underway on a recent Wednesday at Texas State University, a trickle of students took their seats in one of the largest lecture theaters on campus. On paper, this was a huge class, with about 220 students registered. Only around 60 students showed up.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Below, let me share instructional strategies that I use in my courses (virtual, asynchronous, and in-person) to recover student engagement. I’ve been utilizing mid-semester check-ins for several years now and have noticed that students respond best when I send out informal invitations to reflect on their learning experiences.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Experts say that classes that are self-paced, asynchronous or technically possible to tune into from a shared space full of distractions often require students to exhibit more self-control, more intrinsic motivation and better time management. It is delivering information to students when they need it, in a timely fashion.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2022

The traditional sequence of teaching using lectures, discussion, projects, and testing was upended during the pandemic as teachers adapted to digital classrooms and students took on more responsibility for their learning. In many traditional classrooms, the majority of class time is spent in a lecture-and-listen format.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Students cannot make connections and learn a topic if their spotlight isnt turned on or focused in the right area. So then, why do so many educators lecture and click through PowerPoints for 30-,40-, or even 60-minutes at a time with no breaks or learning activities? Cold-calling Use cold-calling tools during the lecture.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

They wanted a solution that would not only manage course content, but would “make the students an active part of the teaching and learning process.” They teamed up with Edtech Foundry to pilot Differ , which the company is building with the goal of tackling low student engagement, according to founder and CEO Kristian Collin Berge.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Students cannot make connections and learn a topic if their spotlight isnt turned on or focused in the right area. So then, why do so many educators lecture and click through PowerPoints for 30-,40-, or even 60-minutes at a time with no breaks or learning activities? Cold-calling Use cold-calling tools during the lecture.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 2, 2016

According to a Gallup Student Poll (2015) of public school children, 47% report being “disengaged” at school. Too many classrooms are not set up with the intention of engaging students. ” As a teacher, it’s my job to engage student curiosity, interest and passion in relation to the curriculum.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2024

That said, there is hope in the battle against student absenteeism–and it lies with the teachers. A wide variety of professional development (PD) offerings are being used to potentially reduce classroom behavioral issues and help increase student engagement. And when students are engaged, they come to school.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. As students and educators adapt to digital platforms, student engagement has emerged as a key concern in online learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

On the 10th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on student engagement. This means that educators can turn boredom to their advantage by tailoring their content to meet these student needs. Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting!

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

If we need to transfer information, like science notes, vocabulary, and writing tutorials, we use the flipped classroom model so students can control the time, place, and pace of their own learning. We intentionally don’t use our valuable time together in class to lecture.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Below, let me share instructional strategies that I use in my courses (virtual, asynchronous, and in-person) to recover student engagement. I’ve been utilizing mid-semester check-ins for several years now and have noticed that students respond best when I send out informal invitations to reflect on their learning experiences.

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Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2023

To bring students back to the classroom, it can be tempting to scale back some course accommodations, such as not recording lectures or providing material online ( D’Agostino, 2022 ). Although attendance was always optional, prior to the pandemic, most students regularly attended class.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2016

On the most basic level, flipped learning occurs when instructors make use of video lectures outside the class in order to bring what was being done in the homework space back into the classroom. In short: lecture at home, homework in class. First and foremost, we should define some terms.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Students today are more distracted and disengaged than ever, all while they’re spending an average of 95 minutes every single day on TikTok alone. Meanwhile, 80 percent of teachers across the nation are reporting critically low student engagement, signifying a lack of connection with the material, the methodology, or both.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

Then, the instructor proceeds to conduct a short lecture where course materials such as the syllabus, slides, or videos might be shared with everyone through a QR code (see Figure 1). Students could make a copy of the slides or worksheets and take notes as they follow the lecture. The exercise could involve recall practice.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2024

How do you ensure student learning in your classroom? Student engagement is critical in ensuring–and boosting–student achievement. At its heart, student engagement is about tapping into students’ innate curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking skills.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

Students were able to ask questions and get immediate answers or feedback, which was particularly satisfying and gave them confidence to move forward. This is not a lecture. Students do not want to be sermonized or given a one-hour soliloquy that doesnt give them the opportunity to speak. References: Meyer, K. doi:10.1002/aehe.20018

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

But engineering and the engineering design process, when incorporated into classrooms correctly, can increase student engagement and subject matter understanding.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

This functional tool includes a launch guide for educators and allows teachers or students to create custom maps. This program allows the integration of real-time data, so students engage with current information. MapMaker also offers interactive learning activities that encourage student participation.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

Digital tools, once mainly supplementary for many schools, became essential for delivering lessons, facilitating communication, and maintaining student engagement. This overnight pivot also exposed inequities in technology access, highlighting a digital divide among students from different socioeconomic backgrounds that persists today.

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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. Today’s teachers are looking to new methods of teaching and learning to improve student engagement and achievement, including tech-based solutions like the flipped classroom.

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