eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. To build up the students’ confidence and skills, I started by having them program and design the KIBO robots on their own.

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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 269

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), consider how it might be used as a tool for enhancing student learning and engagement.

Syllabus 122

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 122

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

We firmly believe that doing so not only meets the evolving needs of today’s students but also enhances the overall learning experience. Furthermore, it places both faculty and students in a better position to adapt, should the need for another rapid shift to remote learning arise.

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Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 126

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

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 Teaching portfolios aren’t a new idea.

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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key points : Today’s students will undoubtedly encounter generative AI in their careers Two higher-ed instructors have designed a guide for using generative AI in life design and career education See related article: A scholar’s embrace of ChatGPT-4 Innovations that have transformed education have often been met with skepticism.

Ethics 331

Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 331

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Over the last 30 years, federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) opened the door for more students with disabilities to enroll in college. Surprisingly, only one-third of students with disabilities reported it to their institution (NCES, 2022). Most common accommodations by students with disabilities.

Disabilities 144

Disabilities Exams Lecturing Education 144

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The pandemic has forced some professors to rethink how they teach, and it has led some students to forge closer connections with their professors—and each other. For Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer at Texas State University, one key area where she has thrown out old assumptions has been testing. Why have I not done open-book exams?

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Exams Syllabus Lecturing Testing 177

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

In the early days of online education, I imagined that virtual classrooms would follow the same basic model as in-person ones, with an instructor leading the same number of students typical in a campus class. teach remote students. To make online financially viable, he predicted, “remote classes will need to enroll many more.”

Teaching 173

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 173

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), consider how it might be used as a tool for enhancing student learning and engagement.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 105

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Greetings before meetings One week before meeting my students, I post a welcome announcement on Blackboard. In this announcement, I introduce myself and ask students to send me a follow-up email. As a little incentive, I offer an extra point on their first quiz for sending the email and many students choose to reply.

Syllabus 122

Syllabus Lecturing Instructors Feedback 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

We firmly believe that doing so not only meets the evolving needs of today’s students but also enhances the overall learning experience. Furthermore, it places both faculty and students in a better position to adapt, should the need for another rapid shift to remote learning arise.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 111

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Greetings before meetings One week before meeting my students, I post a welcome announcement on Blackboard. In this announcement, I introduce myself and ask students to send me a follow-up email. As a little incentive, I offer an extra point on their first quiz for sending the email and many students choose to reply.

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Syllabus Lecturing Instructors Feedback 110

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

In fact, it is the reason his sought-after courses now are able to accommodate up to 1,400 people per semester—offering each student a learning experience that is more flexible, personalized, and engaging than ever before. Different students have different approaches to learning, he says. His choice: modular learning.

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Curriculum Hybrid Courses Lecturing Gamification 154

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

But because she is legally blind, she had an added challenge of not being able to see the diagrams and notes projected in the lecture hall or assigned for homework. student at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara. Not all students with disabilities choose to disclose,” says Kwong.

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Accessibility Disabilities Instructors Syllabus 158

Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge. What are the Necessary Steps to Specifically Help SES Students?

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Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 89

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

QR codes can be used to share materials with students and to engage students in active learning activities. They provide a quick way to access a webpage that could be the syllabus, a poll, a list of resources, or a shared online space for a brainstorming activity. And most students will know what to do when they see a QR code!

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Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. So we were able to extend our Respondus Monitor license, which monitors the students during an exam. Do the students have computers? Physical accessibility.

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Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So are most of the students taking the cultural competency quiz Professor John Branch gives out near the beginning of his MBA-level International Marketing class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. I think the students are entertained.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

David Peña-Guzman starts off his Friday class at San Francisco State University like any other professor might: students file in and pull out their note-taking materials, and he opens his laptop to begin lecture. For most of the course, there’s no lecture happening at all. For starters, it’s long. and wraps up at 2:30 p.m.

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Reading Teaching Lecturing Syllabus 162

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

I probably shouldn’t admit this, but when I was just beginning my teaching career, I had one clear goal on the first day of class: scare the living crap out of my students. that’s not entirely true: it came from my sense that as a grad student and a young professor not much older than my students, I needed to establish my authority.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

Robert Talbert would get the nagging, unsettling sense that the lectures he gave in his Calculus courses just weren’t sinking in. “I I kind of felt like there were these little cracks in the edifice every now and then where I would give just these great lecture courses, [and] I’d have students who were engaged, you could see it in their eyes.

Failure 143

Failure Lecturing Syllabus Instructors 143

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Over the last 30 years, federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) opened the door for more students with disabilities to enroll in college. Surprisingly, only one-third of students with disabilities reported it to their institution (NCES, 2022). Most common accommodations by students with disabilities.

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Exams Lecturing Education 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

I probably shouldn’t admit this, but when I was just beginning my teaching career, I had one clear goal on the first day of class: scare the living crap out of my students. that’s not entirely true: it came from my sense that as a grad student and a young professor not much older than my students, I needed to establish my authority.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 105

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. A dozen or so students are gathered virtually in a Zoom room, inhaling and exhaling and summoning their attention for a brisk lunchtime lesson filled with music and poetry. Yet many of the students want more than that, too. They watch TED Talks.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 174

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2024

June 8, 2024 At times, our students may feel that their college classes are repetitive and dull and find themselves just as detached as my family and I had become on our journey. You will have fun in creating these moments and it will benefit your students. Exhibit 2: Thompson’s Barbie themed class syllabus (Spring 2024).

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Attention Assignments Activities 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2024

June 8, 2024 At times, our students may feel that their college classes are repetitive and dull and find themselves just as detached as my family and I had become on our journey. You will have fun in creating these moments and it will benefit your students. Exhibit 2: Thompson’s Barbie themed class syllabus (Spring 2024).

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Attention Assignments Activities 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

My experience teaching with videos supports the idea that students not only learn more deeply but also faster. Consequently, the syllabus can be enlarged when classes take advantage of multimedia means -as it happened. It might be important to point out that my students are 17 years old and over.

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Learning Textbooks Lecturing Syllabus 147

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2024

Apps like Google Calendar, collaborative platforms like Google Meet, and others can enhance productivity and allow students to benefit from peer interactions. Websites like Khan Academy or Quizlet provide access to lectures, practice tests, and flashcards among other things. The right digital tools makes it manageable, even rewarding.

Exams 157

Exams Study Syllabus Testing 157

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

In spring 2021, inspired by feedback from students, I redesigned my two undergraduate education courses as blended learning courses. flexibility, increased student engagement, improved academic achievement), what I didn’t realize was how essential this model was for teaching in the wake of a global pandemic. 2019; Vallée et al.,

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Blended Learning Lecturing Education Learning 132

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. More than 60,000 students across the U.S. Students on other campuses agree.

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Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Faculty Focus

JULY 16, 2023

At some point, most instructors were once students, so it’s easy to relate to sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture, and perhaps feeling your mind wander. It’s no secret that if your students are on their phones, dozing and doodling, they’re most likely not learning. It happens to the best of us.

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Instructors Syllabus Lecturing Knowledge 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 16, 2023

At some point, most instructors were once students, so it’s easy to relate to sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture, and perhaps feeling your mind wander. It’s no secret that if your students are on their phones, dozing and doodling, they’re most likely not learning. It happens to the best of us.

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Instructors Syllabus Lecturing Knowledge 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

ID Benefits While traditionally associated with K-12, higher ed, and the corporate world, IDs can bring transformative benefits to professional schools (programs offering terminal degrees for a specific profession) and support faculty in their endeavors to innovate and engage students. The word selective is important.

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Schools Syllabus Authentic Assessment Evaluation 122

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

The concept of gradual release of responsibility is second nature to me when working with students in grades K-12, but in my new role teaching graduate students in an education technology program, I am struggling to model so many of the practices I expect these teachers to use in their own classrooms. There were my guidelines.

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Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 162

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

For students, taking an online course can feel like being the only student in the class—isolated and lonely at times, and connected to the outside world through just a computer screen. In a face-to-face class, students see the instructor and other students and, even if not interacting with them directly, know they are not alone.

Instructors 105

Instructors Syllabus Assignments Feedback 105

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Imagine having a digital assistant that never sleeps, helping you draft syllabi, create lesson plans, and even answer those tricky student emails. As generative AI evolves rapidly, it is essential to explore and discuss its impact on teaching and learning for both faculty and students.

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Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119