eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2017

Consequently, the single most important measure you can take to reduce the likelihood of a successful attack is to train yourself, your students, families and your staff to practice safe computing and recognize red flags that indicate a potentially malicious email. Learn to spot red flags. odd, middle-of-the-night time of sending.

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Open Learning Schools Learning Education 177

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says. We’ve developed this set of teams that creates exemplary online-learning environments and experiences. In parallel, we’ve developed a team that builds tools that enhance the residential learning environment.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Full Sail Labs, an educational experience designed for students from 1st to 12th grades with a focus on technology, science, art and media. 11 unveiled Full Sail Labs , a series of week-long summer camp for students from 1st to 12th grades. Today’s students discover and understand technology at a very young age.

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Art Knowledge Participation Open Learning 139

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

There are no admissions requirements for MicroMasters programs, and students who do well in them can use that success to help win admission to complete the full master’s at the participating institution. But so far, few of those students have completed the full set of courses and enrolled in a traditional program, as intended.

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Open Learning Testing Participation Education 159

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” So there's a real opportunity, we think, to better serve students and really address the notion of experimentation more equitably. What is that?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2018

One person pushing to put learning science into practice on college campuses is Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We started giving our material away for free to the world, and students started taking the material for free. Then later we started building MOOCs.]

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Science Exams Learning Motivation 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

To bring OER to more students and instructors, whole institutions needed to jump on board and plan for the widespread implementation. And not all OER materials are supported by all technologies, so not every platform allows students to use whatever device they own. That happened in 2017.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Robin DeRosa, director of Plymouth State University’s Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative, posed the question and committed to sharing her findings via a presentation soon. We first need to identify a good activity to have students do in breakout sessions. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

On the other, many people are increasingly nervous about some digital platforms and their implications for students—and even on democracy itself. Meanwhile, online and hybrid learning keep growing and developing. I wanted students to study edtech while using it, so every week will feature some hands-on work.

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Essay Disabilities Hybrid Learning Discussions 132

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

She referenced three examples of creative uses by IDEO U students, from Jess in Melbourne, who formed her own in-person local learning circle to employees at an architecture firm in Italy who used a prototyping leader’s guide to help them work on a common project during their weekly happy hours.

Teaching Assistants 105

Teaching Assistants Learning Beliefs Feedback 105

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

It’s also the driving force behind the work of thousands of students searching for signs of life beyond planet Earth. It represents a category of edtech, called “digital courseware” by foundations and industry analysts, that’s changing the way online students learn and faculty teach. I get more insight into students.”.

Lecturing 103

Lecturing Critical Thinking Quizzes Learning Outcomes 103

Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2019

Tutors roam around and get pulled into 10-minute mini sessions with students on the fly. Even though they share a space with students, Gibori opted against having kids physically flag down passing tutors in favor of something more closely resembling Apple’s Genius Bar, where on-demand appointments can be made via app.

Education 136

Education Exams Learning Spaces Group work 136

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

These courses also take advantage of the online medium more fully than courses on other subjects, since many allow students to upload coding projects that are then automatically graded. In other words, students aren’t just passively watching videos—they’re doing projects, and they get instant feedback from the software.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

The software list includes more than a dozen packages, including the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. Learning by doing appears to have a 6x better [outcome] than learning by watching or reading,” Koedinger said.

Learning 164

Learning Quizzes Assignments Science 164

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Hoffman’s interest in exposing faculty at Seattle Pacific University to free and open learning materials is largely due to expensive textbook prices and the interest she hears from students for cheaper alternatives. Interest from students and faculty at BYU is growing, according to a 2017 study published in Open Praxis.

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Textbooks Study Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Many faculty see introductory science courses as "gateway" classes to weed out students. The assistant vice provost at the University of California, Davis, is leading the school's efforts to overhaul these classes and make them more accessible to students. What can we do when we see 600 students at a time? Not Marco Molinaro.

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Lecturing Learning Science Open Learning 70

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

He sees that few of the students in the course have bothered to do the interactive exercises they were assigned for homework. In fact, he predicted that the changes he’s experimenting with this semester might be jarring to students accustomed to lecture classes. We make the mistake of thinking that what we say is what they learn.”. “I’m

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Textbooks Lecturing Beliefs Assignments 129

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Capitol Learning Academy (CLA) plans to launch in Washington D.C. next fall as a nonprofit private elementary micro-school, starting with ages seven to nine and expanding in both directions to serve a capacity of 150 students over the coming years. To supplement this tuition model, CLA will campaign annually for fundraising.

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Beliefs Questions Assignments Grades 123

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2021

Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Students think learning is synonymous with digital. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out. Be tech-savvy!

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Schools Activities Curriculum Assignments 107

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool. Thille: The Open Learning Initiative, which is the project that I founded at Carnegie Mellon, started with a desire from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to get access to high-quality post-secondary education to those who would not otherwise have access.

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Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 96

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. College advising systems are trying to use predictive analytics to increase student retention. Mark, how would you describe the ideal scenario of how this technology might play out at colleges, and how a student might be helped by AI on campus?

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Peer Review Ethics Science Intelligence 106

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 7, 2025

Inquiry-based learning isnt just the latest teaching trend. Its a fundamental shift to the way you run your classroom and it may just be the answer youve been looking for to help students truly succeed. So what is inquiry-based learning, and how do you use it in your instruction?

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Social Studies Learning Math Writing 80

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Dean-Scott , Texas State University Key Statement: Cogenerative (cogen) dialogues are one learner-centered approach to engaging students in agency for their own learning and development in a course. My students seemed to either not understand my question or have difficulty with the content. Image courtesy of Wix.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later.

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Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But the effort has has also drawn protests by some students and professors, who are questioning how well ethics will be integrated into the effort and are criticizing the influence of a controversial donor. First is that MIT needs far more computer-science professors to meet the demand by students and researchers.

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Science Ethics Interdisciplinary Education 162