Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. Water is a unique discipline, it’s not like math or history or communication studies were major publishers put out multitudes of textbooks on,” she says. Now it’s my job.” But those materials were not ideal.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2024

From virtual reality field trips to interactive quizzing platforms, these 12 tools offer diverse ways to bring lessons to life. Interactive Quizzing Platforms Interactive quizzing platforms are revolutionizing the way educators assess understanding and retention in the classroom.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

It’s a student response system that allows teachers to make quizzes that students can take on their device. And even when we do poorly on our Socrative quizzes, we can take solace in knowing, as does Socrates, that “true knowledge exists in knowing that we know nothing.”. Is that a real A, or an A based on turning in the syllabus?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

While many students say they’re looking for the assistance they’re not getting from their colleges, professors argue that students are using these sites to cheat on quizzes and tests. It's the way quizzes and exams are proctored. I reached out to Chegg, and sure enough, business there is booming.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The company is also working with textbook publishers on interactive experiences that pair reading materials from the book with quizzes on Course Hero. These quizzes can then direct users to study materials from Course Hero’s resource libraries.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Further, we will examine how libraries and schooling have always been connected and how important they are in shaping people’s paths and changing lives. The Emergence of E-Books in College Education Traditional textbooks are the foundation of a student’s academic life but have limitations.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

Carefully choose digital curriculum … When students do not have printed textbooks at home, digital curriculum can fill the gap. Although there are many wonderful online tools and e-curriculum resources, teachers can reduce screen time by assigning book reading, handwritten work, or hands-on physical activities. Others require licenses.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Students are required to complete online chapter quizzes based on the course objectives and textbook for the course within D2L. During the first semester the course was online, and we decided to offer 13 shorter quizzes. During that first semester, all quizzes were due on the same date at the end of semester.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

Open educational resources (OER) have saved students at the University of Georgia (UGA) nearly $2 million in textbook costs alone over the past three years. We saw promise in what the tool might offer as far as supporting students between the space when they do their reading and come to class.”.

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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. What are some examples of teaching techniques?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Fact Sheet & FAQ: HMH Reading Growth Measure and Reading Inventory. Formative: more informal check-ins—quizzes, questions from the front of the room, or even chats with students—that assess how students are absorbing material and allow teachers to adjust lessons on the fly. Classroom Solutions - Assessment.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

With Numerade Plus, students and teachers will have access to a full suite of education features, including over 100 million textbook video solutions, expert-verified answers, full-length video courses, custom quizzes, unlimited “Ask an Expert” questions, and an AI chatbot tutor powered by GPT-4.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Students are required to complete online chapter quizzes based on the course objectives and textbook for the course within D2L. During the first semester the course was online, we decided to offer 13 shorter quizzes. During that first semester, all quizzes were due on the same date at the end of semester.

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Quizzes Teaching Learning Feedback 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In cohorts of six to eight people, they spend seven hours a day in class learning from native speakers how to read, listen and speak, interpret news reports from other nations and understand the practices of foreign cultures. We can’t just use a college textbook, we go through it so fast.” Gary Hausman, who runs the institute. “We

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

It informs students in emergencies, updates them on historic events, and now–with extensions like Apple TV–connects them on a granular level to what they learn in their textbooks. Teaching Reading With Book-based Movies. This would be fun and interesting even for those that aren’t fans of reading.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. Take quizzes and proctored exams available in your subscription. Great stuff.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

She thinks it’s “kind of seen as old-fashioned,” and most college and university campuses would go with composition and writing textbooks such as “The Little Seagull Handbook,” “The Everyday Writer” or “The Writer’s Reference.” But Hall does think that Strunk and White has been replaced.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2017

He’ll design short quizzes to test each concept, and make a menu of choices for students to turn to when the results show they need to learn more. Once he settles on the concepts he wants to cover, Salimi will look around for open education resources or multimedia from textbook publishers to explain each one. she asks. “We

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding. This was in part because first-generation students who received texts were more likely to complete assignments and participate in a required in-person field trip, they spent more time reading the digital textbook and they scored higher on exams.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2022

Mohawk College 20,000 Courses Migrated with SystemMigration Project Timeline: 10 Days “K16's automated SystemMigration service saved a huge amount of work for faculty, eliminating the need for them to reconfigure and reformat their courses, content, quizzes, and other course materials. Read the full case study here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2019

Study.com is an online distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and physics) aligned with many popular textbooks. Resources include not only videos but study tools, guides, quizzes, and more. Sample Lesson Plans.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

The keynote speaker was Dan Meyer, and if you haven’t heard him speak, stop what you’re doing now—no seriously, stop reading this—and YouTube Dan Meyer’s TED talk. As Meyers explains, traditional math textbooks and the way we teach math is the functional equivalent of turning on “Two and a Half Men” and calling it a day.

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Teach Hub

AUGUST 1, 2024

This number will be used for various purposes, such as labeling their textbooks, workbooks, worksheets, and even their lockers or cubbies. Assign distinct colors for different subjects or activities—blue folders for math, red for reading, and green for science, etc. Bring some fun into your lessons by using Kahoot!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

Designed to offer lessons, videos, lectures, quizzes, and more that differentiate for individual students, its real power is making the resources of the most respected names in edtech available with one click. Read Jacqui’s tech thriller series, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. This includes: ABCYa.com.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

Learning by doing appears to have a 6x better [outcome] than learning by watching or reading,” Koedinger said. That option is in fact the status quo: for professors to assign commercial textbooks and courseware add-ons that include online homework and quizzes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

I read recently that 70% of millennials get their news from Facebook. I have a list of eight research sites that walk the line between stodgy (textbooks) and out-there (Twitter and Facebook), designed by their developers with an eye toward enticing students in and then keeping their interest. So why do students turn to it for news?

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

For technologies that facilitate traditional teaching practices—such as taking attendance, administering and grading quizzes, maintaining a gradebook, or digitizing textbooks—this approach makes sense. Read the full Clayton Christensen Institute case study here.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

For instance, in the context of a prompt it might look like this, “Now that you’ve read this week’s chapter on conflict management, take an image that represents how you feel about group work. For classroom use, participants use a camera to respond to a prompt. Students then post an image.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

After their first year of instruction, the sad truth was that my students knew only a fraction of the vocabulary they would need to comprehensively read an ancient text. But this practice would mark a significant advance in the teaching of ancient languages, since few if any textbooks structure retrieval activities into the learning process.

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1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

APRIL 19, 2025

Reading : We went straight into the short story unit from EIL 10. We are reading Screwtape Letters but are not using the literature guide from 7 Sisters , I ended up creating my own. She is also currently reading Fahrenheit 451. HISTORY She really wanted to use textbook this year so we went back to Notgrass World History !

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Wish this wasn’t locked down behind AEA PD Online (with quizzes!) SV – I no longer think of our space as a classroom – instead, we’re an innovative learning center – no textbooks, we’re a community that solves problems using every resource available to us (including others elsewhere). Breakout group questions.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Quizzes Math 94

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

For instance, in the context of a prompt it might look like this, “Now that you’ve read this week’s chapter on conflict management, take an image that represents how you feel about group work. For classroom use, participants use a camera to respond to a prompt. Students then post an image.

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Technology Art Learning Students 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

I believe that this explains why I have learned very little about learning from reading textbooks on curriculum design, and have learned a great deal from both the users (mostly kids) and the designers (often ‘grown-up kids’) of computer games.”. Yet Seymour also felt that some of his ideas have been misconstrued and misapplied.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication. Have students read digital books and write reviews that can be added to the school library website. Cyber-bullying. How to search. Plagiarism.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

A strong morning ritual such as light exercise, meditation, or reading can set the tone for the day. Use Active Learning, Not Passive Consumption Watching lectures or reading textbooks might feel productive, but its passive. A research project, a multi-step lab report, or a weeks worth of reading can quickly feel like too much.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

They can study world history while standing inside the Colosseum, or read classic literature while traveling through the landscapes that inspired it. Technology-Enhanced Learning Experiences Online education isnt just textbooks uploaded to a computer. Online schooling allows students to blend formal learning with lived experience.

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Lab to Class

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Education, especially formalized education in schools, has long held that in order for students to learn effectively, they must have solid study routines, consistent teachers, and unified textbooks. All too often, students only read about or listen to topics. After the lecture, are they now ready to perform the operation on a person?

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