EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

By bridging the gap between physical and online spaces, schools see their students improve academically and engage with their studies on a deeper level. Artificial Intelligence: Smart assistants can help teachers and students use time more efficiently.

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Technology Blended Learning Lecturing Exams 167

eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2024

Together, they’ll support New York school districts in providing an on-the-job delivery pathway for Mercy’s Bachelor of Science in Teaching Students with Disabilities, B-12 program, to bring more highly qualified special education teachers into New York classrooms. According to a 2022 NCES study , 40% of U.S.

Accessibility 130

Accessibility Disabilities Teaching Special Education 130

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

MBE is an academic field that brings a transdisciplinary lens to the study of teaching and learning, specifically focused on the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, psychology and education. We engaged with literature immediately, selecting Tokuhama-Espinosa’s book “ NeuroMyths ” as our first group read.

Education 217

Education Coaching Math English 217

Faculty Focus

JULY 14, 2024

The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners. OER and No/Low-Cost Textbooks: The program makes significant use of both.

Teaching Assistants 110

Teaching Assistants Textbooks Special Education Education 110

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I just assumed I nailed class and threw chalk down and did the victory dance,” says the atmospheric science professor at the University of Michigan. “In So the professor developed a backchannel tool that allows students to submit questions online during class and receive real-time answers from a teaching assistant.

Questions 110

Questions Lecturing Teaching Assistants STEM 110

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

While Levy created the app to automate part of the process involved in documenting class participation, it still requires some manual assistance. For that, an instructor usually turns to teaching assistants like Erin Gregor, who record in Teachly every time a student participates.

Lecturing 160

Lecturing Participation Instructors Beliefs 160

Faculty Focus

JULY 14, 2024

The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners. OER and No/Low-Cost Textbooks: The program makes significant use of both.

Teaching Assistants 97

Teaching Assistants Textbooks Special Education Education 97

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Unsurprisingly, some of the biggest drivers of these improved metrics include making people pay for online programs, increasing the selectivity of courses, and adding program managers and teaching assistants to follow up with learners. Here are seven practices for moving completion rates for online courses from 5 to 85 percent: 1.

Assignments 167

Assignments Teaching Assistants Motivation Failure 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Watson will also be able to generate “concept clusters” for learners—showing them how what they’re learning relates to other points they’ve studied. “At How might a sociology class analyze human interactions and behaviors on social media?).

Instructors 157

Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 157

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Studies show that information and computer-assisted learning boosts academic achievement, improves learner engagement and reduces teacher burden by shaving time off the day. Include opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society. But not all edtech is equally effective.

Teachers 132

Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 132

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

Many print books have moved to off-site storage facilities to free up space for studying—or to make room for computers that can now access the vast store of information now available online and in subscription databases. Physical card catalogs were long ago taken out of use (and often turned into coffee tables).

Intelligence 167

Intelligence Questions Language Languages 167

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

These factors converge to understandably discourage teachers with established routines from shifting away from lecturing and into flipped learning, a change that many scholars of pedagogy and education sciences strongly advocate for. The benefits of interleaved and blocked study: Different tasks benefit from different schedules of study.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Regardless of the format, instructors should keep the following key points in mind while implementing an activity: Clearly Explain the Purpose of the Activity For students, activities are more meaningful if they understand how the activity relates to the course objectives and, more broadly, to their fields of study.

Assignments 108

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 108

Faculty Focus

MARCH 24, 2024

Interestingly, studies that use a more precise classification (online only, hybrid, in-person only) find that hybrid modalities are significantly more effective than in-person modalities and that there are no differences in effectiveness between in-person and online only courses (Means et al., statistics). References Means, B.

Education 122

Education Instructors Culture Teaching Assistants 122

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Because much of last year was very unpredictable, the normal content and study skills were not fully taught. During the first few months of this year, I spent a lot of time reviewing ways for the students to study, as well as making up for missing content. –Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Last year he launched an idea that he hopes will help keep students from falling behind in any subject they study, starting with mathematics. While studying computer science at the. The experience inspired Kintali’s love for complexity theory, which he continued to study while pursuing his PhD.

Textbooks 102

Textbooks Intelligence Math Beliefs 102

Faculty Focus

MARCH 24, 2024

Interestingly, studies that use a more precise classification (online only, hybrid, in-person only) find that hybrid modalities are significantly more effective than in-person modalities and that there are no differences in effectiveness between in-person and online only courses (Means et al., statistics). References Means, B.

Education 111

Education Instructors Culture Teaching Assistants 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). One study found that students perceived the phone polls as engaging, making them think and providing feedback on their learning (Voelkel & Bennett, 2014).

Lecturing 105

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 105

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

“This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It It just helps to have that additional guidance, support and partnering with a student, to help teach them how to manage their time.”

Student Engagement 194

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 194

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Beheshti, IEEE Senior Member, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology. Because much of last year was very unpredictable, the normal content and study skills were not fully taught. –Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School. — Babak D.

Hybrid Learning 294

Hybrid Learning Communication Language Accessibility 294

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Regardless of the format, instructors should keep the following key points in mind while implementing an activity: Clearly Explain the Purpose of the Activity For students, activities are more meaningful if they understand how the activity relates to the course objectives and, more broadly, to their fields of study.

Assignments 91

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 91

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). One study found that students perceived the phone polls as engaging, making them think and providing feedback on their learning (Voelkel & Bennett, 2014).

Lecturing 97

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 97

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Apart from course evaluation, which is embedded within the normal semester, and kind of a mandatory process, I think the other stakeholder that we often forget is the teaching assistants. We've been talking a lot about evaluations for teaching, but I'd love to dig into the teaching itself.

Teaching 118

Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 118

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The positive use would include the transformation of the online learning experience for students by offering personalized learning support, enhancing engagement and interaction, providing real-time feedback, assisting with study preparation, and offering language support. Baeldung on Computer Science. The New York Times.

Academic Integrity 135

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Education Sciences, 8 (4), 168. Benefits of a comprehensive undergraduate teaching assistant Program. Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies , 13 (1), 7584. Who is responsible for preparing science teachers? Science , 28 (5786), 445446. link] Goff, C., & Lahme, B.

Learning 98

Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Like many other education entrepreneurs with technology backgrounds, the co-founders of Lalilo say they were surprised at the gap between the teaching tools currently available in classrooms, and the technology they knew was available. During that time, they also did short teaching gigs.

English 66

English Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Special Education 66

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Stefanie Baier is the Director of Graduate Student and Postdoc Instructional Development at the Graduate Educator Advancement and Teaching (GREAT) Office at the Graduate School at Michigan State University. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies , 17 (1), 28-46. “The caring relation in teaching.”

Confidentiality 94

Confidentiality Instructors Motivation Writing 94

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The positive use would include the transformation of the online learning experience for students by offering personalized learning support, enhancing engagement and interaction, providing real-time feedback, assisting with study preparation, and offering language support. Baeldung on Computer Science. The New York Times.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

Keywords : Lab Report Template, Rubric, Hidden Curriculum Background Laboratory courses are a staple of undergraduate science programs. Drawing on our backgrounds in assessment in science education and biochemistry, we developed the template in the following manner. Medical Science Educator , 31 (2), 753764. Cornell College.

Laboratory 52

Laboratory Instructors Feedback Writing 52

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

The professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology believes every student and researcher should have access to artificially intelligent assistants that not only help them study facts and figures, but also collaborate more closely with other humans. It's the engineering of learning.

Mental Models 183

Mental Models Education Ethics Learning 183

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. It’s of particular concern for reinforcing inequality in lucrative and vital science, technology, engineering and math careers, since the classification can knock students off the path to those positions.

Math 180

Math Beliefs Teaching Assistants Culture 180

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

One school that has already adopted this mindset is the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, a public high school led by principal Brooke Jackson. DeCosta’s holistic view is consistent with 40 years of research in developmental science, which shows that an individual does not shoulder wellbeing alone.

Distance Learning 191

Distance Learning Interdisciplinary Intelligence Schools 191

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

An associate professor in UVA’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures , Stepanic earned the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year Award in 2012. Professor Stanley Stepanic’s Dracula course file , with links to notes, quizzes, and study guides. He later changed the name of the course to Dracula.

Education 126

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 126

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Supporting biology courses for non-majors involves addressing the diverse needs of students with little intrinsic motivation to study the subject. Some may experience anxiety or feel science is irrelevant to their careers (Rice et al.

Interdisciplinary 64

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 64

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Supporting biology courses for non-majors involves addressing the diverse needs of students with little intrinsic motivation to study the subject. Some may experience anxiety or feel science is irrelevant to their careers (Rice et al.

Interdisciplinary 62

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 62