eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2017

His teaching assistants also host “office hours” every Monday through Thursday night from 9 p.m. Many schools are now converting libraries—where students traditionally cannot raise their voice—into learning commons where there are spirited debates among students as they study together.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. After one year of using Happy Numbers, an AI-assisted teaching assistant, nearly all the students improved their scores to a 35. I am amazed at the independent success my students are achieving with each task.” . by Eli Zimmerman.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

And the decisions those teachers make may be influenced by factors like how familiar they are with the technology or even what gender they are, according to a new study. The study , “How Teachers Navigate the Ethical Landscape of AI in Their Classrooms,” interviewed 248 K-12 teachers. The main findings?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Recent studies have shown alarming gaps in Americans’ understanding of our democratic processes and systems. This challenging mathematics course prepares students for further studies in engineering, computer science, data science, and natural sciences, as well as theoretical mathematics. More than one third of U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

Meanwhile, research is also being conducted today to understand how chatbots can be used as teaching assistants. In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is one way teachers can use AI tools to curate an entire class’s flow, its study materials, and practice tests without the aid of an army of teaching assistants.

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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.

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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.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

ASU couldn’t test this theory by delivering chemicals to students who study online. For this model to work, she also had to devise a plan for bringing dozens of students who typically study online to campus in Arizona. “OK, But what if instead the university brought remote students to the chemicals — and to campus?

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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.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Most of those teachers taught English or social studies, where the applications of chatbots are more obvious. Artificial intelligence will supply every student on the planet a talented personal tutor and every teacher an amazing teaching assistant, Khan has said. At the moment, though, precisely what that looks like differs.

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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.

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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.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

When we teach large classes, what approaches can we employ that will have a greater opportunity to engage students and help students learn more? A study was published by IDEA, a non-profit organization that focuses on academic success in a higher education context, which explored whether class size is a factor in perceived learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“And then all the sudden we’re teaching online. If you’re in graduate school, you often work as a teaching assistant, you’re under a mentoring program, you’re taught to be a teacher. Online teaching is not necessarily the same.” She found that those in her study did experience moderate levels of burnout.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

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. But to be sure the backchannel made a real difference, Samson teamed up with colleagues from the university’s school of education to study his tool.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Initially ecstatic to start school, Truman was now red in the face from crying while my teaching assistant and I practically pried him off his mother’s leg. We were a few weeks into my first year teaching kindergarten and I had begun to think of my classroom as a warm and inviting space.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2024

” In New York, as in the rest of the country, special education teaching candidates are in high demand. According to a 2022 NCES study , 40% of U.S. public schools struggled to fill open special education teaching positions.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

Ariana Garcia doesn’t take a break as she goes from tutoring a small group of students to teaching a social studies class at the Great Oak Charter middle school in New York City. Next year, I just want to teach,” Garcia exasperatedly tells EdSurge.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant. It’s worth reflecting on ways we can let students be more self-directed to foster intrinsic motivation in their studies. When I spoke with James Lang for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, he shared the way his thinking has evolved regarding motivation.

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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.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe. A video created in Tanzania by Garrett Wilkinson, a teaching assistant in the Anth101 course. Wesch hired a consultant he knew to build a website for the course, so that it wouldn’t look like a typical college site.

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Textbooks Teaching Assistants Instructors Exams 162

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.

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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).

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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.

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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?).

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Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 153

Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2025

I have undergraduate teaching assistants present and poised to enter the students point into the gradebook as soon as they say their name and share (and if they forget, they can find the teaching assistants after class). Its an immediate reward that encourages sharing in a large class.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In a case-study course he taught in the spring about the American jury system, he asked the 60 students to bring their laptops to every session. Full disclosure, I was a fellow at the center in 2013 and served as a teaching assistant for Nesson.) I think it’s tremendously challenging to law teachers, to socratic teachers.

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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.

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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).

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 104

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. This is where my Wacom Intuos has been so very helpful.

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In fact, the long-term impact of discussing academics with the instructor was greater than that of participating in study groups and clubs (Schudde, 2019). Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. Sharing our lives with our students emphasizes that we are human beings as well.

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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. Shiva Kintali, TrueShelf CEO.

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Textbooks Intelligence Math Beliefs 99

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 88

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 88

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

Drawing on key insights from our recent study, our work explores how concepts like “resilience” impact our experience. Considering our study of faculty developers’ reflections on their pandemic experiences, we suggest that “resilience” exists as both an internal and external construct and that this difference is important.

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Faculty Development Coaching Essay Ethics 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).

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 96