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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Student Engagement I’m in social media groups where frustrated teachers recently commented that their grade books looked like “Swiss Cheese” and that many students were just missing during online learning sessions. Project-Based Learning Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a topic we often discuss on my podcast.

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Digital Natives Still Need Help Navigating Online Assessments

Edsurge

Or, assuming you have enough computers in your classroom, try online writing exercises. Want to help your students prep for the functionality of online assessments? In my class, students take turns playing class librarian—checking out books to their classmates by selecting, clicking, and dragging the titles on the screen.

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8 Practical Ways to Use AI in Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

Let’s take online assessment tests as an example. Artificial intelligence can automate grading in online courses too, though this capability is currently limited to multiple-choice tests. Soon enough, AI will also be able to assess written responses. 3 Book Reviews about Anthropomorphized Computers.

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Pedagogy first, technology second – the key to successful hybrid classes

Neo LMS

It’s like reading a book or watching a video without really grasping the essence of its content. Simple questions such as how to access a course from the LMS or where to find the invitation link to a Zoom meeting, or an online assessment have simple solutions. The information is there, and you retain some of it.

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Why This Professor Believes OER Can Make STEM More Inclusive and Affordable

Edsurge

Over the past nine years, Wilson hasn’t used a single for-profit book in his Computational Algebra classes. When you look at the courses we teach on repeat, with the same expensive book, it's difficult to believe that every instructor, en masse, somehow agreed to use the same text from the one large publisher year after year.

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?Online Courses Shouldn’t Use Remote Proctoring Tools. Here’s Why.

Edsurge

Exams are only good for a few things : managing faculty workload and assessing low level skill and content knowledge. Wouldn’t that money be better spent designing assessments that measure student learning and support the uniqueness of the online environment? First, time is different, the class period doesn’t end or begin.

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How Co-Teaching Helped Our New Teachers Support Students, In-Person and Online

Edsurge

There were no iPads, no online assessments and no Zoom. They appreciated this flexibility, but it also meant that preservice teachers like Tonja would need to apply everything they learned about teaching to two very different modalities: in-person and online. For remote learners, we used an online assessment.)