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Professors Try Teaching With TikTok. But It’s Not for ‘Boring, Lecturing Things.’

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In many of his videos, he acts out scenes from famous Hollywood films, except swapping in terms from the strategic management courses he teaches. the professor says, “Have I analyzed five forces or only four,” referring to a management theory known as Porter’s Five Forces. He’s doing heaps of corny stuff,” Middleton tells EdSurge.

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What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms

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When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. What’s an example?

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MIT Professors Propose a New Kind of University for Post-COVID Era

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mainly comes in a few fixed shapes and sizes: the research university, the liberal arts college, the community college, the technical college. Oh, and there’s the COVID pandemic, which jolted all professors into using more online tools, and has brought further changes to the job market. College in the U.S.

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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

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That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. Liljedahl has developed a strategy for teaching that he says greatly improves how many students in a class are actually thinking about course material.

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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

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Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. And now that campuses are back from pandemic restrictions, many instructors are trying to incorporate those remote practices into their in-person teaching.

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What to Know Before Moving From High School Teacher to College Professor

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A logical step for many teachers is to progress from teaching High School to College. Here’s an good article from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor on what you should know to make that a successful endeavor: What to Know Before Moving From High School Teacher to College Professor. In 2020, there were 1.33

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Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? A New Analysis Dives Into the Research

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Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. So a group of professors recently performed a meta-analysis to try to assess how well flipped learning is working.

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