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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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How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research

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Ian Cook, a longtime professor and social anthropologist, still remembers the first podcast he ever heard. Cook, who is editor in chief at the experimental academic publisher Allegra Lab , ended up becoming a podcaster himself, and a fan of the growing number of podcasts made by other professors and educators.

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33 Online Research Resources

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Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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

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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. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings. What’s an example?

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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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Hoping to Regain Attention of Students, Professors Pay More Attention to Them

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Teaching is about attention — getting students to pay attention to the material, and to engage with new ideas so they can develop new skills and abilities. A couple months ago I visited a big public university – Texas State University – and observed three large lecture classes, to get a sense of what teaching looks like these days.

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

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Proponents say the model improves student outcomes by encouraging more interaction among students and professors, and many studies have been conducted to measure the efficacy of the approach. So a group of professors recently performed a meta-analysis to try to assess how well flipped learning is working.

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