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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

To do so, they need to have a proper assessment strategy in place. In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. Conscious efforts need to be made to bring application skills or higher cognitive skills to the assessment.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology. Engage Edtech Employees in Extended Learning We call the program Freshman Seminar.

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Active Learning Strategies for Students

eSchool News

Problem-Based Learning (PBL): PBL tasks students with solving real-world problems or case studies, requiring them to apply knowledge and critical thinking skills to develop solutions. Breaks and Movement: Encourage students to take regular breaks during study sessions to prevent fatigue and maintain focus.

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How One Student Email Could Have Been Life-Changing

Gaggle Speaks

We were fortunate this year to sponsor the California School Public Relations Association (CalSPRA) Annual Seminar. We detail what unfolded in an incredible new case study with a great ending to this story. It’s at events like these where our team can have important conversations about student online safety.

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By Putting Tensions on Stage, Colleges Aim to Change Campus Culture

Edsurge

Major studies reveal that sexual harassment is pervasive in some disciplines, discrimination strains women and people of color , and bias leaches into everything from teaching to tenure promotion. Universities striving for greater equity may offer implicit bias tests, DEI seminars or curriculum reviews. Or, they might put on a play.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. Phone interviews are also a good way to develop case studies and success stories, preferably with photos of students and teachers using your product. We did semi-annual ones.)

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Incorporating Social Media and Digital Citizenship in the First-Year Experience Course

Mistakengoal.com

Part of that program requires (nearly) all undergraduate students to take a First-Year Seminar (FYS) course and one of the resolutions updated some of the specific outcomes of that course. First, students and faculty will discuss social media using (a) properties of social media identified by researchers and (b) case studies.