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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. Class Clowns ” by Jonathan A.

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In Teaching, How Much ‘Curation’ is Too Much?

Edsurge

The entire podcast series and the accompanying album would be excellent content in law schools, history courses and political science seminars. Once you build up different types of content (videos, articles, podcasts, exercises, activities, case studies and so on), you can start bringing them into your classes.

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

Edsurge

Phone interviews are also a good way to develop case studies and success stories, preferably with photos of students and teachers using your product. Attending sessions and seminars at these events can also provide valuable professional development. Meeting your peers on a periodic basis can be an invaluable exercise.

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

Linways Technologies

The lack of this connection makes the whole exercise ineffective. To ensure that assessment methods match learning outcomes, a variety of assessment methods should be employed e.g., Quizzes, Seminars, discussions, term papers, open-ended problem-solving assignments, course/lab project rubrics, portfolios, providing Rubrics, etc.

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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.

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Inside one school’s efforts to bridge the divide between white teachers and students of color

The Hechinger Report

As schools seek to better serve an increasingly diverse student population and close racial achievement gaps, Sussex Tech offers a case study in culturally responsive practice. Teachers and administrators here acknowledge lingering tensions over last fall’s seminar. “It’s our responsibility to students.”.

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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

Edsurge

Today, NewSchools and Transcend released a case study that looks at the first Collaborative. EdSurge talked to Benson about some of the findings in that study. We did this a lot, but one way was through an exercise we called “The Probable Versus the Possible.” At the end of the program, each had a plan of action.