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Effective Strategies for Sustaining Student Attention during PowerPoint Lectures

Faculty Focus

For instance, research shows that adding visuals to our PowerPoint presentations can help students process the information we are teaching (Mayer, 2002), but more importantly, we must focus on keeping the students attentive in the first place. New uses for a familiar technology: introducing mobile phone polling in large classes.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Challenges: Engagement and Skill Development However, AI’s efficacy hinges on student self-regulation, a persistent challenge where developmental courses predominate (Zimmerman, 2002). Educational Technology Research and Development, 51 (4), 89102. A planning cycle for integrating digital technology into literacy instruction.

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KAVITA BALA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bala earned her bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, and received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She arrived at Cornell in 1999 as a postdoctoral researcher and became an assistant professor of computer science in 2002.

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The Online Classroom: Trust, Explore, Engage

Faculty Focus

Teachers had to learn new ways to communicate, how to deal with technology issues both for themselves and their students, and how they could adapt their lessons for success. As online learning continues to evolve, it’s crucial for educators to embrace new approaches and technologies that enhance student engagement and learning.

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Europe and Africa strengthen research ties in mathematics 

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The new cluster, CoRE-Math, will develop a collaborative PhD program to train mathematics graduates with a key aim of applying their knowledge beyond academia, prioritising innovation and technology to meet societal demands.

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Effective Strategies for Sustaining Student Attention during PowerPoint Lectures

Faculty Focus

For instance, research shows that adding visuals to our PowerPoint presentations can help students process the information we are teaching (Mayer, 2002), but more importantly, we must focus on keeping the students attentive in the first place. New uses for a familiar technology: introducing mobile phone polling in large classes.

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Report: Journalism Jobs to Decrease in Years to Come Due to Industry Decline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More than a third of journalism jobs will be lost 2002-2031 from decades of decline primarily due to newspaper downsizing and closures, a Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) report found. Dr. Anthony P.

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