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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

Faculty Focus

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change.

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

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He said that students have had access to the information we teach prior to AI. As instructors, our role is not just to provide access to content. The empathetic course design perspective. We are needed to inspire students to come to class, to ask questions, to work out the answers with them. Saucier, D. Schiffer, A.

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Supporting Students and Faculty in the Online Classroom: Slow Down and Simplify at the End

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Faced with the challenge of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to create course content and respond to emails. While we may not have control over class sizes or course loads, we can manage our workspace, habits, and course procedures.

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Supporting Students and Faculty in the Online Classroom: Slow Down and Simplify at the End

Faculty Focus

Faced with the challenge of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to create course content and respond to emails. While we may not have control over class sizes or course loads, we can manage our workspace, habits, and course procedures.

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?How Apple, Salesforce and Other “Platform” Companies Can Help Close the Skills Gap

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This summer, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a partnership with 30 community colleges to offer a two-semester course, designed by Apple engineers and educators, to teach students to build apps using Apple’s programming language, Swift. We are only just starting to see these partnerships form in meaningful ways.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. On the latest installment of our monthly online discussion forum, EdSurge Live , we explored accessibility in this unusual era of emergency remote teaching.

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10 steps for making your online courses accessible for all students

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The authors note that while, ideally, UDL allows students with disabilities to access courses without adaptation, it can also help to improve learning—and, therefore, retention—among all students. In presentation , the course provides learners with various way of acquiring information and knowledge. Knowing Where to Start.