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Course Design as a Gateway to Student Well-being 

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Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Since the turn of the millennium, with the publication of How People Learn (Bransford et al.,1999), link] Zengaro, S., Zengaro, Z., 66 – 83.

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Course Design as a Gateway to Student Well-being 

Faculty Focus

Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Since the turn of the millennium, with the publication of How People Learn (Bransford et al.,1999), link] Zengaro, S., Zengaro, Z., 66 – 83.

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Cultural Immersion: An Eye-Opening Experience to Facilitate Learning

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Auditory Hallucination Simulation To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia. Active learning techniques that improve psychiatric learning must be included and supported across all curriculum levels. “Schizophrenia.”

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Cultural Immersion: An Eye-Opening Experience to Facilitate Learning

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Auditory Hallucination Simulation To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia. Active learning techniques that improve psychiatric learning must be included and supported across all curriculum levels. “Schizophrenia.”

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. Okoroafor, N.,

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

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In response, universities and educators strive to create and nurture virtual relationships and communities that foster positive relational school cultures, understanding student behavior within a social context (Manassah, Roderick, and Gregory 2018, 39). It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences.

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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

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In addition to using technology in my own biology courses, I also work with faculty across the country on how to teach with technology through an inclusive lens. The narrative I often hear centers on how students may resist active learning approaches, a teaching style that often (but not always) is predicated on some technology.