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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

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Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. 2019) How to avoid cognitive overload during learning. Active learning.

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?What Makes a Smart Course ‘Smart’?

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Adaptive technology that depends on algorithms alone is insufficient to foster learner-centric design. After all, one can use the phrase “adaptive” to describe the California DMV computer-based exam because an algorithm dynamically selects the next multiple choice question based on the user’s performance thus far. Is that adaptive?

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

Faculty Focus

Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. 2019) How to avoid cognitive overload during learning. Active learning.

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Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

Faculty Focus

Learning spaces I. In-person: There are two approaches to accessibility in academia—accommodations and universal design. Consider various delivery approaches, like Pecha Kucha [vii] or Universal Design for Learning (UDL), to further supports their diverse needs. Digital Accessibility​.

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Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

Faculty Focus

Learning spaces I. In-person: There are two approaches to accessibility in academia—accommodations and universal design. Consider various delivery approaches, like Pecha Kucha [vii] or Universal Design for Learning (UDL), to further supports their diverse needs. Digital Accessibility​.

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Designing College Curricula for Student Success

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It is important that situational factors be identified as a key component to make planning decisions since retrofitting ones instructional design, delivery or assessment only after one finds out who is being instructed, are not effective use of faculty time, effort or university resources (Schreiner, Rothernberger and Scoltz, 2013).

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Designing College Curricula for Student Success

Faculty Focus

It is important that situational factors be identified as a key component to make planning decisions since retrofitting ones instructional design, delivery or assessment only after one finds out who is being instructed, are not effective use of faculty time, effort or university resources (Schreiner, Rothernberger and Scoltz, 2013).