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Leveraging collaborative e-learning to support UDL

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Additionally, these digital tools need to support the means of expression through written assignments, presentations, or discussions to make the learning environment as engaging as possible. A student could genuinely find a useful YouTube explainer on a particular topic and post the link as an annotation for the class.

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How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?

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Dropbox Paper or Google Docs : these mainstream collaborative word-processing tools let instructors invite students to collaborate on assignments or group work. This past semester, each student submitted reading notes as an assignment in the LMS. When reading on the internet, you can select text and annotate it. Hypothes.is

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The Benefits of Online Learning Are Also Its Weaknesses. That’s Where Advisors Help.

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I recall one student who would wait until the night of the assignment deadline to dive into their schoolwork. All too often, they would wind up needing to ask their instructor a question about the assignment but had no time to receive an answer before the deadline passed. Don’t wait for an assignment notification to get started.

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School Has Lost Its Connection. Both Students and Teachers Are Feeling It.

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My syllabus had a no-technology policy and it wasn’t perfect, but it helped. Some had tested positive for COVID-19, or had a parent in the hospital, or were paying out of pocket for school because there was some glitch with their FAFSA, or their internet was slow. I can cut a lot of slack, extend deadlines or excuse assignments.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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But now that so many students are taking courses remotely, in improvised environments that may not be especially conducive to learning, it may take some extra effort to redesign instruction, assignments and assessments to address everyone’s needs. Do they have internet connections? Physical accessibility. Can we get it to them?

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Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI 

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As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others.

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?Anticipating and Addressing Challenges With Technology in Developmental Education

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Instructional technology may take the form of software that can be used to complete homework assignments, or serve as a primary content-delivery and assessment system in fully online or blended online classes. For low-income students and users (including institutions) located in rural areas, internet access is still not available everywhere.