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3 Tips for Building Community Online

Catlin Tucker

The social presence is composed of three behaviors–a) expressing feelings, beliefs, and values, b) engaging in open and productive conversations, and c) feeling connected to the other members of the learning community. They may not feel that they know their peers well enough to take risks or be vulnerable.

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Supporting All Learners: Building an Inclusive Classroom With Universal Design for Learning

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This reduces the cognitive load for students, promotes success and helps develop student self-efficacy belief. These activities foster collaboration through small group work and peer learning and can help create a classroom where every students voice and perspective can contribute to learning.

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Five Keys to Motivating Students

Faculty Focus

Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. It needs to be challenging but something that can be accomplished.

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Five Keys to Motivating Students

Faculty Focus

Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. It needs to be challenging but something that can be accomplished.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

Scholarly Teacher

Group work is a great tool in a STEM teacher’s arsenal, and one of the most important ways that modern teaching is deviating from the traditional lecture (Freeman et al., Unfortunately, managing group work as a teacher is a honed skill that requires time, practice, and initially involves some risk.

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

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For example, moving from lecture to small group work is only as effective as the nature of the feedback, the respect between stakeholders, and the understanding students have in how the process helps them grow both intellectually and socially. On the show, individuals read aloud the beliefs and struggles that guide their daily lives.

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How SAMR and Tech Can Help Teachers Truly Transform Assessment

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It was not the belief that technology has yet to be harnessed to its highest potential that surprised me. It is true that many fields are only starting to see the benefits technology brings to their work. Plickers are a low stakes and low tech way of ensuring students have a solid understanding of content before moving on.

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