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Learning How to Blend Online and Offline Teaching

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In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. I never delivered a lecture in real time on Zoom.

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Online Learning Is Not the Enemy

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Think of how many students, in a recent survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse, expressed their hope that their institution could keep recording lectures, or provide the option to choose between in-person and online attendance.

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Social-Emotional Learning Is the Rage in K-12. So Why Not in College?

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secondary schools and universities , where demand for counseling services is rapidly outstripping supply. lecture alone doesn’t work). Our thesis is that one route to effective SEL and preventive mental health lies at the intersection of character education, community building and traditional counseling center services.

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Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

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We know that it’s important to incorporate small changes in our teaching, such as periodically adding a learning activity in place of a brief lecture. Flower Darby also suggests that, “Whether you are teaching in person, online, or in some hybrid format in 2021-22, intersperse brief lecture segments with productive activities.”.

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I Love Community Colleges (and Tech Should Too)

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Noting the low success rates, CSCC split the remedial math program into weekly competency-based modules and implemented the Emporium model, which replaces lectures with computer lab sessions featuring interactive software. free online textbooks ) could ease the financial burden.

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Integrating Guest Speakers and Panelists in Online Courses 

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Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. The final consideration for developing an asynchronous guest lecture is the “shelf-life” of a video.

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New Advocacy Campaign Calls for Banning Facial Recognition on College Campuses.

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A satirical student newspaper recently wrote that Stanford University installed facial recognition cameras in the front of some lecture halls to take attendance and analyze the expressions on students’ faces.