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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. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).

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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. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).

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How Professors Can Bring Culturally-Responsive Teaching to Online Courses

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Instead of just superheroes, she invites students to think about their own cultural icons and cultural representations, and use that to design a character. She takes the approach of co-designing. Based on that feedback, the professor, Julia Parra, says she changed the assignment to make it broader, and more inclusive.

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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. link] The post Cultural Immersion: An Eye-Opening Experience to Facilitate Learning appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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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. link] The post Cultural Immersion: An Eye-Opening Experience to Facilitate Learning appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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How to Engage Your Students With the 12-Minute Rule and Quizzes They’re Meant to Fail

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So are most of the students taking the cultural competency quiz Professor John Branch gives out near the beginning of his MBA-level International Marketing class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Source: Course Hero. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. Why did it fail?

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Stanford course prepares educators for the new school year

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Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education has launched a short online course designed specifically to help educators create rich and meaningful opportunities for communication within the classroom. The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches this August with three online sessions. .”