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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

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This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. Download it here: [link] In higher education, we often track student success through grades, credit hours, and retention rates. They are co-creators of it.

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Supporting Students and Faculty in the Online Classroom: Slow Down and Simplify at the End

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Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

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Generative AI is changing the landscape of higher education, in both good and bad ways (Balch, 2023). In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. Chronicles of Higher Education. The empathetic course design perspective.

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Supporting Students and Faculty in the Online Classroom: Slow Down and Simplify at the End

Faculty Focus

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

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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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?Invasive or Informative? Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics

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An online discussion platform called Piazza has taken off among faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in recent years. Professors can easily integrate the platform into an LMS, allow students to engage with one another and course material online, and faculty see data on how student are learning. But there’s a catch.