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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education

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The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners.

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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education

Faculty Focus

The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners.

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Professors Take Out Ads Protesting Their University’s Online Degree Programs

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But they won’t have the quality, scholarship and service that are hallmarks of a true EMU education,” reads the advertisement created by two faculty unions at Eastern Michigan. AP does not provide any teaching assistance nor oversight of it,” she added. These degrees will carry the EMU name. They are NOT replacements.

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How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half

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When budget woes threatened faculty reductions in the anthropology department at Kansas State University, one professor decided to address the shortfall by teaching differently. The professor, Michael Wesch, has a long track record of teaching innovation. I was not well educated in alternative narratives to why segregations exists.”

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Integrating Guest Speakers and Panelists in Online Courses 

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Easily overlooked in this process can be maintaining the use of outside experts as guest speakers, panelists, or evaluators because of condensed class formats and the reliance on asynchronous elements in online course designs. Healey earned a BS in education from Northeastern University and an MBA from Villanova University.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

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This piece will suggest a few simple ideas that teachers of introductory STEM classes may implement in their course design to turn their lectures into active learning experiences for a large student body, without needing to completely revisit and change their whole teaching style. How long should they last? research.com.

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Integrating Guest Speakers and Panelists in Online Courses 

Faculty Focus

Easily overlooked in this process can be maintaining the use of outside experts as guest speakers, panelists, or evaluators because of condensed class formats and the reliance on asynchronous elements in online course designs. Healey earned a BS in education from Northeastern University and an MBA from Villanova University.

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