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Integrating Systems Thinking to Enhance Liberal Arts Curriculum through Learner-Centered Teaching 

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Economics utilizes systemic relationships and feedback loops in its models to analyse market dynamics, resource allocation, and the impact of economic policies on various sectors. Causation and Feedback Loops Causation: Understanding cause-and-effect relationships is crucial in liberal arts.

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

Faculty Focus

Each semester, the surveys were refined based on student feedback and changing classroom dynamics. Dr. Emily Tarconish, a teaching professor in the College of Education, contributed her deep knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and accessible course design. They are co-creators of it.

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Integrating Systems Thinking to Enhance Liberal Arts Curriculum through Learner-Centered Teaching 

Faculty Focus

Economics utilizes systemic relationships and feedback loops in its models to analyse market dynamics, resource allocation, and the impact of economic policies on various sectors. Causation and Feedback Loops Causation: Understanding cause-and-effect relationships is crucial in liberal arts.

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

Faculty Focus

Faced with the challenge of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to create course content and respond to emails. While we may not have control over class sizes or course loads, we can manage our workspace, habits, and course procedures.

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

Faculty Focus

Faced with the challenge of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to create course content and respond to emails. While we may not have control over class sizes or course loads, we can manage our workspace, habits, and course procedures.

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Effective online course design starts with people

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The shift to virtual learning in early 2020 put a spotlight on online course design, with all its flaws and inconsistencies. But there are good examples of effective online course design. If this foundational design philosophy is missing, engagement rates and true learning plummet.

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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).