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Faculty Development in the Age of Digital, Connected Learning

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Today, they are set at the middle of the academy, between administration, faculty and students, in a position to reimagine how learning happens. In recent years, colleges and universities have recognized this and begun merging academic technology and faculty development. visual and a step-by-step guide for untethering.

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Online Learning Book Recommendations: And Why I Read so Few Books on the Topic

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Staying more holistic when developing my teaching—whether facilitating learning in person or online—has been central in my reading motivations. Even the book that I wrote about productivity was envisioned initially by the publisher as for online instructors, and then they asked if I would be willing to broaden the audience.

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

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Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. Recognize and limit microaggressions (Smith-Haghighi, 2022).

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

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Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? For complex final assignments to work well, instructors need to encourage students to start small and break the assignment up into smaller pieces.

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Giving Data Meaning: Students Should Have A Say In What Analytics Tell You About Them

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However, this emphasis should not detract from the primary mission of educational institutions: to ethically develop and realize both individual and socio-cultural potentialities. The use of data should support each of these aims, but that can only happen when students are involved in making sense of their own data.

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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

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The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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Dog Introductions, Humanization and Other Ways Online Ed Can Better Serve Students

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So we did a follow-up study, interviewing both online instructors and the students enrolled in online courses to understand why students are withdrawing from online courses in a massive way, and why students struggle in terms of their performance. Students complain that they don't always see their instructors. It is more inclusive.