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How Students Use Unofficial Online Backchannels for Classes

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As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. But because these online platforms are easy to hide from instructors and are available 24/7, they can be trickier for students and professors to navigate.

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The Best of Both Worlds: Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Hybrid Education 

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The summer session allows our learners to be on campus, immersed in university culture, and exposed to more challenging topics with in-person support (e.g., Instructors may find it valuable to meet and teach to students in-person, rather than creating content for the proverbial faceless void. Exposure to university culture.

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

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For instructors who want to adopt it, he provides a password to a library of materials, and even plans to add the slides he uses for the in-person version of the course. He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe. embassy to get him out.

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A Welcoming Tone: Tips to Build Rapport in Digital Spaces

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Thus, it’s pressing for instructors to collaborate on concrete ways to create a welcoming tone and build rapport in digital spaces. We know that our students are culturally, linguistically, and racially diverse. Tip #3: Reflect on your teaching persona. Self-awareness is key to authenticity and culturally responsive teaching.

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The Best of Both Worlds: Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Hybrid Education 

Faculty Focus

The summer session allows our learners to be on campus, immersed in university culture, and exposed to more challenging topics with in-person support (e.g., Instructors may find it valuable to meet and teach to students in-person, rather than creating content for the proverbial faceless void. Exposure to university culture.

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

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Bringing data into college classrooms amounts to a “cultural transformation,” she argues, and requires leaders who are bilingual—speaking “IT as well as the academic.”. West says that’s where colleges need to make clear about what support is available as they start sharing data. Don’t forget about Europe and Canada! From the Vendor Hall.

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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

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He is a professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University whose expertise as a digital storyteller has won him widespread attention for his videos, which have been translated into more than 20 languages, viewed by more than 20 million people and featured at conferences and film festivals around the world.

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