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What Student Leaders Think About the Future of Education

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There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. But too often, a critical element is left out of the process: student voice. EdSurge Independent fellow Amanda Wahlstedt shared that these concerns start well before a student reaches a college campus.

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How to Assess Inclusiveness in Teaching

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Someone who wants to live out my values in practice There is a key difference between an educator saying they want to meet the needs of diverse learners and that instructor actually taking the actions that would meet that goal. Mitchell at Lafayette College provides instructors with information about the students taking their class.

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How a Blind Student Who Felt Locked Out of STEM Classes Challenged—and Changed—Her University

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The agreement also calls for the university to perform an accessibility audit of its technology, hire or designate an official to coordinate access issues, and create a grievance process for “vision-related disability issues” for times when students feel an accommodation is not effective. And he wasn’t alone in raising concerns.

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How an OER Rookie Dove Deep Into a Zero-Cost Textbook Degree Program

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But it wasn’t until her current gig, serving as an instructor for a course on water supply and demand in California, that she got her feet wet with open educational resources. College of the Canyons’ history with OER starts before Anagnonson’s dabble, however. For years, Stephanie Anagnoson worked in academic publishing.

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8 ways to improve your school or district website

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Tell a compelling story – All of the content featured on your website, including video, articles and photographs, should tell the unique story of your school or district’s history, mission, vision and culture. Design for accessibility – Many school and district websites are not in compliance with the WCAG 2.0 or the extended WCAG 2.1

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How Professors Are Planning for an Uncertain Fall Semester

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but the ability for me to read their faces and read their body language, all of those kinds of things that a good instructor is doing, doesn't work as well on Zoom. Sometimes it's been harder to access instructors through email and office hours. We run our Senate meetings with Zoom. So certainly there is the possibility.

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Lowe’s donates $1.5M to career and technical education

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Lowe’s , the largest corporate donor in SkillsUSA history, has renewed its partnership with a $1.5 The SkillsUSA Foundation will use the funds to help students and their technical skill instructors through several grant programs for SkillsUSA chapters and state associations.

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