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Motivational Force: Building a Foundation for Student Success

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These students appeared motivated to learna direct contrast to the disengagement narrative that permeates todays education circles. Academics demands coupled with the pull of daily life can negatively tip the balance of student outcomes, siphoning away student motivation, according to educational scholar Howard McClusky.

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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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Motivational Force: Building a Foundation for Student Success

Faculty Focus

These students appeared motivated to learna direct contrast to the disengagement narrative that permeates todays education circles. Academics demands coupled with the pull of daily life can negatively tip the balance of student outcomes, siphoning away student motivation, according to educational scholar Howard McClusky.

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

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They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement. This is the humdinger.

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

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A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

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Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

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Around the semester midpoint you may be noticing that some of your students are becoming overwhelmed, may lack motivation, or feel disconnected from the class. Anna Conway, EdD is a professor and faculty developer at Des Moines Area Community College. Sound familiar?

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Helping Underrepresented Students Score Tomorrow’s Jobs

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JD Yaske, a board member and programming class instructor at Gameheads, an Oakland-based nonprofit that teaches game design to low-income youth and those of color, said the program doesn’t specifically target any racial or gender demographic, but wants to bring more diversity to major gaming companies.

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