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How to Significantly Improve Student Engagement and Retained Learning in Higher Education

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After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge. Also review situations and/or results in class that apply to all the groups efforts.

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Strategies for Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Higher Education 

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Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Acrobat) to apply built-in page layouts Tables do not work well with screen readers, so consider alternative organizational elements Use descriptive wording for hyperlink text rather than “click here” Post most instructor-created content within LMS content pages (i.e.,

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Community in the Classroom

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Group Trivia: I end our first-class session with some trivia questions for students to answer in small groups of 4-to-5 students. Regular Group Work: I emphasis a lot of group work throughout the semester, both graded and ungraded. Here are a few outcomes: Group Final?!?:

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How to Significantly Improve Student Engagement and Retained Learning in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge. Also review situations and/or results in class that apply to all the groups efforts.

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Community in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

Group Trivia: I end our first-class session with some trivia questions for students to answer in small groups of 4-to-5 students. Regular Group Work: I emphasis a lot of group work throughout the semester, both graded and ungraded. Here are a few outcomes: Group Final?!?:

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Lessons From Flipped Classrooms and Flipped Failures

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They would do well on timed tests, just acing timed tests. Take a solid year to plan, to develop materials, to test things out and so forth. It’s just an unfortunate artifact of the kind of educational system they grow up with, that students go to class expecting the teacher to do work for them. They seemed to be engaged.

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Strategies for Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Higher Education 

Faculty Focus

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Acrobat) to apply built-in page layouts Tables do not work well with screen readers, so consider alternative organizational elements Use descriptive wording for hyperlink text rather than “click here” Post most instructor-created content within LMS content pages (i.e.,