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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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We heard from Albat and Stephanie Del Tufo, assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, who studies individual differences in learning, language and literacy. And are there any common ones that pop up in many classrooms or that instructors maybe encounter more often?

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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. Described below are three ways that instructors support student well-being and mental health.

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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

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Bonnie Hemrick, Director of Mental Health Promotion at Oregon State University, helped frame issues of student well-being and resilience. Dr. Emily Tarconish, a teaching professor in the College of Education, contributed her deep knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and accessible course design.

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I’m An Adjunct: What Do I Need to Know About Teaching? 

Faculty Focus

I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Co-create classroom norms with your students.

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

Faculty Focus

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. Described below are three ways that instructors support student well-being and mental health.

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I’m An Adjunct: What Do I Need to Know About Teaching? 

Faculty Focus

I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Co-create classroom norms with your students.

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Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 1

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Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Instructors should take reasonable steps to address academic misconduct. Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 2.2. link] Canales, A.