Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Consider changing assessments from high-stakes timed tests to projects, homework, open-note/open-book take-home tests. Implement a universally designed framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people. Thank you for your work towards broadening access to higher education! Jennifer E.

Accessibility 91

Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 91

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

New report highlights 10-step plan to applying Universal Design for Learning online. In other words, educators need more than just assistive technology to create a UDL-friendly online course.

Accessibility 189

Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Instructors 189

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

One of the great challenges for any educator is how do you teach and test students on real world problems, not just on theoretical textbook examples? Detailed Case Study of NAIT - Alberta Trade School Uses Möbius Assessment to Improve Efficiency and Deliver Specialized Education. Resources from DigitalEd.

Online Learning 158

Online Learning Learning Students Textbooks 158

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Consider changing assessments from high-stakes timed tests to projects, homework, open-note/open-book take-home tests. Implement a universally designed framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people. Thank you for your work towards broadening access to higher education! Jennifer E.

Accessibility 69

Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 69

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

In my work with kids, if I’m going to get a 12-year-old to talk about something they feel vulnerable about — not reading fluently, failing the test, not understanding the homework — then I need to be both vulnerable and honest with them. He could use a calculator during tests, but he had to learn a strategy for tracking those negative signs.

Math 112

Math Testing Learning Failure 112

Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2024

It’s an especially severe problem for specialist roles, as seen in the special education teacher shortage. When students have underqualified teachers or full-time substitutes , they’re more likely to experience learning delays, low graduation rates, and test scores below grade level.

Education 52

Education Learning Styles Special Education Feedback 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

It is important that situational factors be identified as a key component to make planning decisions since retrofitting ones instructional design, delivery or assessment only after one finds out who is being instructed, are not effective use of faculty time, effort or university resources (Schreiner, Rothernberger and Scoltz, 2013).

Course Design 60

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 60