While few would argue the importance of feedback in the learning process, this is still an area that could use considerable improvement...

Internet technologies allow free access to an ever-growing catalog of high-quality learning materials. From TED Talks to MOOCs to Khan...

Arizona is an incredibly unique state for many reasons. Geographically, we have everything from desert to coniferous forests. The...

A key, yet often underrated, benefit of digital learning is that it creates a permanent digital record of student work. In addition to...

While some areas of higher education regularly rely on data-driven decision making to thrive, (enrollment management, for example)...

Communities of practice are groups of people who gather based on a shared interest or passion for something they all do and learn how to...

Culturally responsive teaching connects students’ lived experiences with what they learn in school. These connections help all students...

“Learning is no longer an activity that only occurs at specific stages in your life or career. Modern learning is continuous, on the...

“If we teach students the same way as yesterday, we rob them of tomorrow.” -John Dewey One of my most significant concerns as an educator...

Authentic learning is an instructional method that provides students with opportunities to meaningfully explore and construct...

Didactic education is a teaching style where information is presented directly to students by a teacher. The teacher chooses the topic...

The identities of first-generation college students are complex. There is no agreed-upon definition of what qualifies a student as...

The sustained assessment of student learning is the most effective means of ensuring the delivery of an institution's mission. The hard...

While improvement should be the intent behind assessment practices in higher education, the subsequent assessment of the implemented...

Every college and university has a mission, and every program and course has intended outcomes, but without assessment, all of these...

Since the dawn of the "assessment movement" in higher education in the 1980s, pinning down a broadly shared concrete definition has...

One of the most formative yet mundane things that a teacher ever told me was, "I don't know." It didn't happen until I was in college. I...

I've had the unique privilege and responsibility of teaching college faculty how to be better educators, and, candidly, I know that many...

The importance of visuals in course design cannot be overstated. Most instructional designers and educators don't have a background in...

Identifying learning objectives can seem deceptively simple. As such, educators and instructional designers can often rush the process...

With the sudden need for many teachers to haphazardly move from an in-person to an online format, online learning is starting to get a...

When I was a little girl in elementary school, once a month we would visit the computer lab full of Apple Macintosh Classics with small...

One of the best pieces of advice that I ever received as an educator is “remember how hard it was for you to learn.” This thinking is...

In education, intrinsic motivation can be described as when a student’s desire to learn takes priority over all other motivations. Sounds...