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4 days ago
4 min

First-Generation College Students: Intersectional Support for an Intersectional Demographic

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

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5 days ago
2 min

Two Key Principles of Sustainable Assessment Practices

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

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5 days ago
3 min

Assessing Improvements

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

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Apr 3
3 min

Ensuring Educational Quality: Assessment in Five Levels

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

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Mar 31
2 min

Assessment: Beyond Compliance

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

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Mar 30
2 min

It's Ok to Say, "I don't know."

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...

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Mar 26
2 min

The Problem with Learning and Development

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

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Mar 25
3 min

Why Visuals Matter in Course Design

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

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Mar 24
3 min

Identifying Clear Learning Objectives

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

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Mar 23
3 min

Leveraging the Unique Attributes of Online Teaching

The online classroom is very different from the physical classroom; no argument there. However, "different" is not inherently less than....

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Feb 4
3 min

Technology: Distraction, Tool, or Both?

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...

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Feb 3
1 min

Remember How Hard it Was for You to Learn

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...

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Feb 3
2 min

Cultivating Intrinsic Motivation Through Connections

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

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