How e-Portfolios Can Empower Students in Higher Education
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A key, yet often underrated, benefit of digital learning is that it creates a permanent digital record of student work. In addition to...
Dec 29, 20212 min read
Learning Analytics Role in Transformative Learning
While some areas of higher education regularly rely on data-driven decision making to thrive, (enrollment management, for example)...
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Dec 7, 20212 min read
Communities of Practice for Faculty in Higher Education
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...
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Nov 5, 20219 min read
How Higher Education Can Learn from Corporate Training Practices
“Learning is no longer an activity that only occurs at specific stages in your life or career. Modern learning is continuous, on the...
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Oct 12, 20212 min read
Exhibition Curation as Authentic Pedagogy
Authentic learning is an instructional method that provides students with opportunities to meaningfully explore and construct...
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Jul 5, 20213 min read
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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Jun 13, 20212 min read
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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May 20, 20212 min read
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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May 8, 20212 min read
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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Apr 24, 20213 min read
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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Apr 3, 20213 min read
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 22, 20213 min read
Leveraging the Unique Attributes of Online Learning
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...
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Mar 3, 20213 min read
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, 20211 min read
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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Jan 16, 20212 min read
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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