Formative Assessment: Closing the Feedback Gap
While few would argue the importance of feedback in the learning process, this is still an area that could use considerable improvement...
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Feb 25, 20222 min read
Computer-Mediated Assessment Feedback
Internet technologies allow free access to an ever-growing catalog of high-quality learning materials. From TED Talks to MOOCs to Khan...
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Jan 11, 20228 min read
A Brief History of Culturally Responsive Teaching in Arizona
Arizona is an incredibly unique state for many reasons. Geographically, we have everything from desert to coniferous forests. The...
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Jan 3, 20222 min read
How e-Portfolios Can Empower Students in Higher Education
A key, yet often underrated, benefit of digital learning is that it creates a permanent digital record of student work. In addition to...
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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 19, 20217 min read
Closing the Achievement Gap Through Culturally Responsive Teaching
Culturally responsive teaching connects students’ lived experiences with what they learn in school. These connections help all students...
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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 28, 202110 min read
Leapfrogging in Education to Narrow the Achievement Gap
“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...
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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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Oct 1, 20212 min read
Why Didactic Pedagogy Doesn’t Work When Teaching Racial Justice (and What Does)
Didactic education is a teaching style where information is presented directly to students by a teacher. The teacher chooses the topic...
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Sep 17, 20214 min read
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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Aug 15, 20212 min read
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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Jul 28, 20213 min read
Assessing Improvements
While improvement should be the intent behind assessment practices in higher education, the subsequent assessment of the implemented...
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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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