Faculty Focus
APRIL 4, 2023
We put all students in the same learning environment and expect that one learning environment will lead to the same outcome for all students. I wonder sometimes if the work we see students submit that maybe isn’t as awesome as we’d like, if it’s because of the way we’ve set up the learning environment.
Faculty Focus
APRIL 11, 2023
In the college environment an intent to persist is needed, and by promoting resiliency in such a way students are encouraged to understand that their own free will and mindset largely influence their success. In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
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Faculty Focus
APRIL 11, 2023
In the college environment an intent to persist is needed, and by promoting resiliency in such a way students are encouraged to understand that their own free will and mindset largely influence their success. In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
Faculty Focus
APRIL 4, 2023
We put all students in the same learning environment and expect that one learning environment will lead to the same outcome for all students. I wonder sometimes if the work we see students submit that maybe isn’t as awesome as we’d like, if it’s because of the way we’ve set up the learning environment.
Helix Education
APRIL 21, 2024
percent between 2015 and 2019.” percent between 2015 and 2019.” A case study for small liberal arts colleges This really hit home for me earlier this year when I was invited to represent the university that I work for at the inauguration of a new president at my alma mater, West Virginia Wesleyan College.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 11, 2022
When people learn their brains encode, not so much their experiences as their reactions to those experiences, which are then expressed as emotions (Shackleton-Jones, 2019). Students view the work as simply a hurdle to be crossed, and once submitted and assessed, worthy of nothing more than being discarded. What a waste! 2010; Bransford et al.,
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., It offered a second opportunity in 2019. Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic. The pandemic put things on hold.
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