Deans for Impact

AUGUST 29, 2022

Deans for Impact · Empowering educators and elevating the teaching profession. Subscribe: Learning by Scientific Design is a podcast series by Deans for Impact that explores how an understanding of cognitive science, or the science of how students learn, can lead to more rigorous, equitable and inclusive teaching. .

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). Reflective teaching defined Reflection has many definitions. There are many reflective tools and frameworks available.

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MindMax

AUGUST 23, 2023

Which brings me to a question I’m better equipped to answer: Does higher education have a role in closing the soft skill training gap? But higher education is accustomed to meeting people’s needs socially, materially, and academically. If anyone can figure out how to teach soft skills, it’s a college or university.

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 27, 2023

As we round out the month, we’re thrilled to be joined today by Kate Sonka and Rolando Méndez from Teach Access to discuss the differences between teaching accessibly and teaching accessibility. Odds are if you are working in higher education, you have heard the term mentioned a few times.

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HEPI

APRIL 16, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly written by Stephanie Marshall , Vice-Principal (Education) at Queen Mary University of London. HEPI and Advance HE are hosting a free webinar ‘Shifting priorities: has the teaching and learning agenda slipped off the sector’s radar?’ You can register your place here.

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Deans for Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Sitting in on EDUC 1301: Introduction to the Teaching Profession at Odessa College last semester, Pervis Evans is conscious that he doesn’t quite fit in with the other students, a majority of whom are recent high school graduates. But that doesn’t deter him at all.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 8, 2024

Siena expects to benefit from adding high-demand offerings, while Clarkson said the move will help keep its focus on technological education.

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Wonkhe

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Wonkhe and Kortext have surveyed educators and talked to sector leaders to explore the post-Covid landscape for digitally enabled higher education. Spoiler: pedagogy drives technology The post Setting the curve 1 – how universities are deploying technology for learning, teaching, and student success appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Department of Education for a program to teach K-12 teachers about civics, history, and media literacy. The co-pilots of the program are Dr. Lauren Harris, an associate professor of history education, and Dr. Leanna Archambault, professor of learning design and technology. Arizona State University (ASU) faculty have received $1.6

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Deans for Impact

MARCH 8, 2023

The initiative is organized into six regions, each overseen by a local educator-preparation program, and serves a racially, socioeconomically, and culturally diverse body of K-12 students across 27 school districts in Illinois. All my siblings [and I] have gone through this school,” says the NIU junior and teacher-candidate. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Bunch III came together to discuss the increasingly vital role public institutions play in teaching American citizens their country’s history, particularly the history of Black people. The whole ‘WOKE’ bill says if you teach African American history to people, it will make them feel guilty and, therefore, you can’t teach it,” said Alexander.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Prioritize ChatGPT Proficiency to Enhance Teaching and Learning Melissa Ezarik Fri, 10/27/2023 - 03:00 AM Educators have a responsibility to think beyond cheat-proof assignments, teaching students to use AI proficiently and creatively in the classroom, writes Amy Kristof-Brown. Byline(s) Amy Kristof-Brown

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I don’t recall exactly how I responded in the moment, but with the benefit of hindsight I now know it was a tremor in what would become a seismic shift in our educational landscape. Students who are in their late teens or early twenties have spent their educational experiences navigating misinformation, fake news, and alternative facts.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Since its inception in 2017, the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) has become an integral part of assessing and recognising the quality of undergraduate teaching and learning in the English higher education system. Graduate Attributes Institutions often use graduate attributes to evidence educational gain.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 5, 2024

Culturally responsive teaching is a crucial student-centered approach that is critical in today’s multicultural and diverse educational environment. Therefore, I use culturally responsive teaching to promote inclusivity that values every student’s cultural background in my classroom.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on December 10, 2018. There’s a new book out called Activating a Teaching-Learning Philosophy. To me that says “doing something about your teaching-learning philosophy.” taking a course intended to prepare them to teach. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2023

The Brazilian educator and philosopher, Paulo Freire, believed in a collaborative approach to education, where both the educator and the learner contribute to the learning process. Today, Freire’s teaching is not only relevant but necessary to adopt as we witness the transformation of teaching and learning.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 5, 2024

Culturally responsive teaching is a crucial student-centered approach that is critical in today’s multicultural and diverse educational environment. Therefore, I use culturally responsive teaching to promote inclusivity that values every student’s cultural background in my classroom.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

Crafting an effective teaching experience parallels the art of carpentry as both require a diverse and well-equipped toolbox. Not only do they simplify complex concepts but also significantly enhance teaching and learning (Chan & Fok, 2009; Onyeaka et al., 2022; Ouyang et al., 2006; Saxena et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

The conference attendees were a mix of students, faculty, donors, education administrators, and edtech professionals. Groups were assigned an activity to discuss possible solutions for increasing capacity for educational technology and digital learning. Higher education as a whole has recently been scrutinized for its value.

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

By Sedinam Worlanyo, Senior Product Researcher and Eli Fogle, Senior Learning Design Consultant, Coursera Context The way we learn and therefore the way we must teach is changing rapidly. Opportunities As an educator, you might not be able to create personalized examples for every student.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Higher education must do much more to support and value the intellectual, scholarly work of teaching, write Martha Diede, Jessica Dewey and Michelle Pautz.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

If you are teaching courses online, have you considered that the planning and preparation to teach online is markedly different than teaching in-person? Although higher education courses have been offered online for many years, the COVID-19 pandemic forced most courses to go online in a rush. Sibert, DeAnna M.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

When I started as an adjunct faculty member, I had no teaching experience. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Use a variety of methods for sharing information.

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Educause

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Colleges and universities often need to balance educating a great number of students with the desire to encourage interactive and engaging teaching styles. One innovative approach is learning-in-the-round classroom design.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I don’t recall exactly how I responded in the moment, but with the benefit of hindsight I now know it was a tremor in what would become a seismic shift in our educational landscape. Students who are in their late teens or early twenties have spent their educational experiences navigating misinformation, fake news, and alternative facts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

There is is a lot of discussion about what K-12 teachers do and don’t (mostly don’t) receive in terms of training in culturally relevant pedagogy, and it is often traced back to teacher education programs. Specifically, 44% of teachers in K-12 education reported that they very often or always feel burned out at work.

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ACRLog

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For this blog post, I decided to document my teaching journey so far as a first-year academic librarian. Before I secured my current position as a Reference & Instruction Librarian at Cal State University, Northridge (CSUN) in July 2023, I had already been an educator for over ten years.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. In other words, we need to take the time to create inclusive learning communities if we’re going to make the most of teaching and learning. It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed. Who are you to your students? Do they respect you?

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Professors have always preferred to teach content over skills. By Leonard Cassuto Professors have always preferred to teach content over skills. But shifting that focus might just revive our graduate programs. But shifting that focus might just revive our graduate programs.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

Crafting an effective teaching experience parallels the art of carpentry as both require a diverse and well-equipped toolbox. Not only do they simplify complex concepts but also significantly enhance teaching and learning (Chan & Fok, 2009; Onyeaka et al., 2022; Ouyang et al., 2006; Saxena et al.,

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The PIE News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Speaking on the International Day of Education at the edtech conference Bett UK in London, Borhene Chakroun emphasised that conflict situations, as well as discriminatory education systems, are limiting students’ access to education.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

One in two teachers worldwide feel unprepared to teach refugee students in their classrooms, new research has revealed. According to an Oxford University Press survey of 537 school and English language teachers globally, six in 10 teach refugees but 47.5% feel unprepared or lack the confidence to teach them.

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Today's Learner

JULY 26, 2023

New ways of teaching and learning needed to be adopted quickly, sometimes without time for sufficient training and preparation. Will you stay in higher education, or have you already gone? These changes have been important factors in my decision to keep teaching in higher education. Teaching still makes me happy.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2023

The Brazilian educator and philosopher, Paulo Freire, believed in a collaborative approach to education, where both the educator and the learner contribute to the learning process. Today, Freire’s teaching is not only relevant but necessary to adopt as we witness the transformation of teaching and learning.

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Education Learning Experience Environment Technology 86

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 4, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on June 12, 2013 © Magna Publications. A graduate student is attending a lecture given by one of her intellectual heroes, the Brazilian educator and theorist Paulo Freire. I should think more about my teaching? All rights reserved. Here’s a great story.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

If you are teaching courses online, have you considered that the planning and preparation to teach online is markedly different than teaching in-person? Although higher education courses have been offered online for many years, the COVID-19 pandemic forced most courses to go online in a rush. Sibert, DeAnna M.

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