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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

Data has become the cornerstone of decision-making and institutional strategy in today’s higher education landscape. To truly support student success, we must move beyond the metrics and prioritize the human connections that make higher education meaningful. Simply put, data is not enough. Dr. Rebecca L.

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Mid-Semester Course Corrections: Using the MSF Model to Engage Students and Improve Courses

Faculty Focus

In general, educators recognize the value of student feedback: it can help us better understand the classroom experience, modify learning activities, or adjust our policies and practices to improve student outcomes. International Journal of Teaching and Learning 17 (2005), no. The Journal of Faculty Development 28 (2014), no.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

Data has become the cornerstone of decision-making and institutional strategy in today’s higher education landscape. To truly support student success, we must move beyond the metrics and prioritize the human connections that make higher education meaningful. Simply put, data is not enough. Dr. Rebecca L.

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BookSnaps for Enhancing Student Learning

Faculty Focus

While this playful interaction between users may seem like the antithesis of serious learning, Tara Martin (2017) found a way to channel student interest in sharing annotated images toward an educational purpose by creating what she calls a BookSnap. Booksnaps Snapchat in education. The possibilities are divers. References Martin, T.

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Learning Outcomes for Instructors, Not Just Students

Faculty Focus

It ignores, in other words, a whole legacy of educational thought, from Freire to Palmer to Weimer, that states the contrary: the best teachers have the humility and the courage to acknowledge that they are learners too. In the spirit of that acknowledgment, I’ve started developing my own list of instructor learning outcomes.

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Learning Outcomes for Instructors, Not Just Students

Faculty Focus

It ignores, in other words, a whole legacy of educational thought, from Freire to Palmer to Weimer, that states the contrary: the best teachers have the humility and the courage to acknowledge that they are learners too. In the spirit of that acknowledgment, I’ve started developing my own list of instructor learning outcomes.

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BookSnaps for Enhancing Student Learning

Faculty Focus

While this playful interaction between users may seem like the antithesis of serious learning, Tara Martin (2017) found a way to channel student interest in sharing annotated images toward an educational purpose by creating what she calls a BookSnap. Booksnaps Snapchat in education. The possibilities are divers. References Martin, T.