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Tech Trends 2025: Can Technology Help Universities Avoid the Enrollment Cliff?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

The fertility rate in the United States reached a historic low in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Center for Health Statistics, and data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the fertility rate dropped more than 22% from 2007 to 2020. Fast-forward to today, and that first cadre

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Q&A: Retiring Maryville University President Recalls Early Connectivity Efforts

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

When Mark Lombardi took over as president of Missouris Maryville University in 2007, a communications and digital transformation was knocking at the sectors door. The teams response brought about one of the most comprehensive connectivity- and technology-focused initiatives in higher education at the

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Searching for the Optimal Class Design to Maximize Learning

Faculty Focus

Would you emphasize a supportive learning environment, cognitive and affective learning, pedagogical design, essential content, creating assessments, providing feedback, integrating technology, or something different? This convergence of theory and teaching practice offers one perspective for creating an optimal learning experience.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

” (Turing, 1950), followed by John McCarthy’s naming of “artificial intelligence” (McCarthy, 2007). Educational Technology Research and Development, 51 (4), 89102. A planning cycle for integrating digital technology into literacy instruction. Journal of Educational Technology, 40 (2), 123135.

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Maximizing Student Engagement During Live Online Seminars

Faculty Focus

Survey Says Seminars are not new to the online environment, although for anyone who has taught in this environment there have been many iterations over the years as technology and curriculum have dramatically changed. It was a spontaneous, yet memorable experience for everyone in the class.

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What Job Design Can Teach Us About Course Design

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Where flexibility of how a project is completed can be given, encourage students to try something new or try a new technology to implement their idea. 2007; Oldham & Hackman, 2010). Create a variety of activities and/or assessments such as an oral presentation, case study analysis, paper, or quiz. Humphrey, S. Nahrgang, J.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

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Finally, it was found that it is best to accommodate students within their learning style preferences and capabilities (Hawk & Shah, 2007). Syncing educational and workforce technologies Furthermore, in the past two decades, learning activities have morphed from the traditional classroom to online or multimedia instruction.