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Assignments with Significance

Faculty Focus

Meaningful learning tasks are transformative and deep, and rooted in three key elements: emotional connection, sense, and significance (Barkley, 2010): Emotional connection. Consequently, while we forget most life experiences, we can remember the best and (even more) the worst things that have happened to us. What a waste!

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

When our students overcome obstacles in their learning due to our support and encouragement, or experience transformations from our well-constructed course design and subsequent instruction, we succeed in cultivating spaces where their success is made possible. Curiosity benefits priming the brain for learning (Robson, 2022).

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

When our students overcome obstacles in their learning due to our support and encouragement, or experience transformations from our well-constructed course design and subsequent instruction, we succeed in cultivating spaces where their success is made possible. Curiosity benefits priming the brain for learning (Robson, 2022).

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Small College America – Profile Earlham College

Edu Alliance Journal

Background Founded in 1847 in Richmond, Indiana, Earlham College is a private liberal arts institution with deep Quaker roots. Despite its modest size, Earlham has built a reputation for academic rigor, experiential learning, and global perspectives. For the 2023-24 academic year, U.S.

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Seize the Moment with “Call & Response” Podcast Learning Practices

Faculty Focus

Regardless of whether students decide on asynchronous, synchronous, or HyFlex courses in the future, podcasting can reinforce important educational objectives through concise and manageable tasks while at the same time accompanying self-paced and varied learning styles (Powell & Robson, 2014).

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Seize the Moment with “Call & Response” Podcast Learning Practices

Faculty Focus

Regardless of whether students decide on asynchronous, synchronous, or HyFlex courses in the future, podcasting can reinforce important educational objectives through concise and manageable tasks while at the same time accompanying self-paced and varied learning styles (Powell & Robson, 2014).

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ENGAGEMENT: The Secret Sauce to Effective Faculty Professional Development

Faculty Focus

Professional development should be an enriching and meaningful experience for adults. As a PD facilitator, I try to do what the concept implies; that is, to develop faculty professionally because the experience should empower, encourage, and engage all learners. I must see it to learn it.” Why are we here?