Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Incorporating four simple practices through collaborative learning communities could be a game changer for teachers willing to embrace a more humane approach to teaching and learning. Research has shown that compassion in education can lead to improved student motivation, reduced anxiety, and enhanced learning outcomes (Goleman, 2011).

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Today’s higher education students are increasingly digitally savvy, accustomed to technology being woven into every facet of their lives. It’s a powerful tool that’s reshaping our approach to education, especially in the realm of self-paced learning. The answer lies in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Relevance for Learning, Instruction, and Assessment Adult learners have unique needs that require consideration when designing instruction. Human memory can only process small amounts of information at once. Advances in Physiology Education , 40 (4), 509–513. The modern practice of adult education: From pedagogy to andragogy.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself. Clover, D.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Plato around a seminar table this ain’t Wildavsky usefully nails the idea that higher education is contrary to skills-based learning, noting that even the ‘land-grant institutions’ founded in the US over a century ago provide practical experience. The fact it is meshed together has just made it confusing, messy and unhelpful.’ Many (most?)

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

In higher education, “building rapport” is often cited (e.g., Through continuous and authentic human interaction with the instructor, students will develop a meaningful connection that fosters a sense of alliance within the class ( Hammond , 2015). The Center for Digital Education at Washington University in St. link] Wehr, K.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Relevance for Learning, Instruction, and Assessment Adult learners have unique needs that require consideration when designing instruction. Human memory can only process small amounts of information at once. Advances in Physiology Education , 40 (4), 509–513. The modern practice of adult education: From pedagogy to andragogy.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Today’s higher education students are increasingly digitally savvy, accustomed to technology being woven into every facet of their lives. It’s a powerful tool that’s reshaping our approach to education, especially in the realm of self-paced learning. The answer lies in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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SRHE

MAY 11, 2023

By Rachel Brooks How healthy is the area of higher education studies? Higher education research has also been critiqued for occupying a relatively marginal place within the wider discipline of educational research. Indeed, there is mounting evidence that higher education research is an increasingly vibrant area of enquiry.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. Those losses led her to rethink the program’s curriculum.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

Melissa Hawthorne, PhD is an associate professor in the School of Education at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. She teaches graduate research and adult education courses for the Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction and the Master’s in Educational Leadership programs.

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

Blogs EAB Strategic Advisory Services Extends Breadth and Depth of Coverage The challenges facing higher education have become increasingly complex and interconnected over the past 15 years and in many cases require the collective action of multiple cabinet leaders and divisions to make progress.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

Melissa Hawthorne, PhD is an associate professor in the School of Education at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. She teaches graduate research and adult education courses for the Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction and the Master’s in Educational Leadership programs.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

Welcome to the second post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment. Higher education institutions are responding to the ensuing financial instability in ways that are both predictable and creative.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

Welcome to the second post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment. Higher education institutions are responding to the ensuing financial instability in ways that are both predictable and creative.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Twenty-two percent of adult learners we surveyed said internships, co-ops, and other active-learning experiences help convey the value of education when they are selecting a graduate or adult-serving programs. Learn more Discover more ways to help your graduate and adult-serving programs stand out.

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EAB

APRIL 17, 2023

online delivery, weekend classes) appeal to students concerned with balancing family and work-related commitments with further education. Offering flexible, asynchronous options allows students to complete courses on their own schedule, which may encourage busy adult students to continue their education and increase enrollments.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 22, 2025

Seventy-nine counties conducted voter registration drives, while double that number carried on political education and get-out-the-vote efforts. Our Citizenship Education Program continues to lay the solid foundation of adult education and community organization upon which all social change must ultimately rest.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

In higher education, “building rapport” is often cited (e.g., Through continuous and authentic human interaction with the instructor, students will develop a meaningful connection that fosters a sense of alliance within the class ( Hammond , 2015). The Center for Digital Education at Washington University in St. link] Wehr, K.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 28, 2025

The future of the US Department of Education: 8 tips for journalists covering the agency under Trumps second term by Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist's Resource January 23, 2025 The U.S. Department of Education, one of the federal governments smallest Cabinet-level agencies, operates programs across every level of education.

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