Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries. Human-chatbot interaction dynamics: The unique dynamics of human-chatbot interactions further complicate the issue of hallucinations. million in attempted student aid fraud.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries. Human-chatbot interaction dynamics: The unique dynamics of human-chatbot interactions further complicate the issue of hallucinations. million in attempted student aid fraud.

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Continuous Learning Institute

MARCH 19, 2023

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn about the power of humanizing online learning for college students. In this episode, I interview Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Faculty at the Foothill-De Anza Community College District (Scroll down to access the transcript.) 30:11:25: Benefits of asynchronous learning.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

To truly support student success, we must move beyond the metrics and prioritize the human connections that make higher education meaningful. As community colleges across the United States struggle with declining retention rates, it has become increasingly clear that institutional focus should not be limited to numbers alone.

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Continuous Learning Institute

MAY 8, 2023

Solano ) My three kids were educated at community colleges. My last child will be completing her community college journey this June. I emailed the colleges with my perspective as a parent. Also, universities are highly inconsistent about which AP scores they accept for college credit.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By creating and managing their portfolios, students enhance their technical skills, becoming more adept at using technology for learning and professional purposes. Personalization and Differentiated instruction: E-portfolios offer a personalized learning experience for students to highlight their unique strengths and achievements.

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University Business

MAY 23, 2024

Higher education’s nearly overnight shift to online learning during the pandemic scattered learners across the country, sending them into relative isolation for months. Despite this, online learning has remained in higher demand, especially at community colleges and among busy adult learners.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These experiences impart invaluable lessons about cross-cultural understanding, teamwork, and the very nature of our global society. Adaptive AI instruction primarily stands out for its ability to bring personalization to the forefront of the learning experience. This does not, however, negate the necessity of a human touch.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These experiences impart invaluable lessons about cross-cultural understanding, teamwork, and the very nature of our global society. Adaptive AI instruction primarily stands out for its ability to bring personalization to the forefront of the learning experience. This does not, however, negate the necessity of a human touch.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

But those distractions also humanized instructors, according to the study. To humanize online learning, Pacansky-Brock notes, the professor-student relationship should “shift from one of impersonal professionalism toward relational authority.” “That’s just as true in a physical classroom as it is online.”

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

Approximately 1,500 students from across the United States and internationally enroll at Whitman, attracted by its personalized instruction and strong emphasis on experiential learning. Curricula Whitman College offers over 45 majors and numerous minors spanning the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

The greater the access to higher education, the more dynamic a curriculum must be to effectively and equitably educate and elevate the learning experiences of all students. Course design must address the basic proposition that knowledge cannot be divorced from human interest (Macdonald, 1975).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

The greater the access to higher education, the more dynamic a curriculum must be to effectively and equitably educate and elevate the learning experiences of all students. Course design must address the basic proposition that knowledge cannot be divorced from human interest (Macdonald, 1975).

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 10, 2023

Closed captioning is a great example of an assistive technology designed for the deaf community that also helps viewers who struggle to understand unfamiliar accents, viewers who need to maintain a low volume as a courtesy to others, and viewers who prefer to print out a transcript to read and annotate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. Christopher Roth’s primary job at Guttman Community College, part of the City University of New York, is associate director of academic technology. Dr. Luis A.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

More than half of students (56 percent) agree that it’s helpful when professors break down big tasks into smaller deadlines throughout the term—an approach recommended by experts on executive function in college students—with a slightly higher share of women again saying so than men. ” William S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2025

Local Bonds: Community colleges and public systems in states like California and Texas are leveraging general obligation bonds approved by local voters to fund long-term renovations and new construction. So today there’s been collaborations targeted on a wide variety of areas of interest, human performance. Dre, right?

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 24, 2024

Learners who want the in-person learning experience but also need flexibility to fit with their personal and work demands are a great fit for hybrid education. This creates access to learners and locations that are otherwise too far from a university or community college to participate.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 24, 2024

Learners who want the in-person learning experience but also need flexibility to fit with their personal and work demands are a great fit for hybrid education. This creates access to learners and locations that are otherwise too far from a university or community college to participate.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

From skills assessment rubrics to soft skills microcredentials , this generic conception strips away critical information about how skills are defined, used and rewarded by actual human beings.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

So, we turn to the insights and expertise of you and your students to develop AI tools that support and empower learners, while maintaining ethical practices, accuracy and a focus on the human side of education. The Student Assistant enhances student outcomes by offering a personalized educational experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. ” So what should these broad-access institutions do instead?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

Digital technology has transformed how knowledge is accessed, and many students now expect flexible, personalized learning experiences. For example, discussions around loan forgiveness, free community college, or changes to Title IX can directly impact institutional operations.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Sustainable Pathways from Community College to Bachelor’s Degree for Urban Youth in STEM (S-STEM) Hudson County Community College School of Science, Engineering, Technology, Mathematics S-STEM provides students with the financial and academic resources to transfer to a four-year institution.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The majority of learning has undergone a digital transformation, and access, or lack thereof, was at the core of this critical junction. It became evident that higher education is not a duality of online learning versus on-campus learning but rather an immersive learning experience that transcends modality.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Through strategic collaborations with corporations and community leaders, educational offerings are tailored to meet students’ practical needs and aspirations, significantly enriching their learning experience and contributing to societal well-being. Three Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Emerald Publishing Limited.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

UDL guides the design of learning experiences to proactively meet the needs of learners, thus societal barriers in learning are broken down (CAST, 2018). The UDL framework guides HyFlex course design to embrace inclusion which produces a broad-spectrum of learning environments. Overton, R. Samayoa, A.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2025

Mobile-friendly learning experiences Many adult learners rely on smartphones for coursework, making mobile accessibility essential. A good friend of mine , Russell Lowery-Hart, was the president at Amarillo College. He’s now the chancellor at the Austin community college district in the Austin community.

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