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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

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Institutions can foster connections through the following strategies: Virtual Mentorship Programs: Pairing students with mentors who provide guidance, support, and career advice can significantly enhance the online learning experience. Mentors can be faculty members, alumni, or industry professionals.

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Supporting the Instructional Design Process: Stress-Testing Assignments with AI

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Course Design Multiplier This process allowed me to develop targeted support materials for predicted problem areas before students struggle, building proactive scaffolding into course design from the beginning.

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Supporting the Instructional Design Process: Stress-Testing Assignments with AI

Faculty Focus

Course Design Multiplier This process allowed me to develop targeted support materials for predicted problem areas before students struggle, building proactive scaffolding into course design from the beginning.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

Institutions can foster connections through the following strategies: Virtual Mentorship Programs: Pairing students with mentors who provide guidance, support, and career advice can significantly enhance the online learning experience. Mentors can be faculty members, alumni, or industry professionals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Therefore, the program works closely with other departments of the college, particularly admissions and advising, to identify students who would benefit from EAP. “We Faculty members must attend four required workshops to be mentors with the program. “To We also try to get them to feel connected to the university as a whole.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

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In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. This additional layer of analysis revealed that mind maps used in this way encourage a new depth of student learning.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. This additional layer of analysis revealed that mind maps used in this way encourage a new depth of student learning.