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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

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Exploring peer observation models, their stages, and practical methods and resources for use in higher education are all part of this process. To this end, we prefer using the narrative log as it enables the observer to document the timing of behaviors, techniques, and actions of both the observed instructor and the students.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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The Administration of a Higher Education Faculty Online Learning Community

Faculty Focus

Distance learning is viewed today as a parallel learning modality, and is both valued and entrenched in higher education (Marcus. The preparation of faculty in online pedagogy and the appropriate use of tools for asynchronous learning to quickly build capacity was a start (Tucker & Quintero-Ares, 2021). 2022; Nworie,2021).

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The Administration of a Higher Education Faculty Online Learning Community

Faculty Focus

Distance learning is viewed today as a parallel learning modality, and is both valued and entrenched in higher education (Marcus. The preparation of faculty in online pedagogy and the appropriate use of tools for asynchronous learning to quickly build capacity was a start (Tucker & Quintero-Ares, 2021). 2022; Nworie,2021).

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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Motivational Force: Building a Foundation for Student Success

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Career Readiness has become a valued currency in todays higher education sector, not only because it helps ease entry into the workforce but also serves to more deeply bind education with employment. Generating, deepening, and documenting learning: The power of critical reflection in applied learning. References Ash, S.

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

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Even more distressing is the one in 20 college students who had created a suicide plan in the past year (Higher Education Today, 2022).” Use strategies that provide clarity Both UDL and trauma-informed pedagogies document the importance of clarity (CAST, 2022; Hanover, 2019). Higher Education Today (2022).