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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. Davidson, 2021; Pritts, 2023) to position AI as a partner in faculty development. Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large.

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Empowering Education Through Collaboration: The Success of the Mississippi Virtual Community College

WCET Frontiers

20 Years of Progress: The Origins of MSVCC Formed during the technology boom of the 1990s, the MSVCC emerged as a response to state leaders’ vision of expanding access to education through virtual learning. Today’s students, having grown up immersed in technology, expect flexible, digitally enhanced courses.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

Assistive Technologies: Integrating assistive technologies, such as screen readers and speech-to-text tools, can enhance accessibility for students with disabilities. These funds can cover unexpected expenses, such as technology upgrades or internet access. International Journal of Technology and Inclusive Education 11, no.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. Davidson, 2021; Pritts, 2023) to position AI as a partner in faculty development. Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large.

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The push for more active learning spaces on campus

Inside Higher Ed

Researchers at the University of Minnesota found by 2010, for instance, that students in new, technology-enhanced learning spaces exceeded final grade expectations relative to their ACT scores. 1 strategic technology, with the group predicting that the then “experimental” trend would be “mainstream” by 2022.

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OEE Scholar Interview Series: Dr. Sharla Berry

ACPA

Dr. Berry is an expert in the field of digital equity and online learning. Dr. Berry is committed to using her research to support practitioners in teaching and leading with technology. At that time, there was a lot of talk about the future of technology. MOOCs, coding bootcamps, and hackathons were very popular.

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Building community in online conferences, events (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

We recently worked with others to organize Equity Unbound’s #MYFest22 , a virtual event that sought to center community and support, and rethink the many pitfalls of online, in-person and hybrid events that we’ve seen in the past two years, and even before the pandemic. She is co-facilitator of Equity Unbound.