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The end of in-person learning? Setting higher ed’s online goals for 2025

University Business

This shift raises a key question: Are traditional classrooms becoming obsolete, or can a blended model offer the best of both worlds while meeting students’ diverse needs? Prioritizing faculty development and buy-in: Faculty engagement is pivotal to successful online learning.

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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. Spitale et al.

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

Faculty Focus

I wanted to see if I could task AI with modelling hundreds of student responses to my prompts in the hope that this process might yield the kind of insight I was too close to see. The AI modeled responses also revealed that students might have difficulty transitioning between personal narrative and academic analysis sections.

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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.

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

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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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Running a Workshop: Guidelines for Engagement and Impact

Faculty Focus

Make sure that all the technology is working. Principle 4: Think in units of three: Explain: Walk the participants through a relatively small piece of information or skill, perhaps (as relevant) providing a model or example that participants can build from. Principle 1: Come early and “own” the learning space.

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Faculty learning communities: Why they’re still a great idea

University Business

Instead of potentially “telling faculty that what they have been doing for the past five, 10,or even 30 years may not be the most effective approach—especially for today’s students” ( Brownwell & Tanner, 2017 ), participation in an FLC can be framed as an opportunity for focused work on pedagogy and recognition of that work.

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