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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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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

Faculty Focus

Exploring peer observation models, their stages, and practical methods and resources for use in higher education are all part of this process. Models of Peer Observation The focus of the peer observation defines its goal, context, and the way the participants act and feel toward the process.

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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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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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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.