Many students struggle with unstable internet access, according to a new report. While students are mostly self-reliant when troubleshooting tech problems, colleges still have a role to play in easing students’ tech burdens.
In a fall 2020 survey of institutions piloting adaptive courseware in gateway courses, 96 percent of faculty agreed that the technology helped them improve student learning, and allowed them to better monitor student progress and hold individual students accountable for engaging in class.
Every Learner Everywhere recently released an in-depth guide to blended learning, designed to help faculty, instructional designers, technological support staff and other stakeholders in their strategic planning for blended learning courses and programs.
02/05/21
To help academic administrators improve entry-level courses for digital learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, Every Learner Everywhere and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities have created a free guide focused on best practices for equity and student success. Improving Critical Courses Using Digital Learning & Evidence-based Pedagogy offers strategies for managing high-quality digital learning environments, information on learning modalities, links to resources and more.
As the guide emphasizes, Higher education s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has ignited the need to improve student success in high-priority courses and to improve equity for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, poverty-affected, and first-generation learners. By encouraging administrators to work with faculty to leverage equitable digital learning technology in their course design, the guide aims to improve student success and equity outcomes.
02/03/21
Every Learner Everywhere has assembled a network of equity and digital learning experts to provide free professional coaching for higher education faculty, course coordinators, instructional designers and academic leaders across the United States. The goal of the Expert Network is to advance equity and inclusion in blended and online learning models by offering one-on-one advice around issues related to digital learning, including courseware selection and digital pedagogy, according to a news announcement. The global pandemic, coupled with an increased awareness on racial inequities, is propelling years of digital learning work, explained Jessica Rowland Williams, director of Every Learner Everywhere, in a statement. While no one would wish for the struggles of 2020, it is up to us what happens next. Our challenge to the field is to turn this crisis into an opportunity to focus on how to create quality courses that include equity at the start. If we follow best prac