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.
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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.
05/25/21
Every Learner Everywhere, a network of organizations focused on education technologies, teaching practices and support services for blended and online learning environments, is offering a free virtual workshop on the topic of equity in digital learning. The eight-week course, titled Educational Equity Through Digital Learning, is open to all faculty with priority given to those in adjunct and non-tenured positions.
Participants will attend synchronous sessions with national leaders and access asynchronous resources such as peer discussion groups, readings, worksheets and guides. The course offers three themed learning tracks: adaptive learning and courseware; differentiated instruction for online and blended environments; and evidence-based teaching and learning. In addition, bi-weekly coaching and prep sessions will provide personalized support to help faculty identify and meet their teaching goals.
This week:
I share ideas from Susan Hrach, author of the new book
Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning, for teaching in person or online.
I pass along an idea for changing your college’s teaching culture.
I link to some recent writing on teaching you may have missed.
Education, Embodied
When Susan Hrach was wrapping up her new book on the connection between physicality and learning, she figured it would be tough to get professors to adopt its recommendations for incorporating movement into their teaching. “It’s always been a very hard sell to get people to change what they had been doing for a long time,” says Hrach, director of a faculty teaching center at Columbus State University, in Georgia. And college instruction has long been identified with sitting in rows of chairs bolted to the floor and listening to a lecture.