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During the pandemic, the pivot to emergency remote teaching highlighted the depth and extent of inequalities, particularly in relation to access to resources and literacies, faced by higher education institutions. Imported solutions that failed to take into consideration the constraints and cultures of local contexts were less than successful. The paucity of practitioners with blended and online learning design experience, training and education grounded in diverse contexts made local design for local contexts difficult to carry out. Although there is substantial research and guidance on online learning design, there is an opportunity to create a text deliberately oriented to practice. Further, online learning design, as a field of practice and research, is strongly shaped by research, experiences and practices from a hegemonic centre (usually in the Global North, where peripheries also exist). While many of the textbooks written from this perspective are theoretically useful as a starting point, the disjuncture between theory and practice for practitioners in less well-resourced contexts where local experiences are invisible, can be jarring. This book aims to create a space for learning designers whose voices are insufficiently heard, to share innovative designs within local constraints and, in so doing, reimagine learning design in a way that does not reproduce the binary power relations of centre and periphery.

Project History The Grand Challenges for Assessment in Higher Education project is a collaborative effort endorsed by ten higher education organizations to create national strategic plans to address pressing challenges facing assessment in higher education. Singer-Freeman and Robinson (2020)

At their best, synchronous online courses are shared experiences, and students are fully present to boost each other's learning. But in the virtual world it takes more than webcams to get us there. Here, Gardner Campbell explains his concept of integrity in online learning and how it can make your students true learning colleagues.

Superficial assessments hurt professors and students, but reform is hard.

In today’s episode, we dig into an important question for higher ed: How can we improve the evaluation of teaching? Researcher Corbin Campbell was quoted in a Chronicle article recently, saying, “Folks will say quality teaching is hard to measure....

If ChatGPT can do it, and if the purpose is learning, it’s not worth doing.

Punitive attendance policies and inflexible deadlines make students’ lives needlessly difficult.

In this issue, we’ll take a look at one of the more recent studies in a long line of work on digital distractions during learning.

Connectivism is a relatively new learning theory that suggests students should combine thoughts, theories, and general information in a useful manner. It acc...

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) brings together research and teaching.

You can just ignore them, or you can take some positive steps to ensure that they will push you forward in your teaching, writes Constanza Bartholomae.

At a recent #DLNChat, one of the questions, answers, and resulting discussion prompted me to ask Karen Costa (writer, faculty member, and faculty development facilitator extraordinaire) to write a piece for us on her comments. Today's blog post is thought-provoking […]

Welcome to the beginning of the second year of the R3 newsletter - with new findings on an old technique.

Three questions we’re pondering in the new year. Plus: course-planning resources for you.

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In early October, Learning Innovation hosted the inaugural Emerging Pedagogies Summit for Duke faculty and staff invested in teaching and learning. The Summit’s goal was to promote ongoing conversations about ...

Our annual look back on the issues that resonated with readers.

Gardner Campbell explores 'cinematic thinking' and the pathways that lead to it.

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How can we improve teaching in higher education?This week the Future Trends Forum is pleased to host the authors of a new book, Instructional Moves for Powerful Teaching in Higher Education. Meira Levinson is professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Jeremy T. Murphy is an assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross.https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/9781682537985/instructional-moves-for-powerful-teaching-in-higher-education/https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/meira-levinsonThis event is powered by Shindig, the video chat event provider. On Shindig, audiences all can see one another and engage in private video chats sharing and discussing the content of the presentation. Event hosts may also bring selected audience members to the stage to ask questions or otherwise interact with guest speakers. Shindig; the dynamics of in person events, online.

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