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The more growth-mindset oriented you are, the more likely you are to think active learning is a good idea.

Nick Laparra shared a post on Instagram: "“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” — George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw + @JeffGoldblum + @StephenAtHome = ❤️🙏🏽😭🌎". Follow their account to see 3593 posts.

And coming to terms with “robot writing” might just improve writing instruction, S. Scott Graham writes.

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Carry the Innovation Forward grant recipients Stacy Tantum and Sophia Santillan organized a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) for the academic year 2021-2022 about Inclusive Assessment for Quantitative Disciplines. This group ...

“Four research-informed practices faculty can take to increase student persistence, as cited in Relationship-Rich Education (Felton/Lambert) and developed by faculty at Oakton Community College. (1/5)”

In alignment with the College of IST’s strategic plan, the Office of Learning Design had developed multiple tools to support inclusive teaching and learning design. A portfolio of this work i…

How to enable course grading schemes on Canvas A lot of people are interested in how to trick Canvas into doing things in ways that are at least a little more friendly to alternative grading systems. In particular, people want to know how to make Canvas display labels more prominently than poin...

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The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai

While taking attendance, inner-city substitute teacher Mr. Garvey has trouble adjusting to a classroom full of middle-class white students.About Key & Peele:...

The way we introduce college students to research fails to encourage the ethical practice of open-ended curiosity so desperately needed in today’s complex information environment.

If it’s code for “some students deserve to be here, and some don’t,” then it needs to go.

The work of teaching, assessing, and supporting our learners may feel more challenging recently. New barriers have cropped up alongside existing ones. How can we replace counter-productive responses with inclusive and equitable ones?

“Working on an essay on "rigor" in higher education, and boy howdy are there some real gems in the discourse:”

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A thread on belonging and community, fwiw:#HigherEd #FacDev— Karen Costa (she/her) (@karenraycosta) September 8, 2022

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Got 5 minutes for 5 tips? So many of us are being asked to move to online with little time to prepare… when we thought we might have been face-to-face. Here are five quick tips to help build …

Classroom observation tools are used to evaluate teaching and learning activities, and to provide constructive feedback to instructors. To help instructors with selecting a suitable tool based on their needs and available resources, in this study, a group of observers assessed lectures of an introductory biology course using three, broadly cited classroom assessment tools in the STEM field: the Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM (COPUS); the Practical Observation Rubric to Assess Active Learning (PORTAAL); and the Decibel Analysis for Research in Teaching (DART). From a user’s perspective, we evaluated 1) the type and extent of information each tool provides, and 2) the time investment and difficulty of working with each tool. The assessment result of each tool was compared, with a list of expected outcomes generated by surveying a group of college instructors and with the result of a self-teaching assessment tool, Teaching Practices Inventory (TPI). Our findings conclude that each tool provided valuable assessment with a broad range of outcomes and time investment: PORTAAL offered the most detailed information on the quality of teaching practices and students’ engagement, but it demanded the greatest time investment. DART provided a basic estimation of active learning proportion with the least effort. The level of assessment outcome and the time investment when using COPUS was found to be less than PORTAAL, and more than DART. The TPI self-assessment ou...

Article. By James Baldwin. October 16, 1963. Baldwin addresses the challenges of education to prepare children to grapple with the myths and realities of U.S. history.

I’ve come to see #ungrading as something more like a spectrum that’s moving away from traditional event-based grading. Things like SBG are a step towards something better, but there's further to go. I think most ungraders do some combination of pieces on this spectrum 2/3 pic.twitter.com/2ag6vlhAUq— Chris Sarkonak (@CSarkonak) September 3, 2022

Digital learning increases access to equitable higher education and can catalyze improved course outcomes for historically marginalized students.

The goal of the ISEE Assessment is to pool the multi-disciplinary expertise on educational systems and reforms from a range of stakeholders in an open and inclusive manner and undertake a scientifically robust and evidence-based assessment that can inform education policy making at all levels and scales.