Community Building in Virtual Spaces A community is a supportive social group in which members feel a sense of belonging and share a common interest, experience, or goals (Berry, 2017; Brown, 2001; McMillan & Chavis, 1986; Rovai, 2003). In a busy, over-scheduled...
Faculty’s Role in Supporting Student Agency through Voice, Choice, and OwnershipStudent success in higher education often depends on their ability to reflect, learn from feedback, apply theory, and incorporate deliberate practice to improve their skills, as discussed...
Establishing Presence to Enhance the Educational Experience Three key elements work together to impact a student's educational experience: Social Presence, Teaching Presence, and Cognitive Presence. Research has consistently demonstrated the intersection of these...
Summer Institute Day 2 Session 2: Collaborative Learning Research shows that educational experiences that are active, social, contextual, engaging, and student-owned lead to deeper learning. In this second day of workshops for Summer Institute 2022, participants had...
Summer Institute Session 3: Metacognitive Strategies To become self-directed learners, students must learn to assess the demands of the task, evaluate their own knowledge and skills, plan their approach, monitor their progress, and adjust their strategies as needed....
Alignment: Journey to Student Learning "Assessments should reveal how well students have learned what we want them to learn while instruction ensures that they learn it. For this to occur, assessments, learning objectives, and instructional strategies need to be...
