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How to Develop Culturally Responsive Teaching for Distance Learning
The coronavirus pandemic and school closures across the nation have exposed deep inequities within education: technology access, challenges with communication, lack of support for special education students, to name just a few. During this crisis, there are still opportunities to provide students with tools to help them be independent learners…
OER Can Save Colleges Money, Too
A new study shows that open educational resources can help students save money, which encourages them to enroll in more classes. The report details the results of the Open Educational Resources Degree Initiative from Achieving the Dream, a network of 277 community colleges committed to student success.
Grading for STEM Equity
Flaherty, Colleen (2019, December 18). Grading for STEM equity. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/02/20/oer-can-save-colleges-money-too
The Ethnocentric Origins of the Learning Style Idea
Fallace, Thomas (2019, June 12). The ethnocentric origins of the learning style idea. Sage Journals. Retrieved from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/
In recent years, researchers have questioned the legitimacy of the so-called myth of learning styles and expressed confusion about exactly when and why the idea first emerged. This historical study traces the origin and emergence of the learning style idea. The author argues that the learning style idea originated in the 1960s as part of a broader effort to reach inner-city African American youth that certain educators deemed culturally deficient.
How to Prepare for Class Without Overpreparing
Lang, James M. (2018, July 29). How to prepare for class without overpreparing. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Prepare-for-Class/244015/
A new semester is looming, and you are overwhelmed. It could be because you’re early in your teaching career and still feeling your way. Or it could be related to the impossible amount of work you are facing, as teaching loads grow ever heavier. But some of it arises from a common problem that you can help to alleviate yourself: You are overpreparing for class.
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