Early in 2024, Kristy Houle was new to Harris-Stowe State University, a public HBCU in St. Louis, when the Assistant Provost for Retention and Student Success, Aline Phillips, asked her …
If key constituencies around a college or university campus committed to furthering equity-based teaching, what specific actions would make up their strategy? A new report titled Equity-Based Teaching in Higher …
In an era marked by rapid technological advances and the increasing influence of artificial intelligence, educators are faced with the challenge of adapting their teaching methodologies to meet the diverse …
Like many people in higher education, Joseph Clamp has some unofficial duties that colleagues turn to him for. As the learning management system administrator for Piedmont Technical College (PTC) in …
Improving outcomes for every learner requires an ecosystem approach to equity-based teaching that changes not only what happens in classrooms but also the structural and institutional contexts in which education …
One powerful tool instructional designers and faculty can use to ensure quality digital learning is a rubric specifically developed for their context. The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) — one of …
Online learning is meant to be flexible and accessible, but to achieve that promise for every learner, it must incorporate culturally responsive teaching. Many college faculty will be familiar with …
Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) stand as beacons of hope, exemplifying the resilience and determination of Native American communities to define their educational pathways and sustain their sovereign rights. These …
Among the education technologies used on campus that potentially support learning is the student engagement platform category. While these are commonly perceived to be most relevant in student affairs, there …
How do college and university instructors actually use the growing number of digital learning tools to support learning for every learner? Imagine we could visit and observe a classroom after …
What do Latino students value about Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)? According to our recent interviews and research, they value culturas, comunidad, and intención. Latino students notice when their college and university …
Camore Fordham’s career plans are in healthcare — and that, she says, makes an internship focused on education equity a perfect fit. “People can take care of themselves a lot …
In an earlier article on the Every Learner website, I argued that college and university faculty have a responsibility to support student development in the context of digital environments. Those …
Tessa Wolf entered her second semester in college as a computer science major whose undiagnosed developmental disability was affecting her ability to focus on complex class material. She soon felt …
Key Findings from Tyton’s 2024 Time for Class Accessibility in digital learning is one of the lead themes of Tyton Partners’ Time for Class 2024 report, Unlocking Access to Effective …
As a student in Baltimore City Public Schools, Brayden Hamilton saw how the district struggled for funding compared to other districts in the region. She also noticed that, in many …
Most educators are aware that OER (open education resources) can help address several challenges in higher education, such as affordability and completion rates. OER is heavily influenced by the policy …
Isabella “Izzy” Greene-Noble admits she once had fears about artificial intelligence. Now she’s hoping her work with Every Learner Everywhere will help other students overcome their own concerns about AI …
Every new generation of technology refreshes the need for educators to think critically about how students experience that technology and, hopefully, take command of it for their own purposes. To …
Results from a New EDUCAUSE Landscape Study Conducting a landscape study is challenging when the landscape is changing as quickly as artificial intelligence has been in the last two years, …
Educators have an opportunity to take a leadership approach toward promoting AI literacy and implementing AI in digital teaching and learning. That has been the message of Every Learner Everywhere’s …
Faculty who teach gateway courses are often engaged by the idea of using culturally relevant materials to support student success, but they may need direction to make that transition. “Educators …
Like many institutions, New Mexico State University (NMSU) has what Patrick Turner, Associate Vice President of Student Academic Success, describes as a “sporadic” data culture. “Institutions are data rich, but …
Every Learner Everywhere is proud to welcome a new partner: the Center for Innovation in Postsecondary Education (CIPE), which shares the network’s goal of promoting equitable academic success for minoritized, …
Juneteenth is a pivotal moment in American history that commemorates the end of slavery and the ongoing pursuit of freedom and equality for all. In the context of higher education, …
Marc Watkins at the University of Mississippi Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning works to bring together both AI skeptics and early adopters to help them think about how …
Every Learner Everywhere is thrilled to have a new partner to help it expand its reach and impact — the Hispanic Educational Technology Services (HETS). With a shared commitment to …
When I started college forty years ago, my enthusiasm to major in biology was inspired in part by a childhood of watching Marlin Perkins on Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. …
The term “college student” may conjure images of 18–22 year-olds leaving home for the first time with the support of their families as they pursue their degrees. However, over half …
Responsibility for digital learning priorities is sometimes situated within universities as if it is only a procurement and resource management function. As a result, important program development, teaching, or instructional …
High-quality digital learning depends on creating a student-centered learning environment. That is an ongoing process requiring continuous improvement and reflection. But a reliable way to check that your program is …
Since consumer-use AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E have been released in the last two years, much has been said and written about the influence this technology might have in …
A profile of how 32 Kingsborough Community College faculty came together and implemented a community of practice, the lessons learned, and advice for peer institutions. The formal framework they use …
High-quality digital learning has the potential to address and remove the barriers created by gateway courses, but that potential depends on transformative practices within our institutions that center student voice …
An emerging trend in higher education known as “holistic student support” focuses on designing student-centered approaches to support the current academic and personal needs of every learner. While there has …
Dr. Sarah Straub, an Education Studies professor at Stephen F. Austin State University, believes so much in the potential of asynchronous online learning to extend opportunity to more students that …
Adaptive learning courseware initiatives produce a range of possible impacts for students, faculty, programs, and institutions. Those potential impacts can be seen in real-world conditions in a collection of six …
Every Learner Everywhere Celebrates Black History Month Education, whether in elementary, secondary, or higher education institutions have been seen as a way for Black people and communities to resist the …
Highlights from the 2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Two of the co-authors of the most recent Horizon report from EDUCAUSE say two key themes that emerged this year were flexibility and …
After Dr. Sarah Straub, an Education Studies professor at Stephen F. Austin State University, attended the Every Learner Everywhere webinar, Digital Learning Praxis: Engendering Quality and Equity across the Learning …
Jamie Baldwin had been thinking for a while about ways that education systems need reform but gained new insight when they learned last year they were autistic. “It feels like …
The co-authors of a new series of equity-minded digital learning strategy guides say the central challenge in developing them was synthesizing an abundance of material into something practical for college …
Following his time as an intern with Every Learner Everywhere, Joe Rendon, a senior at Fort Lewis College in Colorado, would like to work with faculty helping to design courses …
The growing number of climate-related emergencies that impact individual colleges and universities, following the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, are raising awareness about the need for emergency planning that accounts …
Where Anissia Fleming grew up, she was surrounded by predominantly White institutions like Middle Tennessee State University, the University of Tennessee, Mississippi State University, and the University of Alabama—and those …
Achieving the Dream has combined two of its existing programs — helping faculty develop open education resources (OER) and delivering capacity-building support to Tribal Colleges and Universities — to create …
When Every Learner Everywhere and its partners meet with educators, we sometimes encounter the perspective that digital learning is synonymous with online courses or with a range of modalities that …
Academic continuity plans are vital for institutions of higher education, but what characterizes an effective plan? A recent report, Planning for Academic Continuity: A Guide for Academic Leaders by Every …
By the time they get to college, most students have spent their entire academic careers being evaluated by the letters on nearly every daily homework assignment leading up to their …
Colleges and universities have growing pools of data available to them about how their students learn, but many professionals are intimidated by this resource, unsure of how to access it …
What should be included in a college or university’s plan for academic continuity in the event of disruption? This is an increasingly urgent question as institutions are buffeted by a …
“It’s not so much the individual bias I face almost daily as a trans-man,” begins Ash, a recent college graduate with a dual degree in finance and public policy. “What …
Every Learner Everywhere Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month Each year, we observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of American …
As the Covid-19 pandemic illustrated, preparation for unexpected disruption is key to keeping a university operating in an emergency. Extreme climate events, facilities failures, gun violence, and political protest are …
College and university faculty devoted to equity and student care already know the importance of gathering student experiences to inform teaching practices, course policies, and institutional planning. When students have …
Every Learner Everywhere seeks to use equitable language that decentralizes dominant narratives and includes underrepresented people in the conversation of higher education. For this reason, Every Learner has made the …
Building a community of practice can be thought of in five stages — envisioning, designing, facilitating, evaluating, and sustaining — according to a framework outlined in a new resource from …
College and university faculty and administrators looking for models for implementing adaptive learning courseware may appreciate exploring a series of case studies produced by the Association of Public & Land-grant …
Once, while she was in high school, Khadija Rashid was in a meeting representing the Brooklyn South Borough on the Chancellor’s Student Advisory Council learning about and reviewing New York …
A successful adaptive learning courseware initiative sustains momentum by responding with creativity to the challenges that emerge even with careful planning. That flexibility is illustrated in a group of six …
Since a trip to Thailand while in high school, Danielle White has been thinking about how varied education around the globe can be and how understanding that can illuminate society. …
A new report from Achieving the Dream, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, the Online Learning Consortium, and Every Learner Everywhere outlines a five-part community of practice framework — …
Anti-deficit teaching practices acknowledge and draw on the positive possibilities of a student’s experiences, traits, knowledge, community, and other resources. It’s a teaching methodology that encourages students to identify the …
Discourse in higher education often romanticizes the image of the cash-strapped college student scraping by on cheap pizza and ramen in crowded apartments with hand-me-down furniture. Many successful adults look …
In partnership with Achieving the Dream, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and the Online Learning Consortium, Every Learner Everywhere recently published Communities of Practice in Higher Education: A …
Aireale J. Rodgers says equity is too often treated as an afterthought in the design and implementation of digital learning. Supporting historically marginalized students requires starting from an explicitly equity-minded …
Despite the promise that digital learning has to close equity gaps, there is a serious paucity of data that demonstrates that promise being realized. Studies that illuminate the impact of …
Higher education professionals often refer to evidence-based teaching practices, and the term appears frequently in Every Learner Everywhere resources. But what do we mean by evidence-based teaching (EBT), and what …
WCET + Every Learner Everywhere Celebrate Juneteenth As states and institutions struggle with how to teach about equity, diversity, and inclusion, WCET and Every Learner Everywhere are celebrating Juneteenth by …
As faculty and administrators pursue equitable experiences for Black, Latino, Indigenous, poverty-affected, or first-generation students, many are questioning the tradition of deficits-based approaches that tend to dominate higher education. Assets-based …
When the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic began to impact the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus in March 2020, the institution was able to draw on a comprehensive continuity planning …
Equitable teaching practices are classroom methods that proactively identify and confront the barriers to academic progress that disproportionately affect minoritized, poverty-affected, and first-generation students. Equitable teaching practices encompass culturally responsive …
Earlier in her studies, Emma Sullivan, a junior at Georgia State University, imagined a career leading to school principal, but she now hopes to impact the national education policy. She …
University of California, Santa Cruz has a lot of practice maintaining academic continuity through disruption. When Every Learner Everywhere reached out to online learning leaders there to ask about the …
Eddie Frausto, a junior marketing major at Georgia State University, thinks often about issues of equity in the areas of work he does on campus, motivating him to work towards …
Among the millions of podcasts that have been launched in the last several years are a growing number focused on teaching and learning in higher education. They cover a variety …
2023 Spring Every Learner Everywhere intern Chidinmma Egemonu understands first-hand the difficulties students face navigating equity and educational technology in higher education. “As an immigrant growing up in the United …
The theory of cultural mismatch holds that when the culture of an academic institution differs significantly from a student’s family or home culture, the student experiences tension or conflict that …
Being in a region prone to hurricanes, the University of Central Florida is used to dealing with academic disruption and has well-documented emergency plans. If there’s any advantage to hurricanes, …
A new survey instrument developed by Digital Promise in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere gives colleges and universities a way to use student response to inform course and program improvement …
Cultural capital in higher education is a foundational concept of assets-based approaches to college and university education. It has indirectly informed the development of equity-centered learning, including practices like culturally …
While research demonstrates the effectiveness of professional learning in advancing equity-focused change in higher education, there is still much to learn about what it looks like in practice. A recent …
Higher education is on the verge of a “paradigm shift,” as a recent webinar hosted by Achieving the Dream with support from Every Learner Everywhere put it, to center equity …
Every Learner Honors International Women’s Day 2023 We can all challenge gender stereotypes, call out discrimination, draw attention to bias, and seek out inclusion. Collective activism is what drives change. …
According to The National Women’s History Alliance, the women’s history month theme for 2023 is, “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.” This month, Every Learner Everywhere is honoring women who …
When I returned to college in fall 2020, 15 years after an earlier attempt, I was a single mother to three teenagers, worked full time as a bar manager, had …
While conversations about centering equity have advanced in higher education in recent years, faculty committed to it may struggle to identify and develop practical teaching practices that they can apply …
In the upcoming webinar series Strategies for Success Through Equitable Teaching and Learning for Every Learner Everywhere, presenters Dr. Xeturah Woodley and Dr. Mary Rice will outline a vision of …
Every Learner Everywhere celebrates Black History Month Higher education is awash in diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Some target faculty or staff, while others offer more general support. There are …
Sometimes educators talk about “learning from students” in vague ways, but Dr. Christine Latulippe, Visiting Associate Professor in Education at Linfield University, says there are practical methods for hearing and …
A new series of equity-centered “strategy guides” for college and university educators tries to move conversations about equity from an afterthought to an embedded part of planning digital teaching and …
Like many college faculty, Dr. Bryan Dewsbury, the first featured speaker in Every Learner Everywhere’s Strategies for Success Through Equitable Teaching and Learning webinar series, discovered his commitment to teaching …
When education reform activist Desiree Martinez was considering colleges as a high school senior, one of her teachers tried to discourage her from applying to her dream college, UCLA. Martinez …
When Dr. Vincent Cheng at Borough of Manhattan Community College first saw data on campus-wide DFWI rates by course, he was alarmed. Speech 100: Fundamentals of Public Speaking and Speech …
Users of Every Learner Everywhere’s comprehensive resource library can access a new “quick collection” of teaching continuity resources. The Teaching Continuity collection includes 13 resources, including PDFs and videos. The …
The term Minority-Serving institutions (MSI) is often used generically for all colleges and universities whose student bodies include a high percentage of a particular racial or ethnic group. This bundling …
For the last several years, Dr. Shirley Burnett, Interim Chair and Instructor of Mathematics at Jackson State University, has successfully used formative assessments and reflection activities in her college algebra …
Aajahne Seeney is a first-year elementary education major and Spanish minor who dreams of starting her own early childhood center. She says a historically Black college or university (HBCU) wasn’t …
Over 600 students take the Introduction to Communication classes at New Mexico State University (NMSU), so Dr. Gabriela Morales, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, knew teaching assistants were going to …
Definitions of first-generation college students are almost as ubiquitous as the programs designed to support them, and, depending on who is counting, first generation can include between 22 and 77 …