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 …
In 2000, I was attending junior college in California. As an underclassman, I didn’t have a lot of choices for classes because by the time I was able to register …
One challenge to equitable learning for minoritized, poverty-affected, and first-generation students is that many may be reluctant to access the support available to them, whether it’s office hours, tutoring, counseling, …
Users of Every Learner Everywhere’s comprehensive resource library can access a new “quick collection” of student-centered learning resources. The Student Care Resource collection includes (so far) 12 PDFs and videos …
Formative assessment can be a powerful way to make teaching and learning more student centered and more student directed, according to the presenters of a recent webinar on formative assessment …
As research accumulates showing that social-emotional learning (SEL) has a strong and lasting impact for K-12 students, it is increasingly being looked at as a practice that will benefit students …
Every Learner Celebrates Indigenous People’s Day within Hispanic Heritage Month My name is Daniel Crisostomo. I am a student at UNC Charlotte. I am a finance accounting major and a …
What is a Hispanic? According to Merriam Webster, the definition of Hispanic: is of, relating to, or being a person of Latin American descent and especially of Cuban, Mexican, or …
What are you? Hispanic? Boriqua? Latina? American. How Has Being Hispanic Shaped Who You Are? From personal interactions to educational experiences to my professional career, my appearance consistently sparks the …
Every Learner Everywhere Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month This week we welcome Kiara Williams, former Every Learner Everywhere student fellow and WCET consultant, as she shares her thoughts and insights on …
Every Learner Everywhere Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of American …
For the college and university deans and other academic leaders reading the 2022 edition of the Time for Class report, many of the takeaways boil down to giving attention to …
A key to moving to more impactful teaching strategies is listening to students about their goals, needs, and strengths. What do students say works to engage them and help them …
How well understood is the relationship between ungrading and equity for racially and ethnically minoritized, poverty-affected, and first-generation students? Ungrading is difficult to define in active terms. It is often …
Faculty, instructional designers, academic leaders, and others in higher education are used to presenting at, organizing, helping to organize, or sponsoring academic conferences, but they may not have a good …
One potential benefit to digital learning technologies in higher education is that they can address specific needs in different academic disciplines, according to a series of case studies on adaptive …
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020, what had been a limited part of higher education — using a range of online and remote teaching modalities — …
Integrating Open Educational Resources (OER) into college and university courses can provide tangible benefits to students, faculty, and institutions. But more importantly, OER can help support efforts to make equity …
One benefit of collaborating with colleges, universities, and research partners on adaptive learning pilot projects since 2019 is that a number of useful insights begin to accumulate. For example, peer …
As colleges and universities work to become more equitable for students who are Black, Latino, Indigenous, poverty-affected, or first-generation, many are working to understand the advantages of a strengths-based approach …
Findings from a recent survey of institutional policies regarding adjunct faculty conducted by the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) suggest a need for …
Putting equity at the center of teaching and curricular and technology decisions in higher education is essential to closing opportunity gaps for minoritized, poverty-affected, and first-generation students. But those changes …
College and university leaders committed to equity for minoritized, poverty-affected, and first-generation students are transforming conversations in their institutions from deficits-based to assets-based perspectives. As they do so, many are …
WCET + Every Learner Everywhere Celebrate Juneteenth Juneteenth, or “Freedom Day” is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth not only celebrates …
When Every Learner Everywhere’s network partners convened in 2019 to develop technical assistance for an adaptive learning initiative at 13 colleges and universities, they knew they needed to provide support …
As adaptive learning and other technologies become more common, colleges and universities need to center equity in digital learning. Thoughtful implementation of those tools needs to identify and confront equity …
Reflection and metacognition can be critical aspects of a personalized and equitable educational experience. When students are asked to look inward and assess how they think and learn, they are …
The second annual Strategies for Success webinar series hosted by Every Learner Everywhere in January 2022 featured several presentations from college and university leaders on increasing online student engagement. Collectively …
When Aajahne Seeney was young, she couldn’t get enough of the classroom during the day, so after school she would gather her siblings together and play teacher, complete with a …
One of the best parts of education conferences is the resource sharing that faculty can take back to their classrooms and departments, and ADAPT 2021, a virtual equity-centered digital learning …
As Every Learner Everywhere reflects on Teacher Appreciation Week this year, we are particularly inspired by the leadership role educators take in advancing equity in the classroom for minoritized, poverty-affected, …
Zaire McMican didn’t know there was a name for what he’d seen and experienced growing up in Newark, New Jersey until reading The Autobiography of Malcom X in eighth grade. …
Faculty eager to center equity in their classrooms may struggle with the limited time and resources available for course design. With that in mind, Achieving the Dream (ATD) created an …
The quizzes, multiple-choice tests, and midterm and final exams that many higher education faculty rely on to assess student learning can be less than inclusive for some students by, for …
Contingent and part-time faculty — commonly known as adjuncts — play a critical role in providing equitable online education opportunities for minoritized and poverty-affected college students. Yet, while the number …
A highlight of ADAPT 2021, a virtual digital learning showcase, was a panel featuring several students sharing their digital learning experience with college courses that used adaptive learning software. Presented …
During January 2022, Every Learner Everywhere and its network partners conducted its second Strategies for Success workshop series, which is designed to be an evergreen resource for higher education faculty …
WCET + Every Learner Everywhere Celebrate Women’s History Month To celebrate Women’s History Month, we invited inspiring women and student fellows to share their reflections on breaking the bias in higher …
Striving toward equity by leveraging digital tools, such as adaptive courseware, was the focus of ADAPT, a student-centered digital learning showcase presented in December 2021 by Every Learner Everywhere, the …
Asked to sum up the takeaways from the most recent Time for Class survey, which regularly examines trends in the higher education digital learning market, Kristen Fox, Managing Director at …
Dr. Jeremiah J. Sims, a consultant and author specializing in equity in higher education, was recently working with a California college that had noticed that Black, Latino, and Indigenous students …
In 2018, Dr. William Carr, Professor of Biology at Medgar Evers College (MEC) of the City University of New York, confronted a challenge: Many of his General Biology I students …
To advance equity efforts, many institutions of higher education strive for better working relationships with local Indigenous communities by hiring or appointing a university tribal liaison officer. What is a …
As colleges and universities strive to remove barriers to equity for minoritized and poverty-affected students, it’s essential to understand the ways in which assessment can contribute to those barriers. That …
A new survey of faculty utilizing adaptive learning teaching practices has shown that, while many are implementing evidence-based practices in the context of digital learning, there remains significant opportunity for …
The concept of blended learning in higher education has become familiar in the last few years, usually referring to the blending of digital and traditional classroom resources and practices to …
Even before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Kristin Polizzotto and her colleagues at Kingsborough Community College (KBCC) in Brooklyn, New York, employed powerful online tools such as courseware …
Through its Time for Class 2021 report, the education advisory and strategy firm Tyton Partners, in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere, dives deeper into how digital learning has evolved and …
The term “stereotype threat” first began to get attention from educators in 1995 when psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson conducted a series of studies based on college students taking …
As a step toward creating equitable cultures at their institutions, many colleges and universities are developing land acknowledgements. In its simplest form, an Indigenous land acknowledgement is a formal statement …
When a college instructor works with their students — on campus or online — they may see a range of visible identities such as gender or race. However, each student …
Colleges and universities working to reduce barriers to equity for minoritized and poverty-affected students must consider not only the curriculum and classroom practices but also how the syllabus can create …
A year ago, Robert Perez, Manager of Network Development and Strategic Partnerships at Every Learner Everywhere, spoke about an equity and leadership training that he and his colleagues had just …
At the inauguration of the Every Learner Everywhere Fellowship in spring 2021, the project managers wanted to ensure that the Fellows and the project partners understood the “big picture” of …
Adaptive learning is a methodology for teaching and learning that strives to personalize lessons, readings, practice activities, and assessments for individual students based on their current skills and performance. Adaptive …
Every Learner Everywhere strives to use equity-centered language in its published material such as website copy, blog articles, press releases, and resource library. Equitable language choices avoid the subjectivity that …
Combinations of face-to-face and online learning modalities have been around for more than 20 years. But the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted college and university faculty to consider strategic approaches to …
Imagine two college courses that meet in person and that both implement adaptive learning courseware, assigning the content, practice activities, and quizzes for students to work through outside of class. …
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted colleges and universities to make extensive changes to curricula, teaching practices, and policies to meet student needs during the crisis. Many institutions responded by building new …
Many college and university educators working toward equity in higher education are considering alternative syllabi as one way to address institutional barriers encountered by minoritized and poverty-affected students. The course …
The COVID-19 pandemic that began impacting college instructors and students in March 2020 was an unanticipated stress test that revealed higher education’s hidden weak points. Among other things, it exposed …
Digital learning technologies in higher education — along with software used in other campus functions like recruiting, the registrar, and career services — generate a tremendous amount of personal data …
College and university educators wishing to understand how students bring the effects of systemic inequities of high school education into higher education would do well to look at my home …
Ideally, while working to incorporate equitable teaching practices, you and your colleagues have a strong sense of the existing barriers that need to be confronted. Advancing equity at the departmental …
Although most colleges and universities will return to face-to-face learning in fall 2021, instructors in many courses will continue to use digital learning technologies in a range of remote, hybrid, …
A slightly different version of this article appeared originally on WCET Frontiers, the blog for WCET – WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies. During August 2021, WCET – WICHE Cooperative for …
The high-profile, racially charged killings in 2020 of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, Jr. created a new urgency to combat deeply ingrained, institutionalized racism, including in higher education. …
To account for the linguistic and cultural diversity on college and university campuses, a growing body of research argues for using multiple digital modalities to provide a more equitable, inclusive …
Nicole Weber, Assistant Vice President of Learning at the Online Learning Consortium, says she and colleagues, reflecting on the last three semesters, felt that “while many educators have been exploring …
As a Lecturer in the California State University Long Beach Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal teaches diverse classes of nonmajor students, including many from minoritized and …
In building or revising college and university courses with significant digital learning components, faculty have a large number of factors to consider — materials, schedules, communication plans, learning modality, building …