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 …
Though many colleges and universities have DEI initiatives in place, they risk having little impact if they make one of a number of common mistakes, says Chandani Patel, Director for …
One effect of the pandemic is that many faculty and administrators are re-emphasizing the importance of putting student care at the center of institutional policies and classroom practices, and that …
While many colleges and universities around the United States are committed to diversity and inclusion, they often forget to include religion in that vision. Many educators prioritize secular approaches and, …
Rachael Durham, the Assistant Director for First-Year Experience in the Center for Student Success at the University of Mississippi, doesn’t usually give her personal phone number to students. But when …
Educators know one of the best ways to assess learning is with old-fashioned project-based assignments — creative work, presentations, experiments, and written papers that give students opportunities to demonstrate, practice, …
College and university instructors thinking about designing or improving courses for online and distance formats would do well to consider the emerging findings of cognitive load theory (CLT). This is …
Even college and university instructors open to the possibilities of online learning may worry that the in-person lab components of science courses are irreproducible in digital environments. Norma Hollebeke, Manager …
In late 2020, partners in the Every Learner Everywhere® network were asking themselves a question: How could their collaborative work be more proactive about centering college student voices, since that …
Trolling has become a part of online life, particularly for women and minoritized students. According to 2018 research from the Pew Research Center, nearly 60 percent of young people in …
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are increasingly embedded in the software colleges and universities use for admissions, advising, courseware, and assessment. These technologies hold tremendous promise to help higher education …
During the growth of online learning in higher education, vital components of good course design such as information literacy may get short shrift, particularly during the emergency transition to remote …
College and university faculty can reasonably anticipate a significant increase in the number of students experiencing depression and anxiety in the coming academic year. During the last three semesters, students …
Culturally responsive pedagogy is an important part of centering equity in higher education by treating the experiences and perspectives of every student as an asset rather than as a deficit. …
Educational technology has the potential to support personalized instruction in the classroom, but it is not without its biases. The algorithms behind digital learning technology are programmed by human developers, …
As adaptive learning has become more common in U.S. colleges and universities in recent years, there have been many studies of learning outcomes, and there have been many surveys of …
Many workplaces have the “accidental techie” — the person not from the IT department but who everyone instinctively turns to first when they encounter one of those frustrating “why won’t …
What is the responsibility of higher education to prepare students for the working world and what would it take to prioritize employment in a college’s activities? Those questions are explored …
Initiatives in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on one hand and in education technology on the other hand are often developed separately, but two major events in 2020 inspired Every …
Trauma-informed teaching, also sometimes called trauma-informed pedagogy, creates awareness of how students’ past experience with trauma affects their current experience in the classroom. The ultimate goal of that awareness is …
As a film and theater student, Grace Davenport would normally be spending her Fall semester of senior year in close contact with other artists. She’d be directing actors, taking movement …
Georgia State University junior Malachi Moultrie decided to study law in his first year of college when he learned about the rate of wrongful convictions in the U.S. “That’s when …
When asked to describe higher education policy in a Biden administration, Terry Hartle, Senior Vice President at the American Council on Education, suggested, “We’ll be looking at a once-in-a-generation effort to …
Ca’Shawn Brown thrives in a classroom environment. The Georgia State University senior enjoys being able to ask her instructors questions in person and participate actively. She is also studying subjects …
Too often when an instructor approaches course design, the question of who they’re designing for comes last, says Tia Holiday, an Instructional Designer and Associate Director at Intentional Futures (Every …
This Q&A took place on November 12, 2020. The question that prompted this article was if and how college students experience the stress of loan debt while they are still …
Studying chemistry and materials science engineering as an undergraduate, Dr. Elaine Villanueva Bernal thought she would end up working for a company like Lockheed Martin after graduating from the University …
Higher education instructors and administrators working in online learning are invited to participate in a new series of interactive webinars from Every Learner Everywhere® and its partners. Strategies for Success …
When Dr. Kristal Moore Clemons started volunteering with the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools in college, she didn’t imagine she would be leading the organization someday. Clemons’ college experience …
Dr. Blaine Smith says the intersection of equity-minded education with the digital tools she specializes in became especially clear to her during her first Assistant Professor position at the University …
When Tatiana Bryant, the research librarian for digital humanities, history, and African American studies at the University of California, Irvine, first met with the leadership of Every Learner Everywhere®, she …
Dr. Chandani Patel first started working on inclusive teaching while a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. She says that, as equity-minded education was becoming more …
Dr. Cherise McBride started thinking about equity-minded education early in her career working at continuation high schools, which are supposed to be an alternative diploma resource for students who are …
When Dr. Tazin Daniels was working on her dissertation at Michigan State University, she focused on college students who use Adderall as a performance enhancer. Her internationally funded research shed …
The student learning data generated by digital technologies creates opportunities to evaluate courses if faculty and an institution’s Office of Institutional Research (IR) are able to cooperate effectively. But Julie …
As microcosms of the broader society, the structure of college and university courses can exacerbate racism and societal inequities, or it can work to dismantle them. Equity-centered design can help …
When Lorain County Community College Professor of Mathematics Kathryn Dobeck first learned about the adaptive courseware included with the Wiley textbook Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data, she was intrigued. …
Renewed calls for racial justice have led many stakeholders within U.S. higher education to consider the ways in which their campuses do, or do not, advance racial justice and equity. …
Broward College is no stranger to adaptive learning courseware. After all, they’ve been using it since at least 2013, when it was implemented to provide supplemental support for students in …
When Indian River State College (IRSC) announced a project to pilot adaptive learning courseware in 2019, Dr. Heather Michaels, Chair of the Physical Sciences Department, knew just the course to …
Idea in brief: This article aims to help college and university faculty understand the complex regulatory issues that new distance learning programs must account for. It summarizes for faculty a …
Equitable online course design for college and university classes often requires flipping the usual perspective, says Dr. Ruanda Garth-McCullough, Associate Director of Teaching and Learning for Achieving the Dream. “Most …
When the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Cleveland State University was considering the potential for digital learning technologies to improve pass rates in its introductory Mathematics courses, they didn’t …
It is no secret that our nation’s educational system has been severely affected by COVID-19. Overnight, millions of students, from primary school to college, switched from in-person classes to remote …
Many adaptive learning pilot projects involve faculty, deans, instructional designers, and instructional technology staff to implement new digital courseware and to effectively use the data to improve student outcomes. But …
Black, Latino, Indigenous, and poverty-affected college students are often presented with curricula designed for majority white students from middle- and upper-class backgrounds. Far from being neutral or “colorblind,” this can …
In early summer 2020, the team at Every Learner Everywhere® participated in a leadership and team development program from The National Equity Project, along with peers from K-12 and higher-ed …
The School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was making a concerted effort to implement adaptive learning, and they wanted to see …
Ranked as one of the nation’s top 20 most innovative universities by US News & World Report, the University of Central Florida (UCF) consistently earns high marks for its online …
To successfully launch and sustain a new digital learning initiative to address equity gaps, colleges and universities need to make time and space for faculty to prepare new teaching practices. …
The data generated by digital learning tools has the potential to support personalized learning and help close equity gaps in higher education. However, many colleges and universities are not yet …
When the administration at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) decided to pilot an adaptive learning initiative targeting equity gaps, one main goal was to build a model …
At many institutions, the gateway courses where an adaptive learning project can have the biggest impact on closing equity gaps are often disproportionately taught by adjunct faculty. Therefore, says Ruanda …
Jerius Smith is a computer science major mostly taking math and science classes. He was already commuting to classes at Georgia Institute of Technology when COVID-19 sent everyone home in …
We often say Every Learner Everywhere® is a collaborative network of 12 partner organizations working together to improve student outcomes for Black, Latino, Indigenous, and poverty-affected students. But in practice, …
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit at the end of her freshman year, Zakia Tookes found herself juggling coursework, community service, figuring out new online learning technologies, and a sudden move …
In some ways, finishing the school year at home was easier for Georgia Southern University freshman Jayce Mays than it would have been if he’d still been on campus. Before …
When Cuyahoga Community College received a grant from Every Learner Everywhere® to implement adaptive learning courseware across the college, Professor of Business Administration Michele Hampton had already been using adaptive …