How College Faculty Can Confront Unconscious Bias in Edtech Tools 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, …
Value, Efficiency and Autonomy: What Students Want from Adaptive Courseware 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 …
When Students Turn to Faculty For Tech Support: Tips to Help Them Stay On Track 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 …
Why Equity in Higher Ed Requires Centering the World of Work: A Q&A with JFF’s Nancy Hoffman & Clare Bertrand 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 …
No-Cost Coaching on Equitable Teaching Practices and Digital Learning is Available at This Expert Network 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 …
Bringing Trauma-Informed Teaching Into the Online College Classroom 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 …
Recasting the Role: How This Film and Theater Student Is Launching a Career in the COVID Era 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 …
“Together We Can All Get Through It”: How This Criminal Justice Major is Adapting to Remote Learning 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 …
Higher Education Policy in a Biden Administration 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 …
Planned to a T: How This Linguistics Major Is Managing a Remote Senior Year 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 …
5 Ways to Put Equity at the Heart of Instructional Design 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 …
A Q&A with Sara Goldrick-Rab: How Students Experience the Stress of College Affordability 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 …
Meet the Expert: How This Chemistry Instructor Uses Climate Justice to Connect Science With Personal Experience 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 Ed Faculty Invited to an Interactive Conference Series On Successful Online Teaching 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 …
Meet the Expert: Why This Leader In Culturally Responsive Online Pedagogy Prioritizes Relationship Building 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 …
Meet the Expert: How This Education Professor Fosters Multimodal Learning with Linguistically Diverse Students 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 …
Meet the Expert: How This Research Librarian Helps Faculty Innovate for Equity 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 …
Meet the Expert: How This Diversity Education Director Helps Colleagues Think Strategically About Digital Learning 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 …
Meet the Expert: How This Consultant Helps Faculty Create Equity-Minded Digital Learning 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 …
Meet the Expert: How This Educational Developer Brings Social Identity Into the Classroom 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 …
How Faculty and IR Can Work Together to Evaluate Courses Using Digital Learning Tech Analyzing and using student learning data generated by digital technologies often depends on cooperation between faculty and an institution’s Office of Institutional Research (IR). But Julie Neisler, Quantitative Researcher, Learning …
How Equity-Centered Design Supports Anti-Racism in the Classroom As microcosms of the broader society, the structure of college and university courses can exacerbate racism and societal inequities, or they can work to dismantle them. Tina Moore, senior strategist …
How This Early Adopter Trained Faculty Colleagues On Adaptive Learning Software 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. …
Concerned About Equity in Higher Ed? Start with the DFWI Rate Renewed calls for racial justice have led many stakeholders within U.S. higher education — administrators, faculty, students, etc. — to consider the ways in which their campuses do, or do …
How Partnering with the Center for Teaching Excellence and Learning Helped Broward College Launch an Adaptive Pilot 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 …
Championing Adaptive Learning Courseware: One Department Chair’s Story When Indian River State College (IRSC) announced a project to pilot adaptive courseware in 2019, Dr. Heather Michaels, Chair of the Physical Sciences Department, knew just the course to try …
The Regulatory Issues Administrators Are Thinking About While Faculty Design Online Courses 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 …
Reflect and Check: 3 Ways to Center Equity In Course Design Equitable course design in higher ed often requires flipping the usual perspective, says Dr. Ruanda Garth-McCullough, Associate Director of Teaching and Learning for Achieving the Dream. “Most of us were …
How One University Uses Dashboard Data to Make Mid-Stream Adjustments in Math Courses When the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Cleveland State University was considering the potential for adaptive learning to affect pass rates in its introductory Mathematics courses, they didn’t have …
Suddenly Online: Survey Results Point to Flexibility, Personalized Feedback To Support Instruction During COVID-19 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 …
Why and How Houston Community College Involved the Tutoring Center in Its Adaptive Learning Pilot Project Many adaptive learning pilot projects involve faculty, deans, instructional designers, and instructional technology staff to work through how a new digital courseware will be implemented and how faculty will use …
Curricula that Account for All Students: A Look at Culturally Responsive Teaching in Higher Ed Students of color and low-income students in college are often presented with curricula designed for majority white students from middle- and upper-class backgrounds. Culturally responsive teaching attempts to be more …
“This Is the Time to Do It”: How the Shift to Digital Learning Can Re-energize Equity Work 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 …
Using Data and an Iterative Approach to Revise Course Content 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 …
Teamwork to Seed Change: How Foreign Language Faculty at UCF Are Improving Learning Outcomes 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 …
Models for Effective Faculty Development While Implementing Adaptive Learning To successfully launch and sustain a new adaptive courseware initiative, institutions need to make time and space for their faculty to learn skills needed in this particular teaching format. That …
New Report Outlines Principles for Equity-Based Learning Analytics in Higher Ed 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 …
A Team-Based Approach to Redesigning and Aligning a Gateway Course When the administration at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) decided to pilot an adaptive learning initiative, one main goal was to build a model or framework that …
Effectively Adding Adjunct Faculty to Your Adaptive Learning Implementation At many institutions, the gateway courses where adaptive courseware can have the biggest impact are often disproportionately taught by adjunct faculty. Therefore, says Ruanda Garth-McCullough, Ph.D., Associate Director of Teaching …
Remote Learning During COVID-19: A Computer Science Major’s Experience 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 …
How the Network Advantage Helps Higher Ed Solve Complex Problems We often say Every Learner Everywhere is a network of 12 partner organizations working together to improve student outcomes. But in practice, what does being a network mean? And how …
Emergency Remote Extracurriculars: How This Rising Sophomore Is Staying Active 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 …
Coping with COVID-19 Shutdowns: One Freshman’s Experience 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 …
The Faculty Learning Community In Action: A Profile of Cuyahoga Community College 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 …
What Are Gateway Courses and Why Do They Matter to Equity in Higher Ed? At Every Learner Everywhere, we often talk about gateway courses in higher education being a key place that influences student outcomes. What do we mean by a gateway course, and …
Flexible Course Design: Adapting to an Uncertain Fall 2020 and Investing in the Future As COVID-19 began spreading across the country, most postsecondary institutions were forced to close or to move into emergency remote learning. Now we’re past that immediate crisis and approaching a …
Essential Resources For Faculty Building (or Improving) Online Courses Many college and university faculty found themselves suddenly taking their courses online in spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 emergency. Out of necessity, many did that with the resources they …
Using Data from Adaptive Learning to Help Underserved Students Collecting, analyzing, and using data from courseware are some of the most important components of an adaptive learning initiative. Faculty can use data throughout the semester to reach out to …
Building Your Adaptive Learning Implementation Dream Team When it comes to implementing adaptive learning, every college’s needs are different. But an engaged cross-functional team committed to the initiative’s success is essential. As Associate Director of Teaching and Learning …
Preparing for a Post-COVID Learning Model That Better Serves Disadvantaged Students Gateway courses — the first credit-bearing courses in a program of study — have the ability to make or break a student’s learning experience. They are a critical juncture of …
5 Steps to a Successful Implementation of Adaptive Learning In the path toward using adaptive learning technologies in the classroom, you may have collected advice from peers, targeted particular courses, researched the software, and identified larger strategic goals. Eventually, …
How Do You Know Your College or University Is Ready for Adaptive Learning? Look for These Criteria When a college or university considers using adaptive learning technology in its classrooms, a basic question it must confront is if it is ready. Are the cultural and practical elements …
7 Ways Faculty Use Adaptive Learning: Lessons From a Pilot of 40 Gateway Courses During 2019, Every Learner Everywhere worked with 10 U.S. colleges and universities to pilot adaptive learning software in over 40 entry-level courses. The goal of the network is to improve …