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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 …

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. …