Effective Teaching Practices
2023 Annual Impact Report
In this report, you can read about the network’s impact in the areas of services, thought leadership, and student engagement. In addition, we recap our 2023 network convening, introduce our new Equity First Organization partners, feature some of our student interns, and give readers a preview of what’s ahead for the network in 2024.
Putting Equity Into Practice: Equity-Minded Professional Learning
Putting Equity Into Practice: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning
Culturally responsive pedagogy is a framework that is inclusive of culturally responsive and relevant teaching, and culturally affirming and sustaining instructional methodologies that validate and engage students’ cultural identities. These practical instructional strategies and practices guide the implementation of culturally responsive teaching and learning into educational spaces.
The Equity-Minded Digital Learning Strategy Guides
The Equity-Minded Digital Learning Strategy Guides help faculty intentionally and authentically affirm, uplift, and liberate students. As higher education continues to address eliminating inequitable outcomes in teaching and learning, these guides will help institutions embed equity, culturally responsive teaching, social justice education, and open pedagogy through evidence-based teaching practices.
Putting Equity Into Practice: Open Pedagogy
Being able to choose course design, content, assignments, assessments, and instructional approaches based on the context of the learners and the current events of the times allows students to relate all areas of the course to their lives and equitizes their experiences and outcomes. This guide is designed to support faculty with operationalizing open pedagogy through a culturally responsive lens.
Putting Equity Into Practice: Social Justice Education
Advancing social justice in education requires establishing educational spaces that foster students’ critical consciousness and ability to analyze systems, policies, and practices that lead to inequitable and unjust experiences and outcomes. A social justice approach to education involves two strategies that will be featured in this guide: anti-racist teaching and abolitionist teaching.
Digital Learning Equity Analysis Project
This paper describes the outcomes of a Digital Learning Equity Analysis project undertaken by two award-winning educators, Sarah Straub and Rachel Jumper, who sought to implement suggestions from the microcredential training hosted by Every Learner Everywhere. This training focused on promoting equity in digital learning and provided a structured protocol for conducting reviews of online courses.
Planning for Academic Continuity
This guide presents results from an analysis of 100 academic continuity plans at U.S. colleges and universities. The results form the basis for recommended academic continuity plan best practices, tools, and templates academic leaders can use to maintain a plan that can be used in both short-term and long-term circumstances.
Time for Class 2023
ATD Webinar: Realizing the Promise of Professional Learning
Communities of Practice in Higher Education
Communities of Practice in the Higher Education Landscape: A Literature Review
Designing Online Learning as Intersectional, Entangled Commitments
Learning from Our Students: Student Perspectives on Good Teaching
Beyond Inclusion: Teaching for civic engagement and participation
Every Learner 2022 Annual Impact Report
Teaching, Learning, Equity and Change
An Equity-First Approach to Evidence-Based Teaching Practices Strategy Guide
Equity Principles for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Strategy Guide
What Our Best College Instructors Do
2022 APLU INCLUSIVE Summit: Emphasizing Care, Culture, and Community in the Classroom
2022 INCLUSIVE Summit Disciplinary Matters: Sciences Session
2022 INCLUSIVE Summit Disciplinary Matters Writing Session
2022 INCLUSIVE Summit Disciplinary Matters Math Session
Time for Class 2022
Time for Class 2022 examines how faculty and institutional leaders are using instructional materials to implement teaching practices that can improve student learning and outcomes, especially for students historically underserved by higher education. This report reviews how digital learning in high-enrollment introductory courses can enable instructors to incorporate evidence-based teaching practices and work to close equity gaps in courses.
ASU Remote 2022: Inclusive Teaching Practices
ASU Remote 2022: Ask the Experts Q&A Inclusive Teaching
ASU Remote 2022: Strategies for Supporting Adjunct Instructors
ASU Remote 2022: Strategies for ensuring your course content is equity-centered
ASU Remote 2022: Strategies for reducing racial inequities using digital learning
ASU Remote 2022: Achieving academic transformation through faculty communities of practice
Supporting Online Adjunct Faculty Across Institutional Roles
Leveraging Federal COVID-19 Relief Funding to Support Digital Learning
ATD Teaching & Learning Institute: Changing the Narrative: Advancing Culturally Responsive Professional Learning
ATD Teaching & Learning Institute: The Paradigm Shift: What Happens When Taking an Equity-minded Approach to Teaching and Learning?
Designing Assessments Through a Culturally Responsive Lens
Online Adjunct Faculty: A Survey of Institutional Policies and Practices
Supporting Adjunct Faculty: Research-based Recommendations
Formative Assessment as an Instructional Strategy: Using the Teaching Effectiveness Framework
Online Teaching Strategies to Promote Equity and Inclusion
Reflections on 2021 and Aspirations for 2022 from Digital Learning Leaders and Learners
Starting with the Learner: Inclusive Instruction as Teaching with Social Justice
The Blended Institution for Higher Education: A Model for a Sustainable Institution
APLU Adapt 2021: Inclusive and Culturally Responsive Teaching
Collaborating with Faculty on Designing with Adaptive Courseware: An Instructional Design Perspective
Designing with Adaptive Courseware: A Backward Design Planning Framework Approach
Re-Writing Writing
Lessons Learned: A Toolkit for Post-Pandemic Higher Education with Equity and Student Care at the Center
Lessons Learned is made up of over 30 recommendations for improving practices in higher education. It asks where unexpected benefits showed themselves among the forced necessity of emergency remote teaching, and it encourages faculty, administrators, and academic and student support colleagues to continue collaborating to remove barriers, improve access, and update methods and tools.
Teaching with a Cobot, not a Robot
Development and Implementation of Active, Interactive, and Adaptive Physics Courses
Faculty share experiences of developing and implementing active, interactive, and adaptive introductory physics courses. The design allows students to work at their own pace, choosing support items presented to them via the adaptive feature of the course, and explore concepts through simulations with activities.
Time for Class 2021
A Faculty-Centered Approach to Successfully Implementing Adaptive Courseware
ASU Remote 2021: Adaptive Courseware in Support of Student Success
ASU Remote 2021: Inclusive Pedagogy is Fundamental to Good Teaching
Caring for Students Playbook: Six Recommendations
Optimizing High-Quality Digital Learning Experiences: A Playbook for Faculty
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Biology
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Psychology
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Chemistry
A Discipline Brief for Equity in English Composition: Catherine Savini
A Discipline Brief for Equity in English Composition: Rachel E. Johnson
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Mathematics: Natalie Hobson
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Mathematics: Joel Amidon
Getting Started with Equity: A Guide for Academic Department Leaders
A Student Perspective on Centering Student Voice: ATD
Planning for a Blended Future
Student Leaders Speak 2021
Guide to Building a Faculty Learning Community
Ask an Expert Live Q & A: Evidence-Based Teaching
Success for All Teaching Strategies
Designing with Equity and Engagement at the Forefront
Ask an Expert Live Q & A Panel: Active and Adaptive Learning
Teaching Online: STEM Education in the Time of COVID
Every Learner Everywhere, Any Place, Any Time?
In this session we address key learnings about instructional practices and student learning outcomes, usage of digital tools and impact on faculty time, and share key challenges we must continue to confront as well as the strategies faculty and institutions are deploying to better ensure that every learner everywhere is able to learn.
Ask An Expert Live Q & A: Inclusive Teaching
Addressing DEI Issues in STEM Education
Differentiated Instruction for Equity in Higher Education
Improving Critical Courses Using Digital Learning & Evidence-based Pedagogy
Ask an Expert Live Q&A: What Faculty Need to Know
Time for Class: COVID-19 Edition Part 3
Transform Engagement: Interaction and Online Course Design
Teaching in a Time of Covid: What Makes a Difference
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Trauma-Aware Teaching
A virtual educator professional development session exploring why trauma-aware teaching must center diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Creative Strategies for Equitable Engagement in Online Classes
Case Study: Portland State University
Case Study: Colorado State University
Teaching and Learning Toolkit
Adaptive Courseware Implementation Guide
Time for Class: COVID-19 Edition Part 2
Indian River State College Transitions to Adaptive Learning
Adopting Adaptive Learning: Pedagogies and Practices
Support Your International Students
Pursuing Regulatory Compliance for Digital Instruction in Response to COVID-19: Policy Playbook
The spring 2020 term saw an unprecedented response to an unprecedented challenge as virtually every U.S. higher education institution offering face-to-face instruction rapidly switched to remote instruction, many in as …
Case Study: University of Louisville
Learning Analytics Strategy Toolkit
For all students to have an equal opportunity to succeed, instructors must personalize learning rather than teach to a fictional average student. Learning analytics has the potential to assist instructors …