An Equity-First Approach to Evidence-Based Teaching Practices
This guide reviews evidence-based teaching practices that benefit minoritized students.
Effective Teaching Practices
Equity Principles for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
This Every Learner Everywhere strategy guide details our eight equity principles for teaching and learning in higher education.
What Our Best College Instructors Do
A resource about meaningful learning experiences written by college students for faculty.
2022 APLU INCLUSIVE Summit: Emphasizing Care, Culture, and Community in the Classroom
discuss strategies for getting to know our students and using this knowledge to inform our teaching choices, assessment types, and communication throughout the course.
2022 INCLUSIVE Summit Disciplinary Matters: Sciences Session
In this webinar, join your peers in deep discussions about the pedagogical challenges facing faculty who are teaching within the sciences.
2022 INCLUSIVE Summit Disciplinary Matters Writing Session
In this webinar, join your peers in deep discussions about the pedagogical challenges facing faculty who are teaching writing.
2022 INCLUSIVE Summit Disciplinary Matters Math Session
In this webinar, join your peers in deep discussions about the pedagogical challenges facing faculty who are teaching mathematics.
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
Teaching specialists from Achieving the Dream share strategies for Culturally responsive teaching, Anti-racist teaching, Abolitionist teaching, and Open Pedagogy.
ASU Remote 2022: Ask the Experts Q&A Inclusive Teaching
Specialists and practitioners of inclusive teaching answer your questions about strategies and approaches to creating an inclusive learning environment for all students.
ASU Remote 2022: Strategies for Supporting Adjunct Instructors
Learn about how institutions can adjust their infrastructure to support online adjunct faculty.
ASU Remote 2022: Strategies for ensuring your course content is equity-centered
Developers of the Equity Evaluation Tool walk through the evaluation process to show how you can use it to make your course content equity-centered.
ASU Remote 2022: Strategies for reducing racial inequities using digital learning
Learn how digital learning tools can give both faculty and students an edge in a time of academic upheaval.
ASU Remote 2022: Achieving academic transformation through faculty communities of practice
Leaders of various faculty communities of practice discuss what works and what doesn’t.
Supporting Online Adjunct Faculty Across Institutional Roles
This playbook presents six concrete strategies for academic leaders, college-level leaders, and instructional design staff to adopt now to better support their online adjunct faculty and the community of students and learners in their classrooms.
Leveraging Federal COVID-19 Relief Funding to Support Digital Learning
Experts on federal policy and digital learning, and institutional representatives discuss the opportunities afforded by federal Covid resources.
ATD Teaching & Learning Institute: Changing the Narrative: Advancing Culturally Responsive Professional Learning
Faculty development leaders share their strategies for shifting the framework in ways that advance equitable student learning experiences.
ATD Teaching & Learning Institute: The Paradigm Shift: What Happens When Taking an Equity-minded Approach to Teaching and Learning?
Presenters share their experiences in developing course curriculum, assignments, and content that validate, affirm, and embrace the diverse perspectives, lived experiences and cultures of the student they serve.
Designing Assessments Through a Culturally Responsive Lens
This workshop provides examples of successful innovative and digital assessment approaches that center students and allow for authentic and culturally responsive measurement of student learning.
Online Adjunct Faculty: A Survey of Institutional Policies and Practices
This document reports the findings of a 2021 survey of administrators about policies and practices that impact online adjunct faculty, equity, access, and quality.
Supporting Adjunct Faculty: Research-based Recommendations
This webinar will highlight the findings of the WCET and OLC Adjunct Faculty Survey and provide research-based recommendations for supporting institutional leaders, support staff who work with adjunct faculty, and adjunct faculty members themselves.
Formative Assessment as an Instructional Strategy: Using the Teaching Effectiveness Framework
Presenters discuss the intersection of the Feedback & Assessment and Instructional Strategies domains of the CSU Teaching Effectiveness Framework.
Online Teaching Strategies to Promote Equity and Inclusion
Evidence-based frameworks to welcome and support all students, regardless of their background, abilities, identities, needs, or preferences.
Reflections on 2021 and Aspirations for 2022 from Digital Learning Leaders and Learners
In this webcast, our passionate and inspiring conversationalists shared hopes and aspirations for what’s to come for Higher Education in 2022.
Starting with the Learner: Inclusive Instruction as Teaching with Social Justice
Participants consider how to make instructional design decisions that provide an inclusive learning environment.
The Blended Institution for Higher Education: A Model for a Sustainable Institution
This guide is meant to support leaders as they transition from managing reactively to leading strategically and offers leaders a sustainable institutional model that centers on student equity and success.
APLU Adapt 2021: Inclusive and Culturally Responsive Teaching
Faculty describe inclusive teaching strategies, alongside digital tools, to help connect the content to the student in meaningful and lasting ways.
Collaborating with Faculty on Designing with Adaptive Courseware: An Instructional Design Perspective
Instructional designers, technologists, and faculty developers practice consultation approaches by exploring a case study and applying course design strategies.
Designing with Adaptive Courseware: A Backward Design Planning Framework Approach
Align course instruction with adaptive content, analyze data points on an adaptive courseware dashboard and effectively onboard students.
Re-Writing Writing
This report summarizes the work of the Re-Writing Writing workshop where we invited a diverse range of digital learning experts to bring their distributed knowledge of digital tools to a four-session virtual workshop.
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
This presentation explores four dimensions of motivation and feedback, two learning science pillars that engage students in the learning process and fosters long-term memories with active and adaptive learning.
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
Time for Class is a comprehensive longitudinal survey of 4,000+ higher education faculty and administrators, fielded since 2014 by Tyton Partners.
A Faculty-Centered Approach to Successfully Implementing Adaptive Courseware
Faculty at Cuyahoga Community College led efforts to implement and then scale adaptive courseware for gateway courses in more than a half-dozen disciplines.
ASU Remote 2021: Adaptive Courseware in Support of Student Success
How personalized digital learning technology can support evidence-based teaching.
ASU Remote 2021: Inclusive Pedagogy is Fundamental to Good Teaching
An overview of inclusive pedagogy with Colorado State University’s Teaching Effectiveness Framework and its implications during the shift to remote learning in 2020.
Caring for Students Playbook: Six Recommendations
This playbook offers authentic and easily implementable strategies to help instructors to care for their students and ensure their success in the classroom and beyond.
Optimizing High-Quality Digital Learning Experiences: A Playbook for Faculty
By integrating teaching and design principles, this guide assists faculty in positively impacting student learning, especially for students who are minoritized because of race, gender, disability, or socioeconomic status.
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Biology
This brief explores how pedagogical, content, and mindset changes can reduce obstacles for minoritized students and support equity in biology.
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Psychology
This brief provides an overview of equity issues and solutions in psychology courses.
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Chemistry
This brief shares how asset-based instruction, fostering student belonging, active learning, and flexible and differentiated coursework can reduce equity gaps in chemistry.
A Discipline Brief for Equity in English Composition: Catherine Savini
This brief explores how adjusting pedagogy, and eliminating linguistic bias can support equity in English composition courses.
A Discipline Brief for Equity in English Composition: Rachel E. Johnson
This brief recommends resources to inform teaching to account for linguistic diversity and ability and promote a more equitable academic environment for students in English composition courses.
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Mathematics: Natalie Hobson
This brief suggests diverse pathways, student-centeredness, and bias training to close equity gaps in mathematics courses.
A Discipline Brief for Equity in Mathematics: Joel Amidon
Joel Amidon is on a mission is to lead people to love others through teaching, providing solutions for equity in math courses.
Getting Started with Equity: A Guide for Academic Department Leaders
Getting Started With Equity: A Guide for Academic Department Leaders has a very specific purpose, which is to serve as a first step for department chairs to develop and curate an educational environment that is simultaneously justice-centered and equity-advancing.
A Student Perspective on Centering Student Voice: ATD
Every Learner Student Fellows provide an overview of their internship with ATD and ways leaders can more intentionally center student voice.
Planning for a Blended Future
This guide moves beyond getting started with blended learning to help educators realize the best of online and onsite instruction and implement research-driven techniques to positively influence student outcomes.
Student Leaders Speak 2021
Student Leaders Speak documents a national snapshot of diverse college students, including many who are first-generation as they reflect on their lives, their learning, their digital experiences, their challenges, their setbacks and their triumphs.
Guide to Building a Faculty Learning Community
This resource describes how to build and maintain faculty learning communities, details some logistics, and provides a case study from Colorado State University along with testimonials from instructors.
Ask an Expert Live Q & A: Evidence-Based Teaching
A panel discussion about Evidence-based teaching strategies that center equity in online and hybrid modalities.
Success for All Teaching Strategies
In this webinar, learn simple teaching strategies to help students take charge of their learning and ensure all students master content.
Designing with Equity and Engagement at the Forefront
Expert insight and tips on designing online courses with equity and engagement at the forefront.
Ask an Expert Live Q & A Panel: Active and Adaptive Learning
Active and adaptive learning strategies can engage students in blended and online environments, resulting in improved student outcomes and success.
Teaching Online: STEM Education in the Time of COVID
This fall 2020 survey explores the impact COVID had on higher education faculty in STEM fields and how that experience informed their opinions of online education’s effectiveness..
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
In this live Q&A panel, participants engage with Every Learner Everywhere Expert Network professionals to discuss equitable and inclusive teaching practices and digital learning to foster student-centered learning.
Addressing DEI Issues in STEM Education
This session facilitates participant discussion on how to connect local environmental and climate justice issues to STEM concepts.
Differentiated Instruction for Equity in Higher Education
An overview of strategies and tools that engage students’ prior knowledge and supports their performance by differentiating the content, process and assessments.
Improving Critical Courses Using Digital Learning & Evidence-based Pedagogy
This guide features numerous links to resources academic administrators can draw from to effectively support a continuously improved teaching and learning environment that is sustainable for years to come.
Ask an Expert Live Q&A: What Faculty Need to Know
In this live Q&A panel, participants get answers to their remote teaching questions.
Time for Class: COVID-19 Edition Part 3
Three reports in a series designed to understand the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning in higher ed.
Transform Engagement: Interaction and Online Course Design
Rich media tools and thoughtful student-student, student-teacher, and student-content interactions can be powerful tools in online course design that inform “how we teach” and underpin successful use of technology in the online learning environment.
Teaching in a Time of Covid: What Makes a Difference
Insights on teaching in a time of Covid from Digital Promise’s Survey of Student Perceptions of Remote Teaching and Learning in May 2020.
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
Principles and practices for cultivating an equitable and engaging virtual learning environment.
Case Study: Portland State University
Combining active learning with adaptive courseware leads to a statistically significant reduction of DFW grades in foundational courses.
Case Study: Colorado State University
A case study at Colorado State University (CSU), found the use of active learning and adaptive courseware, along with an intentional faculty development program, are key in the implementation of adaptive courseware.
Teaching and Learning Toolkit
Grounded in research, this resource supports college teams in building institutional capacity in teaching and learning.
Adaptive Courseware Implementation Guide
This extensive resource will provide you with practical strategies and resources to implement adaptive courseware with an equity-minded and student-centered approach.
Time for Class: COVID-19 Edition Part 2
This is the second report in an ongoing series designed to understand the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on teaching and learning in higher ed.
Indian River State College Transitions to Adaptive Learning
Faculty and administrators at Indian River State College discuss transitions to adaptive learning during the 2019-2020 school year.
Adopting Adaptive Learning: Pedagogies and Practices
Faculty discuss how they’ve brought adaptive learning into their courses, and how it has altered teaching and learning for them and their students.
Support Your International Students
This resource provides suggestions for breaking down those barriers to support international students in online learning.
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
This case study from the University of Louisville demonstrates their approach to leveraging adaptive courseware to improve course design.
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 …
ASU Remote 2020: Using Current Events to Connect with Psychology Students
Introductory psychology faculty discuss how they utilize current events and Flip Grid to form relationships and apply content in remote teaching settings.
ASU Remote 2020: Modernizing Active and Adaptive PSY101 in the age of Covid-19
Digital learning specialists discuss the process of adopting and continuously improving courses with adaptive courseware.
ASU Remote 2020: Consistency, Clarity, and Convenience
The three C’s to increase the Number of A’s and B’s when Teaching Large Lecture Sections of General Chemistry Remotely.
ASU Remote 2020: Differentiated Instruction for Equity in Higher Ed
Dr. Ruanda Garth-McCullough of Achieving the Dream defines differentiated instruction and provides strategies and technologies for adaptive learning implementation.
ASU Remote 2020: Managing First-Year Writing with an Adaptive Component
Faculty share how Lumen Waymaker was implemented in various classes, and how assessment data and workshops have enhanced learning material in first-year writing.
ASU Remote 2020: Effectively and Efficiently Assess Written Work Remotely
In this webinar, faculty provide tips and strategies for assessing written work in online or remote classes and discuss how that written work can promote student metacognition.
ASU Remote 2020: Adaptive Learning Beyond STEM
Instructors at UCF share their course redesign experience after adopting adaptive learning in a Spanish language course.
ASU Remote 2020: Virtual STEM Labs
Dr. Wendy Howard of the University of Central Florida provides resources for teaching of STEM lab courses remotely.
ASU Remote 2020: Transform Engagement: Interaction and Online Course Design
Dr. Michelle Hampton from the Cuyahoga Community College discusses how to structure online classes with engaging and interactive content.
ASU Remote 2020: The New Learning Compact: Building a New Approach to Continuous Learning
Faculty developers discuss the New Learning Compact Framework and the importance of professional learning and development during a crisis and beyond.
ASU Remote 2020: The Future of Learning: Every Learner Everywhere, Any Time?
Researchers discuss recent findings in a survey of faculty teaching remotely during the Covid pandemic leaving faculty with a more positive perception of online learning.
ASU Remote 2020: The BlendFlex Model: How does that work?
Thomas Cavanagh of UCF and Athena Kennedy of Purdue University Online explain the BlendFlex delivery model for remote teaching.
ASU Remote 2020: Teaching in the Time of COVID: What Makes a Difference?
Barbara Means of Digital Promise discusses survey results of students’ experience of the rapid shift to all-online courses in Spring 2020.
Time For Class: COVID-19 Edition Part 1
The report presents first results from an ongoing series of surveys and focus groups with faculty designed to understand the impact of COVID-19 on higher ed.
Suddenly Online: National Undergraduate Survey
This report describes results from Digital Promise’s national, random-sample survey of more than 1,000 college students whose coursework moved suddenly from in-person to completely online
Differentiated Instruction for Equity in Higher Education
This video provides an introduction to differentiated instruction as a means to enhance the quality learning environments and to engage students in relevant and meaningful education.
WCET Interview with Jessica Rowland Williams, Director, Every Learner Everywhere
The conversation highlights how students can navigate an unknown fall academic year and how administration can support students.
Lab-Based Courses
In this resource, we’ve given an overview of a variety of options for lab-based courses to translate experimental activities to a digital learning environment.
Assessments and Grading
This resource offers adjustments to make to your assessment practices that can help you adapt your assessments during academic disruption.
Sharing Stories of Accomplishment, Resilience, and Student Success
A webinar focused on supporting faculty, staff, and students during the closure of community college campuses across the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Innovative Approaches to Content Delivery and Assessment of Student Learning
A webinar focused on supporting faculty, staff, and students during the closure of community college campuses across the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Public Universities Respond to COVID-19: Serving our Students
In this webinar, the APLU follows up with two provosts four weeks into the pandemic and how they’re planning for teaching remotely in the summer and fall terms.