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Student Experience
Toward Ending the Monolithic View of “Underrepresented Students”
This report synthesizes commentary, research, and original interviews about how higher education has grappled with disaggregating and using student data to confront and close equity gaps for particular student populations.
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: Designing for Equity & Closing Remarks Recording
Instructional design experts providestrategies that faculty can use in their classrooms today to connect with and engage their students.
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 Keynote Call to Action and Students & Faculty Speak Panel
A diverse panel consisting of both faculty members and students will discuss their unique perspectives on several pedagogical approaches.
ASU Remote 2022: Toward Ending the Monolithic View of “Underrepresented Students” In U.S. Higher Education
The session summarizes how disaggregating learner data can enable equity-centered education for minoritized, poverty-affected, and first-generation students.
ASU Remote 2022: Structure you department for equitable outcomes
Jessica Rowland Williams talks about various tools and strategies for transforming a department to be more equitable.
ASU Remote 2022: Students share the most impactful inclusive teaching strategies
Undergraduate students to discuss what inclusive teaching strategies have been most impactful in their college experience.
ASU Remote 2022: Caring for the Whole Student
This session provides an overview of the pressures facing today’s students and what faculty and institutions can do to support them.
Caring for the Whole Student
Colleges and universities can help alleviate the burden students face every day, including restructuring mental health support on campus, providing options for digital learning, encouraging teachers to apply trauma-informed teaching practices, and connecting students with the resources they need to thrive.
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: An Equity Review Tool: Evaluating Instructional Materials for Equity-Minded Practice
The Equity Review Tool guides educators to interrogate their practices and reflect on equitable language usage and employ strategies to support a more equitable teaching and learning process.
Equity Review Tool
The equity review tool is designed for educators striving to create more validating and affirming learning experiences and environments for students. Using this tool, educators will be able to develop and evaluate their resources and the language they use to ensure they are asset-based and supportive of a more equitable teaching and learning process.
ATD Teaching & Learning Institute: Student Voices Panel: Students Explore their Experiences with Culturally Responsive Teaching
Three students who are ATD fellows share their first-hand accounts of culturally responsive teaching practices and the impact on their learning experiences.
ACAO Town Hall: DEI in the Classroom: Teaching & Curriculum Considerations
In this town hall, learn how to develop an anti-racist analytical framework, based on an anti-racist growth mindset.
Love as Praxis: Initiative in Diversity, Equity, Antiracism, and Leadership (IDEAL) Fellows Program
Dr. Jeremiah J. Sims discusses the impact on students of the Washington State Guided Pathways Initiative in Diversity, Equity, Antiracism, and Leadership (IDEAL) Fellows Program.
Every Learner 2021 Annual Report
This year our network has prioritized increasing our knowledge and capacity for equity and racial justice work along with centering equity and racial justice in our resources and services. In addition to our personal and professional equity work, we have spent this last year inviting students into our work.
APLU Adapt 2021: Supporting Students through Institutional Partnerships and Collaboration
Panelists discuss how adaptive courseware supported broader institutional and faculty-led efforts to improve student outcomes.
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.
Culturally Relevant Neuroeducation Practices + Tech Tools = Equitable Classroom Environments
Neuroeducation strategies can help faculty feel more effective, create a warm and equitable learning environment, and improve student outcomes.
ASU Remote 2021: Teaching Equitably in English Composition
A discussion about teaching equitably with strategies to combat some of the inequities that exist within the field of English Composition.
ASU Remote 2021: Principles and Practices for Inclusive Teaching
A discussion about effective practices to promote the key principles of inclusive teaching.
ASU Remote 2021: Getting Started with Equity in Gateway Courses
An overview of the tips and best practices for initiating an intentional movement to improve equity in gateway courses within your department.
ASU Remote 2021: All Access Pass: Course “Re” Design with Adaptive Learning
Learn about the work of faculty at the University of Central Florida who improved accessibility and equity through the adoption of adaptive learning practices.
ASU Remote 2021: Engagement and Impact: A conversation with students
Learn directly from students what it means to create an engaging and inclusive classroom and learning environment.
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 Chemistry: Jeffrey Paz Buenaflor, Ph.D
A discipline brief for equity in chemistry
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: Intentional Futures
Every Learner Student Fellows overview of their internship with Intentional Futures centering student voice.
A Student Perspective on Centering Student Voice: SXSW
Every Learner Student Fellows discuss what they learned and accomplished in their 5-month internship with SXSW EDU.
A Student Perspective on Centering Student Voice: Digital Promise
Every Learner Student Fellows provide a student perspective and overview of their internship with Digital Promise.
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.
Research Review: Educational Technologies and Their Impact on Student Success for Racial and Ethnic Groups of Interest
The purpose of the review is to identify institutional, instructional, and learning practices mediated by educational technologies that positively influence the success of certain racial and ethnic groups of American students.
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.
Addressing DEI Issues in STEM Education
This session facilitates participant discussion on how to connect local environmental and climate justice issues to STEM concepts.
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.
Student Speak 2020: Peer-to-Peer Survey Results
This second report in the Student Speak series reflects the sentiments of over 270 student response
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Trauma-Aware Teaching
A virtual educator professional development session exploring why trauma-aware teaching must center diversity, equity, and inclusion.
WCET Webcast: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Digital Learning
Panel discussion of equitable teaching practices and digital learning that foster student-centered learning and cultivate a culture of inclusion.
Student Speak: Equity Reality From Students Of Color, Low-Income, and First-Generation Students
How advances in digital courseware paired with evidence-based, equity-first, innovative teaching can better serve today’s students.
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.
Student Speak 2020
Student voices informing education strategies
Support Your International Students
This resource provides suggestions for breaking down those barriers to support international students in online learning.
Campus Technology Webinar: Fine-Tuning Student Engagement for Equity
Dr. Jessica Rowland Williams discusses some key steps institutions must take to develop equitable online learning opportunities for all students.
Time for Class 2020
This survey is designed to help higher education stakeholders gain an understanding of digital learning tools for increasing affordability and accessibility for students.
ASU Remote 2020: A Discussion of Anti-Racist Practices for Digital and Online Learning
A discussion of anti-racist practices, educational equity and assumptions that can be detrimental to student success.
The Equity Imperative and Social Justice
Barbara Means of Digital Promise presents findings from a survey of students learning remotely and offers solutions for bridging the digital divide at the University of the District of Columbia.
Every Learner Everywhere & Lighthouse Institutions: First-Year Experiences
The report Every Learner Everywhere & Lighthouse Institutions shares first-year experiences of 2- and 4-year colleges piloting new versions of gateway courses incorporating adaptive learning.