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June 2022
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.
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July 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.
June 2022
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.
June 2022
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.
March 2022
This report describes the Every Learner Everywhere supports for lighthouse institutions, the experiences and accomplishments of course improvement teams at those institutions, and implications for future efforts to improve teaching and learning practices in higher education.
February 2022
This document reports the findings of a 2021 survey of administrators about policies and practices that impact online adjunct faculty, equity, access, and quality.
January 2022
This report focuses on building the core infrastructure needed for high-quality digital learning and is designed primarily for a mid- to senior-level academic administrators including department chairs, leaders of centers of teaching and learning, technology leaders, and academic leadership.
December 2021
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.
December 2021
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.
August 2021
In fall 2020, Digital Promise administered a survey to a group of educators at selected two-year colleges and four-year universities to better understand the teaching practices they employ and the ways in which they use adaptive courseware in their gateway courses.
June 2021
Time for Class is a comprehensive longitudinal survey of 4,000+ higher education faculty and administrators, fielded since 2014 by Tyton Partners.
June 2021
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.
June 2021
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.
June 2021
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.
May 2021
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.
May 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.
February 2021
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.
January 2021
Three reports in a series designed to understand the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning in higher ed.
October 2020
This extensive resource will provide you with practical strategies and resources to implement adaptive courseware with an equity-minded and student-centered approach.
October 2020
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.
September 2020
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 …
August 2020
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 …
July 2020
This survey is designed to help higher education stakeholders gain an understanding of digital learning tools for increasing affordability and accessibility for students.
July 2020
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.
July 2020
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
March 2020
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.
February 2020
This analysis identified seven major and three secondary trends in digital learning innovation. The goal of adaptive learning and OER implementations is to advance institutional efforts in providing access and quality while improving student success.
November 2019
The New Learning Compact Framework is a cohesive resource that includes: Core Values, Core Principles, Inquiry Questions for Self-assessment and Planning, and Guidelines for Implementation and Evaluation.
June 2019
The Digital Learning ROI Resources are a set of issue briefs and case studies designed to help postsecondary institutions develop a comprehensive approach to measuring return on investment (ROI).
May 2019
The Time for Class 2019 Toolkit is a set of research-based action briefs and tools designed to support institutional dialogue, decision-making and action.
June 2022
Teaching specialists from Achieving the Dream share strategies for Culturally responsive teaching, Anti-racist teaching, Abolitionist teaching, and Open Pedagogy.
June 2022
Specialists and practitioners of inclusive teaching answer your questions about strategies and approaches to creating an inclusive learning environment for all students.
June 2022
Learn about how institutions can adjust their infrastructure to support online adjunct faculty.
June 2022
The session summarizes how disaggregating learner data can enable equity-centered education for minoritized, poverty-affected, and first-generation students.
June 2022
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.
June 2022
Learn how digital learning tools can give both faculty and students an edge in a time of academic upheaval.
June 2022
Learn how blended learning supports students and how institutions can future-proof themselves by building the infrastructure for blended degree programs.
June 2022
Jessica Rowland Williams talks about various tools and strategies for transforming a department to be more equitable.
June 2022
Representatives from institutions that implemented digital learning discuss how these technologies improved student success in lower level courses.
June 2022
Leaders of various faculty communities of practice discuss what works and what doesn’t.
June 2022
Undergraduate students to discuss what inclusive teaching strategies have been most impactful in their college experience.
June 2022
This session provides an overview of the pressures facing today’s students and what faculty and institutions can do to support them.
May 2022
In this webinar, participants engage in dialogue and discourse with panelists about co-creating environments that support and humanize students’ academic experiences while affirming their strengths and potential in the classroom.
April 2022
Experts on federal policy and digital learning, and institutional representatives discuss the opportunities afforded by federal Covid resources.
April 2022
Faculty development leaders share their strategies for shifting the framework in ways that advance equitable student learning experiences.
April 2022
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.
April 2022
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.
April 2022
Three students who are ATD fellows share their first-hand accounts of culturally responsive teaching practices and the impact on their learning experiences.
April 2022
This session will include administrator, faculty and student perspectives of the benefits and challenges of integrating active and adaptive pedagogy into gateway courses.
April 2022
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.
April 2022
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.
March 2022
This report is an executive summary of the findingins following the implementation of digital learning tools at seven community colleges.
March 2022
Full report of digital learning adoption in seven community colleges in the ATD network.
March 2022
Panelists share tenets to purposefully embed equity, social justice, and inclusion into innovative teaching and learning in face-to-face and virtual spaces.
February 2022
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.
January 2022
This webinar explores how to develop and design course content that is inclusive of diverse students, perspectives, cultures, and lived experiences.
January 2022
Presenters discuss the intersection of the Feedback & Assessment and Instructional Strategies domains of the CSU Teaching Effectiveness Framework.
January 2022
Evidence-based frameworks to welcome and support all students, regardless of their background, abilities, identities, needs, or preferences.
January 2022
Faculty at HCC led efforts to implement adaptive courseware in introductory mathematics and economics courses.
January 2022
Chemistry faculty use adaptive learning platforms, static homework, in-class active learning activities, and digital monitoring to enhance student learning and engagement.
January 2022
In this webcast, our passionate and inspiring conversationalists shared hopes and aspirations for what’s to come for Higher Education in 2022.
January 2022
In this town hall, learn how to develop an anti-racist analytical framework, based on an anti-racist growth mindset.
January 2022
Participants consider how to make instructional design decisions that provide an inclusive learning environment.
January 2022
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.
January 2022
A case study on applying adaptive learning technology in English Composition to help more students persist and succeed.
January 2022
A case study on integrating adaptive tools into course redesign provides instructional design support and integrated adaptive technology.
December 2021
In this session, faculty and academic leadership share the process of evaluating, selecting, or building adaptive courseware to be implemented in their courses and on their campuses.
December 2021
This faculty professional learning session helps faculty and educators to identify and engage a strategic set of stakeholders to support a strong implementation plan for adaptive courseware.
December 2021
Van Davis, Every Learner Everywhere shares Key Takeaways & Call to Action from ADAPT 2021.
December 2021
Faculty discuss course design choices and pedagogical practices that accompany the effective implementation of adaptive courseware.
December 2021
Panelists discuss how adaptive courseware supported broader institutional and faculty-led efforts to improve student outcomes.
December 2021
Students discuss their experiences with adaptive courseware and other learning technologies, and how these have affected their learning in different courses.
December 2021
An opening plenary on the critical role technology plays in increasing access to educational and employment opportunities for post-secondary learners.
December 2021
Academic leaders share their experiences and advice for approaching, sustaining, and scaling best practices with adaptive learning.
December 2021
Faculty describe inclusive teaching strategies, alongside digital tools, to help connect the content to the student in meaningful and lasting ways.
December 2021
This session will explore how faculty leverage real time learning data analytics from adaptive courseware dashboards to guide their instruction.
December 2021
Faculty and educational researchers describe how to refine and improve courses; evaluate the impact of pedagogical changes; and center quality research design.
November 2021
Instructional designers, technologists, and faculty developers practice consultation approaches by exploring a case study and applying course design strategies.
November 2021
Align course instruction with adaptive content, analyze data points on an adaptive courseware dashboard and effectively onboard students.
October 2021
Explore how adaptive learning tools and practices can transform math courses to increase student success.
October 2021
The study suggests that adaptive learning technology helped students who need support with prerequisite concepts, provided tools to help guide students through complex, multistep processes, gave faculty insights into concepts students were struggling with, and reduced the cost of course materials.
October 2021
This resources includes instructions and worksheets to redress racism perpetuated by academic departmental policies and practices.
October 2021
An overview of the APLU Winter 2021 Digital-Forward Skills and Roles Workshop, which identified and described emergent digital-forward skill sets and roles.
October 2021
This case study examines the efforts at three of the seven ATD network colleges participating in the Every Learner Everywhere initiative who focused on these disciplines as part of their efforts to implement adaptive courseware as a tool in gateway courses to help more students persist and succeed.
September 2021
Miami Dade College: Integrating Adaptive Courseware as Part of a Comprehensive Redesign of a Gateway Math Course
September 2021
Faculty at Broward College led implementation and integration of adaptive courseware efforts in introductory course design and activities.
September 2021
Indian River State College considered adaptive courseware a potentially powerful tool in its ongoing efforts to improve teaching and learning in online instruction and overall engagement and outcomes for students in math, physical sciences, and English.
August 2021
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.
August 2021
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.
July 2021
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.
July 2021
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.
June 2021
Learn about the development and impact of the Internet of Everything (IoE) SMART technologies (EduGadget) of mobile devices, smartphones, wearables, and virtual – augmented reality.
June 2021
Seven colleges implement adaptive courseware in gateway math courses and find it is a necessary corequisite in supporting student success.
June 2021
Faculty at Cuyahoga Community College led efforts to implement and then scale adaptive courseware for gateway courses in more than a half-dozen disciplines.
June 2021
Faculty in several disciplines at Lorain County Community College explored the use of adaptive courseware, ultimately implementing it in a gateway statistics course and several business courses.
June 2021
Neuroeducation strategies can help faculty feel more effective, create a warm and equitable learning environment, and improve student outcomes.
June 2021
A discussion about teaching equitably with strategies to combat some of the inequities that exist within the field of English Composition.
June 2021
A discussion about effective practices to promote the key principles of inclusive teaching.
June 2021
An overview of the tips and best practices for initiating an intentional movement to improve equity in gateway courses within your department.
June 2021
Learn about the work of faculty at the University of Central Florida who improved accessibility and equity through the adoption of adaptive learning practices.
June 2021
How personalized digital learning technology can support evidence-based teaching.