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April 2026
This resource examines the growing trend of U.S. colleges and universities integrating career readiness into academic courses, with particular attention to gateway and general education courses early in degree programs. It focuses on how students experience the relevance of what they learn in these early courses, and it provides strategies institutions can use to help students experience that relevance earlier, more explicitly, and more consistently.
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August 2023
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.
May 2023
Professional learning, also called Faculty development, in higher education supports student success at the course level.
October 2022
The Equity and Digital Learning Student survey helps higher education departments and faculty self-assess course efficacy.
September 2022
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.
July 2022
A webinar for faculty support staff and academic leaders who support faculty redesigning courses and leverage educational technologies.
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
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
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
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 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.
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
Faculty at HCC led efforts to implement adaptive courseware in introductory mathematics and economics courses.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
May 2021
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.
April 2021
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.
November 2020
Combining active learning with adaptive courseware leads to a statistically significant reduction of DFW grades in foundational courses.
November 2020
Stakeholder engagement and close collaboration important to the adaptive courseware implementation process.
November 2020
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.
November 2020
Grounded in research, this resource supports college teams in building institutional capacity in teaching and learning.
September 2020
This case study looks at how active learning and learning analytics can improve student success in biology courses.
September 2020
This case study on elementary Spanish looks at how to customize a course for a students by involving them in review and updates.
September 2020
This case study looks at removing barriers and increasing student success in college algebra.
September 2020
This case study looks at how Calculus faculty are improving student success through multi-section coordination.
September 2020
This case study looks at how one professor is increasing Course Success in economics through Student Engagement and Active Learning.
September 2020
This resource provides suggestions for breaking down those barriers to international students in online learning.
August 2020
This case study from the University of Louisville demonstrates their approach to leveraging adaptive courseware to improve course design.
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
This case study from Georgia State University demonstrates their approach to scaling adaptive courseware and the effective use of analytics.
July 2020
In this case study, Arizona State University shares the progress of their adaptive courseware implementation.
June 2020
This case study looks at faculty support and buy-in and draws on valuable insights from student focus groups.
January 2020
This resource provides an introduction to the processes, challenges, and considerations involved in running impact studies in postsecondary institutions.
July 2019
This brief provides an overview of the current research on the effectiveness of adaptive courseware broadly and in the discipline of Chemistry.
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.
April 2019
This resource is a set of tools to help you review your adaptive courseware license agreement.