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May 2025
In this annual impact report, read about the network’s impact in areas of the services we provide institutions, our thought leadership in the field, and engagements with students. In addition, we recap our 2024 network convening, spotlight institutional services, feature our student interns, and give readers a preview of what’s next for the network in 2025.
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May 2025
In this annual impact report, read about the network’s impact in areas of the services we provide institutions, our thought leadership in the field, and engagements with students. In addition, we recap our 2024 network convening, spotlight institutional services, feature our student interns, and give readers a preview of what’s next for the network in 2025.
March 2025
As AI becomes increasingly embedded into educational settings and practices, it offers both opportunities and challenges. This comprehensive resource will help navigate both aspects — demonstrating how AI can help overcome technology barriers, including various recommendations for integrating accessible AI across different areas of higher education.
August 2024
In this new resource, 12 instructors from a variety of two-year and four-year institutions share their experiences adopting digital learning tools to promote equity and improve learning outcomes for historically marginalized and under-resourced students. Their narratives highlight successes as well as bumps in the road as they implemented digital learning tools into their teaching.
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.
June 2023
This 2023 study – the largest and longest running study monitoring digital learning in higher education – aims to identify the differences between student and institutional stakeholder experiences and preferences to suggest ways institutions and solution providers can address these differences.
April 2023
The focus of this resource paper is to assess the effectiveness of digital learning in decreasing equity gaps as well as the impact digital learning has on specific student populations: those who identify as Black, Latino, and Indigenous; students from low-income backgrounds; and first-generation students.
February 2023
The report describes the key features of research-practice partnerships between colleges and Every Learner Everywhere partner organizations.
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.
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.
January 2025
This profile examines the culture at Hispanic Serving Institutions as well as opportunities and challenges around digital learning at HSIs. Our research uncovered that students at HSIs valued experiences that celebrate Hispanic and Latino culturas (cultures), nurture bonds among and service to the Hispanic comunidad (community), and demonstrated the institution’s intención (intention) to serve Latino students.
January 2025
This profile examines the student experience at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Historians, educational researchers, and journalists have noted differences between the Black student experiences at HBCUs and other types of higher education institutions.
January 2025
This profile examines the culture at TCUs. Tribal leaders, historians, educational researchers, and journalists have noted the unique role of these institutions that center on preservation and revitalization of tribal bonds as well as preservation and revitalization of the knowledge and culture of the first nations.
June 2024
In this report, we present survey results focused on use of culturally relevant instructional practices and culturally relevant course materials. Exploring the implications for practice and future research on culturally relevant content in postsecondary education and gateway courses.
February 2024
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.
December 2023
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.
June 2023
The Adaptive Courseware for Early Success (ACES) Initiative was a grant-funded initiative supported through the Every Learner Everywhere network. The PLC provided intensive coaching, peer-mentorship, collaborative learning and networking opportunities, and educational resources and training to cross-functional, institutional teams at select institutions.
June 2023
CSU improved and expanded adaptive courseware implementation to support redesign efforts and increase student engagement in chemistry, biology, and math.
June 2023
UTRGV faculty from multiple campuses aligned instructional practices and adaptive courseware integration efforts into elementary statistics and college algebra courses.
June 2023
By integrating open education resources with an adaptive learning platform, UTEP improved accessibility and cost to students taking introductory biology courses.
June 2023
FIU established a highly collaborative, uniquely skilled, cross-functional team to create an effective adaptive tool that was free to engineering students and that could serve as a model for scale.
June 2023
Building on existing resources and faculty support programs, UCF expanded adaptive courseware adoption into physics while prioritizing scaling efforts within the foreign languages department.
June 2023
UToledo integrated existing faculty professional learning programming to support student-centered redesign efforts in math, chemistry, and anatomy and physiology classes.
May 2023
A student panel discusses their experiences with digital learning at the Online Learning Consortium Innovate Virtual Conference April 2023
February 2023
Dr. Mary Rice and Dr. Xeturah Woodley engage in a conversation about the renewal that emerges alongside intersectional online course design.
February 2023
Dr. Aireale Rodgers introduces the Equity First Framework for Digital Learning: a tool to support equitable and just student learning.
February 2023
Every Learner Everywhere’s second annual impact report highlighting accomplishments in 2022 and setting goals for 2023.
November 2022
This guide outlines necessary components to adopting and utilizing digital learning tools equitably for postsecondary digital learning.
September 2022
This strategy guide is a resource for faculty to onboard students to using digital courseware as part of the learning experience.
September 2022
This strategy guide provides faculty with four proven strategies for using data-informed instruction.
September 2022
This strategy guide walks faculty through a 6-step process of designing a course that maximizes student learning.
July 2022
A webinar for faculty support staff and academic leaders who support faculty redesigning courses and leverage educational technologies.
July 2022
In this webinar, join your peers in deep discussions about the pedagogical challenges facing faculty who are teaching within the sciences.
July 2022
In this webinar, join your peers in deep discussions about the pedagogical challenges facing faculty who are teaching writing.
July 2022
In this webinar, join your peers in deep discussions about the pedagogical challenges facing faculty who are teaching mathematics.
July 2022
A diverse panel consisting of both faculty members and students will discuss their unique perspectives on several pedagogical approaches.
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
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
Representatives from institutions that implemented digital learning discuss how these technologies improved student success in lower level courses.
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
Opportunities for Higher Education and Digital Learning in Infrastructure Workforce Training
April 2022
Using COVID-19 Relief Funds to Boost Equity in Digital Learning
April 2022
Broadband Funding Can Support Digital Learning
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Time for Class is a comprehensive longitudinal survey of 4,000+ higher education faculty and administrators, fielded since 2014 by Tyton Partners.
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
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.
June 2021
How to design an adaptive Biology course with effectiveness and scale in mind to change student outcomes.
June 2021
An overview of how continuous improvement strategies in our educational process and practice can be used to improve student engagement and increase academic success.
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.
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.
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.
April 2021
In this webinar, learn simple teaching strategies to help students take charge of their learning and ensure all students master content.
March 2021
Instructors share their experiences in redesigning Elementary Spanish through a university initiative focused on increasing student success in gateway courses.
March 2021
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.
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
In this live Q&A panel, participants get answers to their remote teaching questions.
January 2021
Three reports in a series designed to understand the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning in higher ed.
January 2021
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.
January 2021
Insights on teaching in a time of Covid from Digital Promise’s Survey of Student Perceptions of Remote Teaching and Learning in May 2020.
December 2020
A brief exploration on how faculty can position cultural knowledge and centering identity as a cognitive tool.
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
The DETA Research Toolkit 2.0 provides resources and tools to move research beyond the traditional paradigms and to explore innovative methodologies.
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
Faculty discuss adaptive learning in science and how tools and practices can transform courses to increase student success.
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
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
Faculty discuss how they’ve brought adaptive learning into their courses, and how it has altered teaching and learning for them and their students.
September 2020
This case study looks at how biology students can make test bank questions relevant by co-writing them
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.
September 2020
Faculty and staff from various ATD colleges share their experiences implementing adaptive learning at their colleges
August 2020
This case study from the University of Louisville demonstrates their approach to leveraging adaptive courseware to improve course design.
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
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.
July 2020
In this webinar, faculty discuss a variety of teaching and learning technologies, including Lumen Learning’s Waymaker, Calendly, and Portfolium.
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
June 2020
This case study looks at faculty support and buy-in and draws on valuable insights from student focus groups.
May 2020
Faculty share how they coordinated the redesign of their developmental math courses using adaptive learning courseware to successfully improve course Drop/Fail/Withdrawal rates.
April 2020
This webinar conversation highlights how students can navigate an unknown fall academic year and how administration can support students.
March 2020
This case study from Northern Arizona University demonstrates the increase in student success that can result from the implementation of adaptive courseware.
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.
January 2020
This resource provides an introduction to the processes, challenges, and considerations involved in running impact studies in postsecondary institutions.
January 2020
In this webinar, faculty share their experiences at scaling adaptive courseware, reducing section variability, and supporting the implementation of adaptive courseware through Centers for Teaching & Learning.
December 2019
A summary of approaches to developing and evaluating accessible and inclusive courseware
November 2019
Academic leaders share their experiences working on the adoption and deployment of adaptive courseware initiatives and digital learning resources at their institutions.
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.
October 2019
In this webinar, faculty share how student experiences and feedback has improved their overall use of adaptive courseware.
September 2019
In this webinar, faculty discuss the resources needed for a successful implementation of adaptive courseware and the importance of the relationship with a courseware vendor.
September 2019
A courseware selection rubric for evaluating courseware products during the adaptive courseware selection process.
August 2019
This is a sample syllabus statement to introduce the adaptive courseware component of your course to students.
July 2019
This brief provides an overview of the current research on the effectiveness of adaptive courseware broadly and in the discipline of Biology.
July 2019
This brief provides an overview of the current research on the effectiveness of adaptive courseware broadly and in the discipline of Chemistry.
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.
April 2019
This resource is a set of tools to help you review your adaptive courseware license agreement.