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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.
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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.
January 2023
This report informs the strategic action needed to realize the promise of professional learning at our nation’s equity-focused campuses.
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.
December 2023
Through professional learning, faculty can develop their capacity to be change agents both inside and outside of the classroom. This guide clarifies what it means to create opportunities for professional learning that are explicitly equity-minded.
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.
December 2023
This paper describes the outcomes of a Digital Learning Equity Analysis project undertaken by two award-winning educators, Sarah Straub and Rachel Jumper, who sought to implement suggestions from the microcredential training hosted by Every Learner Everywhere. This training focused on promoting equity in digital learning and provided a structured protocol for conducting reviews of online courses.
May 2023
Professional learning, also called Faculty development, in higher education supports student success at the course level.
March 2023
This playbook provides guidance on how to envision, design, facilitate, evaluate, and sustain faculty communities of practice.
March 2023
This literature review examines research concerning communities of practice serving as professional development for teaching faculty.
June 2022
Learn about how institutions can adjust their infrastructure to support online adjunct faculty.
June 2022
Leaders of various faculty communities of practice discuss what works and what doesn’t.
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.
April 2022
Faculty development leaders share their strategies for shifting the framework in ways that advance equitable student learning experiences.
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.
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.
June 2021
An overview of inclusive pedagogy with Colorado State University’s Teaching Effectiveness Framework and its implications during the shift to remote learning in 2020.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.