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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

The Scholarly Teacher

Not surprising, the students in my graduate-level course were wrestling with understanding the content of this complex student development theory. Likely, anyone who has taught college or graduate-level students has faced a similar situation, particularly when attempting to synthesize complex and difficult topics.

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Breaking Bread in Communities of Learners

The Scholarly Teacher

Chris Watkins (2005) also encourages structuring classrooms as a community of learners, rather than a classroom built with white supremacy tools or tools of masters’ colonial house. Rethinking college student development theory using critical frameworks. This was not a solo adventure. First, we are honest with each other.

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How professional digital ePortfolios can enhance employability and professional identity

SRHE

One proven method encouraging undergraduate students to consider life beyond graduation is to build employability into summative assessment, and digital ePortfolios are one such approach. An ePortfolio is an online resource created by students that details professional experiences linked to academic study.

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“I know a first when I see one!”: Developing transparent marking descriptors with the help of students

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

The University’s new assessment and feedback principles include ‘Our assessment and feedback practices will be reliable, robust and transparent’ – and, as is highlighted in the opening post in this series , students do not always consider it to be clear how their marks were awarded. Help students develop the ability to self-assess.

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What do artificial intelligence systems mean for academic practice?

SRHE

I got some helpful feedback from the audience that the traffic lights provided useful navigation for students. Coincidentally, the next speaker Angela Brew also used a traffic light system to guide students with AI.

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President’s corner: How Rob Vischer balances growth with century-old values at University of St. Thomas

University Business

In the past six years, it’s opened a bachelor’s program in nursing and a two-year college geared toward minority and first-generation student success. We have to help our students develop, not just into great productive employees, but into thoughtful, conscientious, other-centered persons.”

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A Call to Action: Higher Education Must Implement Culturally Responsive Mental Health Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

News survey revealed that 70% of 3,649 students struggled with mental health since starting college. Mental health is synonymous with psychological wellness, a multidimensional construct involving satisfaction and balance among mind, body, and spirit (Myers & Sweeney, 2005).