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Incorporating Virtual Instructional Strategies that Increase Student Engagement

The Scholarly Teacher

Students feel more detached from professors and their fellow students than professors believe them to be (Otter, Seipel, Graeff, Alexander, Boraiko, Gray, Petersen, & Sadler, 2013). Assign High impact learning opportunities so learners are engaged with the course content and learning regardless of the instructional platform.

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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Ford, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Jillian Saraney, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Service-learning projects designed by students can meet community needs while elevating student learning, engagement, and success by integrating high-impact practices (HIPs) and HIP elements. 2017, October 20).

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Creating Classroom Camaraderie to Promote Learning: 3 Strategies

The Scholarly Teacher

Key Statement : Intentionally developing a welcoming classroom environment increases student engagement and cultivates meaningful classroom relationships. Keywords: engagement, motivation, relationship. Maintaining student engagement is difficult; this is not a controversial opinion or surprise to most faculty.

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DEI: Informing the Implicit to Create the Explicit in Classroom Culture

The Scholarly Teacher

The diversity and multicultural nature of today’s college classroom calls for use of culturally responsive practices to improve student engagement and learning (Mohammad & Nordin, 2017). How can instructors engage the brain and prime it for new learning? But what does this look like in the higher education classroom?

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Developing Your Approach to Generative AI

The Scholarly Teacher

It is important to explain to students that they will need to possess certain skills in their future careers, particularly when requiring students to complete tasks without AI. 2013) or simply failing to put in necessary, foundational work. 2021; Yang et al., Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) , 11 (6), 887. link] Yang, S.,

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Small group learning: building motivation, relationships and cognition with non-typical student learners

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Credit: Pixabay In this insightful post, Sarah Ward, a Lecturer in Learning in Communities at Moray House School for Education and Sport, explores the potent role of Small Group Learning (SGL) in enhancing student engagement, particularly within the MA Learning in Communities programme.

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Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions

The Scholarly Teacher

However, MSIs also report lower-than-national-average graduation and retention rates, reflecting continued systemic challenges (both socioeconomic and political) shaping underrepresented students’ experiences of higher education (Flores & Park, 2013). Clearly, there’s real need to better serve underserved student communities.

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