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Fostering blended-mode engagement with active learning seminars

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

This post belongs to the Jan-March Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Engaging and Empowering Learning Engaging and Empowering Learning with Technology. A Weekly Planner provided at the start of the semester is very helpful in organising all essential information. & Computer Eng. Mousoulos/2015, H.L.

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Report: Undergraduate Enrollment Finally Rising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Among undergraduate degree and program types across the various schools, associate degree programs experienced the most improvement (2.2%), the category’s first increase since NSC started tracking enrollment by credential level in 2015, according to the report. However, numbers are still below what they used to be in 2019, 14.2%

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Working environments: a short overview of the literature

SRHE

Ruohomäki et al (2015) identify key factors, such as privacy, personal space, and control over tasks and schedules, as critical for reducing distractions and supporting mental focus. Wellbeing and working environments The psychological dimension of workspace design is essential to employee wellbeing and productivity.

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Launching the Computer Science Education Group: Fostering Collaboration and Advancement

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Photo credit: Unsplash CC0 In this extra post, the authors share details about the new Computer Science Education Group; an innovative initiative that aims to bring together staff and students of varied backgrounds involved in Computer Science Education. Join Us in Advancing Computer Science Education! What Sets Us Apart?

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

in 2015, just 25 percent of 12th-grade students nationwide performed at or above proficiency in math, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Controversies surrounding math education are not, of course, confined to California. Nor are arguments over how math should be taught new. Linus: New math is too much for me.

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Spotlight on Alternative Assessment Methods: ‘A little bit digitalised?’ Developing practice with online exams

Teaching Matters Online Learning

2019, Myyry & Joutsenvirta 2015, Williams & Wong 2009). The first was migration , whereby exams are expected to transition from pen-and-paper to computer-based delivery largely unaltered, resulting in improvements in efficiency and the student experience.

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How Virtual Reality is Changing Campuses

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

But thanks to technological limitations and prohibitive costs, it didn’t. Now, 20 years after that breathless article, VR technology is finally catching up with its promise. In 2015, two academics decided to change that. . Not for years. . Virtually Connecting was founded by by writer Rebecca J. The ethics of VR.