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How professional digital ePortfolios can enhance employability and professional identity

SRHE

Findings showed that reflective work in ePortfolios can be challenging through exposing vulnerabilities, whilst also positively playing a role in the ‘bigger picture’ of studentsdevelopment – ePortfolios facilitated digital skill development and evolving professional identities.

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It’s official: Joe Paul is named president of the University of Southern Mississippi

University Business

.” Paul, a Southern Miss alumnus, retired in 2015 after he served as an administrator in student affairs for the university for more than 40 years.

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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

Help students develop the ability to self-assess. 2015) Co-creation of Marking Criteria: Students as Partners in the Assessment Process, Business & Management Education in HE [link] Nicol, D. & Oxon: RoutledgeFalmer Nicol, D. 4 pp 501-517 [link] Meer, N. & & Chapman, A. & Macfarlane-Dick, D.

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Community for teaching climate and sustainability

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

In other words, we should already be preparing them to be sustainable citizens and leaders, and we need to be more deliberate doing so.

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Twenty years of peer support: The fellowship and solidarity of community

Teaching Matters Academic Support

It is from here that our students can begin to engage fully with the emancipatory nature of education, which can only be found ‘in the fellowship and solidarity of community’ (Darder, 2015). When students form meaningful relationships with others connected to the institution, they are more likely to persist’. and Isabella, L.A.

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Team Growth: Get to Know Maria and Anthony

Campus Groups

From there, I went straight to graduate school at Ohio University where I graduated in 2015 with a Master of Education in College Student Personnel. During that time, I held a Graduate Assistant position in the Office for Multicultural Student Access and Retention. Anthony: I have over 8 years in higher education.

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Guide To Assessment

Higher Ed Connects: Assessment

During the span of a student’s stay at your institution, only approximately one-third of his/her time is spent in academics while the remaining two-thirds of time is spent in other activities such as residence halls, extracurricular activities, advising, and tutoring (Banta and Palomba, 2015).