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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And as business owners, Latinos made up 50% of net new small businesses from 2007–2017. Martínez, senior director of research and impact at SHPE during a Sep. Graduate students’ needs are focused on financing their education and financial support for conference travel. Encourage research and scholarship on U.S.

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Inquiring Minds Want to Know…About Social, Cognitive, and Teacher Presence Online

The Scholarly Teacher

Growth mindset leads to greater effort and persistence in learners which helps them reach higher levels of achievement (Dweck & Molden, 2017). New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education , 2006 (109), 5- 13. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning , 21 (1), 134–152. link] Deci, E.

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This program dedicated to boosting first-gen success rates is tripling down

University Business

.” The Kessler Scholars Collaborative embarked on a mission in 2017 to support this vulnerable slice of the student body at a handful of esteemed institutions, and its pilot program proved a success. At Johns Hopkins, students experienced a 100% first-to-second-year persistence rate. .

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Microcredentials confuse employers, colleges and learners

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“Employers say, ‘It’s great that this individual has these skills, but we’ll ask our own questions to verify the learner’s knowledge,’” Kyle Albert, assistant research professor at the George Washington University Institute of Public Policy, said. “It’s a trust-but-verify situation.”

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Enhancing the student learning experience via social media

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Some colleagues who have an interest in technology-enhanced learning joined the team, and we spent two years rigorously synthesising the literature on social media in nursing and midwifery education (O’Connor et al, 2017). Sarah was keen to co-lead the review to gain some research experience during her undergraduate studies.

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How MOOCs helped a centuries-old institution change its ways

Teaching Matters Online Learning

In 2017, we embarked on what seemed like the next logical step in our journey: creating a microcredential, a collection of MOOCs that, when taken together, provide the learner with deeper learning outcomes and in some cases university credit. This led us, in 2021, to undertake market research into the factors that are important to learners.

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Teaching activities that bring out the best in students – shouldn’t we all strive for that?

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Let me take you to my ‘academic life-changing’ experience in June 2017. As Director of Education in Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, I sat at the back of a large lecture room, in which 150 first- and second-year students in GeoSciences gathered to be informed about upcoming study opportunities abroad.