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A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Academic work requires material access to information in libraries, and other resources like computers and (relatively quiet) space in which to write. Like all UPR faculty, we carry a 12-credit teaching load, and in the midst of UPR’s fiscal crisis, a basic teaching load of 15 credits has been spotted more than once on the horizon.

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The Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain: Ensuring Quality and Excellence in Higher Ed Institutions

Creatrix Campus

Accreditation from the HEC ensures that an institution meets a set of rigorous standards related to program quality, faculty qualifications, and student support services. Providing guidance and support to institutions in the development of their academic programs and the implementation of new technologies and pedagogical approaches.

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How the Choice Based Credit System can Improve the Quality of Higher Education in India

Creatrix Campus

The non-credit courses are evaluated as either 'Satisfactory' or 'Unsatisfactory' and are not factored into the computation of SGPA/CGPA. Faculty Training: Training faculty members to adapt to the CBCS framework and adopt innovative teaching methods can be a time-consuming and resource-intensive process.

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Is HyFlex a viable teaching approach in 'normal' times?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Enilda Romero-Hall is an associate professor in the learning design and technology program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; she started teaching HyFlex before the pandemic and got her Ph.D. I got to the point where I understood the basics enough that I was starting to informally coach some of my colleagues on it.

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Let’s Stop Talking About ChatGPT

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” ChatGPT is a potential “calamity” with faculty “worried that the first cases of GPT may have popped up in their classrooms.” ” Weissman goes on to suggest some possible early defenses, such as more in-class assignments, or internet-disabled computer labs on campus where writing can occur.

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How to spot a struggling student online and what to do about it

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

I argue that prior to the forced migration of online courses, face-to-face faculty generally felt well equipped to spot struggling students, but may have difficulty in the online modality. In the recent migration to online modalities, faculty have not prioritized the care of struggling students, but they should.

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Women wrote the first computer algorithm and the first programming language to use English words. York lauds the program as “really smart.”