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How college students feel about active learning environments

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: While hundreds of peer-reviewed studies have concluded that students taught in an active learning environment are significantly more likely to outperform peers who are in classes taught more traditionally, full adoption of active learning practices remains far from the norm. Then they were tested on what they had learned.

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A Missing Piece [Peace]: Teaching & Learning in the Digital Age

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Groups were assigned an activity to discuss possible solutions for increasing capacity for educational technology and digital learning. It is important to note that during panels prior to this activity, there was significant feedback from the various attendees.

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The Missing Paradigm: Concordance Between Cultural Responsiveness and Institutional Policies and Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Recognizing and valuing this diversity is the cornerstone of cultivating an inclusive learning environment in the community college setting. In an era of increasing diversity and globalization, institutions are challenged to foster environments that are not only fair and just but also inclusive of diverse cultural perspectives.

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Campus Free Expression, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Can — and Must — Coexist

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And they are necessary as we work to prepare and inspire students to be active participants in our democracy. The values of freedom of expression, diversity, and inclusion are inherently connected to and dependent on one another. Friction among those with varying viewpoints has always existed.

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Thriving and Flourishing While Black and a Student: What can PWIs do?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For Black people to flourish and thrive, they need an environment that supports their holistic growth. And targeting of faculty by groups such as Idaho Freedom Foundations does not provide a campus environment where Black people feel safe. However, to be holistically successful by flourishing, a person needs the right environment (i.e.,

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

The Scholarly Teacher

Therefore, faculty are called upon to consider implicit approaches to designing dynamic learning environments that foster open discourse with diverse and multicultural audiences. Third, and just as importantly, faculty assess the diversity and intersectionality among their students through active information seeking and observation.

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Fostering Connectedness in the Asynchronous Online Environment

The Scholarly Teacher

Sally Clemenson , Minnesota State University, Mankato Ellen Johnson , Minnesota State University, Mankato Keywords: Connectedness, Asynchronous, Online Learning Key Statement: Connectedness in the asynchronous online environment can be difficult to establish. Without connectedness, students can feel lost, disengaged, and unmotivated.

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