Customized Care: Addressing the Unique Mental Health Needs of Online Students
About the Report The mental health landscape in higher education has reached a critical juncture, with an increasing number of students experiencing severe psychological issues. Recent studies have found that over 60% of college students meet the criteria for at least one mental health problem, with significant portions reporting symptoms of depression, anxiety, and suicidal […]
2024 Report: Empowering Change Together
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Considerations for Quality Online Course Design: A Guide to Using Open Access Rubrics
This guide offers ten considerations that are consistent across online course quality evaluationinstruments, including rubrics and scorecards. Exemplary criteria from five open-access coursereview rubrics will demonstrate these considerations throughout this guide. Use this guide toinform your decisions about your own course review practices or the course review process at yourinstitution. You may find a rubric […]
Leveraging Professor-Student Partnerships for Post-Pandemic Teaching and Learning
About the Report In January 2021, Eric Loepp, a faculty member in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and Will Hinz, a member of the student government, administered a survey to students in order to answer big questions surrounding higher education during the fall 2020 semester. Like other institutions, theirs was […]
Communities of Practice in Higher Education: A Playbook for Centering Equity, Digital Learning, and Continuous Improvement
This playbook provides the higher education community with guidance on how to envision, design, facilitate, evaluate, and sustain communities of practice. Communities of practice offer higher education faculty, students, and leaders a range of benefits, such as facilitating resource sharing, individual and collective goal achievement, group problem solving, evaluation of practices, and emergent learning.