Every Learner Everywhere

Faculty, have you considered renewable assignments as a way to engage students? These allow students to compile and openly publish original work that have inherent value to the field and remain relevant after the course has been completed. Students appreciate renewable assignments for the relatable real-world experience and the ability to participate in the larger academic conversation. Renewable assignments: • Are project-based • Empower students in their personal and academic lives • Facilitate inquiry with visible impact and results They also expand disciplinary narratives to include historically marginalized voices and diverse identities. Inviting students to share their work widely demonstrates that their work has value and engages them directly with their community. Original #OER textbooks that faculty and students collaboratively write, revise, and edit are one form of renewable assignment. Another form is secondary learning resources that support learning for current and future students. 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗢 𝗗𝗢 𝗜𝗧 • Ask students to create materials or revise/remix existing OER to add to the existing knowledge base. • Present student work on shareable platforms that have value beyond the classroom. • Give students the choice to openly license their co-constructed or self-generated content. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗧 𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗦 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 • Students edit or add to an open resource website. • Students write a textbook chapter from a different perspective. • Students create and post short openly-licensed videos to explain the connection of key discipline-based concepts to their everyday lives. • Students contribute question prompts, answers, and distractor choices to a test question bank. • Students write poetry or music about key concepts and experiments and are invited to post their creations with an open license. • Students add assignments to a course. 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗜𝗧 For one specific course assignment, intermittently throughout the term, or as the summative course project. ___ This summary of renewable assignments is excerpted from 𝘗𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦: 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘨𝘺, one in a series of playbooks we developed with Achieving the Dream. It outlines practical ways to implement open education, including other strategies like open assessment. https://lnkd.in/gT6HX-Kj ___ Other playbooks in the series feature: • Equity-minded professional learning • Social justice education • Culturally responsive teaching and learning Explore them all on our resources library: https://lnkd.in/gYG8fXXG  

Looking for a Framework for Accessible and Equitable Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education? The Inclusive Design Research Centre has developed a #practicalguide to the dizzying domain of #artificialintelligence within the #educationecosystem, with a particular focus on the impact on #equity and #accessibility. #AI and accessibility are beginning to have an interesting conversation. Not unlike the conversation about AI in general, the conversation about AI and #accessibilityineducation can be found taking a techno-solutionist or techno-tragedist perspective. Learn more and download the #framework today: https://ow.ly/nPIn50SyijA

Too often, #gatewaycourses prevent #students from establishing that foundation for future #learning. #Culturallyrelevant #teachingpractices and materials can create the #senseofbelonging that helps #learners overcome difficulties they face in these courses. #Faculty who teach gateway courses are often engaged by the idea of using #culturallyrelevantmaterials to support #studentsuccess, but they may need direction to make that transition. A new report, Infusing #CulturallyRelevantContent in Gateway Courses in #PostsecondaryEducation: Findings and Insights from #CollegeFaculty, from CORA Learning and the Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEALab) at San Diego State University, shows that, while instructors endeavor to use high-impact #teachingmaterials and practices in their gateway courses, they often face barriers to incorporating culturally relevant approaches. Learn more in this week's blog: https://ow.ly/454k50Sx0GF

What exactly is #diversity, #equity, and #inclusion? And why the push to ban it on #college #campuses? In this explanatory video, The Chronicle of Higher Education explores the history of #DEI and how it came under political attack: https://ow.ly/XcKo50Su3wM

Why is disaggregating student data essential for achieving equity? Relying on data about the “underrepresented minority” is “educational malpractice” as Estela Bensimon once wrote. In 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 “𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴” we interviewed students and educators about unbundling their experiences. They told us disaggregating data can: 𝗜𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗶𝘁𝘆 “We don’t treat white students as a monolith. We know students from Kentucky are not the same as students from L.A. But for some reason, that doesn’t translate to Black and Brown students.” Shonda Goward, Ed.D. 𝗜𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 The devil is in the details sometimes.  One student told us how being a working mother who had used up her financial aid eligibility as a teenager was a bigger factor in her progress than her ethnicity. 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀 Bundled data can hide how students experience a complex web of overlapping  colorism, classism, and intergroup prejudice inherent in “positive” stereotypes about different racial, ethnic, and economic groups. 𝗘𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 Even when barriers to equity are shared across student populations, they take different forms and are experienced uniquely. Facets of a student’s identity matter to them differently over time as the salience ebbs and flows in different circumstances. 𝗘𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 Culturally relevant pedagogy has little practical meaning in a context of homogenized “underrepresented students,” and assets-based or cultural wealth perspective depends on surfacing the unique assets students bring. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 Digital learning is integral to the experience of most college students, but we know little about how effective it is for specific student populations. 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 Colleges and universities have their own legacies of racism and classism, as well as internal systems that sustain inequities. Data-informed pedagogy requires accounting for the various ways students experience systemic inequity. ___ Disaggregating data isn’t easy, but it’s necessary. When you see a report with data that isn’t disaggregated, be patient, but push for better. And definitely take it with a grain of salt. Bundled data obscures variations in student experiences trends. The full report is here: https://lnkd.in/g66TWJ2k ___ Looking for professional development on data-informed digital teaching and learning? Check out our service partners: https://lnkd.in/ddVbESB6

As we celebrate freedom today, we're reminded of the #powerofeducation to liberate minds and open doors of opportunity. Just as our nation's founders envisioned a land of liberty and #justiceforall, we envision a future where every learner has the freedom to access #highqualityeducation, regardless of background or circumstance. This #4thOfJuly, let's recommit to: ✴️ Breaking down #barrierstolearning ✴️ Embracing innovative #educationaltechnologies ✴️ Ensuring #equity in #highereducation Together, we can build an #educationallandscape as diverse and full of potential as America itself. Here's to independence, #education, and the pursuit of knowledge!

“Students want to see more relevance in what they are studying. They want to change the world. My students used to tell me that in almost every class.” Karen Cangialosi, director of the Every Learner Everywhere Network, is cited in this article by Inside Higher Ed about how #exams and testing counter #studentslearning. #Students rate their #educationalquality highly while signaling ways to improve their #academicexperience in newly released #dataandanalysis. Read the article: https://ow.ly/eEsk50SuPSc

Join us this month for a FREE webinar on #Teaching for #DigitalEquity and #CulturalRelevance, hosted in partnership with CORA Learning. Discover how #culturallyrelevantcontent enhances #studentsuccess in #gatewaycourses, informed by our latest research findings. This session aims to empower #highereducation #faculty with innovative #teachingpractices that promote #inclusive and #equitable #learningenvironments. Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding and explore partnership opportunities with CORA to bring accredited, evidence-based, equity-focused #professionallearning to your #campus. Register today: https://ow.ly/HJ8350Su5m3

Like many institutions, New Mexico State University (NMSU) has what Patrick Turner, Associate Vice President of Student #AcademicSuccess, describes as a “sporadic” #dataculture. “Institutions are data rich, but information poor,” says Turner. “We collect all of this data on #students coming through our doors — race, gender, family income, grades in class — but we only use about 10 percent of the data we collect.” Between September and November of 2023, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) worked with a group from NMSU’s #institutionalresearch office, #student affairs, and #academicadvising. Their goals were to better understand its data culture and to build skills through a specific #dataproject. Learn more in this week's blog: https://ow.ly/GMIz50St6SY

Join the SACNAS #2024NDiSTEM Conference, where you can immerse yourself in cutting-edge #scientificinsights, grow your circle of peers and contacts, and honor your heritage by embracing your #authenticself in vibrant Phoenix, Arizona. Over the course of the event, attendees are immersed in cutting-edge #STEMresearch, #professionaldevelopment sessions, motivational #keynotespeakers, and the Graduate School & Career Expo Hall, as well as multicultural celebrations and traditions, and an inclusive and welcoming community of peers, mentors, and role models. Early Bird Registration ends June 30. Register today: https://ow.ly/PI8c50SoyPv