Month: December 2024

  • Improve Student Success & Your Course Evaluations

    Building a Supportive Online Classroom: Strategies for Student Success Ashley Mowreader’s article “Survey: Students Value Instructional Clarity, Active Learning” suggests that students value active learning and instructional clarity. They rate professors higher when they receive student support and perceive their instructors as professional and caring.  Knowing this, we can improve student success by applying some different…

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