Description College textbooks provide highly specialized content and are expensive whether they are in hard copy or digital format. The average cost of college books (see graph below) declined in the 2020-2021 academic year, in part due to an increased rate of textbook rentals and use of digital course materials such as OERs (Hanson, 2022). …
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Description “In the United States, almost 50% of the students who follow a degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) will not complete it” (Johnsom et al., 2022). Moreover, when the World Health Organization announced about the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kindergarten to 12th grade schools and institutions of higher learning worldwide responded …
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Description The COVID-19 pandemic presented significant challenges and stressors to students with great potential to impact their educational experience (Savitsky et al., 2020; Schiff et al., 2021), retention, and completion. The effects on mental health and function were recognized globally (Baloran, 2020). These challenges became opportunities for expanding caring approaches to students and reexamining pedagogical …
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Description Instructors frequently depend on high stake assessments such as final exams to evaluate students’ knowledge at the end of courses. Those assessments could be timed and comprehensive. A reality that worries several students because high stake assignments can affect greatly their grades at the end of a semester if they do not perform as …
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Description Case-based learning is often used in social science classes, as well as in other disciplines. This can be challenging to implement online. By dividing a class into smaller groups, and assigning a separate discussion board to each group, the groups can do their planning asynchronously and completely online, while the instructor has a complete …
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Replace Traditional Textbooks with Technology Resources through Trebian’s Model