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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Incorporate a Holistic Educational Model [Policies-Pedagogy-Dialogue-Caring] to Promote Student Success and Retention