AnneliseGoodman
Instructure
Instructure

While students and faculty are celebrating the beginning of summer break, Impact has already been hard at work creating campaigns to help you with your return to campus in Fall 2021! This post highlights some of the brand new campaigns available to make your transition as smooth as possible. 

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AnneliseGoodman
Instructure
Instructure

Students’ sense of belonging has long been studied in academia as college/university is a time for self-discovery and change. Students that feel like they belong in the larger campus community are more inclined to persist to the next year (Hausmann et al., 2009). Additionally, students that feel like they are part of a wider community are more successful (Strayhorn, 2019). 

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VicaLanovenko
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni

 

In Atul Gawande’s recent book The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, he explains that when we work in high-pressure fields with many details, it is easy to get overwhelmed and make simple mistakes that are foundational to the task at hand. We often see this phenomenon in online learning, where instructors with vast knowledge of their discipline may spend hours on what readings to include in the course, but fail to upload the syllabus. This is why Gawande suggests the power of the checklist. 

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