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Learning Space Design Takes a Community: Guiding the FLEXspace Portal

CT talks with learning space design leaders who've helped shape the FLEXspace community portal — from its original vision, to new applications, to future directions and its growth as a research platform.

Visualizing Academic Risk

After years of researching the factors that impact student success, Marist College developed an open source early alert dashboard that turns interventions into a proactive, rather than reactive, process.

Online Professional Development: 3 Ways to Keep Faculty Coming Back for More

For students to succeed in online learning, faculty must be encouraged to go back to class themselves.

How Personalized Support and a Culture of Data Can Jumpstart Student Success

When graduation rates plateaued, the University of South Florida turned to predictive analytics and a case management approach to student support — with striking results.

Technology as Part of the Culture for Legal Professionals

Professionals in the legal field are faced with new challenges as they try to understand the impact of emerging technology on the law. Here, Daniel Christian tells CT why law schools should make sure new technologies are represented in a legal education.



Building Career Skills in the Campus Makerspace

California's community colleges are piloting a new approach to student internships that marries team-based projects with hands-on work in makerspaces.

Distance Learning Without Computers

Arizona State University is finding out what refugee farmers in Uganda and online course creators have to teach each other about making do with very little.

Refining Disaster Recovery in a Challenging Environment

A clever use of software-defined network virtualization took Mohave Community College from a crippling 72-hour outage to a 45-minute (and still dropping) recovery time.

Purdue's TLT Partners with Faculty to Accelerate Grading in Large Enrollment Courses

A partnership between Purdue University's Teaching and Learning Technologies organization and a small group of mechanical engineering faculty exploring Gradescope has grown into a campus-wide initiative that includes an enterprise license of the tool and TLT support. The use of Gradescope accelerates the grading process — especially in large enrollment courses — and the related strategies that faculty share help improve assessment generally.

Engaging Faculty with New Tech

Technology innovation does not always come easily for time-crunched faculty members in higher ed. Here's how one institution provides a variety of training opportunities to help inspire faculty to try something new.