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Doug Holton

Building Students’ Confidence and Learning Skills in Online Classes: Lessons from the Postsecondary Collaborative (slides and paper) ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/presentat
"the Collaborative identified three interventions instructors can embed in their online classrooms: videos, prompts, and student–peer interaction networks"
#OnlineLearning #OnlineTeaching #EdDev #StudentSuccess #HigherEd

Community College Research CenterBuilding Students’ Confidence and Learning Skills in Online Classes: Lessons from the Postsecondary CollaborativeOnline courses are popular with students and faculty. Their popularity belies a troubling reality: student outcomes in online courses are lower than those
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Doug Holton

The Student Experience Project (SEP) Resource Hub draws on social belonging and learning mindset research to develop practical approaches campuses can use to bolster student engagement, increase equity in academic outcomes, and support student success.
studentexperienceproject.org/r
#StudentSuccess #EdDev #Teaching #Mindset

Student Experience ProjectSEP Resource Hub - Student Experience ProjectThe SEP repository contains resources and stories from the SEP to equip higher education institutions with tools that can be used to improve student experience
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Doug Holton

Student Hunger: How We Got Here and Solutions to Increase Persistence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ab
1/3rd of #CommunityCollege students report experiencing food insecurity, and they are 42% less likely to graduate. There is a need for policy reforms - SNAP eligibility requirements exclude many students.
Swipe Out Hunger is working to end college student hunger swipehunger.org/
#FoodSecurity #StudentSuccess #HigherEd

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🎨 🔬 Eliott Atom Croubalian combines a rare blend of creativity and scientific rigor. Architecture has allowed him to merge these two facets, and the Bachelor Excellence Fellowship has provided the ideal conditions for him to thrive in this demanding, multidisciplinary program that seems perfectly suited to him.

#Architecture #Multidisciplinary #StudentSuccess

Read more 🔗 : go.epfl.ch/EGO-en

go.epfl.ch · “I think my creative side can really shine in research"Eliott Atom Croubalian combines a rare blend of creativity and scientific rigor. Architecture has allowed him to merge these two facets, and the Bachelor Excellence Fellowship has provided the ideal conditions for him to thrive in this demanding, multidisciplinary program that seems perfectly suited to him.
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Doug Holton

A few recent books on #HigherEd course design to improve #StudentSuccess & #StudentRetention:
* Transforming the Gateway Course Experience gardnerinstitute.org/news-reso Video: youtube.com/watch?v=PlEUcq6Bfn8
* Developing High-Impact Course Design Institutes: A Model for Change routledge.com/Developing-High-
* Teaching for Retention: Strategies to Ignite Student Success in Higher Education routledge.com/Teaching-for-Ret
#EdDev

Gardner InstituteTransforming the Gateway Course ExperienceToday more than ever we need new and more student success leaders to step forward to make the changes that students need, and it offers the story of one such leader in the belief that it will help others see how they can make their own contribution to this movement.
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Doug Holton

#OpenAccess book review of Teaching for Retention: Strategies to Ignite Student Success in Higher Education journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/ There are also some free workshop support materials on the publisher site: routledge.com/Teaching-for-Ret
I also have some resources on student success strategies here: bit.ly/studentsuccess23 & in Canvas: canvas.instructure.com/courses
#HigherEd #StudentSuccess #EdDev #Teaching

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Doug Holton

Summary of advice from my former students to future students:
* Time management: not procrastinating, schedule, reminders
* Organization: keeping a planner or calendar
* Asking for help: professors, tutors, advisors, asking questions in class
* Taking care of yourself: sleep, eating healthy, exercising, & taking breaks.
* Staying focused: goals, study buddy, & avoiding distractions
* Attending class
* Building relationships
More on testimonial activity: canvas.instructure.com/courses
#StudentSuccess

canvas.instructure.comAbout Student Testimonials and Social Belonging: Evidence-based Teaching in Canvas
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41% of students go to community colleges. 83% of them intend to transfer to 4-year colleges and get a degree. However, "only 13% of community college students actually go on to earn degrees from four-year institutions within eight years"
npr.org/2024/08/21/nx-s1-49305
The number rose to 16% this year, but "only 9% of Black & 13% of Hispanic students transferred from community college and earned their bachelor’s degrees within 6 years"
insidehighered.com/news/instit
#StudentSuccess #HigherEd #CommunityCollege

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"We find that whether a student passes gateway math depends more on who they have as their faculty than any other factor
examined...including prior academic preparation, the high school a student attended, student demographics..."
Specific instructional practices can reduce racial disparities in gateway math course outcomes.
edequitysolutions.com/counting
#StudentSuccess #MathEd #EdDev #CommunityCollege #Teaching #HigherEd

EdEquitySolutionsCounting on Math Faculty | Education Equity SolutionsThis study represents a rare attempt to understand the role instructors and instructional practices play in determining student success.
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Doug Holton

Self-Directed Learning Skills: Strategies to Support Student Learning in Online STEM Courses ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/publicati
Including a collaborative report: Teaching and Designing Online STEM Courses to Support Self-Directed Learning Skills postseccollab.org/teaching-and
#OnlineTeaching #STEMeducation #EdDev #OnlineLearning #StudentSuccess

Community College Research CenterSelf-Directed Learning Skills: Strategies to Support Student Learning in Online STEM CoursesThis Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative brief discusses some of the challenges with online teaching reported by STEM instructors, describes a self-directed learning (SDL) framework to address these challenges, and highlights support stra
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First-Year College Achievement and Graduation Rates for Hispanic and Hispanic First-Generation Students journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/
"First-year seminar participants had significantly higher outcomes in first-term GPA, 1-year persistence and graduation rates."
More about their UNIV 101 course: unco.edu/university-101/
See also: Teaching Learning Strategies to Increase Success of First-Term College Students dennislearningcenter.osu.edu/f
#FYE #StudentSuccess #CollegeSuccess

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"Students now consider ceasing their postsecondary pursuits primarily because of emotional stress, mental health and cost, according to the report. And mental health and stress are at the top. The number of students tempted to leave college because of mental health or well-being has increased, with 54 percent of all students citing emotional stress — and 43 percent citing personal mental health — as reasons they’d leave." edsurge.com/news/2024-03-12-a-
#StudentSuccess #MentalHealth #HigherEd

EdSurge · ‘A Condemnation’: Under Mental Health Strains, Students Weigh Quitting College By Daniel Mollenkamp
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