by Digital Learning @ DTEI | Jun 3, 2024 | Digital Learning Blog
“Inclusion” has become a post-pandemic buzzword in many universities, highlighting historical inequities within a broader crisis in higher education. As universities face record levels of student despair and disconnection, campuses across the country...
by Digital Learning @ DTEI | Jun 3, 2024 | Digital Learning Blog
The story we’ve been told about higher education is changing dramatically. What was once seen as the clearest path to a successful career, the college degree now is being closely examined for its role in deepening inequalities and being out of reach for many...
by Digital Learning @ DTEI | Jun 3, 2024 | Digital Learning Blog
Educators everywhere remember the pandemic as a period of cataclysmic upheaval, the effects of which are still being felt today. For many longtime educators like me, the events of 2020 meant not just a sudden switch to new modalities but also a reexamination of what...
by Digital Learning @ DTEI | Jun 3, 2024 | Digital Learning Blog
In 2024, as debates intensify over the legitimacy, fairness, and value of higher education, a new academic movement is bringing analysis and balance to a discourse increasingly vulnerable to partisan posturing. “Critical University Studies” (CUS) looks at the...
by Digital Learning @ DTEI | Jun 3, 2024 | Digital Learning Blog
Following the graduate student worker strike of 2023, many faculty members like me were caught off guard by the sudden need for alternative instructional support. The term “learning assistant” initially brought to mind images of undergraduates serving...