Spotlight
From classroom to community: how educators are redefining what learning means in 2025
A look at the conversations, experiments, and quiet shifts shaping education across every level — and why this might be the most interesting moment to be a teacher.
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Spotlight
Why cold-calling still works — when you redesign the power dynamic
Reclaiming an old technique by shifting away from gotcha-style recall toward collaborative sense-making. Here's how one classroom flip changed the whole room's energy.
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Spotlight
Micro-credentials are multiplying. How do we help students decide what's worth it?
The landscape of stackable credentials, badges, and certificates is growing faster than advising infrastructure. A framework for guiding students through the noise.
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Spotlight
AI writing tools in the classroom: a rubric for having an honest conversation
Rather than policies that ban or fully embrace AI, some instructors are building shared frameworks with students. Here's a starting rubric and how to adapt it.
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Spotlight
Enrollment trends are reshaping who we design courses for
First-generation students, working adults, and international learners now make up the majority in many programs. How that should — but often doesn't — change instructional design.
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Spotlight
Translating Vygotsky for the modern online classroom
Zone of proximal development, scaffolding, and social learning didn't vanish when courses moved online — they just got harder to see. Here's how to make them visible again.
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Pedagogy & Practice
Why cold-calling still works — when you redesign the power dynamic
Reclaiming an old technique by shifting away from gotcha-style recall toward collaborative sense-making. Here's how one classroom flip changed the whole room's energy.
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Pedagogy & Practice
The low-stakes quiz myth: what retrieval practice research actually says
We often justify quizzing as low stakes, but the data is more nuanced. A look at when testing strengthens learning — and when it just raises anxiety.
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Continuing Education
Micro-credentials are multiplying. How do we help students decide what's worth it?
The landscape of stackable credentials, badges, and certificates is growing faster than advising infrastructure. A framework for guiding students through the noise.
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Continuing Education
Professional development that doesn't feel like professional development
Faculty buy-in for PD sessions is notoriously hard to earn. Three program directors share what finally moved the needle — and it wasn't the catered lunch.
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Tech & Innovation
AI writing tools in the classroom: a rubric for having an honest conversation
Rather than policies that ban or fully embrace AI, some instructors are building shared frameworks with students. Here's a starting rubric and how to adapt it.
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Tech & Innovation
The LMS isn't going anywhere. So let's finally make it feel human.
A roundup of small, high-leverage UX changes instructors are making inside Canvas and Moodle that noticeably shift student engagement and orientation.
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Learning Landscape
Enrollment trends are reshaping who we design courses for
First-generation students, working adults, and international learners now make up the majority in many programs. How that should — but often doesn't — change instructional design.
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Learning Landscape
What hybrid teaching taught us about the lecture format's actual purpose
The forced experiment of hybrid instruction revealed something we already knew but rarely acted on: the lecture's real value is presence, not content delivery.
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Theory to Impact
Translating Vygotsky for the modern online classroom
Zone of proximal development, scaffolding, and social learning didn't vanish when courses moved online — they just got harder to see. Here's how to make them visible again.
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Theory to Impact
Bloom's Taxonomy is 70 years old. Here's what it still gets right — and what needs updating
The hierarchy of cognitive skills has held up remarkably well, but its original form undervalues creativity, metacognition, and collaborative knowledge-building.
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