Every Learner Everywhere

#ArtificialIntelligence has been at the forefront of #educationaltechnology and innovation discussions these past two years and will likely continue to be so for the foreseeable future. To discern what may be coming in 2025, a Forbes contributor asked several #educationinnovators who had shaped stories in 2024 for their takes on what they see as being just over the horizon. One theme that stood out was the rise of #AIAgents. Learn how #AI Agents Will Shape Every Aspect Of Education In 2025: https://ow.ly/97Z150UzkSw

The first class meeting is a big deal. You want to give #students a taste of the engaging intellectual journey they will undertake in the coming weeks — and you have great flexibility in how you go about it. Here are four core principles that can help shape your planning for the first day of your course: Principle No. 1: Curiosity Principle No. 2: Community Principle No. 3: Learning Principle No. 4: Expectations Helping you to make that opening session as effective as possible, whatever your discipline, is the goal of this online guide from The Chronicle of Higher Education: https://ow.ly/9T7W50UyRzl

As we bid farewell to 2024 and welcome the promise of 2025, Every Learner Everywhere would like to extend our warmest wishes for a #HappyNewYear! 🎉 This year, let’s embrace new beginnings, set ambitious goals, and continue our journey towards #equitableeducation for all. Together, we can create #innovative #learningexperiences that empower every learner, especially those from underrepresented communities. Join us in celebrating the possibilities ahead: ✨ Reflect on the achievements of the past year. ✨ Set your intentions for growth and #equityineducation. Here’s to a year filled with inspiration, collaboration, and #transformative #digitallearning experiences. Together, let's make 2025 a remarkable year!

📚 Winter Break Reading List ✨ Looking for #qualityresources to read during winter break? Want to learn about evidence-based #teachingpractices and #equitable #digitallearning? Here are three suggestions: 📘 The Impact of Digital Learning on #Minoritized and Poverty-Affected #CollegeStudents: In this resource, 12 instructors from a variety of two-year and four-year institutions share their experiences adopting #digitallearningtools to #promoteequity and improve #learningoutcomes for historically marginalized and under-resourced #students. https://ow.ly/bJM550UxqtC 📗 Partnering to Promote Equity and Digital Learning: This report describes the key features of #researchpracticepartnerships, the design choices made for this Equity and Digital Learning RPP, the process of establishing the RPP, RPP activities both within and across institutions, and data on student perceptions and #academicperformance in the target courses before and after the RPP activities. https://ow.ly/YlzV50UxqtB 📙 Teaching, Learning, Equity and Change: This report informs the strategic action needed to realize the promise of #professionallearning at our nation’s equity-focused campuses. https://ow.ly/lXIa50UxqtH Enjoy the reads!

Ever since a new revolutionary version of chat #ChatGPT became operable in late 2022, #educators have faced several complex challenges as they learn how to navigate #artificialintelligence systems. Schools are tackling questions such as: Should the technology be banned? What should an #AIusepolicy and protocols look like? How can schools harness this technology for #teachingandlearning? And, alternatively, how can schools prevent #students from using ChatGPT and other #generativeAI tools to cheat? Read the five most popular stories that Education Week published in 2024 about #AI in schools: https://ow.ly/Ju4r50Ux1rt

Every Learner is proud to congratulate Emma Sullivan, Georgia State University Class of 2024! Emma graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Education, concentrated in Middle Level Education with certifications in Language Arts and Social Studies, with an Urban Education endorsement! We checked in with the former Every Learner #studentintern and she shared she's currently teaching 6th grade social studies at a middle school in Atlanta, GA. On behalf of the Every Learner network, we're wishing you continued success, Emma!

As we reflect on 2024, we are proud of the collaborative contributions of the Every Learner Everywhere network this year. We’d like to highlight the amazing work of the network as we prioritized delivering equity-centered #professionallearning opportunities and #digitallearning resources while expanding our knowledge and expertise in #equitable #studentoutcomes through advances in digital learning. As we look ahead to 2025, we are excited to continue the work on this journey as a valuable resource and guide for #faculty and #instructors dedicated to improving student outcomes through innovative #teachingstrategies and #digitallearningtools. On behalf of the Every Learner Everywhere network, we wish you a healthy, happy, and safe holiday season and new year.

Data is a key tool in listening, implementing goals, creating benchmarks and outlining best practices in #highereducation and beyond. @InsideHigherEd compiled two dozen–plus data points to help guide strategic decision-making and #studentsuccess initiatives on #collegecampuses. 📊 82% of Gen Z are likely to consider #onlinecourses in the future, but only 28% of Gen Z believe #onlineeducation is socially acceptable. 📊 36% of #collegestudents don’t use #artificialintelligence for class because they don’t trust it. 📊 61% of students say their #professors empower them to learn, and a majority of students agree that #faculty believe in students’ potential to succeed academically. As student success #practitioners and leaders prepare for the upcoming year, these 25 stats can help guide their understanding of today’s students and higher education at large in 2025: https://ow.ly/vcZv50UuZWg

When Russell Poulin began working with WCET - WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) 30 years ago, #distanceeducation looked very different than it does now. This was prior to web browsers making the internet accessible, and the leading #edtech was room-to-room video between institutions and telecourses using the television broadcast bandwidth or television satellites. Up until then, most distance education projects were within a single state’s system, but in the early 1990s WCET was beginning to develop multi-state initiatives, which Poulin was brought on to support. “That was a fun short-term project that was only supposed to be a couple of years,” he says. “And now, 30 years later, I’m still here.” Until Dec. 31, that is, when Poulin retires as the WCET Executive Director. In between then and now, he has been a leader in innovative instruction and #studentsupport, federal and state policy, and building strategic alliances to support distance education. Join us in Reflecting on 30+ Years of Distance Education Leadership in this week's blog: https://ow.ly/TJjW50Uw6en

Every Learner would like to congratulate, Jamie Baldwin, former #studentintern on their graduation from Sam Houston State University, Class of 2024! Jamie is currently attending Southern Methodist University pursuing their Master of #DataScience and Applied Statistics Program (MDSAS) Degree and expects to graduate in Spring 2026. They currently work on campus as a #teachingassistant /grader for two #undergraduatestatistics courses, as well as a private tutor for undergraduate statistics, and they gained a position with a non-profit named MATHHAPPENS Foundation as their coordinator for their Discovery Gardens at Fair Park (Dallas) playroom location, where every Saturday they get to do different activities with children, such as necklaces and puzzles, and show them that math is not all that scary and can be fun. Please join us in congratulating Jamie on their continued success! 🎉