Deirdre Fernandes and Keith Bedford of the Boston Globe newspaper recently published an extensive, image-rich article on Southern New Hampshire University’s work with refugee students in Africa. The piece is filled with sobering data points and inspirational stories aptly entitled “An Education in Hope.” I encourage you to read about these brave people and share your thoughts on how education can be a pathway to opportunity.
Click here for the Boston Globe article.
The best online instructor lets go of their ego to allow learning which benefits both them and their students. Dr. Thomas MacCarty offers his tips to be a better online instructor by letting go of ego and embracing an approach that best serves learners.
Any instructor may point out where students need to improve their work, but instructors who use regular self-reflection look at what they can do to improve on their own work just as fervently.
Higher education is moving through growing pains. The VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world we were already struggling to navigate has accelerated, and we find ourselves strategizing in months what we thought we had years to evolve into.