Past Events

Don’t miss our session: Facilitating Positive Student Help-Seeking Experiences in Online Courses. Monday, March 18, 2024, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm PT. Community college instructors will learn about the reasons students avoid asking for help, particularly in STEM courses. Research has linked such avoidance to students’ experiences of discrimination and ...

Creating Online Environments to Promote Motivation and Learning: Perspectives from Students at the 20th anniversary of Achieving the Dream’s Annual DREAM conference from February 19 to 22, 2024 in Orlando, FL ...

A Framework for Designing Online Courses to Support Student Success. Online courses extend access to higher education but also place a significant burden on students to manage their own learning processes ...

Scaling Evidence-Based Ed Tech in Postsecondary Education. The postsecondary sector presents distinct opportunities and challenges for ed tech developers and entrepreneurs looking to enter new markets. In this session, panelists representing entrepreneurial, investor, research, and educator perspectives reflect on strategies to scale adoption in postsecondary education and engage with researchers ...

Promoting Inclusive Strategies in Online CTE & STEM Courses: Practitioner-Focused Research Methods. Practitioner-focused research methods can address inequities in online teaching and learning. We presented two initiatives that engage postsecondary practitioners in designing ways to foster inclusive online instruction in CTE and STEM ...

Calling all Institute of Education Sciences (IES)-funded researchers! Please join us at the Annual Principal Investigators Meeting, “Building on 20 years of IES Research to Accelerate the Education Sciences,” from May 16 to 18, 2023 ...

Perspectives from Nine Institutions on the Role of Self-Directed Learning Skills in Online Courses. The American Educational Research Association’s (AERA’s) virtual conference, “Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth,” from May 4 to 5, 2023 ...

Supporting Learning and Success in Online Courses: Early Insights and Updates from the Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative. In this webinar for Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative partners, members of the research teams share what we are learning about strategies for supporting student success and skill development in online courses ...

Self-directed learning instruction as a tool for equity: A framework for improving student outcomes in online STEM courses. OLC Innovate - learn more about the research around supporting diverse students’ self-directed learning skills and mindsets and practical strategies embed these strategies into online courses ...

Supporting Learning and Success in Online Courses: Attending to Learning Skills and Mindsets. We engage with experts from SRI, the Community College Research Center, and participating colleges to learn about framework of learning skills and mindsets that can support student learning and success in online and hybrid courses ...

Care and Support in Online STEM Courses: Insights from the Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative. The Community College Showcase to learn how broad-access institutions can leverage technology and the Collaborative’s framework of motivational, metacognitive, and applied learning approaches to support students in online STEM courses ...

Webinar: Early Insights from the Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative. Achieving the Dream on Friday, October 14th, with experts from SRI, the Community College Research Center, and participating colleges to learn about new approaches to improving student success in online STEM courses. We’ll learn about the role of self-directed learning ...

Supporting Student Learning in Online STEM Courses: Insights from the Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative. NISOD’s Fall Virtual Conference for Supporting Student Learning in Online STEM Courses: Insights from the Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative. Faculty, staff, and administrators are seeking ways to support students with the learning skills and ...

Teaching with technology to support students? Skills for managing their learning. EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. To succeed academically, college students must develop and apply strategies for managing their learning, such as goal setting, task planning, getting help, reflecting on progress, and adjusting their strategies ...

Transforming STEM Higher Education: Back to Broken, AAC&U’s Conference on accelerating undergraduate STEM education reform for Creative Strategies to Support Self-Directed Learning in Online Intro STEM Courses. Researchers report on findings from a study of the ways that instructors teaching online introductory STEM courses use instructional strategies and educational technology ...

Enhancing Excellence in Online Teaching: The Role of Self-Directed Learning Skills. Research indicates that online course formats have tended to exacerbate gaps in course performance across student groups. As colleges have expanded online offerings during the pandemic, it has become increasingly important to examine and improve online instruction ...

Calling all Institute of Education Sciences (IES)-funded researchers! Please join us at the Annual Principal Investigators Meeting, “Advancing Equity and Inclusion in the Education Sciences,” from January 25 to 27, 2022. How Can We Improve Postsecondary Instruction in Online Courses? Learning from Diverse Perspectives Presenters introduce the Postsecondary Teaching with ...