Jessica Griner
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Jan 26, 2024
In the pursuit of equity and access for all learners, digital accessibility is a key foundation of the modern student experience.
Still, while significant strides in accessibility delivered through technology were made during the pandemic, many students today have little or no access to technology, edtech tools, and reliable Wi-Fi or broadband connections.
In fact, access to technology remains one of the biggest roadblocks for many students, according to our 2023 State of Higher Read More...
Feb 21, 2023
At Instructure, we celebrate education.
In 2020, during the height of Covid and the widespread adoption of online learning, we added what we thought to be a fun, simple feature to help give students a boost. When students would submit an assignment instead of the standard acknowledgement of completion, digital confetti would float across the screen. The confetti received an overwhelming response from students, embracing the confetti celebration of submitting their final assignments or Read More...
Nov 09, 2022
This year at Educause, Instructure brought together an off-campus panel of three IT leaders to discuss how their institution is navigating the great re-think in higher ed. The panelists reflected on best practices their campus have honed and how those translate into a future vision of teaching and learning centered around technology driving student success.
The three leaders who shared their unique perspectives were:
Jona Burton, Team Leader, Educational Technology Management Read More...
Nov 16, 2022
As higher education evolves away from the traditional lecture hall model, tech-enhanced learning has the podium when it comes to meeting students' needs, whether in class or online.
Students and administrators alike feel student success today is driven by academic factors that include:
The quality of faculty (90%)
Engaging content/instruction (90%)
Available technology (88%)
Hands-on instruction (88%)
With continued emphasis from respondents on the quality of faculty Read More...
Nov 21, 2022
Students today are interested in convenient and flexible learning options. And increasingly, convenience and flexibility are perhaps even more important than the pedigree of a diploma.
Choice is the future — and technology enhances all forms of learning, whether online, hybrid, or in-person. It makes sense then, that giving students options for where and how they learn gives them power over their trajectory. Doing so is an effective way to keep students engaged and empower them to Read More...
Nov 29, 2022
While it’s commonly known that socioeconomic factors greatly impact students in higher education, understanding which factors rise to the top can be challenging. According to our global 2022 State of Student Success and Engagement in Higher Education report, there are many socioeconomic factors impacting student success and engagement, and four in particular have increased in importance from 2020 to 2022.
In its third year, the study finds that the top four socioeconomic factors Read More...