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Teaching Neurodivergent Students: Classroom Strategies That Support All Learners image
Teaching Neurodivergent Students: Classroom Strategies That Support All Learners
This Quick Study provides practical strategies for supporting neurodivergent students through clear communication, structured routines, and intentional course design. You will learn how to create learning environments where every student feels valued, supported, and equipped to succeed. 
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Connecting Course Goals to Career Readiness
This Quick Study provides practical strategies for using your course content to help students prepare for future careers. You will learn how to highlight transferable skills, guide students in representing their accomplishments, and show them how coursework connects to professional opportunities. 
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Facilitating a Deliberative Dialogue
This Quick Study offers practical strategies for guiding students through deliberative dialogue. You will learn how to facilitate structured discussions, address challenges during conversation, and use debriefing strategies to help students reflect and connect the experience to future learning.
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Preparing for Deliberative Dialogue Through Practice
This Quick Study offers practical strategies to help students build confidence and skills before participating in deliberative dialogue. You will learn how to set shared expectations, introduce active listening, and create opportunities for students to practice key discussion skills in advance of more complex conversations. 
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Launching a Deliberative Dialogue
This Quick Study offers practical strategies to help you successfully launch a deliberative dialogue in your course. You will learn how to introduce relevant issues, revisit shared norms, and outline multiple stances to support student engagement and guide productive classroom conversations. 
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Integrating Deliberative Dialogue Into Your Course
This Quick Study offers practical strategies for integrating deliberative dialogue into your course in a purposeful and manageable way. You will learn how to choose appropriate topics, identify the right moment for dialogue, prepare students with relevant materials, and assess the experience to reinforce learning. 
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What is Deliberative Dialogue?
This Quick Study introduces deliberative dialogue as a structured way to help students engage more deeply with complex issues. You’ll explore what sets it apart from other forms of discussion and why it’s a valuable tool for learning. 
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Transforming Assignments in the Age of AI (A Thought Exercise)
Do AI-resistant assignments still exist? AI’s rapid evolution calls into question when we can use students’ work to accurately represent their learning. In this thought exercise, you’ll embark on a brainstorming expedition to harness the power of AI to develop more creative and motivating assignments.
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Embedding Career Guidance into Your Course
By having initial career conversations with students, who seek out your advice, you can empower them to take proactive steps in planning for their future. The practices in this quick study prepare you to have those initial career conversations and to broaden the careers students consider by sharing career opportunities in your area of expertise.
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Integrating Open Educational Resources (OER)
Learn how to effectively locate, evaluate, adopt, and adapt OER to ensure they are accurate, accessible, and well-aligned with your curriculum. By the end of this course, you will also be prepared to explain the use of OER to your students, helping them understand and benefit from these accessible, cost-effective resources.
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Preparing Students for Experiential Learning
Learn strategies for preparing students for experiential learning. By using the DIAL framework and promoting reflection, you will help students connect theory to practice to foster personal growth, career readiness, and the ability to tackle real-world challenges with confidence.
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Establishing a Culture of Constructive Conversations
Foster a classroom environment where respectful dialogue and diverse perspectives flourish. Learn practical strategies to facilitate engaging discussions, teach active listening, and create a comfortable space for students to express themselves.
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Developing Students’ Media Literacy
Equip your students with the skills to navigate today's media-saturated world. This Quick Study provides the tools to help students critically analyze media messages, evaluate sources, and become discerning consumers of information.
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Developing Students’ Critical Thinking and Analytical Skills
Empower your students to become analytical thinkers who question assumptions, evaluate evidence, and solve problems. This course provides the tools you need to develop these essential skills in your students to prepare them for future success.
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Empowering Students to Use AI Responsibly
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Teaching with AI-Inclusive and AI-Resistant Learning Experiences
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Leveraging AI to Develop Course Resources
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Writing Effective AI Prompts
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