Mental health support for invisible students: online learners

The number of students entering college with, or experiencing, mental health issues during college is increasing. Research shows that graduate students (the population I primarily support) experience more mental health issues than the general population (Flaherty, 2018). Okanana (2018) found that 63% of Deans agreed that graduate students struggle with…

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There is hope….

The more I learn about the American education system, the more I worry about the future. The system is riddled with inequity and a solution is virtually unimaginable. The disparities we see across ethnic and social group’s rates of application and enrollment in college and subsequent graduation originate before children…

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VoiceThread Wordle

  I recently co-presented a session for the Educause Learning Institute’s workshop series, How to Humanize Your Online Course. In our presentation (provided below), VoiceThread for Universal Design: Addressing the Needs of Diverse Learners, we discussed ways that faculty can use VoiceThread for facilitating Universal Design, provided recommended guidelines for using VoiceThread,…

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