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July 23, 2025
Join us for a conversation with Merced College leaders and faculty, exploring how Merced’s groundbreaking partnership with Dreamscape Learn uses cinematic virtual reality experiences to bring students into the classroom, keep them engaged, and drive more equitable outcomes.
Why should you attend?
See why immersive learning aligns with Merced’s student success strategy and the measurable gains so far.
Hear why President Chris Vitelli calls Dreamscape Learn his “lazy river,” the experience that draws students to campus and keeps them coming back.
Listen to faculty stories...
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Reimagining the traditional face-to-face, lecture-based instructional model is at the heart of academic transformation in higher education, and faculty development is central to this change. Getting faculty to want to modify how they teach will enable grassroots experimentations to gain traction and inspire systemic change. Yet this process first requires faculty developers to recognize and support the affective dimension of teaching and learning and, in turn, experiment with more human-centered approaches. Expect it to be messy.
Recognizing Faculty Culture
Creativity and risk-taking in the...
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With the passing of our dear friend K. Patricia Cross, we reflect upon her ongoing support of community colleges and students. Pat’s dedication to higher education teaching and learning helped to shape the field, with an emphasis on the enhancement and expansion of student learning to improve academic success. According to the K. Patricia Cross Academy, “she has gifted higher education an incredible legacy that has both inspired and enabled thousands of educators to improve both the theory and craft behind their teaching, impacting an entire generation of students in the process,” and we...
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October 15, 2025
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A persistent challenge for employers is identifying job candidates with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities for available jobs. Simultaneously, postsecondary education institutions are under increasing pressure to ensure that their graduates possess the skills valued by employers and have positive job outcomes. One strategy to achieve the goal of better aligning college programs with the skills in demand by employers is to integrate industry certifications into academic degree programs. Industry certifications can be...
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March 28, 2024
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Join Packback, the League for Innovation in the Community College, and Ellis Reeves, Director of Online Learning and Support at University of South Carolina Aiken, for a discussion on the latest AI developments and how they can be effectively integrated into higher education and K-12 classrooms.
Reeves, a resident expert in the field of AI, has given several presentations about using generative AI in the course development process and has conducted studies on how AI can refresh and enrich the learning process for students and faculty...
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June 16, 2021
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In fall 2019 and spring 2020, 10 institutions participated in a research study comparing student outcomes on Packback discussion to outcomes found with traditional Learning Management System discussion. In April 2020, Packback released the findings of that study in Impact of Online Discussion Platform and Pedagogy on Student Outcomes. Among the findings from the study, institutions reported increased levels of student engagement, vastly improved discussion rigor, improved final grade outcomes, and high rates of student and faculty...
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