Remove First generation Remove Online learning Remove Students
article thumbnail

Oregon Tech Doubles Down on Student Coaching to Serve Diverse Rural Learners

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Oregon Institute of Technology is betting big on one-on-one student coaching as a strategy to better serve its diverse population of career-focused learners, many of whom juggle work, family, and financial responsibilities while pursuing their education. We need to actively walk alongside students as they navigate their journey."

Students 181
article thumbnail

Digital Learning May Help Improve Outcomes Among the Under-Resourced Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Every Learner Everywhere Every Learner Everywhere is a network of organizations with expertise in evaluating, implementing, scaling, and measuring the efficacy of education technologies, curriculum and course design strategies, teaching practices, and support services in blended and online learning environments.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Chatbots and AI in Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

It's learning because human beings are giving it more information and context to do a better job of responding. So the image of an out-of-control AI that's going to start talking to the students in a way you don't understand, that's not really the present of this type of tool. It may not.

article thumbnail

Learning and Teaching from Adversity: Meet TRIO Star Kontessa Siliski

Castleton Trio

I’m first-generation, so no one in my family knew where to start,” she explains. As a sophomore, she started a chapter of the Student Education Association; since then, she has served as its president. She also found a part-time job mentoring students with disabilities through the College Steps program.

article thumbnail

Close the Gap Foundation Receives First-of-its-Kind Laptop Donation from Airbnb

Close the Gap Foundation

Sunnyvale, CALIFORNIA — Today, Close the Gap Foundation announces its first donation from Airbnb, adding to the foundation's family of corporate sponsors committed to help close the digital divide for first-generation, low-income ( FGLI ) students in the United States.