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Early College programs – including Dual Credit and Advanced Placement (AP) courses – have become a major component of the high school and college experience, and these course types are fundamentally changing how students experience college. Dual Credit is when a high school student takes a college course (either at the high school or at…

Many Learning Management Systems (LMS) for online courses – such as Canvas, D2L Brightspace, Blackboard, and Moodle – have “Availability Dates” and “Due Dates” for assignments, quizzes, and discussions. These dates can control when students are able to submit assignments and whether they are able to earn full credit. This post will describe the difference…

Developmental Education is coursework students complete “below” the college level. These are often courses that don’t count towards a college degree. Traditionally, students may be required to take two to four developmental courses – especially in English, Reading, or Math – before beginning their college-level courses in English Composition or College Algebra. In recent years,…

Some reflections after two years. In seventh or eighth grade, I hand-wrote “Dear Reader” articles during study hall. These page-long articles were modeled on newspaper op-eds like the “Dear Abbey” column. I never published these anywhere, and I don’t think I ever showed them to anyone, but I was interested in writing, and I believed…

Hello.  Welcome to the “Reflections on Higher Education” blog – a site that provides information about assessment, academic technology, faculty development, academic scholarship, student success, and other topics in higher education. My name is Lirim Neziroski.  I am an academic administrator at a liberal arts university outside of Chicago, and I spend my days working…