College STAR News
-
ECU German Professor Shares Flipped Learning Experience
Dr. Birgit Jensen, associate professor of German at ECU, recently shared her experiences with flipped learning during a podcast hosted by the Flipped Learning Network. Jensen has been teaching German at ECU for 17 years and started flipping her Beginning German courses in 2014.
-
Student Support Summit Inspires Future Collaboration
When dozens of committed professionals come together to share ideas the results can be amazing. And that’s exactly what happened at a recent gathering of colleges and educational groups who focus on providing services to post-secondary students with learning differences and the faculty and staff who support them.
-
Fayetteville State Eye-to-Eye Chapter Begins Second Year
The Bronco STAR program at Fayetteville State is now the fourth college in the UNC system to establish an Eye-to -Eye chapter through which college students with learning differences work with similar students in middle and high school. The Fayetteville State program is in its second year and has also become a registered student organization on campus.
-
Dr. Jennifer Williams joins College STAR program
Dr. Jennifer Williams has joined the program as the newly created UDL Faculty Fellow, taking a pause from her role as Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education, Foundations, and Research at ECU. She has also assumed the responsibilities of ECU College Star director Diane Majewski. Majewski has moved to a new role with the ECU Honors College.
-
TEAM-BASED LEARNING HELPS FACILITATE ENGAGEMENT
Team-based learning is the key that one Fayetteville State University professor is using to open up and involve her criminal justice students in ways that expand on the Universal Design for Learning principle of engagement.
-
Book Club brings As-U-R Students Together
Book clubs have had resurgence ever since Oprah launched one 20 years ago, and the As-U-R program at Appalachian State has adopted the format for one of its seminars with great success.
-
Book Club Helps Faculty “Switch” Their Perspective
A virtual book club at Appalachian State served as a great jumping off point for faculty members interested in redesigning their classes to make them more accessible to students, particularly those with learning differences.
-
Submit A College STAR Case Study
College STAR is currently seeking dynamic proposal submissions from professors and instructors from across the nation. The proposal should br centered around effective teaching practices and would result in the creation of online case studies if they are approved. College STAR case studies are organized around the three principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
-
Andrea Neal pens guest column for Education Week blog
Andrea Neal, executive director of special programs at Fayetteville State, recently wrote a guest column for Education Week’s Finding Common Ground blog. She shared information about Bronco STAR and the support it offers students with learning differences at Fayetteville State.
-
8 is Great—And Works!
Time management is a struggle for everyone but but it can be especially challenging for students with learning differences who are adapting to a new, unstructured life in college.