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Fanning the Enthusiasm Flames: How to Avoid End-of-Term Burnout for Educational Developers/Instructional Designers

by Jenae Cohn | Nov 28, 2018 | Pedagogy, Professionalization

It’s Week 9 (of 10) on the quarter system here at Stanford, which means that final projects are well underway for students and the instructors are anticipating the onslaught of final grading. There’s always a palpable nervous energy in the hallways during...

Why Educational Developers Need to Think Proactively, Not Reactively: What I Learned From a Server Outage

by Jenae Cohn | Nov 15, 2018 | Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization, Writing

For two hours on Tuesday morning, the e-mail server on-campus was down. I start my day as I suspect a lot of you do: check my e-mail inbox, respond to urgent messages, and use those very messages – their requests, their latest up-to-date information – to inform the...

Why Do Digital Portfolios Still Matter in Higher Education?

by Jenae Cohn | Aug 27, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Pedagogy, Professionalization

For many years, I supported students in writing and editing their college application essays. I worked primarily with students transitioning immediately from high school to college, and when they would write about developing their “personal brand,” I often...
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