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A new advisory out this week from the US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has deemed loneliness a public health challenge that needs immediate attention. And some of those most severely affected are young people.But it's not just loneliness. Across the country, kids are struggling with challenges to their mental health - from social isolation to poor grades at school. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks to Lisa Damour, a psychologist, and author of the book "The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents", about what's going on with kids and how they can be helped.In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment to help you make sense of what's going on in your community.Email us at [email protected].

Instructors can implement small and significant changes to their online courses that can help build community, connection, and relationships.

Nurture your team to high performance with Tuckman’s Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning (Mourning) model.

Break up your lecture with one of these activities to help students prepare for group work.

As “digitally evolved knowledge workers,” our students engage differently than the generations before them; as educators, we need to adapt, Jenny Darroch writes.

Cate Denial shares about her book A Pedagogy of Kindness on episode 467 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

I challenge my students to think critically about what we are learning and to reflect on the connection between the content and their values and goals.

I sometimes tell a story about my first solo book, Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology, involving a crisis that hit about 2/3 of the way through writing it. I forget what topic I’d o…

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Instructors can create interactive videos that transform passive viewing into active learning experiences, resulting in improved student performance.

Sarah Rose Cavanagh shares about her book Mind Over Monsters on episode 465 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

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QR codes can complement the design of more interactive and engaging learning experiences in higher education.

Designing a strategy to group students reduces much of the stress in class students face when asked to “pair up” or “form a group.”

In today’s episode, we discuss how to engage students in face-to-face and online courses before during and after synchronous class times, the use of various reflection strategies, and how to model …

A new survey found that many people avoid college due to stress. A course design expert says it doesn’t have to be that way.

With insights into the four beliefs, your instructional practices can help students choose learning goals and academic behaviors that lead to their success

With the end of the semester within sight, we feature a small strategy that makes a big impact on student learning – based on decades of cognitive science research . In scientific lingo, we call it "free recall."

On today’s podcast, I talk with the authors of a new book that can help college teachers better understand their students as whole people, while also providing lots of advice for instructors who want to better support their students’ learning. Rob...

Teachers and students alike know that lectures can be boring. The following quip, widely attributed to Albert Camus, elegantly captures this sentiment; “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” Yet we – and students – have also experienced situations in which we sat mesmerized as we listened to an exceptionally captivating lecturer. While few of ... Read More

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