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News and Updates

STARLINK wishes you all the joys of the season and happiness throughout the coming year. We are ending the year with with power-packed professional development! Enjoy:

Magna 20 Minute Mentor

  • How Can I Encourage the Growth Mindset with Three Simple Tips?
  • How Can I Keep Students Engaged with Instructor Presence?
  • How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?

Trends & Issues

  • Episode 107: Hardware & Software Updates, Digital Citizenship, Professional Development, and Research Reports
  • Episode 117: Hardware & Software, Online Teaching, Research Reports, and Artificial Intelligence

We look forward to seeing you online!

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
 
 
 

Crossing the Finish Line: Vetting Tools that Support Student Success

Student Success Report/EdSurge

Spurred by a shift to performance-based funding and a dwindling pool of high school graduates, colleges are energetically seeking strategies that see students thrive and graduate on time. Changes in demographics and funding have educators increasingly focused on ways to prepare, integrate and support students arriving on their campuses, with an eye to helping them stay on track to graduate with the degrees, skills and strategies that they need to face the future.

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Employers Want Liberal Arts Grads

By: Emma Whitford/Inside Higher Ed

A report being released today says higher education is not keeping pace with the ever-changing job market. The report examines the "translation chasm" between the skills graduates of liberal arts programs have and the skills employers say they're looking for in an applicant. Turns out, they're not all that different, but "liberal arts graduates are too often left to stumble upon the valuable mixture of layered skills" required for any specific career, according to the report.

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20-in-1 Free PDF Tool for Teachers

By: Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The PDF format is one of the most used file formats for teachers and students, it has full compatibility for all operating systems and devices, great retention for the original formatting style and lots of other great features. We can easily view a PDF file with a free PDF reader, but if you need to do something else to a PDF file, it becomes a headache if you don't have a good PDF tool.

If you don't want to pay for the expensive PDF editing or converter software, any other solutions? Yes, CleverPDF.com can help, you can get many PDF tasks done online, it's completely free, you don't even need to sign up.

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