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If Students Have Something to Say, Let Them Talk : A Yellowdig Story

Dr. Scott StandiferrSouthern California University of Health Sciences   Challenge: Traditional discussion boards feel structured and predictable. Students complete prompts, but rarely explore ideas beyond them. The human moment “This is how I kind of envision a discussion board, as a sort of stair step of knowledge. At the end of the course, we end […]
When Students Turn to Each Other First : A Yellowdig Story

Dr. Kevin Carr University of Michigan   Challenge: Students defaulted to instructor answers or external tools instead of learning through each other. The human moment “They can ask their peers, and they get a much better and more interesting response, and they’re more part of a community through that.” — Kevin Carr Dr. Carr teaches […]
Announcing Yellowdig's Guaranteed Retention Outcome

Higher education is facing a structural challenge.   Enrollment pressure is real.   Student acquisition costs are rising.   And too many capable students quietly disengage before we see it coming.   The data is clear: academic performance alone does not predict persistence. Connection does.   Belonging is no longer a “student life” concept. It […]
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Product Updates
What's New in Yellowdig Engage This Fall?

As the semester starts to kick off, that means it’s time to dust off the cobwebs and get back into your Yellowdig Communities! If this is your first time back since the spring or even the fall of last year, you will definitely notice a few changes. Below we highlight some of the most notable […]
News
How Education 3.0 Rethinks the Learning Experience

Everyone at the university level felt the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic — from faculty burnout, enrollment dropping, and the sudden chaos of figuring out how to scale online programs to an entire student body with little warning. As students return to in-person classes, the holes in learning models revealed by the pandemic are now […]
News
Education 3.0: Connecting the Learning Experience

In August 2020, I wrote the blog “Is BigTech About to Take Over Higher Education?”. At that time we were in the beginning phases of the COVID pandemic, and the importance of technology in education was becoming more evident as the entire world had moved from in-person to online learning. Since then we have been […]
Instructor Stories
3 Strategies for Instructors to Reduce Grading Time

The education environment constantly changes as learners develop and as we usher in new generations of learners. But with so much constant change, grading remained a stagnant variable in its nature. Despite much rethinking, trials, and tribulations with the grading system, why has it remained unchanged? Traditional grading is easy, convenient, and the norm, so […]
A Student Perspective
Why Most Students Prefer Holistic Learning: Perspectives from Today's Learners

What is Holistic Learning? An unfortunate fault in some modern pedagogy is the disregard for the wants and needs of today’s learners. A proper learning environment should center around both learner and instructor, with both parties working in tandem to create a harmonious experience. One solution is a holistic learning approach, or a “comprehensive approach […]
Yellowdig
6 Ways to Use Online Learning Communities to Improve the Academic Experience

Interactions between students and instructors are an important part of any class. Yellowdig allows for flexible student engagement while growing a community with improved learning outcomes. Traditional discussion boards and other constrained social assignments don’t have the same level of expression, creativity, or active conversation. We have been listening to the feedback from our Instructors […]
Instructor Stories
How to Reduce Professor Burnout with Modern Student Engagement

Our teachers are the backbone of society. Teaching, planning, and making an impact on students are no small feats. However, at times, we take for granted the hard work, time, and energy put in to keep academia going. One large issue hitting professors like never before is faculty burnout.But don’t fret too much– we have […]
Product Updates
April Product Update

Coming Soon to Yellowdig’s Engage Platform You suggested, and we listened! Our Dev team has been working hard to update the Yellowdig Engage platform with great new features to improve the platform for instructors and learners alike. A new and improved post editor experience is coming soon that will allow you to do more when […]
Student Success
Feeling Stuck? Here are the Top 5 Ways to Accelerate Course Completion Rates

When designing courses, it is hard not to think about course completion rates. For some time now, course completion rates have been staggeringly low, especially in online courses. Notoriously, Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, stand at a 5%-15% rate of completion. BUT, don’t let that number discourage you, because we have 5 tips on […]
Webinar
Resiliency in Academia: Lessons Learned from COVID-19

With such decreased physical distance between learner and faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic, the typical world of academia was flipped upside-down. Without choice, faculty had to adjust to their new concerns within their profession while balancing the heavy toll of what is COVID-19. This is no small feat. But in this time, faculty rose to […]
STEM
Online Learning vs. Traditional Learning: Is Online College Cheaper

Making the decision to enroll at a university can be a daunting task because of the financial burden that higher education places on its students. Students are expected to take out large loans to finance their education right out of high school because a traditional college education costs more than most Americans can afford. In […]
Student Success
How Virtual Learning Make Education More Flexible For Students

Because of COVID-19, some areas of life have seen innovation in order to keep people safe. Services like grocery delivery, contactless payment, and online teleconferencing applications aren’t new, but they have been massively improved upon in recent years due to the pandemic. In the same vein, online learning has exploded in the higher education scene […]
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Case Study
Using Remote Learning to Create Learner-Centered Classroom

Interview with A. McKinzie Sutter The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Department of Agronomy and Horticulture Distance Education Specialist One word of advice from McKinzie to fellow Yellowdig instructors:   Make Yellowdig a learner-centered classroom. Let the students learn from each other and discuss topics from the course that they’re interested in. The teacher serves as the […]
Case Study
Dr. Lawrence Duke & Dr. Jesse Ballenger

Online Classroom Format That Leads to Student Success and Satisfaction Case Study with Professor Lawrence Duke Drexel University LeBow College of Business Marketing Department Clinical Professor & Faculty Advisor for the MS Marketing program What follows is an excerpt of Professor Duke’s full case study Professor Duke on how often he reads his Yellowdig feed: […]
Case Study, Webinar
Increasing engagement & retention

Case Study with one of the Nation’s Largest Online Degree Providers How Yellowdig powered a leading national online university to increase learner engagement and retention in just one semester Program outcomes show secondary potential benefits including less instructor admin time spent, lower enrollment costs. ​ Challenge: How does one of the top online degree providers […]
Case Study
Study across 4 Marketing Classes

Higher Student Engagement on Yellowdig Leads to Better Grades Fort Hays State University Deems Social Learning Platform, Yellowdig, a ‘Powerful’ Addition to Marketing Courses Comprehensive Research Study Dr. Andrew Feldstein, Dr. Mary C. Martin, and Dr. Michael J. Martin of Fort Hays State University participated in a pilot program where Yellowdig, a social learning platform, was […]
Case Study
New Explorations in Teaching with Technology

How to Keep Student Engagement High on an Infrequent Class Schedule 2018 NEXT Conference: New Explorations in Teaching with Technology Transcribed from a presentation by Claudia J. Coleman, PhDin February 2018, at the NEXT Conference “So, why are segues and icebreakers important? Well, they may not be unless you care about building stronger relationships with […]
Case Study
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Interview with Professor Nicholas Duran Arizona State University School of Social and Behavioral Sciences Assistant Professor Listen to the podcast One piece of advice from Professor Duran to fellow Yellowdig instructors: “In large online courses, I really emphasize Yellowdig participation as it’s the only way students can really get to know and interact with each […]
Case Study, Webinar
Gamified approach drives meaningful learner satisfaction

Yellowdig Participation Grades are Important for Student Success Marketing Management and New Media Marketing students posted, commented with purpose to earn participation grade ​ CHALLENGE : How do we boost student engagement?   Drexel University Lebow College of Business marketing Professor Lawrence Duke was noticing a trend: student engagement with the message boards set up […]
Case Study, E-book
Community-building for learners and educators

Community Building With Yellowdig for Learners and Educators Interview with Dr. Nina Wieda, PhD Northwestern University MA, Nationalism Studies, Central European University, Budapest Professor at Northwestern University, Chicago Field Studies Program About Dr. Nina Wieda  “I teach in Chicago field studies program, which is an academic internship program. It’s a unique interdisciplinary program.  Our students do […]
Student Success
What We Can Do About Community College Enrollment Declines

Quick facts: 11.8% drop in enrollment for public-two year institutions during the pandemic 53% of students are not ready for undergraduate studies after high school 70% of California students fail to graduate or transfer to a four-year college Community colleges have been facing enrollment problems since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic which has only […]
Student Success, Yellowdig
Yellowdig Community Interaction Strategies

Make sure Yellowdig is not a side-show First and foremost, Yellowdig is designed to be an organic and connected learning community which is used as part of a course in tandem with synchronous sessions (if any) and the LMS. It is not meant to be an isolated part of a course and learners should not […]
Case Study, E-book
A genuine Community for Learners and Educators

Yellowdig Offers Genuine Community for Learners and Educators Interview with Ben Leffel University of California, Irvine Instructor, UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology Listen to the podcast One piece of advice from Professor Leffel to fellow Yellowdig instructors:   It is possible to make the online course as interactive […]
Product Updates
What's New in Yellowdig Engage This Fall?

As the semester starts to kick off, that means it’s time to dust off the cobwebs and get back into your Yellowdig Communities! If this is your first time back since the spring or even the fall of last year, you will definitely notice a few changes. Below we highlight some of the most notable […]

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