New Mexico State University (NMSU) highlighted the Every Learner Everywhere program, which encompasses a variety of tools, curricular models, and design strategies to enhance learning experiences and promote equitable outcomes for minority students and those from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Every Learner Everywhere supports institutions in developing personalized engagement approaches for improved learning according to a press release by NMSU.
Gabriela Morales and Dae Romero, communication studies educators, instruct the Introduction to Communication course, catering to 200 students in consecutive sessions weekly during the fall and spring semesters. With the support of a grant from Every Learner Everywhere, they are now able to introduce innovative enhancements and implementations. They were able to conduct a student survey and enhance their learning experience, said NMSU in a press release.
“It's not your traditional way of providing a lecture,” said Morales as per an NMSU press release. “We're so used to doing things a specific way, we’re focused on getting all the material that we need out to our students that we often don’t realize that these strategies are no longer working. We get new students every semester with different ideologies, knowledge, backgrounds; I think it's our responsibility as faculty to keep up with that and modify our pedagogy. We need to change how we provide information.”
"This course would focus on the students and the critical reflection of their own communication experiences,” said Romero according to an NMSU press release. “If we can help them reflect on their experiences' construction through communication, we can help them understand why they communicate the way they do because of their identities.”