Bill’s question prompted me to acknowledge the role that interested professors and a forward-thinking administration can have in planning for greater student success, even if the methodologies are not mandated.  I also loved the practical examples provided in the Shaw article of professors working with UDI principles to make practices maximize learning for ALL the students.

In another vein, I fully intend to access some examples of readiness surveys and offer them to students when I teach an online or hybrid course after reading the article about DEARS.  This is a no-brainer, a “getting-to-know-you” activity that, at the very least, should help communicate interest in finding out where students are, and causing the students to be meta-cognitive about their own status.