In response to the public health concerns of spring 2020, colleges and universities established remote teaching in rapid fashion and reestablished best practices–based, active education using discussion boards and other means to promote learner collaboration. They made state-of-the-art learning management systems (LMSs) available for institutional learners, and academia in general embraced a new use of web conferencing services for education.
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Creating an Academic Culture of Working to Live
I’m often asked how I succeed at managing work-life balance—or as I call it, “life-work balance”— and it stems from my childhood. My parents both worked as educators, and