Affordability initiatives in higher education can help to create a more supportive learning environment, reducing financial stressors that affect many students. In turn, this helps to enhance student engagement, improve satisfaction, and foster academic success.

As an educator, you play a crucial role in helping to address these challenges. Let's explore how affordability affects outcomes and learn about strategies to help all students succeed.

I was recently fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to update Chapter 6 in The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View. This is the chapter on Learning. I have always loved teaching this topic to my introduction to psychology students, so I was thrilled to get to be involved with the updating of the content of this chapter knowing that it would be used by others to teach this critical concept in Psychology. I went to graduate school in the early 1980s, and in my program Behaviorism wielded quite a dominant voice in our courses and training.

As the digital world changes quickly, so does the definition of digital literacy. Students and instructors alike are continually learning how best to access, manipulate, understand and produce information so they can solve problems and thrive in our digital-first world.