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Karen Costa is a career higher educator with a passion for discovering her own purpose and path, and a desire to help others do the same. She has been teaching college and life success skills to first-year college students for over a decade, helping them to create the lives of their dreams.

Karen’s first book, 99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos (Stylus, February 2020), focuses on helping faculty and teachers to make creative use of videos in their classrooms.

Karen is a staff writer for Women in Higher Education. Her writing has also appeared in Inside Higher Education, The Philadelphia Inquirer, On Being, and Faculty Focus. She is involved in various faculty development initiatives including as a facilitator for ...more

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	99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos: A Guide for Online Teachers and Flipped Classes 4.40 avg rating — 65 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change (Jossey-Bass Education)

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Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

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