Asynchronous Learning and Trends

Topics

• Asynchronous Learning and Trends
  • How Wikis Streamline Student Collaboration Projects
  • Should You Let Students Lead Discussion Boards?
  • Synching up with Your Asynchronous Learners
  • Questioning Styles for More Effective Discussion Boards
  • Understanding the Instructor’s Role in Facilitating Online Discussions
• Educational Assessment
  • Extra Credit Assignments: An Innovative Approach
  • Are Your Students Career-Ready? Create a Rubric to Find out
  • Making Peer Assessment Work for You
  • Improving Your Assessment Processes: Q&A with Linda Suskie
  • A New Approach to Grading Student Essays
• Effective Classroom Management
  • Conditions Associated with Classroom Conflict
  • Making the Most of the First Day of Class
  • A Novel Approach to Encouraging Class Participation
  • Promoting a Culture of Academic Integrity
  • Tips to Reduce Cheating in the College Classroom
• Effective Teaching Strategies
  • Meta-Collaboration: Writing with Students to Engage Learning
  • Five Questions that Improve Student Writing
  • Six Tips for Effective Writing Groups
  • Five Tips for Wrapping Up a Course
  • Can Clickers Enhance Student Learning?
• Curriculum Development
  • General Education Programs Incorporate More Engaged, Integrative Learning Practices
  • Incorporating Diversity-related Materials into the Curriculum
  • Why Do Students Take Your Course?
  • Information Literacy: Improving Student Research Skills in a Wikipedia World
  • Four Tips for Acing Your Accreditation Site Visit
• Instructional Design
  • Enhance Learning Opportunities with Just-in-Time Instructional Support
  • Using Screen Capture Software to Help Reclaim Class Time
  • Seven Signs that You've Built a Community of Learning
  • A New Look at Student Attention Spans
  • Using Shared Online Video to Anchor Instruction: YouTube and Beyond
• Faculty Development
  • Tips for Building a Personal Learning Network on Campus and Online
  • Understanding What’s Needed for Online Teaching Success
  • Eight Ways to Support Faculty Needs with a Virtual Teaching & Learning Center
  • Promoting Teaching Excellence: What Departments Can Do
  • Characteristics of Departments that Value Teaching Excellence
• Faculty Evaluation
  • Course and Instructor Evaluations: Misconceptions and Realities
  • Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure: Understanding and Avoiding the Pitfalls
  • Two Ways to Make Student Feedback More Valuable
  • Creating a Faculty Investment and Reward Model
  • Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Contracts: One School’s Approach
• Learning Styles
  • Problem-solving Exercises that Promote Intellectual Development
  • Do Learning Styles Matter?
  • Should Senior Faculty Teach More Introductory Courses? Boomers and Millennials Have More in Common Than You Might Think
  • Objections to Active Learning
  • Understanding Learning Styles Research and Instruments
• Distance Learning
  • A Checklist for Facilitating Online Courses
  • For a Successful Online Teaching and Learning Experience: Communicate
  • How One Online Program Won the Sloan-C Award
  • Keep Your Classes on Track During the Holidays
  • Rethinking the Distance Education Business Model
• Online Education
  • A Checklist for Facilitating Online Courses
  • Instructor or Professor, It's Not Your Title but What You Do That's Important
  • Best Practices in Online Teaching: Don’t Assume
  • Seven Tips for Creating a Positive Online Learning Experience
  • Seven Easy Ways to Personalize Your Online Course
• Philosophy of Teaching
  • What to Look for in Teaching Philosophy Statements
  • Helping Students Fill Gaps in Basic Knowledge
  • Reflecting on Your Teaching Practices
  • A Teaching Philosophy Built on Knowledge, Critical Thinking and Curiosity
  • Finding the ‘Sweet Spot’ of Teaching and Learning
• Learning Communities
  • Learning Communities: Key Elements for Sustainability
  • Helping Your Learning Community Reach Its Goals
  • Creating Faculty Collegiality: Strategies for Department Chairs
  • Learning Communities Link Courses, Bring Academic and Student Affairs Together
  • Encouraging, Supporting Learning Communities
• Teaching and Learning
  • Researchers Recommend Providing Students with Partial Notes
  • Helping Students Understand Intended Learning Outcomes
  • Encouraging Student Participation in Large Classes
  • Different Sources of Power that Affect the Teacher-Student Relationship
  • Why It Can Be Hard to Get to Know Your Students
• Trends in Higher Education
  • Political Bias in the Classroom: Perception and Reality
  • 2010 Horizon Report Identifies Six Technologies to Watch
  • Do College Students Spend Too Much Time on Facebook, YouTube and Other Social Networking Sites?
  • Academic Integrity: Creating Institutional Policies to Curb Student Cheating
  • Report Outlines Practices That Have Strengthened STEM Offerings at Minority-Serving Institutions
• Teaching Careers
  • Moving Past the Old 'Teaching vs. Research' Debate
  • Are Senior Faculty Members Still Effective Teachers?
  • Tenure-track Positions Continue to Feel the Pinch
  • Faculty Evaluations: Those Hurtful Student Comments
  • Retaining Faculty of Color
• Community College
  • Community Colleges Re-tooling to Serve Influx of Adult Learners
  • Fundraising Strategies for Community Colleges
  • Campus Safety Strategies for Community Colleges
  • Community Colleges Becoming a Gateway to Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) for Underrepresented Populations
  • Twelve Recommendations for the Community College
• Academic Leadership
  • Creating a Center for Professional Development and Leadership
  • Making the Shift from Rhetoric to Performance
  • Stress Management Strategies for Academic Leaders and Faculty
  • How to Survive the Next Fad in Academic Leadership
  • Laying a Foundation for Success for New Academic Leaders