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Topics

• Asynchronous Learning and Trends
  • Three Ways to Increase the Quality of Students' Discussion Board Comments
  • 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
• 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
  • Going Beyond Office Hours to Improve Student Learning
  • Teaching with Technology: A More Meaningful Learning Experience Starts with Two Simple Questions
  • Meta-Collaboration: Writing with Students to Engage Learning
  • Five Questions that Improve Student Writing
  • Six Tips for Effective Writing Groups
• 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
  • Learning Spaces that Facilitate Student Learning
  • 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
• 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
  • Electronic Faculty Portfolios Can Streamline Personnel Matters
  • 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
• 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
  • Does Teaching Online Really Take More Time?
  • Best Practices for Keeping Online Adjuncts Engaged
  • Academic Integrity in Distance Learning
  • A Checklist for Facilitating Online Courses
  • For a Successful Online Teaching and Learning Experience: Communicate
• Online Education
  • Eight Ways to Increase Social Presence in Your Online Classes
  • 10 Ways to Re-energize Your Classes and Yourself
  • Sloan-C Survey Provides Snapshot of Online Learning
  • A Checklist for Facilitating Online Courses
  • Instructor or Professor, It's Not Your Title but What You Do That's Important
• Philosophy of Teaching
  • Letting Go of the Reins
  • 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
• 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
  • Do Faculty Give up on Students?
  • Guiding Student Reflection
  • A Classroom Icebreaker with a Lesson that Lasts
  • Reconsidering Grading Students on Class Participation
  • Help Your Students Become More Mindful Editors
• Trends in Higher Education
  • Recognizing and Managing Student Aggression
  • Sloan-C Survey Provides Snapshot of Online Learning
  • Political Bias in the Classroom: Rethinking the Way You Teach
  • Political Bias in the Classroom: Perception and Reality
  • 2010 Horizon Report Identifies Six Technologies to Watch
• Teaching Careers
  • The Teacher as General Practitioner
  • 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
• 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
  • A 10-Point Survival Guide to Being, and Staying, an Academic Leader – Part 2
  • A 10-Point Survival Guide to Being, and Staying, an Academic Leader
  • Creating a Center for Professional Development and Leadership
  • Making the Shift from Rhetoric to Performance
  • Stress Management Strategies for Academic Leaders and Faculty