Studies on faculty careers show that faculty research publication productivity plateaus or drops at midcareer. However, this one measure of faculty productivity should not be mistaken as stagnation, says Shari…
In order to have a productive learning environment, the instructor needs to develop and maintain a sense of trust between and among the students and the instructor through good course…
Instructors need to take steps to make the online classroom a comfortable and supportive learning environment regardless of students' online learning experience or learning style preferences-a particularly important consideration when…
The Buck Institute for Education's definition of project-based learning-"a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning knowledge and skills acquired through an extended inquiry process structured around complex, authentic…
If we had been asked if we were prepared to teach online before teaching our first online courses, the answer would have been a naïve "Yes." We had attended several…
Students' perceptions of what an online course will be like are often quite different from how it really is. That is why Jim McKeown, assistant professor of computer science at…
Creating a Web-based course from a current, successful on-ground course is difficult and, at best, can be considered a translation process. In the past, instructors have created Web-based courses by…
Online courses offer several advantages over face-to-face courses when it comes to teaching critical thinking (analysis, evaluation, and deduction), according to according to Linda Armstrong, science professor at Sullivan County…
I am committed to the liberal arts ideal that education should familiarize students with the intellectual, spiritual, artistic, and scientific traditions that women and men have turned to in order…
As part of a special section in a recent issue of Teaching Psychology, Bill McKeachie, author of the best-known book on college teaching, the venerable Teaching Tips, first published in…