November 30, 2012 Shonu Nangia PhD
In the October 3rd issue of Faculty Focus, Maryellen Weimer underscores the idea that faculty need to take care of their instructional health and recognize the importance of emotional…
November 29, 2012 Melissa A. Venable PhD
The presence of Teaching Assistants (TAs) in a college course benefits both instructor and students. An assistant's responsibilities typically include grading, troubleshooting, and fielding student questions, and their role…
November 28, 2012 Company News
Academic Partnerships, which offers comprehensive support to universities in the development and marketing of their superior online courses and degree programs, today announces a strategic partnership with Instructure, the…
November 27, 2012 Greg Cooper
I was inspired by Maryellen Weimer’s article on “Teaching Metacognition to Improve Student Learning” and the accompanying article by Kimberly Tanner on “Promoting Student Metacognition.” Tanner reflected on a…
In Effective Teaching Strategies
November 26, 2012 Deborah Miller Fox
One of the ongoing challenges for my composition students is the task of narrowing a broad, generalized topic into a more particular, focused topic for a short research essay.…
Cloud users have a variety of options for accessing content as well as the option of using any number of apps to create content, e.g. documents, spreadsheets, and presentations…
November 15, 2012 Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti
Have you ever worried about the level of participation in your online courses? Perhaps you have difficulty encouraging students to interact with one another, or maybe you find student…
In Effective Teaching Strategies
November 13, 2012 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
Most college students struggle with the vocabulary of our disciplines. In their various electronic exchanges, they do not use a lot of multisyllabic, difficult-to-pronounce words. And virtually all college…
November 12, 2012 Cheryl Irish EdD and Monica Scrubb EdD
Today’s classrooms require that instructors possess competencies for teaching all students. Robust instructional strategies and culturally sensitive curricula are critical, but more important is an instructor who is sensitive…
Experiential learning is widely recognized as a high-impact educational practice that occurs outside the classroom through experiences such as internships, study abroad, and service-learning. However, experiential learning works very…
