Would They Play? Would They Learn?
What began as a routine summer workshop on incorporating games and game-like elements into instruction, turned into a surprise for summer; two weeks of fun and intense online game-play from…
12 Tips for Improving Your Faculty Development Plan
Countless workshops, seminars, retreats, and other faculty development courses are offered under the assumption that they can positively affect how faculty teach, which in turn will help students learn.
The Focus is You: Kathleen Koenig
Although Kathleen Koenig was terrified of public speaking as a student, she now teaches lecture classes with 135+ students. As an associate professor in the Physics Department at the University…
10 Practical Approaches to Teaching
Students from different walks of life converge in a classroom for learning. They have different capabilities and personalities, adding to the diversity that comes with learning institutions. As such, if…
Easy to Implement Strategies for Disabilities in the College Classroom
The teaching process not only involves content knowledge, but also an understanding of teaching and learning principles with insights about different learning needs (note: not the same thing as “learning…
Calling All Online Instructors: There’s a Secret Bonus Level!
Don't I Know You from Somewhere? This whole thing started when I played two video games, one after the other, that I imagine almost no one plays in sequence. My…