September 25, 2020 Margot M. Craven, MFA, EdM
“One good conversation can shift the direction of change forever” – Linda Lambert Despite alterations to our teaching during spring of 2020, the one aspect that remained intact was…
September 23, 2020 Mike Massey
It’s what is considered dead week—the week before final exams. Most of my students are exhibiting familiar signs of stress, looking tired and overwhelmed, and retreating to their phones…
September 21, 2020 Jessica Evans
One of the perks of teaching online is that there are so many great tools that make facilitating an online course easier. For example, not having to manually grade…
September 18, 2020 Flower Darby
Online classes, by their very nature as distance learning experiences, present barriers to student engagement and learning. These barriers are a primary reason that we see low student engagement…
In Effective Teaching Strategies, Online Education
September 16, 2020 Darina M. Slattery, PhD
The primary focus of any instruction should be to focus on the learning outcomes or capabilities you are trying to achieve. Bloom (1956, 1964) identified three types of learning…
In Effective Classroom Management
September 14, 2020 T. Scott Bledsoe, PsyD, and Kimberly A. Setterlund, MSW, LCSW
When I think about diversity here in college, I can hear myself saying “What if? What if I could go back and talk to my undergrad professors and my…
In Effective Classroom Management
September 11, 2020 Amy B. Mulnix, PhD
You’re committed to equity and inclusion. You’ve been educating yourself about how higher ed systemically and systematically privileges some and disadvantages others, while working to create a just and…
Instructors often experience problems between the directions given for an assignment and the work submitted by a student. Students miss important parts of questions; they may fail to understand…
In Effective Classroom Management
September 7, 2020 Carmen Noel Eichman-Dorr
I teach research-based Composition II courses every semester. My students learn information literacy, look up academic, peer-reviewed journals, create and correctly structure works cited pages, annotate bibliographies, learn rhetorical…
September 4, 2020 Neria Sebastien, EdD
When hundreds of spring and summer undergraduate courses were abruptly moved from onsite to online delivery in the wake of COVID-19, several faculty and students nationwide reacted with panic…
