“Building” a Paper: A Model for the Reluctant Writer
Writing is the currency of higher education (Mazak, 2024) and is often a heavily weighted factor in the tenure process. And yet, the task of writing for publication is often not…
Building an Online Community of Collaborators: Fostering SEL in Virtual Learning Environments
In the era of digital education, faculty teaching online courses may find it difficult to establish meaningful connections with their students. As a faculty member who teaches primarily in-person undergraduate students, I spend…
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Strategies for Supporting Graduate and Professional Students’ Teaching Readiness
Graduate and professional students who aspire to academic careers often tell mentors that they are eager to teach but unsure how to gain experience or show it on a CV or dossier.…
What Are Future-Ready Skills?: Preparing Students for Lifelong Success
Future-ready skills refer to personal, social, and cognitive abilities that enable students to interact effectively with others and navigate real-world situations. Unlike academic or technical knowledge, these skills focus on…
Preparation, Planning, Procedures, and Practices: The Four Ps of Online Teaching
Most people have their own idea about what distance education is. Usually, people understand it to be a way of teaching that is characterized by using technology and the separation of the…
Should We Integrate AI into Our Teaching?: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Deciding When AI Belongs
Colleges and universities across the country are moving quickly to embrace artificial intelligence. According to an analysis of sixty-five R1 institutions, 63 percent of them actively encourage the use of generative AI,…
Where to Go From “I Don’t Know”: Building Trust Through Authenticity
Saying “I don’t know” feels like a flaw. It’s one of the smartest moves a person can make. In education, there is an unwritten expectation that to be in the profession is…
From Restriction to Integration: Practical Strategies for Embracing AI in Online Courses
A 2025 survey by the Higher Education Policy Institute found that 92% of university students now use AI tools in their studies, up from 66% the previous year (Freeman 2025). For online educators, the…
Fueling a Love of Learning Through Discovery
Let’s consider how much time you dedicate to information gathering each day. We scroll through items we consider necessary or important – the perception of “not knowing” is a powerful motivator. It sparks…
What’s With That Resume?: Strategies for More Effective Student Resumes
Have you recently been asked to review a resume? Do you coach learners on resume writing? When did you last update your own resume? The word "résumé" originates from the French word résumer, meaning "to summarize" (Burdick, 2023). It is a single document that could be the…