According to Mather and Scheepers (2025), providing students with feedback is one of the most important aspects for teaching and learning. However, it is not uncommon for students to avoid engaging with feedback, even when instructors…
Asynchronous online courses tend to follow a clear weekly pattern. Students often describe this structure as helpful and organized, yet they also note that the rhythm can feel a little…
Many college instructors are encountering a familiar classroom dynamic: students arrive able to discuss the “main idea” of a reading, but struggle to point to specific passages, explain how an argument develops, or…
Each semester, students face significant challenges in their courses. Students either get discouraged, fall behind, or consider dropping the class (Trusty et al., 2025). Educators spend a considerable amount of time and creative energy encouraging these students to not…
As a linguistics professor who is currently teaching in the middle of the generative AI boom, I have been thinking about how we can use AI not just as a…
Teaching is more than delivering content—it’s guiding students through a process of growth, discovery, and transformation. As college educators, we strive to create experiences that challenge students, nurture their potential, and prepare them…
Teaching is often described as a solitary profession, where faculty work independently within their own classrooms, departments, or programs. This siloed approach can make it easy to assume that challenges—such…
Engaging learners in online instructional sessions can be challenging—especially when teaching quantitative methods, where abstract concepts and coding exercises can quickly feel overwhelming. In this article, we begin by sharing practical strategies…
Have you ever wished you could clone yourself? I have. For many faculty in graduate and adult education that longing is more than a passing thought. Balancing the multifaceted needs of students who…
The opening moments of a class session are often treated as routine, a time for announcements, slides, or quickly diving into content. Yet these first minutes are far more consequential…