What Does Student Engagement Look Like?
Engagement – it’s another one of those words that’s regularly bandied about in higher education. We talk about it like we know what it means, and we do, sort of.…
Charting a Path to Online Course Retention: An Exercise for Student Success
“If you build it, they will come,” held true for the 1989 movie Field of Dreams but does not necessarily apply to online courses and programs. While higher education institutions…
What to Expect at Dissertation Central
The nature and extent of content in faculty-wide teaching and resources for participant-based undergraduate dissertations. Dissertations and their supervision may rightly be very individual. In higher education, whenever standardization as…
What TED Talks Teach Us About Teaching
Why do TED Talks captivate us so consistently? TED Talks captivate us because their speakers apply fundamental principles of communication that, I believe, 99% of speakers fail to follow. Because…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind Debunked: Humanizing Asynchronous Online Courses Using an Inclusive Survey
The best way I can describe my very first semester of teaching online asynchronously is “emotionally agonizing.” Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in…
A Guide for Creating an Empathetic Learning Environment
Empathy, in course development, refers to an educator's ability to understand the problems, needs, and desires a group of learners faces through research and inquisition. An inclusive learning environment is…
Assignment Prompts: A Tutor’s Perspective
Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how…
Faculty Mentoring: People, Place, and Purpose
What does mentoring other faculty mean? As a noun, a mentor is a wise and trusted guide and advisor; however, as a verb, mentoring means to serve as a teacher…
How Unlocking the Power of Alumni Surveys Can Drive Educational Improvement
In the retail industry, having a clear understanding of the audience is vital for retailers to customize their products and services to match the needs of customers. Retailers collect feedback…
Thinking about What Happened. . .
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on June 27, 2018 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. When a discussion didn’t go anywhere.When a group couldn’t seem to work together.When the answer…