Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success
I always imagined that as my experience with teaching grew, I would be able to better motivate students and help focus my students. It turns out that with each passing…
Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced?
Assessment is a critical component of the teaching and learning process. However, assessment is more than just grading and is often misunderstood. In order to provide useful information to instructors…
The AI Advantage: Boosting Student Engagement in Self-paced Learning through AI
Today's higher education students are increasingly digitally savvy, accustomed to technology being woven into every facet of their lives. It's no wonder they expect the same from their learning experiences.…
Reflecting on Your Welcome Back Session
Are you thinking that your Welcome Back session with students reflected the "being back part" but missed the "welcoming" part? Did you meet your intended outcomes? What if you aren’t…
Six Approaches for Sharing Assignment Due Dates
Gather a group of faculty and mention the perennial problem of students turning in assigned work late, and you will often encounter a range of emotional responses, recitations of policies…
Using Content Disclosures in Our Courses
We want students to have positive experiences in our courses. The college classroom is a unique space where students are empowered to think critically about the world around them. However,…
Dual Credit at Your Doorstep: What You Need to Know
In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to…
How To Be Conspicuously Human in the Online Classroom
Many of the conversations I’ve seen about Artificial Intelligence (AI) center on how students might use or misuse this powerful tool. I've had my share of conversations about how to AI-proof…
What a Cool Syllabus…But is It Accessible?
Recently, I attended a conference and was sharing my new visual syllabus with some colleagues. After several interactions, I noticed the most frequent comment was, “What a cool syllabus…but is…
Academic Asphyxiation: The Inequitable Expectation of ‘Serial Monogamy’ in Manuscript Submissions to Scholarly Journals
In the scholarly world, the currency of reputation and progress is often measured in the form of published articles. The pressure to publish is an omnipresent force that shapes the…