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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. However,…
In December 2022, an event occurred that caused a revolution in how we find, interact, and record information. The ChatGPT release was an immediate sensation. While it caught many by…