
HIGHER ED TEACHING STRATEGIES FROM MAGNA PUBLICATIONS

Building Student Confidence in Oral Communication: The Importance of Low-stakes Presentations
Effective Teaching Strategies

The College Tour Brings Equity Decision-making into the Classroom
Equality, Inclusion, and Diversity

Finding the Positive: Your Mental Health and Wellbeing Matter
Faculty Development

Working Smarter, Not Harder: Setting Up an Online Course to Save Time!
Online Course Design and Preparation

Formula-Work-Answer-Explanation (FWAE): A Teaching and Learning Strategy
Teaching and Learning

Low-Risk Strategies to Promote Active Learning in Large Classes
Effective Teaching Strategies
- Mary Bart
- November 24, 2008
If your institution offers online courses, you know that finding quality adjuncts is only half of the staffing battle. Keeping them is sometimes even more difficult. Defections are common…
- Maryellen Weimer, PhD
- November 20, 2008
Faculty careers are often divided into three phases: beginning, middle, and end. New faculty have been studied in some detail—probably because of the great influx of them. So have…
- Russ Olwell PhD
- November 19, 2008
Becoming a department chair does not always follow a smooth or particularly well-thought-out process. Most faculty, who have no academic leadership training, need real support to make this career…
- Mary Bart
- November 17, 2008
It wasn’t all that long ago that the only people using Web 2.0 applications were Millennials and other early adopters. Today Web 2.0 tools are making serious in-roads into…
- Mary Bart
- November 14, 2008
Educational assessment is one of the most talked about topics in higher education today. Despite the admirable goal of improving student learning, the trend toward greater accountability through increased…
- Maryellen Weimer, PhD
- November 13, 2008
At a workshop on learner-centered teaching, a participant told us that philosophically she couldn’t agree more with the need to make students more responsible for their own learning, but…