Since the onset of COVID-19 several years ago, the popularity of online learning has rapidly increased. Due to the flexibility, many students prefer pursuing their college degrees from home at…
Collegial support through collaboration Collegial support may be challenging to foster, especially since higher education institutions have become more competitive with rewards reserved for productive individuals (e.g., Amutuhaire, 2022). Besides…
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on August 1, 2018. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. English Composition I at New Jersey City University (NJCU) is designed to prepare students…
An important lesson I learned over the years while teaching in academia is that kindness and connection matter in a course. Showing up for students with kindness, compassion, and encouragement…
Like it or not, video conferencing platforms have become an integral tool for synchronous online teaching and learning. However, when the use of these tools increased due to emergency remote…
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on October 26, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Have you ever thought, “There has to be a better way!” while grading your…
The purpose of this article is to present an overview of the use of focus groups as a source of data in higher education, especially in doctoral programs. The need…
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on August 26, 2016. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. One common mistake I see among online content developers is to build videos that…
Tell your class a story. Students will better connect to the instructor and coursework with “stories that both induce feeling and help us to understand what we are feeling” (Noddings,…
Since spring 2020 when the pandemic hit the US, I have been using digital social reading technology for asynchronous reading assignments in my advanced Chinese language classes. With this, students…