What is Experiential Education?
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on November 21, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. For many years, I have tried to explain what experiential education (EE) is to…
The Two Best Practices for Successful Online Teaching and Learning
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…
Module Coordinators Supporting Each Other: The Value of Collaborative Reflection for Middle Managers
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…
Websites as Digital Portfolios
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…
Cultivating Connection in a Course Setting
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…
Cameras On or Off? It Depends! What We’ve Learned from Students about Teaching and Learning on Zoom
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…
Empowering Learners through Online Discussion Self-Grading
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…
How Many Focus Groups are Enough: Focus Groups for Dissertation Research
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…
Applying Neurology to Online Videos
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…
Teaching a Course as a Narrative Arc
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,…