Service-Learning in a Virtual World
The pandemic has required faculty to rethink many things about the way they teach. Perhaps nothing has been more pedagogically confounding than trying to imagine how to teach a service-learning…
A Supportive Syllabus: What Students Say About an Interactive Syllabus
My learning edge with teaching has always been organization. I was brimming with enthusiasm about my content area, and my interest in educational psychology had me eagerly applying almost any…
An Innovative Teaching Strategy: Using Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) for Online Clinicals
A common question in our nursing department since the pandemic was: How can we meet our teaching objectives for clinical courses online? Most of our clinical sites were not allowing…
Developing a Reflective Practice in the Return to Campus: Blogging to Process Out Our Teaching Artistry
As teachers entering last fall, many of us had worked on a “20/20” vision of what our remote teaching should and could be, perhaps this was because we knew that…
The Importance of Listening to Student Learning
Last summer, as our institution made plans to bring students back to campus, we prepared to enter the brave new world of hybrid and online teaching and learning. Like faculty…
How to Implement an Unessay Grant Proposal Project
The “unessay” is certainly not a new concept, but it was a Faculty Focus piece by Jodie N. Mader, “The Unessay Experiment: Moving Beyond the Traditional Paper” that inspired me…
Weekly Guidelines for Students in Asynchronous Online Courses
For those of us who continue to teach asynchronous online courses during the 2021-2022 academic year, it’s worth considering how we motivate our students. Reasonably well-developed and presented online syllabi,…
Creating a Path for the Future of Higher Education through a Structured Approach for Interdisciplinary Teaching
Rain in the forecast: Look for an umbrella For the past few years, we have been informed and warned about the impending decline in higher education enrollments. This is no…
Exploring Blended Learning Strategies
In higher education, the need for blended learning strategies will continue to grow. This resource guide will help you facilitate a fast change to engaging students in the face-to-face, online,…
The Online Teaching Strategy: How to Personalize Your Motivation
It seems as if eons ago, we began to hear about online instruction. Historically, when the community college that I formerly taught at began to move towards this process, I…