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…
Picture Books in the Classroom: Learning Rhetorical Analysis through Stories
One of the first challenges that any composition teacher faces is presenting rhetorical analysis as a skill that is both imaginatively engaging and academically useful. Nearly any student who gains…
Teaching Students How to Prepare and Deliver High-Stakes Presentations in Professional Settings
Most students, as they prepare to enter the professional world, will have to deliver a high-stakes presentation to their future employers, internship organizations, or special committees that provide opportunities for…
Foreseeable Updates to Healthcare Curricula
Upon reflections from COVID-19 and projections that similar threats are now a part of our global reality, academicians need to rescript the education of future frontline providers. A practicable start…
First Shot Impressions for the Active Learning Professor: Higher Ed Activity Stations
First impressions matter. Students often arrive to the first day of a college course full of anticipation with some anxiety and many questions, some of these questions spoken but most…