The online classroom can be challenging when it comes to engagement and presence. Students often enter the online classroom nervous, not just about content but about the practicalities of learning…
The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework allows us to understand the importance of utilizing web 2.0 in teaching and learning. Social annotation tools such as Hypothes.is allow teachers to…
Almost everyone who has taken a college course is familiar with the genre of the syllabus, or has at least seen one, though the form varies widely among institutions, colleges,…
There’s that wonderful moment upon stepping into your first classroom ready for all its delights, discoveries, and even disputes when you think to yourself that you’re the luckiest person in…
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an overwhelming impact on students in higher education. For students who were looking forward to living on campus and having the college experience, COVID-19 affected…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…