Course Crafting: Strategies to Enhance Students’ Appreciation of Course Value
On every campus, there is a course or set of courses that students automatically dismiss in their minds, perhaps a math course, a writing course, or even all the general…
Engaging Community Projects From a Safe Distance
We all know that community-based learning, including service-learning, is a high impact practice and effectively engages students by connecting them to both their course content and their community. Planning and…
Encouraging Self-Advocacy: How to Build Environments for Awareness and Self-Disclosure for Learners with Disabilities
Many learners with disabilities have an increased risk of anxiety (Dionne & Polvinen, 2021; Jaggard 2019; Thaler, Kazemi, & Wood, 2010) and may avoid disclosure-interactions with professors in their higher…
The Uses of Feminist Pedagogy Before, During, and After the Pandemic
In the middle of the spring 2020 semester, when many of us crashed up against a massive teaching paradigm shift, the feminist institute where I work, Newcomb Institute of Tulane…
Reimagining Classroom Community, Assessment, and Our Own Self-Care
As I reflect on my teaching since last year and review the pedagogical lessons learned, I have started to reimagine my teaching practices and shift in small ways to ensure…
Course Delivery: Considerations for Your Online and Face-to-Face Delivery Format
Many, if not most, college students work part- or full-time jobs while going to school. They often find it difficult to be at a specific place at a specific time…
An Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Enhance Assignment Completion: Focusing on Locus of Control
Appreciative inquiry (AI) has been effective in guiding changes in organizational and human systems through engaging stakeholders to create a transformed, shared vision of potential and future growth opportunities (Hammond,…
21 Ways to Structure an Online Discussion, Part Five
*This is the last of our five-part series. Online Discussion Ideas - Multimedia and Resources The past four articles in this series have suggested 21 ideas for structuring an…
Ludic Pedagogy: Schooling Our Students in Fun
As much of the higher education experience has moved online in the throes of a global pandemic, there is much discourse about how to survive and thrive in this new—and…
Co-Facilitated Discussions to Truly Engage Your Online Students with Course Content
Asynchronous online discussions (AOD) are commonly used by online course instructors who want their students to reflect on the course content and express their personal understanding, while also responding to…