How to Structure Your Online Class for Inclusion, Part 1
A bunch of black boxes on a video call. An empty discussion board. A student who hasn’t submitted any work all term. These might all be signs that students aren’t…
Meet Them Where They Are: Furthering Your Own Cultural Humility and Responsive Teaching
Hispanic | Latinx community college students, especially those attending Hispanic Serving Institutions, deserve to see themselves in their course content. Improving the process of online course design, including the implementation…
Going All in on OER
From consideration to commitment Last spring, I joined a campus mentoring cohort that paid a generous stipend to consider the possibility of integrating open educational resources (OER) into all of…
Survive or Thrive: Evolving with Online Learning and Growing a Healthy Mindset for Our Students
Change is hard! As educators, COVID-19 ruthlessly hurled us into a world of online learning with little or no experience. My embarrassing initial reaction: “I guess we’ll use Skype!” Truth…
The Benefits of In-House Peer Tutoring
Many colleges and universities strive to provide educational opportunities to their communities by adopting open enrollment policies. As a result, courses, especially in STEM, have students with varying degrees of…
Academic Leadership: How to Establish a Leadership Development Program and Community
Have you been contemplating where your career path will take you next or how you can impact your institution’s success in your current leadership role? The following articles, reports, seminars,…
Engaging Students Online: Strategies to Enhance Your Classroom Community with Google Drawings, Google Slides, and Google Docs
Whether we are teaching online, face-to-face, or somewhere in between, student engagement should always remain at the forefront of our planning and practice, as keeping students active in the learning…
APPlicable Ways to Close the Online Distance
With the onset of COVID-19, new approaches and technologies are being explored and implemented by instructors at all levels, but what is new is not always better. Having been in…
Teaching Mistakes 101: What I Wish I Would Have Known
If you’re like most educators, you probably made your share of teaching mistakes. This report features more than a dozen essays by instructors who were willing to share their early-career missteps and the lessons they learned. Because sometimes you just have to follow your gut, and sometimes your gut is wrong.
Why You Should Be a Selfish Instructor
With coronavirus vaccines now approved for use, there is finally some light at containing the COVID-19 tunnel that has been restricting activities for the past year. But in the early…