It’s what is considered dead week—the week before final exams. Most of my students are exhibiting familiar signs of stress, looking tired and overwhelmed, and retreating to their phones between…
One of the perks of teaching online is that there are so many great tools that make facilitating an online course easier. For example, not having to manually grade and…
This article is featured in the resource guide, Effective Online Teaching Strategies. Online classes, by their very nature as distance learning experiences, present barriers to student engagement and learning. These…
The primary focus of any instruction should be to focus on the learning outcomes or capabilities you are trying to achieve. Bloom (1956, 1964) identified three types of learning outcomes:…
When I think about diversity here in college, I can hear myself saying “What if? What if I could go back and talk to my undergrad professors and my graduate…
This article is featured in the resource guide, Effective Online Teaching Strategies. You’re committed to equity and inclusion. You’ve been educating yourself about how higher ed systemically and systematically privileges…
Instructors often experience problems between the directions given for an assignment and the work submitted by a student. Students miss important parts of questions; they may fail to understand the…
I teach research-based Composition II courses every semester. My students learn information literacy, look up academic, peer-reviewed journals, create and correctly structure works cited pages, annotate bibliographies, learn rhetorical writing…
When hundreds of spring and summer undergraduate courses were abruptly moved from onsite to online delivery in the wake of COVID-19, several faculty and students nationwide reacted with panic and…
This article is featured in the resource guide, Effective Online Teaching Strategies. Due to the pandemic, both instructors and students have had to adapt quickly to different forms of online…