This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on February 24, 2015. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. It’s hardly a new subject. Every teacher knows it’s
Any teacher wants their students to feel engaged and enthusiastic in the classroom, connected and thriving through daily activities and course content. Of course, establishing
Nonverbal communication is essential for engaged learning and effective teaching. In-person classes allowed me to assess the effectiveness of my lessons by reading the facial
*This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on February 25, 2019. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Snapchat is a video/photo-sharing app that has
Some of the most satisfying moments in teaching are when your students are engaged, when they are deeply absorbed in the material and they are
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
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
It has grown cliché to say the pandemic has changed education both rapidly and permanently. Certainly, public health concerns have forced educators at all levels
Online learning—sometimes referred to as “distance learning” or “e-learning”—nowadays refers to any form of education delivered via the Internet. In the pre-Covid era, online earned
*This is a five-part series. Four Online Discussion Ideas to Explore Concepts Through Divergent Thinking In the last installment of this article series, I described
