November 18, 2019 Kristin Ritchey
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side. Why did the chicken cross the playground? To get to the other slide. As experts in…
Where did it all go wrong? Professor Elavor* just wrapped up what she hoped would be a successful semester of her new online course—Introduction to Natural Sciences. Unfortunately, the…
For both new and veteran faculty, inheriting a syllabus to teach from is like being blindfolded on a long journey and being told, “Don’t worry, you’ll know it when…
In Course Design, Teaching with Technology
March 6, 2014 Karl Kapp EdD
One of the strengths of gamification is that it provides visible milestones of the student’s mastery of content in real time (when it is well designed). Too often in…
October 15, 2012 Vicki Caruana PhD
Many of us who teach in higher education do not have a teaching background, nor do we have experience in curriculum development. We know our content areas and are…
September 17, 2010 Larry D. Spence
"So, what does that mean—'I need to provide more scaffolding'?" a teacher asked, with frustration in his voice. He was just back from a peer review debrief. "Maybe that's…
