As educators teaching in professional studies programs, our aim is to create classroom experiences where our students can work with professional partners, developing projects that
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on September 9, 2019. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. As a writing teacher, I’ve discovered that counseling writers
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching materials that typically have a Creative Commons license specifying permission and parameters for copying, distributing, attributing, or altering. Truly
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on July 31, 2015. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. It has never been more evident that we live
Faculty are increasingly called on to conduct “mixed-mode” classes, sometimes called hybrid or HyFlex classes. These sessions are conducted with some students in-person and others
Recently, the sentiment has continued to ring true about the nursing shortage or the need of more nurses—we need more Registered Nurses (RNs) to take
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on November 21, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. For many years, I have tried to explain what
An important lesson I learned over the years while teaching in academia is that kindness and connection matter in a course. Showing up for students
Tell your class a story. Students will better connect to the instructor and coursework with “stories that both induce feeling and help us to understand
Have you wanted to incorporate current social issues into your course but struggled to do so? Are you looking for unusual ways to introduce the
