If you’re interested in what works and what doesn’t when it comes to teaching, learning, and leading — both in the traditional classroom and online — our special reports have the information you need. Each free report features 10-12 articles and is packed with strategies, tips, and insight on the topics that impact your students, your courses, and your work.
Simply browse by the topic categories below and download a PDF of the report that interests you.
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Teaching Strategies
August 14, 2019 Faculty Focus
The first day of anything can be felt with excitement, anxiety, relief, anticipation, and an array of other emotions. But the first day of any class or course, as…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Course Design
March 7, 2018 Faculty Focus
If your quiz strategies are becoming stale, this free report is loaded with fresh ideas that will help you better understand why you are using quizzes, what you hope…
In Free Reports, Teaching & Learning
June 20, 2017 Mary Bart
Faculty careers are often divided into three phases: beginning, middle, and end. Yet despite the fact that it is the longest segment of one’s career, there is surprisingly little…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Classroom Management
April 6, 2016 Faculty Focus
Meaningful conversations about race, diversity, and inclusion can be surprisingly rare occurrences in higher education classrooms. Students and faculty alike, especially those in the majority, often fear saying the wrong…
In Free Reports, Teaching & Learning
September 15, 2015 Mary Bart
It’s a gradual process, but at some point, if we’re not careful, all the courses, students, and semesters begin to add up and slowly erode our enthusiasm for the…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Course Design
August 19, 2015 Faculty Focus
The flipped classroom is a student-centered approach to teaching that involves reversing the design of the learning environment, allowing students to engage in activities, apply concepts, and focus on…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Course Design
July 8, 2014 Faculty Focus
Featuring six articles dedicated to blended learning and six articles on the flipped classroom, this free report provides an inside look at how faculty are using these approaches to…
In Free Reports, Teaching & Learning
October 16, 2013 Mary Bart
Part memoir and part advice for others, Journey of Joy: Teaching Tips for Reflection, Rejuvenation and Renewal will encourage and inspire faculty who may have fallen out of love…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Online Teaching Strategies
January 12, 2012 Faculty Focus
The report provides practical advice from online instructors who recognize the value of engagement and its role in student retention and success.
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Online Course Design
August 31, 2011 Faculty Focus
Designing an online course shares many of the same elements and processes that go into designing a traditional face-to-face course, however the online environment brings a unique set of…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Course Design
June 21, 2011 Faculty Focus
Assessing institutional effectiveness is a noble pursuit, but measuring student learning is not always easy. As with so many things we try to quantify, there’s much more to learning…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Teaching Strategies
January 13, 2011 Faculty Focus
Whether the courses you teach are face-to-face, online, blended, or all of the above, this report explains effective ways to incorporate technology into your courses to create a rich…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Teaching Strategies
July 23, 2010 Faculty Focus
Despite the correlation between reading and course success, many students try to do as little reading as possible. Whether your students struggle with the material or simply lack the…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Online Course Design
May 7, 2010 Faculty Focus
Online education didn’t invent cheating, but it does present unique challenges. This 20-page report provides proactive ways for meeting these challenges head on.
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Course Design
April 1, 2010 Faculty Focus
This 17-page report features proven course design alternatives implemented in courses of varying sizes and disciplines. It's sure inspire you to rethink how you could change certain components of…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Teaching Strategies
March 5, 2010 Faculty Focus
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…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Academic Leadership
February 19, 2010 Faculty Focus
It’s been said that no one dreams of someday becoming an academic administrator. It’s a tough job that’s only gotten more challenging as budgets shrink, public scrutiny rises, and…
In Free Reports, Online Education
January 22, 2010 Mary Bart
In order to improve online programs, courses, and instruction, you have to first determine your goals, select metrics that will tell you what we want to know, analyze these…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Classroom Management
December 4, 2009 Faculty Focus
One of the most challenging tasks instructors face is keeping students engaged. Building Student Engagement: 15 Strategies for the College Classroom will help you meet that challenge while ensuring…
In Free Reports, Online Education
November 6, 2009 Mary Bart
Of the many lessons learned from the early years of distance education one of the most persistent to remain, and thankfully so, is the fact that you cannot simply…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Teaching Strategies
October 2, 2009 Faculty Focus
What we teach and how we teach it are inextricably linked. This special report helps you discover new ways to build strong connections between the two with strategies for…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Online Course Design
August 7, 2009 Faculty Focus
If you think the flexibility of online teaching also means that it's OK to "wing it" now and then, you'd be wrong. If anything, you have to be more…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Course Design
July 17, 2009 Faculty Focus
Professors often believe students should arrive on campus knowing how to write research papers. Unfortunately, many do not. Download this free report for proven assignment strategies that are easy…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Academic Leadership
June 25, 2009 Faculty Focus
All too often new administrators are left to fend for themselves when it comes to discovering and developing the skills they need to succeed in their new position. This…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Online Teaching Strategies
June 12, 2009 Faculty Focus
Despite the many benefits, teaching online also comes with its share of challenges. This special report will help you establish online instructor best practices and performance expectations for creating…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Teaching Strategies
May 29, 2009 Faculty Focus
Writing a philosophy of teaching statement can make even the most experienced educator feel intimidated. Motivate students? No problem. Juggle an endless list of responsibilities? Check. Make course content…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Classroom Management
May 8, 2009 Faculty Focus
A lot of students seem to assume that as long as the assigned work is completed on time, test scores are good, and attendance is satisfactory, they shouldn’t be…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Online Teaching Strategies
May 1, 2009 Faculty Focus
If you want insight into how to assess online learning at the course, program, and institutional levels, you’ll want to download this new special report that will help you…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Academic Leadership, Free Reports: Online Course Design
March 27, 2009 Faculty Focus
Although distance learning is no longer in its infancy, there are still a lot of unknowns. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the questions and the possibilities of what…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Academic Leadership
March 13, 2009 Faculty Focus
As colleges and universities continue to expand their online course offerings, increasingly they're turning to adjuncts to teach the courses. This report features proven strategies for ensuring your distance…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Online Teaching Strategies
February 27, 2009 Faculty Focus
Opportunities for meaningful synchronous and asynchronous interaction are plentiful, provided you design and facilitate your online course in the correct manner and with the proper tools. This free report…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Academic Leadership
February 13, 2009 Faculty Focus
This special report will provide you with new perspectives on the promotion and tenure process. Some will challenge your thinking. Others will confirm your suspicions. All will lend valuable…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Classroom Management
January 23, 2009 Faculty Focus
From understanding course content to developing problem solving, teamwork, and communication skills, group work is an effective teaching strategy whose lessons may endure well beyond the end of a…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Online Teaching Strategies
January 9, 2009 Faculty Focus
As an increasing number of colleges and universities identify online education as a critical component to their long-term strategy, the issue of retention can no longer be ignored. It…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Online Course Design
December 12, 2008 Faculty Focus
Good online course design begins with a clear understanding of specific learning outcomes and ways to engage students, while creating activities that allow students to take some control of…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Classroom Management
December 5, 2008 Faculty Focus
Effective classroom management is much more than simply administering corrective measures when a student misbehaves; it's about developing proactive ways to prevent problems from occurring in the first place…
In Educational Assessment, Free Reports
November 14, 2008 Mary Bart
Educational assessment is one of the most talked about topics in higher education today. Despite the admirable goal of improving student learning, the trend toward greater accountability through increased…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Academic Leadership
November 7, 2008 Faculty Focus
Countless workshops, seminars, retreats, and other faculty development courses are offered under the assumption that they can positively affect how faculty teach, which in turn will help students learn.
