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Teaching Strategies

Find teaching inspiration and practical methods to keep your students engaged and learning.

Tips for Assigned Readings

4 Ways to Get Your Students to Do the Assigned Reading

Dr. Jenny Billings is a faculty member at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College.   Students do not always complete assigned readings. This is true for chapters, novels, articles, or even single poems. Being an...
How to Teach Impeachment

Teaching Impeachment as a Current Issue—Again

Author: Dr. Emily Stacey, Rose State College   What a year. 2021 has certainly started with a bang: the four Wednesdays in January brought extremes in emotions and political action. The breaching...
Keep Your Students' Attention Using These Tips

4 Ways to Hold Students’ Attention and Beat the 9-Minute Itch

Author: Brandy Ramsey, Faculty Support and Analytics Specialist, College of Online and Adult Studies and Center for Innovation and Teaching Excellence & Adjunct Faculty, College of Business and Economics, Ashland University  ...
teaching in a pandemic

Pandemic Teaching: How to Keep Students Engaged

Author: Dr. Emily Stacey, Rose State College   Most colleges and universities nationwide are still dealing with ongoing pandemic teaching challenges: delivering instruction online, making mental health a priority, and managing pandemic...
How Online Learners and Professors Can Communicate

What I Wish My Professors Knew About Life as An Online Learner

Shaloun Mims is a student at The  University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee  and a Cengage Student Ambassador   One of the most fascinating things about professors is that they were once students. And it’s...
How to Spot Plagiarism

Checking for Plagiarism in Microsoft Word

Author: Corinne Hoisington, Professor of Information Systems Technology, Central Virginia Community College   As instructors, we all have our fair share of student essays and papers to read. And yes, occasionally we...
Unconscious Bias

Check Those Unconscious Biases at the Door

Jennifer Harrison is an Associate Professor of Social Sciences at Warren County Community College   What if you had your students introduce you at the beginning of the semester? What do you...
4 P's for student engagement

Frustrated by a Lack of Participation Online? Try These 4 Ps

Dr. Ashley Hall is an experienced business educator with a passion for leadership development   You love your academic discipline and you want your students to see its value as well. You...
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