Reading Time: 2 minutesDr. Jacque Taylor is an Assistant Dean at Greenville Technical College Educators have the daunting task of predicting how to prepare students for a workforce that will look much different than ours. We are not just preparing students to do a particular task or job, but to think critically, communicate, innovate, collaborate, and adapt […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Timothy Jones is an adjunct instructor of Health Professions at Oklahoma City Community College “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” The song “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by The Clash from 1981 contains the line “One day it’s fine and next it’s black,” which might describe what happened to many instructors […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesDiantha Ellis is a professor of Business in the Stafford School of Business at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College If there is one good thing that came from COVID-19, academics learned how resilient we truly are. As the virus swept around the world, faculty were reminded to band together in support of our students. Countless meetings and […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInstructor Mark Montgomery needed an online learning platform that would keep both majors and non-majors engaged with his Astronomy course. Knowing that the quality, affordability and functionality of the platform he chose would play a major role in reaching that goal, he started researching potential options. That’s when Montgomery stumbled upon WebAssign. He found the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDr. Jewrell Rivers is a professor of Sociology, Marriage and Family and Criminal Justice at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Traditionally, educators have focused on being more effective in the use of instructional pedagogy to improve student learning outcomes. As a result, the social and affective aspects of the classroom, including the student-teacher relationship, have […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDr. Sally Stewart, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Teaching at UBC Okanagan, School of Health and Exercise Sciences For most of us, the busy teaching part of the academic year might be done and the summer brings some lightness to our work and spirit. We might be feeling a bit “burnt out” and […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesPost was updated 5/22/2025 Over the years we have seen more and more Mac users in our classes. As long as they followed along in our computer labs or on their own Windows PC, they were fine. But many of them struggled when they got home and began using their own Mac computers. For this […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnitre Bell is a College Success Facilitator and Instructor at Community College of Beaver County. On June 16, 2021, President Joe Biden deemed Juneteenth a federal holiday, which was a monumental day in history. June 19, 1865, also known as Juneteenth in the African American community, is a day of celebration. This marks the […]
