Reading Time: 2 minutesMelinda Doty is a professor at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina The demand for our classrooms to become entertaining vs. educational has heightened over the past few years. Students today need to be captivated when learning. Otherwise, we lose their attention and they do not retain the information. A simple lecture and PowerPoint […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesAudrey Wick is an English professor and Cengage faculty partner ChatGPT in higher education is here, and instructors are in a position to steer its use. Of course, that has always been the case. Whether it’s math instructors incorporating the use of graphing calculators or writing instructors leaning into word processor spelling checkers, technology […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesUpdated: 9/21/2023 Tracy Daly is a professor at Cal State San Marcos, National University, Miramar College. As a dietitian and health educator, my favorite MindTap feature is the Diet & Wellness Plus (D&W+) diet analysis MindApp. I teach Health and Nutrition classes at all college levels and use D&W+ in almost every class. The ability […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesAmy Newman is a senior lecturer emerita from Cornell University, SC Johnson College of Business, and author of Business Communication and Character, 11e and Building Leadership Character. We want students to be better people — not just to learn Accounting or Art History, but to make good decisions that affect others in positive ways. […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesDr. Jeff Seaman is Director at Bay View Analytics and Dr. Julia Seaman is Director of Research at Bay View Analytics According to the Digital Learning Pulse Survey (DLPS) conducted in the fall of 2022, a significant majority of students, faculty, and academic administrators believe that the cost of education is becoming increasingly unaffordable […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesA.J. Jacobs is a professor of Sociology at East Carolina University Following a group discussion on the challenges related to teaching Introduction to Sociology, I was asked to compare the community college experience with the large university experience, from both the instructor and student perspectives. My background in teaching My first opportunity to […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesSarah Gido is a Marketing and Communications major at Anglo-American University in Prague, Czech Republic Cheating has always been an issue in school. When I asked my friends if they had ever cheated in school, the response was almost always yes. Some said that in high school they wrote answers on water bottle wrappers […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesSandy Keeter is a professor in the Information Technology department at Seminole State College In a ruling that went into effect in July 2021, the Department of Education (DOE) declared that “distance education” or “online, instructed courses” must include regular and substantive interaction (RSI) to be eligible for federal financial aid through Title IV […]
