Reading Time: 4 minutesPaul Coats is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Many students experience learning loss after prolonged breaks in their learning path, whether due to holidays, course scheduling, extreme weather events, or global pandemics. It is a challenge that behooves both the student and the instructor to step […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesBlake Fetty is a Lecturer of Spanish at the University of Central Oklahoma I received an anonymous and devastating review from a student in the past. While I did not know who the student was, I was hurt. However, by realizing that my evaluations are overall constructive and positive, I put the negative rating […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesJoy Dark Shelton is the author of COMPTIA A+ Guide to Information Technology CompTIA has once again taken the A+ certification in a great direction with the most recent update: 220-1101 and 220-1102 exams. Let’s look at how domains have shifted, what’s been expanded and added and what was removed. Then let’s explore how […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDr. Billi Bromer is a professor of Education at Brenau University As a fully online instructor who uses the Canvas Learning Management System for my courses, what I love most about using MindTap is the opportunity to deep link MindTap assignments directly in my Canvas course. Everything students need is in one place. Students […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBailey Hull is a writer at Cengage. She’s passionate about equitable education, cozy soups and improv comedy. Cheating in higher education isn’t anything new. But the rapid increase of digital technology, along with the pivot to online courses during the COVID-19 pandemic, has created new ways of cheating—and made it easier for students to […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf we were on a Zoom call and I told you we were about to get into breakout rooms, how stressed would you feel? Would you stay on the call, or would you jump off? I remember the groans students gave me when I first started teaching and dared to say those detested words, “Get […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesSandy Keeter is a Professor in the Information Technology Department at Seminole State College in Florida. Our recent Faces of Faculty research has shown one of the top challenges faculty are facing now is figuring out how to present material in new ways and produce creative course content. In fact, our report shows 59% […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesAnna-Kaye Powell is an Accounting student at San Diego State University Underpaid. Overworked. Teachers have simply become among the most undervalued professionals in our society. But why? Instructors and faculty seem to be consistently working beyond the 40-hour work week, taking the time to prepare their material, staying involved on campus, and setting their […]
