Reading Time: 4 minutesMarcella Kelly is a Business Professor at Santa Monica College and Cengage author Now more than ever, finding engaging Introduction to Business discussion questions can feel trying. After two years of a global pandemic, many of us have noticed that students seem reluctant to participate in discussions. This has led to awkward dead air […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesKarla Swanson is an Associate Professor of CIT and Department Chair at Navarro College. Do you find yourself struggling in your Learning Management System (LMS)? Have you simply copied your course semester after semester? Are you scared to redesign your course and not sure where to start? Do your students feel overwhelmed and just […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesJody Small is an Emmy Award-winning writer-producer who films stories about students and educators at community colleges and universities around the country. For college students who graduated during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, searching for a job had more than its fair share of challenges. Many students missed out on a valuable year […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesAnitre Bell is the Student Athlete Academic Liaison at The Community College of Beaver County. Being a student athlete isn’t always easy. On their end, balancing school, sports, and life can be taxing. But one thing us educators (and our student athletes) must remember is that they are, first and foremost, still students. As […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis post was updated on 3/17/2026. Let’s face it — keeping students engaged while teaching economics can be hard. One strategy that has proven successful is the use of games and experiments to help teach economics concepts while keeping students interested. The history of economics experiments and games in the classroom Experiments were first used […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s a lot of content to fit into your online course. What’s the best way to share that content without overwhelming your students? Download our free template designed by an OLC-certified instructor for a breakdown of all the sections you can divide your online course into. Get tips on which sections to include in your […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesUnfinished learning has been a topic of much discussion in elementary and secondary education throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It refers to the notion that students aren’t learning at the expected rate and may even be regressing in knowledge. While unfinished learning hasn’t been brought up as often in the higher education sphere, surveys conducted by […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesAdam Barragato is Assistant Director of Partnerships at Purdue University and former Teaching and Learning Consultant A struggling college student might not always show obvious signs of their troubles. But it was clear something was amiss when a student fell asleep in my class one Friday morning. At first, I couldn’t understand. I took […]
