Reading Time: 5 minutesKelly Hinson is an Instructor of Information Technology Let me be the first to confess that when I started my career as an instructor, I did not see the need for student connections. After all, I had made it through a four-year university and could not recall any significant faculty connection I had made. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBailey Hull is a writer at Cengage. She’s passionate about equitable education, cozy soups and improv comedy. With mobile learning materials easier to access than ever, students are engaging with class materials on the go in droves. But it’s not just students who benefit from mobile eTextbooks and assignments—instructors are seeing substantial positive impacts […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy: Courtney Pham, Senior Marketing Instructor, Missouri State University This past year has been especially challenging, if not difficult, for students and instructors shifting online. Instructors had to consider synchronous or asynchronous lectures and come up with thoughtful techniques to keep the students engaged. I wanted to know some challenges students were facing when […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBailey Hull is a writer at Cengage. She’s passionate about equitable education, cozy soups and improv comedy. Online learning has become more essential than ever to higher education over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as vaccination rates in the U.S. increase, students, faculty and institutions are all beginning to envision a return […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesCarrie Grace is a former teacher turned motivational speaker I think that we can all agree that this past year and a half has involved many challenges, canceled plans, endless pivoting and a lot of emotional stress. People took on more roles than they had expected such as homeschooling children, caring for a sick […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesBy: Jeff Selingo As colleges and universities prepare to receive a third round of federal relief funds to assist with the disruption to their operations caused by COVID-19, higher education leaders are not only evaluating approaches to using the cash to fill immediate financial needs, but also long-term investments to lower college costs. Going […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesMachiavelli (Max) Chao is a full-time Senior Continuing Lecturer at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, 2018 and 2021 UCI Lecturer of the Year and winner of the 2019, 2020 and 2021 Merage Excellence in Teaching award Most days, I feel lucky to have the privilege of teaching […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesBy: Tony Winslow, Marketing Manager at Cengage I was recently talking to a friend at work about how marketing has evolved, the importance of authenticity and how marketers unite around a purpose to create positive change. We talked about the onset of COVID-19 and the months that followed—how marketers knew there was one major […]
