Using Digital Badges to Add Gamification to an Online Course

Using Digital Badges in Your Course

Reading Time: 2 minutesDr. Billi Bromer is a Professor of Education at Brenau University     Digital badges are an element of gamification that you may consider including in an online course. Incorporating gamification doesn’t mean diminishing the content in any way or turning your course into something non-academic. Gamification is accomplished by adding elements of game playing […]

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How to Foster Student Connections in Any Format

Fostering Student Connections

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. […]

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How Mobile Learning is Transforming Higher Ed [INFOGRAPHIC]

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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 […]

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How I Pivoted to Apply Experiential Learning Techniques in My Online Course

Apply Experiential Learning to Your Online Course

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 […]

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How COVID-19 Changed Our Views of Online Learning [INFOGRAPHIC]

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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 […]

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Filling Your Well: 3 Tips for Self-Care

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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 […]

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How Higher Ed Is Leveraging Federal COVID-19 Relief Dollars to Address Long-Term Affordability

Federal COVID-19 Relief Dollars

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 […]

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4 Tips for Making Business Law Relevant to Students

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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 […]

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