Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvery year, we ask millions of students to make major investments in higher education without the guarantee that they will successfully join the workforce and find meaningful employment. Despite this investment, almost half of higher ed graduates won’t apply to entry-level jobs because they don’t feel they have the right skills. How can we boost […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnitre Bell is a College Success Facilitator and Instructor at Community College of Beaver County Everyone is different in their own way, and we must embrace those differences. As educators, we meet students from various backgrounds—whether it be race, religion or sexual orientation—and it is our duty to ensure an inclusive and high-quality education […]
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 […]
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 […]
