Reading Time: 3 minutesDr. Ashley Hall is an experienced business educator with a passion for leadership development You love your academic discipline and you want your students to see its value as well. You pour your energy into building quality online courses filled with a variety of educational activities in order to engage your students. So it’s […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesDr. Jeff D. Borden is a professor, learning design expert, Executive Director of the Institute for Inter-Connected Education and the Chief Academic Officer at Campus If you haven’t watched the Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, I highly recommend it. While it speaks to yet another “existential” crisis we face in 2021 (is anyone counting […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesBeth Ryan is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Business and Entrepreneurship department at Columbia College Chicago I am increasingly more fatigued after teaching synchronous online classes and spending so much time in Zoom meetings. Was there something wrong with me? I always felt energized after being with students in a physical classroom. So, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesMelinda Doty is a full-time Faculty Member at East Carolina University How many times have we stood in front of a class, looking at a sea of blank stares? If you’re like me, it’s more times than you would like to count. The pivot to remote learning has compounded these blank stares—the only difference […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesJill West is a Cengage author and an instructor at Georgia Northwestern Technical College Children are born with an innate sense of curiosity, but few develop sophisticated learning skills without guidance. The biggest impact instructors can make on their students’ success is not accomplished through covering all learning styles or sufficiently entertaining students. It’s […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Sandy Keeter, Professor in the Information Technology Department, Seminole State College With SAM Projects, students apply their acquired MS Office skills to live-in-the-application projects that are automatically graded. SAM utilizes incident reporting to ensure that students are completing their own work. SAM Projects empower instructors to enforce academic integrity in their courses through […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesAudrey Wick is an English professor at Blinn College in central Texas I remember the bright-eyed enthusiasm with which I approached the process of essay grading for the first time as a rookie instructor. I was so excited! The essays seemed like such a gift! They were, after all, the voices of my students […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCollege enrollment among those who haven’t traditionally pursued undergraduate credentials, including persons of color, has increased in the last 20 years. However, racial gaps and inequities remain. Some institutions are taking action to combat these disparities, especially after racially charged events brought these issues to the national spotlight. While at a high level, much must […]
