Reading Time: 2 minutesThe number of cyberattacks has reached epidemic proportions. The total amount of monthly malware releases now exceeds 20 million instances. More than 11.5 billion records have been exposed through data breaches since 2005. In 2019, four out of every five organizations experienced at least one successful cyberattack. More than one-third suffered six or more successful […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesAuthor: Corinne Hoisington, Professor of Information Systems Technology, Central Virginia Community College As we move forward into the school year and beyond, think of Microsoft Teams as your central hub to collaborate in real time. Using the Microsoft Office 365 suite, you can meet online and integrate your course with many educational apps beyond Office. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnitre Bell teaches College Success and Study Skills at Community College of Beaver County Do you have any students who barely say anything? These students attend every class. They are there, but are they present? Sometimes as educators, we see these students and allow them the status quo. They enter the room and are […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesMelinda Doty is a full-time Faculty Member at East Carolina University January 2020, the start of a new year and new beginnings—or so we thought. Fast forward to March 2020 and the world completely changed. The outbreak of COVID-19, and the global pandemic, forced instructors, like me, into re-inventing our courses for remote or […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesSandy Keeter is a Professor in the Information Technology Department at Seminole State College in Florida. There are so many ways we can support our students. I consider the first level of support to be us educators and teachers. From having well-designed classes, to our thoughtful communication and being present, we aim to ensure […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesCOVID-19 has changed the teaching landscape for myself and educators throughout the world. Now that millions of students have been thrust into an online environment, educators have to seek new ways to keep students engaged in the virtual classroom. With so many students enrolled in four to five classes—hybrid or fully online—time spent on the […]
Reading Time: 1 minuteMelinda Doty is a faculty member in the Department of Technology Systems at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. COVID-19 and the global pandemic have drastically changed how professors teach their students. Face-to-face learning has pivoted to remote and online, and caused challenges with the transition. Computer labs on college campuses might be […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: Beth Ryan is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Business and Entrepreneurship department at Columbia College Chicago. Fostering diversity and inclusion in the classroom is an ongoing process that requires consistent, conscious choices. It also necessitates considerable in-person attention and can be even more challenging in an online environment. Here are nine […]
