Reading Time: < 1 minuteLike many in higher education, professor Tracy Daly and her students had to make the quick transition to a totally online classroom due to COVID-19. However, the virtual classroom environment and course structure made student engagement challenging. But despite the obstacles, Daly managed to keep student attendance higher than ever—thanks to the help of online […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’re still working to adjust your curriculum, teaching approaches and course format in response to COVID-19, you’re not alone. One fellow educator, Donna Sue Shellman of Gaston College in Dallas, North Carolina, experienced the same transition and challenges: “Moving to an online course delivery method can be stressful, regardless of the circumstances, and can […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: Audrey Wick, a full-time English professor at Blinn College in central Texas. We may be socially distant, but we’re not socially isolated. The 2020 Back to School Better virtual conference proved this, with hundreds of instructors, administrators, Cengage authors and other thought leaders gathering to prepare for the fall semester. If you missed it, […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesShawn Orr is faculty in the Department of Communication Studies and the Director of the Center for Innovation and Teaching Excellence at Ashland University. Virtual office hours. That phrase likely conjures up one of two images in your mind: (A) hours of boredom and clock watching while you wait in solitude for students to […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article was updated 7/25/2025. Time management and its first cousin organization are my middle names. I was organizing disastrous drawers and catastrophic closets before Marie Kondo was born — and had plenty of time left over to do homework, babysit and read novels to excess. But here’s the rub: For people like me, time […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesStaying focused and productive on campus is difficult enough, but the prospect of either a hybrid or fully online semester facing many institutions this fall presents a whole new host of challenges. Maintaining productivity can become challenging when distractions abound at home—and escaping to the library or a café may not be an option for […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesJanet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer who teaches professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I’d graded the student’s work in other assignments, and I was 100 percent sure that what I was now reading was not his. I did a […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesAuthor: Corinne Hoisington, Professor of Information Systems Technology, Central Virginia Community College Sounds like most of us will be at times connecting remotely with our students and higher ed colleagues this fall. But, one of the big challenges is how to make these remote moments feel more like in-person classes, right? I have a great […]
