Reading Time: 3 minutesMarie Guest is an experienced online educator and instructor at North Florida College Through much trial and error after teaching online and web-assisted courses for over 15 years, I have learned a simple truth—in the online classroom, instructors become less the “sage on the stage” and more the “guide on the side.” We prepare […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesChristal E. Carmichael is a Professor of Psychology at North Carolina Central University The world as we know it is changing drastically, right before our eyes. With the shift to online learning, our educational system is now realizing the value of virtual and personalized instruction. Education now operates with a completely different approach. While […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDiane Carter is Senior Instructor in the Department of Psychology and Communication Studies at the University of Idaho As a Cengage Faculty Partner, I’ve been speaking with faculty around the country who are all asking the same question: “How I can best translate the rich peer-to-peer learning experiences that have been a hallmark of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Annette Nellen, Co-Editor of the South-Western Federal Taxation series On June 22, 2020, a bipartisan group of senators introduced the Universal Giving Pandemic Response Act (press release of Senator Lankford). This bill would expand the above-the-line maximum $300 charitable contribution deduction temporarily added by the CARES Act (P.L. 116-136, 3/27/20). As with the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesEven if you’ve used WebAssign for your past courses, you’ll still have students each semester that need help getting started with the platform. To support you, we asked instructor and Faculty Partner Katie Culler from Surry Community College to share her tips and tricks to help students succeed in WebAssign. Keep reading for 6 peer tips […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesEssie Childers is a Professor of Student Success at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas. Do you feel as if you are building a boat while sailing? Figuratively speaking, many of us are doing just that. You’ve been called upon to move to an online environment, creating a replica of your face-to-face classes. I teach […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesProfessor Lisa Lawmaster Hess mentions a few tools and techniques that worked for her in her online classes (Seven Things That Worked in My Online Class) and many of them were also discussed here in the Cengage Blog. Here are some articles where we discuss these tools: Tools for Online Teaching Professor Hess prefers an […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesJanet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer who teaches professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz. One of the most pressing problems facing colleges during the COVID-19 crisis is retaining students—especially at-risk, low-income or underrepresented students who attend institutions of higher learning to gain social mobility. […]
