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. [Portions of this post originally appeared in BizComBuzz but have been updated to reflect the pandemic’s effect on our students.] Even before COVID-19 turned our world upside down, I had […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis post is a modified version of an article that originally appeared on BizCommBuzz. By the end of the academic year, both students and instructors are ready to call it quits. Students are bleary-eyed from finishing assignments and studying for finals. Instructors are gearing up for marathon grading sessions. It’s no wonder that in […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe emergency pivot to online learning has impacted many campuses and created uncertainty for institutions across the country. To salvage the semester, 97% of institutions called upon faculty with no prior online teaching experience for some of their courses. Adapting curriculum on the fly, faculty were forced to adjust student expectations and explore new instructional […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesDue to COVID-19, many, if not most, college students have been learning fully online, finishing out their semesters or courses from home and in front of the computer. Though the initial transition from on-campus classroom to virtual “classroom” has passed, there’s still a need to keep students motivated and on the path to success—especially as […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you ever heard someone say something that you had heard from someone else, somewhere before and because heard it before you figured it was probably true. The Repetition Effect As Stephen Colbert might say, it has a certain “truthiness” to it. That’s the essence of the so-called “Repetition Effect” – when we hear something […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs you prepare your Calculus course for next semester, have you considered the ways you can use Explore Its to deeply engage your students? If you’d like to make your lectures interactive, or help students correlate concepts and application, consider using Explore Its into your Calculus course. What are Explore Its? Explore Its are interactive […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesEach year you and your students encounter new challenges – in and out of the classroom. The Cengage team has been hard at work creating new question types and assignments to help you engage students in Developmental Math topics, on a deeper level. Continue reading to learn how to engage students with new question types available […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile creating a solid study plan that spans over several days is considered the best practice for exams, sometimes life happens, and students need to fit a week’s worth of studying into a few days, or even just one night. With that in mind, here are three study plans students can use no matter how […]
