Reading Time: < 1 minuteStudents usually hate group projects because one or two people in the group wind up doing most of the work. Here’s an activity that demonstrates this idea of “social loafing” and hopefully this will spark an excellent conversation among your students about the importance of everyone contributing to the group work. Social Loafing Create Groups: […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy: William A. Raabe, Co-Editor of the South-Western Federal Taxation series U.S. Supreme Court cases involving tax law are rare, numbering one every year or two. But the cases that the court does hear tend to become important sources of judicial tax law, whether they involve broad (e.g. Wayfair, 2018, regarding sales/use tax nexus for online transactions) or […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe asked instructors from across the country to share how their course has changed since moving to remote teaching. Keep reading to find some great tips they’ve used to help their students succeed and find balance in an online environment. How Has Going Online Changed the Way You Host Class? Video has become an increasingly […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s summertime again, so make the most of your free time! Freshen up your WebAssign skills and learn how to address your most pressing course challenges with WebAssign’s flexible settings and tools. Don’t have a lot of time? That’s okay! Choose what you’d like to learn based on the time you have. Asking students […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes“Sometimes happy accidents happen, but they can only happen if you’re prepared for them.” Eric Galis, vice president of security and compliance at Cengage, likes to describe his journey to his career in information security as a series of happy accidents. A childhood love of building and tinkering with electronics led him to study computer […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYour students may be wondering whether hateful tweets can increase crime. Recent research shows that there is a correlation. A study from Cornell University demonstrated this connection. Researchers examined examined over 500 million tweets between 2011 and 2016 (if you’re wondering how they could look at 500 million tweets, you’ll be relieved to know that […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAuthor: Professor Clare Brock If you watched the democratic debates, you might have heard Amy Klobuchar bring up gerrymandering. This is a common subject to tackle in Introductory U.S. Government classes, but it can be tough for students to understand who does it, how it works, and why it matters. Fortunately, some great online resources […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: Professor Sherri Singer We began a unique honors experiment in back in the Fall of 2017. Twenty students were admitted and given an in depth experience including: lunches with the college president, attending high level campus events, and discussion-based classes and research projects that spanned politics, history, communications and critical thinking. Informed Citizenship These […]
