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Taking Advantage of Your Students’ Smartphones

Author: Machiavelli W. Chao, Lecturer Continuing, The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine Many, many years ago, when I was an undergraduate student, the drill was pretty...

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Choosing Assessments That Allow All Students to Succeed

Author: Dr. Jenny Billings, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College I’ve written and spoken a great deal on a process for creating goals and objectives to help measure course performance. This year, I think it’s...

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Three Steps to Becoming a Culturally Responsive Teacher

Author: Essie Childers, Education Professor at Blinn College – Texas Let’s take a moment to step away from facts around student retention, building facilities, growing partnerships and enrollment numbers. Albeit, those topics...

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Making Noise with Mobile Learning

Author: Joseph Ferrantelli, Ed. D., Wagner College I spent 26 years working in one of the largest school systems in the world. Near the latter part of that time, there was a...

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Let’s Be Direct: What’s Your Employability Strategy?

Author: Corina Santoro Derived from a post originally posted on WCET Frontiers I had the opportunity to partner with WCET and talk about soft skills—what they are, why they matter, how they impact...

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Teaching Strategies to Motivate Online Students

If you teach online courses, you’re aware that your teaching strategies for engaging college students in a virtual setting have to accommodate the lack of face-to-face interactions. One of the greatest challenges...

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Tips for Taking Online Exams

For some students, taking an online exam is a new and somewhat bewildering experience. They don’t know what to expect, and aren’t certain of the skills and strategies that will enable them...

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Adjusting the Lens: Active Learning in Online Classes

Author: Shawn Orr, Director of the Center for Innovation & Teaching Excellence; Faculty in Communication Studies, Ashland University As a college faculty member for more than 25 years, I’ve taught thousands of...

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