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Mental Health

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Student Self-Care Tips: How to Balance School, Work and Life

Lindsey Myers is a Mechanical Engineering major from New Mexico State University    Since my early years in grade school, I’ve had to learn how to balance school and life. In elementary school, it was girl scouts’ meetings,...
How Online Learners and Professors Can Communicate

What I Wish My Professors Knew About Life as An Online Learner

Shaloun Mims is a student at The  University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee  and a Cengage Student Ambassador   One of the most fascinating things about professors is that they were once students. And it’s...
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Zoom Fatigue: How to Prevent Burnout in Students

Beth Ryan is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Business and Entrepreneurship department at Columbia College Chicago   I am increasingly more fatigued after teaching synchronous online classes and spending so much...
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Maintaining Emotional Balance While Teaching in a Pandemic

This post’s authors, Anitre Bell and Essie Childers, are college educators and Cengage Faculty Partners   Ready or not, colleges and universities are opening doors to students, offering different learning formats. Some...
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How to Beat the 24/7 On-Call Feeling When Teaching Online

Dr. Ashley Hall is an experienced business educator with a passion for leadership development   Your cellphone vibrates on the table and your email continues to ding on your nearby open laptop....
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Helping Online Students Be Successful

Marie 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...
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7 Ways to Show Presence and Compassion in Online Spaces

Essie 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...
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Dear Diary: Online Teaching—Are We Having Fun Yet?

Janet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer of professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz.   This is part two of my series chronicling...
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