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How Educators Create an Inclusive Course Experience [eBOOK]

Reading Time: < 1 minute“Diversity is being invited to the party, inclusion is being asked to dance,” said Vernā Myers, VP of Inclusion Strategy at Netflix. So, if diversity initiatives put forth by institutions are...

Celebrate Diversity

Celebrate Diversity: Micro-Integrations in Curriculum

Meilani Conley is an Instructor in Computer and Information Sciences at Southwest Baptist University. Teachers may find it both daunting and difficult to naturally integrate diversity into their curriculum, but I...

Online Discussion Boards

3 Tips to Help You Get the Most Out of Discussion Boards in an Online Course

Elyse Adler is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology In an online class, the course discussion board often takes the place of the face-to-face discussions you’d normally have in the classroom....

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7 of the Funniest Online Teaching Confessions

Educators are only human. We all make mistakes—and this year gave us a lot of opportunities to slip-up in front of students. But blunders are part of the learning process. And the...

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Racism in Higher Ed: One Instructor’s Perspective

Dr. Cherly Gary-Furdge is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology at North Central Texas College I am an African-American woman, working at a predominantly white institution. This year I celebrated...

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5 Tips for Humanizing Your Online Course

Essie Childers is a professor of Student Success at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas Many of you may remember the clip from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off featuring the Boring Economics Teacher....

Higher Ed 2021 Predictions

5 Predictions for 2021 That Will Affect Your Classroom

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that we can’t see into the future with any accuracy. For college students, this year was an unexpected, volatile rollercoaster that disrupted every aspect of campus...

Student and Parent During COVID

What It’s Like Being a First-Time Mom and a Full-Time Student During a Pandemic

Author: Destiny Woodhouse, Cengage Student Ambassador In September 2019, a month into a new semester and into a new on-campus job, I found out I was pregnant. It was certainly not...

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