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...
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...
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...
10 Tips for Teaching Online: Practical Advice from Instructors No matter how long you’ve been standing in front of a classroom, teaching online can be a daunting task. Online classes can feel quite different from in-person classes, and you may not...
Using Social Media to Support Professional Development in Higher Ed As college institutions move quickly to adopt new tools and methods for distance learning in response to COVID-19, in-person professional development opportunities have become scarce. Nearly all of today’s college educators use...
What Do Old Polar Bears and Great Teachers Have in Common? They Know How to Break the Ice! Class Ice Breakers Polar bears break the ice to survive. Teachers break the ice to thrive. Join this interactive, high-energy webinar and explore ways to use icebreakers and topic starters to socialize,...
Xenophobia: An Ugly Byproduct of Covid-19 Janet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer of professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz. As if COVID-19 weren’t ugly enough, we are...
Making the Move to Online Reading Time: < 1 minuteAuthor: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University Here are some ideas as you move your Introduction to American Politics classes online. Here’s how I’ve moved my class online. I’ve dropped and modified...