How to Use Breakout Rooms to Promote Student Engagement Melinda Doty is a full-time Faculty Member at East Carolina University How many times have we stood in front of a class, looking at a sea of blank stares? If...
How to Use Low-Stakes Assignments to Bring Fun to the Online Classroom Elyse Adler is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology In the online learning environment, it’s tempting to get right to the point and only give students the meat and potatoes,...
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...
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...
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...
Discouraging Social Loafing in Group Work Janet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer who teaches professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz. Nearly everyone who has ever worked on...
College Graduates Optimistic About Future Despite Mounting Loan Debt & Housing Costs [INFOGRAPHIC] Cengage sponsored a survey conducted by Wakefield Research to explore the opportunity environment for graduates across 17 indicators, including economic, employment, social and personal well-being. The findings revealed that students are...
How to Build Learning Communities Online Sherri Singer is a Professor and Department Head for Social & Behavioral Sciences at Alamance Community College in North Carolina. Learning communities have been a topic of discussion since the...