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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...

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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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 a...

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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 largely...

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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 1990s....

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Making Your Online Instruction as Active & Dynamic as it was Face-to-Face

Parnella Baul is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Monroe County Community College Creating online instruction that is as active and dynamic as a face-to-face course involves three key elements: course...

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How to Use Oral Exams in Any Course Format

Joseph Ferrantelli is a Professor of Education at Hunter College. Administering oral exams isn’t something new. If you’re a Language Professor, you often give a section where students have to listen...

Growth vs Fixed Minsets

Cultivating Growth Mindset in the Classroom & Beyond

A growth mindset isn’t just for the business world—applications in the classroom have critical implications for success, too. Carol Dweck’s research, summarized in her book, Mindset, shows how growth and fixed mindsets...

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