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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, so...
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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...
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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