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Choosing Assessments That Allow All Students to Succeed

Author: Dr. Jenny Billings, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College I’ve written and spoken a great deal on a process for creating goals and objectives to help measure course performance. This year, I think it’s...

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Let’s Be Direct: What’s Your Employability Strategy?

Author: Corina Santoro Derived from a post originally posted on WCET Frontiers I had the opportunity to partner with WCET and talk about soft skills—what they are, why they matter, how they impact...

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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...

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Student Perspective: Using the Career Center

By: Andrew Boeres, Wittenberg University student and Cengage intern The majority (77%) of current and former college students, like myself, are worried about having the skills needed for post-graduation in their...

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Flashcards: Show Students How to Use Them Correctly

tudents love flashcards. But if they have a bunch of index cards in front of them and make flashcards by just copying text from the text or the web and then...

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Start with the STUDENTS rather than the discipline

Start with the students rather than the discipline: this is the 3rd principle from Ken Bain’s book, “What the Best College Teachers Do” (pp. 110-112): …the best teachers start with something that, as...

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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...

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7 Key Active Listening Skills

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEveryone wants to feel that others are listening to them. But, most of us do not learn to listen. We learn to speak. All parents are excited when their children say...

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