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Tips for Student Success in an Online Course

Online learning may appeal to students for any number of reasons: the convenience of anytime, anywhere learning; the flexible and self-paced nature of many courses; and the asynchronous type of discussions that...
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Get Plugged In: Ten Attributes of a Successful Online Student

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThough students increasingly opt for online courses, many of them are unprepared to work in this environment. This infographic, highlighting the “10 Attributes of a Successful Online Student as listed Joel...
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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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