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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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The Nutty Professor: Pedagogy of Class Humor

This post is a modified version of an article that originally appeared on BizCommBuzz. The longer I teach, the more I am thankful for my sense of humor. Not only do...

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Teaching Media Literacy: 4 Tips for Helping Students Identify Fake News

Janet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer of professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz. You’ve likely noticed a dearth of media literacy...

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