Learning through Examples: Inductive Learning
Imagine that you are a first-year student in a biology course. The goal of today’s class is to describe the topic of biology: What is
Annie Prud’homme-Généreux, PhD
May 9, 2022
Course Design
Benefits to Beginning Class with a Visible Agenda
When students first enter your class, whether it be in person or in a virtual setting, what do the students see? Is there anything for
Joanne Ricevuto
April 18, 2022
Course Content and Course Assignments: Considerations to Help with Student Plagiarism
Student plagiarism occurs in different disciplines and in all years of study (Holt, 2012; Wang, 2008). Plagiarism in colleges and universities is concerning (MacLennan, 2018).
Julia Colella, PhD
April 11, 2022
Why the “Why” Matters to Adult Learners
The word pedagogy continues to be bandied about in higher education despite increasing numbers of adults returning to the classroom. Additionally, online asynchronous courses continue
Kristen L. Becker, MLS, MBA, EdD
March 21, 2022
Distancing Solutions: Three Options for Socially Distant Peer Review Sessions
For many of us, when COVID-19 entered our classrooms certain cherished classroom activities became problematic and potentially hazardous. For those teaching face-to-face, classrooms were suddenly
Jennifer P. Gray, PhD
March 14, 2022
Empowering College Students to be OER Creators and Curators
Imagine the possibilities if students learn not only how to use open educational resources (OER), but also how to curate and design OER in their
Robert Maloy, EdD, and Torrey Trust, PhD
February 7, 2022
Teach One, Save One: The Unlimited Power of Peer Education
Students learning from one other is the foundation of peer learning. Peer learning covers many different practices, such as the traditional model of peers teaching
Jane Boyd, BS, Angela Dominelli, PhD, and John Polimeni, PhD
January 19, 2022
College-level Make and Take: Student Ownership of Collective Work
A desired objective for college professors is for their students’ work to be meaningful and applicable to their lives. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case.
Tony Monahan, PhD
January 7, 2022
Syllabi: Best Practices or Just Best Guesses?
Syllabi are a frequent subject of education research. Over the last decade, researchers have measured and assessed student responses to syllabus tone, voice, length, design,
Miriam Abbott, MA, Lindsey Luther, DNP, and Roxanne Oliver, DNP
January 3, 2022
Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences with an Interactive Customizable Textbook
One of the most fulfilling things I’ve done as an educator is to write my own textbook. Not just any textbook—an interactive digital textbook that
Stephen Buckles, PhD
October 25, 2021