Active Learning
How to Engage Students in Active Learning
You’ve created new lesson plans and are experimenting with active learning in the classroom. The problem is, your students are completely…
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Vawn Himmelsbach
Vawn Himmelsbach is a journalist based in Toronto.
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Faculty Development
Course Evaluation: What’s Wrong and How to Fix it
Course evaluation often elicits groans from students — and can cause stress for instructors. There’s even an article1 in The Chronicle…
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Education Technology
How Does Technology Impact Student Learning?
How does technology impact student learning? Some postsecondary educators view technology as a distraction in the classroom. Even if they…
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Student Engagement
10 Classroom Icebreakers For College Professors
Classroom icebreakers encourage new students to have conversations, get to know each other and feel comfortable in your classroom. They’re…
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Innovation in Teaching
10 Team Building Activities for Students
Team building isn’t just for the corporate workplace — it can also be used in the classroom to encourage collaboration, problem-solving…
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Student Engagement
Ethos, Pathos, Logos: How Rhetoric Can Improve Your Teaching
The three rhetorical appeals — pathos, ethos, logos — were defined by Aristotle hundreds of years ago, but they’re just as relevant…
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Education Technology
YouTube in the Classroom: 7 Tips and Best Practices
While YouTube is better known for Taylor Swift and video game commentary than higher education, the video hosting platform has gone from a…
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Faculty Development
How To Become a Tenure Track Professor
Looking to get on the tenure track? Here's what you need to plan for, and how to get there
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Student Assessment
Curriculum Based Measurement: How To Get Started
While exams are designed to test and score knowledge, they don’t always indicate how well students are progressing through course…
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Education Technology
6 Pros & Cons of Technology in the Classroom in 2019
For professors, new technology can be a fantastic opportunity to experiment and grow in realms not originally considered
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Agile Classroom
Course Design For Agile Teaching: 5 Ideas To Try
Rote learning has become passé. So has passive teaching. These days, top educators are thinking about being agile and engaging, and…
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Student Engagement
How To Motivate Students: Some Different Approaches
It’s an age-old problem faced by teachers: how to motivate students. While research has found a correlation between motivation and…
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New to Teaching
Reflective Teaching: Some Tips To Get Started
Some days, students respond well to your lesson; other days you can’t seem to get through. That’s where reflective teaching can help. As…
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Education Technology
Educational Technology Grants: Where to Apply and How
Finding out about educational technology grants — especially ones that are relevant to higher education — isn’t as straightforward as…
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New to Teaching
How to Become an Adjunct Professor
If you love to teach and have a passion for your industry, you may want to consider part-time work in higher education. Here’s how to…
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Education Technology
Experiential Education Provides Deep Learning Opportunities
How experiential education can take place inside the classroom through techniques such as role-playing, simulations and collaborative group…
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Active Learning
Self-Regulated Learning: 5 Ways to Add it to Your Class
With so much uncertainty in the job market, self-regulated learning has become an essential skillset for lifelong learning and the ability…
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Education Technology
9 Teaching Podcasts to Boost Your Edtech Knowledge
There are tons of resources for educators on everything from new technology to digital pedagogy, teaching strategies and thought leadership…
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Education Technology
Should Cellphones Be Allowed in School? Only With a Plan
Should cellphones be allowed in school? College students are going to bring their cellphones to class no matter what you do. As a teacher,…
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Trends in Higher Education
Keylogging is the Latest Way of Cheating in College
Professors have always had to contend with cheating in college, but thanks to the growing use of technology in the classroom, students are…