Vawn Himmelsbach

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Education Technology

Tips for Finding Good OER Content for Your Course

Instructors are increasingly using Open Educational Resources (OER). But given the wide variety of materials available, how do you judge…

Student Assessment

How Instructors Can Prevent Cheating in College

Long before the existence of the Internet, students have found ways to cheat. They wrote mathematical formulas on their hands or tried to…

Faculty Development

Hurricane Preparedness and Recovery: What Faculty Should Do

In late August and early September, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma wreaked havoc not only on homes and businesses, but on post-secondary…

Educational ROI

Would You Pay $150K for a Journalism Degree?

Columbia’s esteemed journalism school is offering a new degree program that incorporates data science — for a price tag of $147,514. In…

New to Teaching

Behind the Buzzwords: A Guide to Modern Education Jargon

We’ve started a glossary to explain some of the more confusing education jargon used to describe modern teaching techniques and lesson…

Educational ROI

Buying Textbooks vs. Renting: What Professors Should Know

Hardcover college textbooks can cost up to $400, and many classes require multiple textbooks—which is why students are being forced to…

Flipped Classroom

Flipped Learning 3.0: Take Teaching Beyond PowerPoint

About the further evolution of flipped learning, where learners can collaborate in online discussions with peers or even subject matter…

Educational ROI

College Cost of Living: Not an Exact Science

Postsecondary institutions have wildly different ideas of how much it costs to live in school—and it varies even for institutions in the…

Innovation in Teaching

How Pioneer Grace Hopper Changed Computer Science

After a residential college was named for her at Yale, computer scientist Grace Hopper now has some of the recognition she deserves.

Education Technology

6 Pros & Cons of Technology in the Classroom in 2018

For professors, new technology can be a fantastic opportunity to experiment and grow in realms not originally considered