As teachers embrace digital tools for online learning, many online tools can enhance and facilitate the organization and delivery of courses. Google Docs, Google Sites,… Read More »Using Google Tools to Enhance Course Delivery
Like many faculty, it has been no easy feat to keep students engaged during class, especially in a physical geography course in which many undergraduate… Read More »Using Playing Cards to Encourage Student Participation and Engagement
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… Read More »Teach One, Save One: The Unlimited Power of Peer Education
I teach a business writing course, and I used to dread assigning group projects. While I valued the lessons teamwork provided, those takeaways were often… Read More »From Team Charters to Reflections: Six Steps for a Successful Group Project
Studies show that practice exams are the best way to prepare for real exams. This is because they implement spaced retrieval practice, with the learner… Read More »Practice Exams for Improved Learning
Plagiarism is concerning for colleges and universities (Curtis & Vardanega, 2016). Students begin higher education with varying degrees of knowledge on the topic of plagiarism;… Read More »Plagiarism Education: Considerations for the Semester Start-up
Now that we are safely (and slowly) going back to in-person classes, we have found that Flipped Instruction (FI) is on our mind. The logic… Read More »Flipping Back to Campus
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.… Read More »College-level Make and Take: Student Ownership of Collective Work
I teach General Education composition classes to first year undergraduate students, which can make my job challenging before students even step into my class. Students… Read More »Reflection: Changing the Learning Environment
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,… Read More »Syllabi: Best Practices or Just Best Guesses?