Sacrificing Perfection for Projection

As an online educator of adults, I’m always seeking opportunities to enhance the...

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Engagement: The First Order of Business

As if adult students didn’t face enough challenges and...

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Using the Cohort to Drive First-Year Student Engagement

In my previous blog post on Wikis, I mentioned some aspects...

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Why Teaching AI Prompting is a first step for First-Year Students

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Getting Students Outside of the Box

Persistence rates in higher education haven’t improved over...

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For Collaborative Learning: The Wiki

The collaborative skillset has rightfully taken its place in the upper echelon of...

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Does Facebook Have a Place in the Online Classroom?

This month we take a look at the overwhelming favorite SNS (Social Networking System)...

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Critical thinking and engagement in the political process—Why is it so difficult?

Recently there has been great interest in civics, the notion...

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I Feel the Need for Speed–How AI can help with creating effective scenarios and case studies for class discussions

I was in a department chat group the other day and we were...

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Confirmation bias—when you can’t see the forest for the trees

Imagine that one day a student approaches you in class and...

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The benefits of taking time—why we should slow down to explore examples in critical thinking

Teaching complex and sometimes tricky ideas like fallacies to...

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Fear, Anger, and Denial—How do critical thinkers deal with barriers during a crisis?

Have you ever made a bad choice in life? Most of us have at...

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Solving a problem? What method will you use?

In my...

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Thinking Critically About Learning Styles

I teach a class on critical thinking and try to incorporate a number of different...

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