Persistence rates in higher education haven’t improved over the last two decades and though student retention is obviously a key success factor, alone it isn’t a...
Getting Students Outside of the Box
For Collaborative Learning: The Wiki
The collaborative skillset has rightfully taken its place in the upper echelon of transferable skills deemed essential to college graduates of all learning modalities. Indeed, overwhelmingly...
Does Facebook Have a Place in the Online Classroom?
This month we take a look at the overwhelming favorite SNS (Social Networking System) among college students: Facebook (Jumaat et al, 2019). With over 2 billion monthly active users (Aslam,...
Thinking Critically About Learning Styles
I teach a class on critical thinking and try to incorporate a number of different ideas to open this topic up to folks who have never thought about “thinking about your thinking.”
In...
Questioning: Building Bridges and Making Connections
How many questions have you asked in your class this week? If you are teaching a lecture type class you may have a reserved period at the end of class and there may be questions, or the...