On every campus, there is a course or set of courses that students automatically dismiss in their minds, perhaps a math course, a writing course,
Many, if not most, college students work part- or full-time jobs while going to school. They often find it difficult to be at a specific
From consideration to commitment Last spring, I joined a campus mentoring cohort that paid a generous stipend to consider the possibility of integrating open educational
Designing a course can be daunting. Do you get an instructional designer involved? Do you incorporate backward design or even a hybrid approach? Is there
There is no shortage of professorial eye rolling when it comes to the subject of students and syllabi. Students might read the syllabus, but they typically
In preparation for the coming semester, a faculty member recently asked me how to change deadlines on the LMS to midnight on a given day.
Instructors often experience problems between the directions given for an assignment and the work submitted by a student. Students miss important parts of questions; they
Declining numbers of traditional-age high school graduates, changing student demographics, pandemic unpredictability, and struggles with student retention are creating what can be termed a “perfect
Have you ever struggled to get students to do required readings? Do your students treat them as optional? Perhaps they do the readings, but when
I said to myself in spring of 2019, after reading through the final papers for a class, “I cannot read another history research paper.” I
