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Students discuss with one another in library

Assignments with Significance

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Students view

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Student talks to professor in hallway

Afterthoughts

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on October 1, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved.  In face-to-face courses, learning is compartmentalized into blocks that

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Woman's brain side is filled with colors and imagination

Mind Wandering

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on November 23, 2016. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Many students don’t pay much attention in class. They

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Nursing students sit around nursing instructor at table

A Pilot Persistence Project

Recently, the sentiment has continued to ring true about the nursing shortage or the need of more nurses—we need more Registered Nurses (RNs) to take

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