Teaching

Here’s what students hope you’ll keep doing in the fall — and what they hope you’ll drop.

New research from Frank Castelli & Mark Sarvary: Why students don't turn on their cameras https://t.co/24MpnNEaQE #PPRS21 #edtech #highered #onlinelearning https://t.co/moNoSndiME

Description: As we pass the tragic milestone of a year since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, higher ed is in a collective mourning process that compounds personal loss with grief for the ways we used to teach, to learn together, to see each other in the halls without masks, and to advance our shared […]

For this Microfiction writing option, the idea is to take a 100-word story you have already written (here's the Microfiction writing option ...

An education expert suggests good practices teachers can use to build community with students and create a caring climate in their courses.

We’re reaching the end of the semester and if you’re a student, you’ll probably be doing student evaluations and/or filling out rate my professor. I wanted to make a thread about some do’s and dont’s of student evaluations from a professor’s perspective.

Every story is an opportunity to have a conversation with your audience about what journalism is for and how journalists conduct their work. Each type of story presents different questions and different ways to encourage news fluency, in an organic and contextual manner. In this section, we’ll list nine types of stories and the unique […]

Why a professor no longer grades students on how much they speak up in class.

Looking for open access, peer-reviewed distance education journals (other than OLJ and IRRODL). Anyone?— Jon Becker (@jonbecker) April 5, 2021

Q to students: Are you anxious about anything (related to your learning) when you think about returning to a full in-person classroom schedule in the fall? See replies 👇🏼

It is often assumed that online collaboration, teamwork and communications is inferior to face-to-face equivalents as we miss the visual cue...

In part 1, we'll explore activities to structure an online discussion to encourage learners to apply the concepts they have learned in class.

As instructors, many of us are covering less content this academic year. Maybe that’s a good thing for students.

How can academe make best use of the faculty’s vast new capacity to teach with technology?

Photo of retro rotary dial phone in tealImage source: How to teach online using only email and a phone and maybe one other tool There’s been a lot of a great resources being shared by so many…

I think I cracked the code on encouraging students to engage in meaningful academic discussion in Google Meet breakout rooms.1/— Jeffery E. Frieden 🌱 (@SurthrivEDU) March 10, 2021

Dr. Viji Sathy explains how midsemester feedback helps keep your students engaged and improves your practice.

According to The National University of Singapore’s Center for Development of Teaching and Learning, debates are used to “effectively increase student involvement and participation.” Specifically, …

We have to begin to imagine better digital pedagogies, more critical digital pedagogies, which go farther than the mere implementation of design.

Odessa is a four-part audio documentary series about one West Texas high school reopening during the pandemic — and the teachers, students and nurses affected in the process. For the past six months, The New York Times has documented students’ return to class at Odessa High School from afar through Google hangouts, audio diaries, phone calls and FaceTime tours. And as the country continues to debate how best to reopen schools, Odessa is the story of what happened in a school district that was among those that went first.