Share By Rich Russell The season for reading is here, friends! I feel guilty about how little progress I’ve made on the stack of books nesting on my bedside table: a veritable, vertical library that teeters like some structurally unsound tower threatening to collapse and smother me in my sleep (a poetic end to be [...]
Share by Robert Borger It seems to me that the new buzzword in online education is “Critical Thinking.” I just completed a Webinar about the topic last month, have plenty of messages about how to increase critical thinking with my students, and see it come up in grading templates and rubrics continually. This is something [...]
Share by Robert Borger I have always had more than one job, ever since I started working. This all started before high school, when I started the typical lawn mowing service for friends and neighbors for fun money. I actually remember the article I read as a kid about letting people know about your willingness [...]
Share By Nancy A. Walker, Ph.D. How do adult students benefit from a collaborative learning environment? As an online facilitator/faculty member, we are to foster and support collaboration between students. Needless to say, there are always challenges to this collaborative journey due to the online learning/teaching format. How can we lessen these and have a [...]
Share By Nancy A. Walker, Ph.D. How do adult students benefit from a collaborative learning environment? As an online facilitator/faculty member, we are to foster and support collaboration between students. Needless to say, there are always challenges to this collaborative journey due to the online learning/teaching format. How can we lessen these and have a [...]
Share By Rich Russell As an adjunct professor, I don’t always have the “privilege” of being able to choose my own textbook. If one is assigned for a course — whether that’s by me or by the college — I feel obligated to use it as much as possible. I don’t care for professors who [...]
Share By Rich Russell Now that I have time to catch up on a few articles that have been languishing in my inbox since spring break, I realize that I failed to recognize (having just had a chance to read) Steve Kolowich’s article “Built for Distance” posted on Inside Higher Ed (May 16, 2011). His [...]
Share By Nancy A. Walker, Ph.D. Do undergraduate and graduate students become aware of their expectations in online assignments, discussions and work for their thesis/dissertations? Is it pertinent to have students journal so that they can become even more aware of application and their development? We are seeing journaling used as a developmental growth “tool” [...]
Share By Nancy A. Walker, Ph.D. In my June 9, 2011 entry, I began to look at journaling as a tool in the online classroom and how journaling can help students succeed. As we continue to look at journaling from the perspective of a “tool” for use in the online classroom, it is important to [...]
Share By Rich Russell In a recent column for The Chronicle of Higher Ed, Rob Jenkins highlights what we need to consider in our zealous pursuit of online education (“the third-rail in American higher education politics”), where retention rates, Jenkins notes, are just 50ish percent, yet few seem to worry. Two personal statistics that might [...]
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