Share By Nancy A. Walker, Ph.D. How do online instructors maintain consistent teaching at the doctoral level? Are there tricks, tips, special formulas? There are proven methods that aid instructors in preserving an even balance at the doctoral level. While teaching online is a different venue in and of itself, teaching doctoral courses brings another [...]
Share By Nancy A. Walker, Ph.D. As we are bombarded with Internet access and a multitude of quick “information,” learners often have questions about what constitutes a credible scholarly source. Let’s look at aiding students in searching for data, sources, understanding credibility, and establishing positive scholarship in the online course room. When searching for data [...]
Share By Rich Russell (This post for for my fellow AN blogger Kat. Kat, I hope at least some of this is helpful.) The best advice I received when I first started teaching was, of course, from my mom, who taught high school herself for ten years before taking a few years “off” to have [...]
Share By Nancy A. Walker, Ph.D. As technology has changed over the course of the years, so has effective education. In this week’s blog, we will take a look at effective adjunct teaching at the doctoral level. We will look at online instruction through the eyes of “active” instruction/coaching. What are the components of effectively [...]
Share By Rich Russell I was setting up small group workshops in my online Creative Writing I class last week. Blackboard makes it so easy to do this: In the “Teach” tab, go to “Create Groups” and then “Create Multiple Groups” and “Randomly Distribute Students” into however many groups one wants. I chose “4 groups” [...]
Share By Rich Russell “Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine? [...] It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation [...]. [...]
Share By Rich Russell I had a student in a traditional class last semester (let’s call him “Anthony”) who was a bit of a Holden Caulfield. (I don’t think he’d mind my saying that.) He got along well with his peers, but he harbored a healthy amount of skepticism about the modern world. At first [...]
Share By Rich Russell “Inside the Machine,” in Forster’s short story, Kuno’s mother Vashti is a lecturer on music history. Here, where every individual is confined to a separate room — where all needs are met by the Machine — Forster writes, “The clumsy system of public gatherings had been long since abandoned; neither Vashti nor [...]
Share By Rich Russell My mom said to me recently, “In twenty-five years, none of this [waving arms about to indicate college building] will exist.” We were sitting in her office at the place where she has taught for twenty-five years now; where I have taught, as an adjunct, for four. She paused to look [...]
Share By P.D. Lesko I meet with our web page programmer on a weekly basis. I can’t even begin to tell you all of the things I’ve learned about web page architecture, interactivity, design and upkeep since Ryan Sexton and I began working together almost eight years ago. During our last meeting, I commented that [...]
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