By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. I've noticed that each semester there are a handful of students who really come alive the last two weeks of class! They…
By Melissa McDonald Imagine walking into your department head's office and saying, "I'm giving up my full-time renewable teaching position to pursue adjunct teaching several states away." Okay,…
By Bruce A. Johnson, PhD, MBA With this two part series the concept of student motivation is examined. As noted in my first blog posting, student motivation is an…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman It's finals week. My college-attending daughters are running around like coffee-addicted wind-up toys. My husband is beyond stressed. I am quivering in the corner,…
By Rich Russell A few weeks ago, I posted the following assignment for my two sections of online Composition II students: Discussion: Wikipedia and the Iraq War.…
By Ron Tinsley In my previous entry, "Predicting the Future of College Teaching: Robo Adjuncts & GPS Student Trackers," I offered up the first five of ten predictions…
By Jenny Ortiz As a Freeway Flyer I've been able to see the diversity not only within a classroom, but within different colleges, as well. When I…
By Erik Hanson Way back in my first post "Confessions of a Phobic (or Better Yet, a Realist)," I mentioned that I teach composition, a subject wholly unrelated…
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA In the previous blog series the issue of student engagement was examined. When instructors are evaluating students and their involvement in…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I've been sick. Very, very sick. We all get sick, I know. This Fall semester, though, the weather seems especially chaotic, and my students…
