As an instructor, what does it mean to be a good listener? Is it about the actions taken when responding to a learner’s message? When an adult learner is communicating.

You know how the dialogue goes when trying to explain your career path to people outside academia. Oftentimes the thought of working online from the comfort of home is too much for people to comprehend. Then there are those we meet in academia who thumb their...

After working for twenty-five years in the financial services industry I started on my quest to change careers and entered into the teaching field during the fall of 2008. I.

This first week of the semester in my online classes, students are required to post an introduction of themselves. Some students write lyric, Dickensian accounts of their lives up to.

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By Kat Kiefer-Newman Do you remember writing those horrible gradeschool essays "What I did for my summer vacation"? I always hated those because we rarely did anything at all. I would sit and listen, hours and hours, it seemed, while my classmates elaborated on trips to...

By Kat Kiefer-Newman Welcome back, Adjuncts!  Does it feel welcome at your institution(s) of higher learning?  My classes began this week at both schools - that's never happened before -.

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