Feedback should be: Timely Supportive Geared toward improvement Focused on the work, not on the person Selective What does the student most need to know in order to improve? What is the student capable of understanding/doing at this time?What will give the student the biggest...
Author: AdjunctNation Editorial Team
by Rahel Anne Bailie When instructors and course designers create an online course, an accompanying FAQ page is often included as part of the package. While the creators of FAQ.
by Sylvia M. Gross The college textbook is on track to becoming a relic of the paper-and-ink era. On campuses around the country, professors and students are selecting digital versions.
[private] by Tamar Lewin An Israeli entrepreneur with decades of experience in international education plans to start the first global, tuition-free Internet university, a nonprofit venture he has named the University of the People. “The idea is to take social networking and apply it to...
by Rob Reynolds The current economic crisis is proving to be a game-changer in many industries. Car makers are re-evaluating their new car models and their expectations for sales. Financial.
The cuts are starting to strike nerves in the Seattle Community Colleges district. That’s what the district’s Board of Trustees found at their monthly meeting in February, when faculty members.
Despite a supervised vote by the Ontario Labor Relations Board, Ontario’s colleges are refusing to have the ballot boxes opened and the votes counted following a historic vote by part-time and sessional faculty members on whether to join a union. "The fact that the vote...
Professors and adjunct instructors at Montana State University appear to be headed for a vote this spring on the controversial question of whether to form a faculty union. Montana University.
by Marla Kay Houghteling WORDS ARE IMPORTANT to Ken Hardy; he doesn’t shy away from the difficult ones. He’d like his students to have this same respect for language. In.
by Cara Nissman Eva Mader has taught part-time for more than 20 years, but has only recently discovered she might have been entitled to receive retirement benefits since she started, thanks to the efforts of the Se attle-based law firm Bendich, Stobaugh & Strong, P.C....
