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Tips for Helping (You and) Your Students Identify and Overcome the Discomfort of New Beginnings in the Classroom

by Kate Whalen COVID-19 catapulted our society on a mass scale into the online environment, and often we weren’t prepared. Many of us were forced to equip ourselves with new skills and tackle new challenges. For instance, beyond changing how we worked, some of us also...

How Keeping a Diary Helps Students Learn Foreign Languages

Using a diary after each lesson helped students consolidate what they had learned in class and reflect on the new language connections they had made. by Argyro Kanaki and Susana.

Student-Designed Video Games Made me Rethink How I Teach History

by Adam Clulow Imagine you’re a young samurai in Japan in 1701. You have to make a difficult choice between an impoverished life in exile, or the prospect of almost.

Why Your Students Remember More by Reading – Especially Print

by Naomi S. Baron During the pandemic, many college professors abandoned assignments from printed textbooks and turned instead to digital texts or multimedia coursework. As a professor of linguistics, I have been studying how electronic communication compares to traditional print when it comes to learning. Is comprehension the...

Malaysia’s Largest University Looks to Trim Jobs of 600 Part-time Lecturers After Funding Cut

by Rahimi Yunus Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) is likely to terminate its part-time lecturer program and trim its strategic plan after funding was slashed under Budget 2021 announced this month..

The Not-So-Free Speech Argument Against Teaching Law as an Adjunct

by Eugene Volokh Over the years, many successful lawyers have asked me how they might get an adjunct teaching job—a part-time job teaching one specialty class in a subject they.

Why Grammar Matters

by Laurie Ann Britt-Smith After 20 years of teaching academic writing to both native speakers and English language learners, I can attest that at some point, just about everyone asks me why, or even whether, grammar matters. There is more than one way to define...

COVID-19 Has Transformed University Teaching – Here’s What We Should Stick With

by Paul Cowell COVID-19 has been extraordinarily challenging for universities and students, and the disruption will likely persist beyond the rollout of a vaccine. The demands on academic staff and.

Share These 4 Tips With Your Students to Help Them Avoid Procrastinating with their Online Work

by Kul Xie and Sheng-Lun Cheng If you teach classes online, chances are you your students probably procrastinate from time to time. Research shows that more than 70% of college students procrastinate,.

Jumping off the Adjunct and onto the Full-Time Track in the Time of COVID-19

by Andrew M. Abernathy Nearly one year ago, before COVID-19 engulfed us all, something spectacular happened—the long awaited call came. After more than two years of a nationwide job search, I finally had the chance to become a “real” college professor at a major, R1...

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