by Nicholas Tampio, Asim Ali, Patricia A. Young and Shital Thekdi One of the most intense discussions taking place among university faculty is whether to permit students…
critical thinking
by Robert Danisch The modern research university was designed to produce new knowledge and to pass that knowledge on to students. North American universities over the last 100 years…
by KC Kulver How hard should it be to earn a college degree? When the book “Academically Adrift” appeared in 2011, it generated widespread concern that college was not…
by Ama McKinley I’m a first semester instructor this fall, guiding 106 students as they learn Human Communication and Graphic Design. Sometimes, this job still feels like i’m being punked.…
By Jenny Ortiz It's no secret that as a society, we get our basic legal information from the television show "Law & Order." When I interact with…
by Robert Borger It seems to me that the new buzzword in online education is "Critical Thinking." I just completed a Webinar about the topic last month,…
by Robert Borger It seems to me that the new buzzword in online education is "Critical Thinking." I just completed a Webinar about the topic last month,…
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA When you consider how the process of learning occurs within an online classroom, you are likely to find that the necessary…
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA When students begin a class they are assigned course materials, resources and a syllabus, along with additional information provided by their…
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA Most adjuncts would agree that every student has an ability to learn and often that ability is influenced by such characteristics…
