Nearly all dedicated NPR listeners have had the experience of sitting in their car with the radio on after arriving at their destination simply because
Instructors spend a considerable amount of time planning the topics, content, and activities in their courses, but comparatively little time thinking about the syllabus. The
Faculty tend to lament that student evaluations are just opportunities for students with bad grades to hammer their instructor. But I always believed that student
There is a wide range of apps offering free virtual reality content for educators that can be viewed with a $10 Google Cardboard Viewer, including
In the fall of 2017, Niki Bray had a problem. The University of Memphis instructor and instructional designer was tasked with redesigning and teaching an
Most faculty assume that students would welcome any use of social media in a course. After all, social media use is ubiquitous among students outside
When I was asked to create an online course 20 years ago, I simply transcribed my face-to-face lectures into 10–15 page Word documents that I
It is no secret that the cost of textbooks has skyrocketed over the past years, with students spending on average around a thousand dollars a
As instructors, we often assume that students must learn from us and no others. But feedback on performance is one of the most important factors
Most faculty think of studying as a solitary activity, especially in an online environment where students cannot simply set a time to meet in the
