New online faculty and course developers must understand that moving from face-to-face teaching to online teaching requires a change in mind-set from content creator to
When students do poorly on an assignment, faculty generally chalk it up to either a) lack of effort or b) lack of intelligence. But problems
When I see yet another survey asking faculty their opinions about whether online teaching can achieve learning outcomes as well as face-to-face teaching, I immediately
We seem to have advanced from the traditional web page to an “appified” world where we use a specific app to reach what we want
Drexel University is among several schools that offer students a free “test-drive” course before taking a full online class (Goodman 2017). This is a shortened
“Flipped learning” has become a hot catchphrase in education circles as of late, with many faculty members feeling the pressure to flip their courses to
I recently delivered the keynote speech at a teaching conference for medical school faculty. The theme of the conference was Technology in Teaching, and the
In a recent New York Times article, researchers point out that popular self-paced “brain training” programs have not been demonstrated to improve performance in school
TED Talks captivate us because their speakers apply fundamental principles of communication that are lost on 99 percent of speakers. Because teaching is fundamentally about
Faculty often assume that their digital millennial students will take to any classroom technology like a fish to water. But these faculty are often surprised
