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Turning Inward: Student Self-Care Management Online

Katherine M. Patterson and Madeline Craig January 30, 2023

Social-emotional learning (SEL) is a framework for teaching that holds that developing social and emotional competencies is an essential part of human development. SEL adopts five competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning,

Working Smarter, Not Harder: Reimagining Your Role as Online Instructor

Noreen Moore January 30, 2023

Recent conversations about online learning have centered on ways to create dynamic online courses where students and instructors are engaged (Page et al., 2020). Online discussion forums are spaces where engagement happens. Here, instructors use feedback to motivate students, stimulate conversation, and encourage deep

The Importance of Making Students Teachable

Stephen L. Chew January 23, 2023

I’m a professor of psychology, and I’ve taught courses in behavioral statistics and research methods my entire career. No one decides to major in psychology for the chance to take statistics and research methods. Students usually choose the major because they want to help

Teaming Up to Lower Frustration: Collaborations with Librarians to Improve Student Learning

Stephani Rodgers and Kristine Artello January 23, 2023

Assigned short papers with research and application components expose students to the analytical process of research and writing; too often, however, students turn in papers without any appropriate or reliable sources. We have noted in recent years that college students’ abilities to distinguish appropriate academic

Ground Learning with Interactive Panoramas

John Orlando January 23, 2023

If you’ve considered using virtual reality in your course but are daunted by the tech required, there is a simple version that requires nothing more than a smartphone and free online apps. Three-hundred-sixty-degree panorama images, the kind made famous by Google Street View, can

Add Some Pop to Your Teaching: The Value of Pop-Up Courses to Students and the World

Heather Keith January 17, 2023

When news broke of the Margory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on Valentine’s Day 2008, students and faculty at the small liberal arts college where I taught at the time were catapulted out of the pastoral slumber and relative safety of our tiny rural

ChatGPT or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Generative AI

John Orlando January 17, 2023

The recent emergence of ChatGPT has hit higher education like a lightning bolt, leaving many educators trying to process its implications. ChatGPT is a free website that allows users to type in questions and get a remarkably well-written response that looks like a

Spark Curiosity and Build Community on the First Day

Yanping Ma January 17, 2023

The first day of class is a big deal. Just as there is only one chance at love at first sight, teachers like us only have one chance to demonstrate of each class. As Sarah Rose Cavanagh (2016) writes, “On the first few days

Changing for the Better: Pedagogical Innovations Never Rest

Regan A. R. Gurung January 9, 2023

Every January, millions of people around the world resolve to do things differently. Some want to eat better. Some want to keep in better touch with friends. Others want to travel more. Many want to get more physically active. A lot of these resolutions

Food for Thought: Setting the Table for Learning

Lolita Paff January 9, 2023

Whenever a restaurant asks him for a credit card to schedule a reservation, New York Times food critic Pete Wells writes, “I hear several messages, none of them warm and fuzzy. [The practice] says that I’m not trustworthy. . . . It says that a reservation isn’t