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No Production Crew, No Problem: Delivering Broadcast-Quality Online Classes with Open Broadcaster Software

Alym Amlani and John Shepherd November 18, 2024

Whether you teach synchronously online or create asynchronous video content for your students, producing professional-looking material has always been a challenge without a production team—until now. This article explores how Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) empowers educators to craft engaging, broadcast-quality learning experiences for both synchronous

Seven Simple Strategies to Increase Student Engagement and Learning

Christine Harrington October 28, 2024

Are you still lecturing? If so, you are like most faculty. The lecture continues to be the most used teaching approach. Although the lecture has often got a bad reputation for not being active enough, you may be pleased to know that a substantial body

The Power of the First 10 Minutes: Using Classroom Recall and Clarify to Engage Students

Gifty Blankson Codjoe October 21, 2024

When watching a movie, you might use the first few minutes to decide whether you will like it or not. This same phenomenon also happens in the classroom: the initial moments often set the tone for the entire session. Many educators discuss using the first

RAFTing to an Engaging Assignment

Julie Slade and Lora Walter September 9, 2024

An abundance of literature exists indicating that students are disengaged, unmotivated, and potentially downright bored in classes. Part of this disengagement may come from the seemingly unending essays and presentations students must complete to demonstrate their achievement of course and program learning outcomes. Incorporating fun

Using Game-Based Teaching to Engage Reluctant Learners

Andrew Davies July 8, 2024

Picture this: Days before your semester begins, your students are messaging each other about how excited they are to begin your class. Then, during the semester, they show up to every lesson curious about what they’re going to learn that day, even enthusiastic about doing

Engaging Students through Cases

John Orlando June 3, 2024

In recent years, the education world has been focusing on ways to generate student engagement in learning. This is because of the well-established fact that people learn better when they are actively thinking about the material as they learn it rather than just hoping to

In Defense of Boring and Other Supposed Teaching Taboos

Pete Burkholder May 13, 2024

PNC Bank recently rolled out a national ad campaign touting the virtues of boring money management. Rather than chasing after high-risk cryptocurrencies or the latest meme stock, the commercial posits that unexciting is the key to financial security. The philosophy is captured in the bank’s

Less Is More: Slowing Down to Uncover Depth in Teaching

Mays Imad February 26, 2024

I’ve been wanting to write about my journey to embrace Rumi’s wisdom in my pedagogy. My teaching career began at a community college, where I served from 2007 to 2021, initially as an adjunct and later as a full-time faculty member in the Department of

Are You Seeking Student Engagement . . . or Obedience?

Sarah Rutherford January 16, 2024

Lately, my favorite days in class have been the rowdy ones. If someone asks me how my classes are going, I can say with genuine happiness, “Great! They were so rowdy today.” What I’m recalling in that moment is a picture of students completely engaged

Don’t Knock TikTok (Yet): Lessons from Livestream Content

Michael G. Strawser, Bridget Rubenking, and Erica Kight November 27, 2023

The rapid rise of livestream content development and consumption has been nothing short of remarkable. According to Ceci (2022), 126.7 million users in the United States viewed livestreaming content on mobile devices in 2019; the same year, 23 percent of Americans livestreamed content themselves. In

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