5 ways COVID-19 made me a better instructor
Don’t tell anyone, but I think the COVID-19 crisis might have made me a better educator. Over the past 3 months I have taken my fully on-ground, in-person…
Month: August 2020
Richard King Mellon Foundation Grants $2.5 Million To 12 Regional Colleges And Universities To Help Them Reopen Safely; Enhance Online Learning
The Richard King Mellon Foundation has allocated $2.5 million in grants to 12 regional colleges and universities to help the ... Read more
Cengage Collaborates with Online Learning Consortium (OLC) to Support Institutions
Cengage today announced a partnership with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) to offer professional development opportunities for faculty and administrators ... Read more
Georgia Institute of Technology Selects NOVID to Protect Against COVID-19
Georgia Institute of Technology has announced a partnership with NOVID as a part of their strategy for keeping students and ... Read more
How to align SLOs with employability
Today’s universities measure student learning outcomes (SLOs) through in-class assessments targeting the micro and macro level of a learner’s knowledge acquisition. At the micro level, these assessments take…
Vernier and ADInstruments Develop College-Level Biology Experiments for the Lt Learning Platform
College-level biology educators and students can now access experiments that utilize Vernier Go Direct® sensors within the Lt online learning ... Read more
Bridging the gap between K-12 and college
To be honest, I cannot tell you how a single school-wide test in middle school helped me understand my potential career and college options. As a middle schooler,…
New solutions target safer COVID-19 reopenings
Salesforce and CVS Health have formed a strategic partnership that will allow customers to use each company's COVID-19 return to work and campus solutions together, as they transition…
Helping students fight the mental health stigma
Universities are increasingly recognizing the student mental health crisis in higher ed. High rates of suicide – the No. 2 cause of death among college students, according to…
Why teach grammar, anyway?
As my spring 2020 semester winded down, I thought about my favorite student questions. Naturally, my thoughts gravitated towards those questions that forced me to rethink how I…