As a periodic addition to your course activities, ask students to reflect on some aspect of the student success formula for your course. For example, ask students to Share a page of their notes so students can compare notetaking styles.…
Introduction "45% of all LinkedIn Premium jobs posted within the past three months mention the importance of communication skills. And more than 61% of professionals say soft skills in the workplace are just as important as hard skills" (Zhu, 2022,…
Strategies to Promote Active Reading of Digital Texts When you assign a digital reading, set the expectation for students that they should come away from the reading with some evidence of their experience with the text. Think of the text…
Introduction Technology is now an integral part of higher education. While some may feel that using technology in teaching leads to a sense of disconnection, technology can be applied to teach with empathy. Empathy in college classes involves understanding and…
What Is Social-Emotional Learning? According to Woolf (2023), “Social-emotional learning is a process that enables individuals to develop and use social and emotional skills to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others,…
Andragogy is a theory of adult learning developed by Malcolm Knowles in the 1970s. Unlike pedagogy, which primarily focuses on the education of children, andragogy is specifically concerned with the unique characteristics and needs of adult learners. Key principles of…
It is common in classes to have students critique other students on their work. Everyone learns by receiving and giving feedback, but neither is easy. While receiving negative feedback is particularly difficult to hear, especially among students, giving feedback can…
We are excited to invite you to an insightful roundtable discussion focused on the use of Hypothesis social annotation in education. What is Hypothes.is? Hypothesis is a Blackboard learning tool that combines digital social annotations within your courses, allowing you…
There are three things every professor can do to help students get connected to the college, to the class, and to their peers. It involves getting students to install three apps on their mobile phones. First, install college email/Outlook. Second,…
What is co-creation? Co-creation is a term commonly used in the field of business; however, it has a place in education as well. In education, co-creation involves inviting students to participate in constructing knowledge or designing materials, activities, and assessments…