by Alisa Gross | Jun 23, 2014 | Teaching
Candace McClain is an assistant professor in the counseling department at Colorado Christian University, with a Doctorate in Counselor Supervision and Education. She is currently working with the university to create an online Master’s program in Counseling, which...
by Alisa Gross | Jun 19, 2014 | EdTech, Teaching
This is a guest post by Dr. Marilyn Herie, Academic Chair, Department of Community Services at Centennial College. It was originally posted on September 22, 2013 on educateria. The third type of digital divide and why mobile devices should remain on: Much has been...
by Alisa Gross | Jun 9, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, EdTech, Teaching
Jillian Harris is an Assistant Professor of Dance in the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. In 2009, Jillian was asked to develop Modern Dance technique standards that could be applied in formal assessments of students’ performance. Prior to this...
by Alisa Gross | Jun 2, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, Teaching
On the first day of Fundamentals of Public Speaking at Austin Community College and at the University of Texas, Maegan Stephens’ students vote on their syllabus. “This is not my class, it is our class; therefore, this should not be my syllabus, it should be ours,”...
by Alisa Gross | May 27, 2014 | EdTech, Social Media, Teaching
More and more professors are finding that Facebook inspires more enthusiasm and interaction than LMSes as a forum for online discussion and class collaboration. Blackboard is difficult to use, and the process of incentivizing students to engage in discussion...
by Alisa Gross | May 19, 2014 | Teaching
This is a guest post by Stacy Rosenberg, Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University If you have been tempted to look down at your phone in the middle of a presentation – no matter how relevant the content – you suffer from The Swipe Effect. The Swipe...
