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Getting Started with Student Blogs: Tips for the Digital Immigrant

Navigating the 'Patchwork Quilt' of State Authorization Requirements Remains a Huge Challange for Online Programs

Three Simple Keys to Effective Classroom Management

Blended Learning Course Design Creates New Opportunities for Learning

Making Exams More about Learning

Thinking Developmentally: Designing Courses with a Progression of Learning Experiences

Understanding the Online Learning Experience

Dragon Dictation Converts Your Speech to Text

Setting Expectations for Online Instructor Performance

Active Learning That Works: What Students Think

A Lesson in Academic Integrity as Students Feel the Injustice of Plagiarism

Challenging the Notion of Learning Styles

A Good Conversation about Teaching and Learning

Accessing Online Learning: Strategies, Challenges and Opportunities

Getting Students to Act on Our Feedback

The Teaching Professor delivers best strategies supported by the latest research for effective teaching in the college classroom

Should Professors Use Facebook to Communicate with Students?

A Course Metaphor

Questions about Active Learning

Promoting Research While Advancing Instruction, Part 3.

Six Ways to Support Adult Online Learners

My Students Don't Like Group Work

Getting Students out into the Community Carriers Risks as well Benefits

Handling Annoying, Disruptive and Dangerous Students

Top 10 Strategies for Preparing the Annual Tenure and Promotion Dossier

Strategies for Creating a More Inclusive Classroom

Teaching with Confidence: Advice for New Faculty

Shoulf Effort Count ? Students Certainly Think So

Cultivating More Autonomous,Motivated Learners

Ten Fun Ways to USe YouTube Videos in an Online Literature Class

Teaching with Technology: Tools and Strategies to Improve Student Learning

What's Wrong with Teaching Awards

Balancing Act: Managing Instructor Presence and Workload When Creating an Interactive Community of Learners

Evernote Acts as a Personal Mobile File Cabinet

Academic Rigor: Lessons for Room 10

Using Grading Strategies to Understand and Improve Student Learning

Giving Student Choices on How Assignments Are Weighted

Disposition Development: A Neglected Voice for the pursuit of Excellence among College Students

Enough Time to Make a Difference in Students' Lives

11 Strategies for Managing Your Online Courses

Critical Friends: A Novel Approach to Improving Peer and Instructor Feedback

A Graphic Syllabus Can Bring Clarity to Course Structure

Engage Online Students with Targeted Feedback

Blended Learning Course Design: A Boot Camp For Instructors

Faculty Say Grade Inflation is a Problem, but Not in Their Classroom

Be Not Afraid: Embracing the ipad and the Wonderful World of Apps in the Classroom

Winning Article of the Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award Takes on "Content Coverage"

Students Share Their Thoughts on Active Learning

Five Reasons Getting Students to Talk is Worth the Effort

Effective strategies for Improving College Teaching and Learning

Five Techniques for improving Student Attendence

11 Strategies for Getting Students to Read What's Assigned

Dealing with Difficult Students and Other Classroom Disruptions

A Good Start:Helping First Year Students Acclimate to College

Technology in the Classroom : Assets and Liabilities

Shining a Light on Your Assignments

Giving Student Choices on How Assignments Are Weighted

Three Ways to Ask Better Questions in the Classroom

Using Grading Strategies to Understand and Improve Student Learning

Creating an Ongoing Feedback Loop with Your Students

I Don't Have Time to Teach That: The Benefits of Faculty-Labrarian Collabations

Cultivating Stronger Relationships with Online Faculty through an On-Campus Visitation Program

Teaching Mistakes from the College Classroom

Do Your Students Understand the Material, or just Memorize and Forget?

Three Steps to Better Course Evaluations

An Exemplar of Pedagogical Scholarship Takes on Student Reading

From Rucksack to Backpack: Ensuring Student Veteran Success

Does PowerPoint Help or Hinder Learning?

When Teaching Grows Tired : A Wake-up Call for Faculty

Active Listening: Seven Ways to Help Students Listen, Not Just Hear

The Top 10 Faculty Challenges for Teaching Online

Students Think They Can Multitask. Here's Proof They Can't

Boosting a First-Time Online Adult Student's Self-Esteem

Improve Participation to Enhance Learning in Online Courses

Cultivating Curiosity in Our Students as a Catalyst for Learning

Using "Frameworks" to Enhance Teaching and Learning

Journey of Joy: Teaching Tips for Reflection,Rejuvenation and Renewal

Advice to New Teachers and New Students: Learning is a Quest

Working Toward a Fair Assessment of Student's Reflective Writing

Experiential Learning Inside the Classroom

Mapping Success: Essential Elements of an Effective Online Learning Experience

Students and Reading : Round Two

This Isn't High School: Advice for Faculty Teaching first-Year Students

Using Grading Strategies to Understand and Improve Student Learning

What Did We Learn about PowerPoint and Student Learning?

Transforming Teaching through Supplementary Evaluations

Faculty Collegiality as a Synergistic Agent

Learning Isn't Always Painless

Five Characteristics of Learner-Centered Teaching

Understanding Adult Learner's Needs

Academic Customer Service Shouldn't be a Dirty Word

Strategies for Writing Better Teaching Philosophy Statements

Designing Assignments that Accomplish Course Goals

Getting Over Learning Styles

When the Semester Ends, it Isn't Really Over

Online Student Retention Strategies: A Baker's Dozen of Recommendations

End-of-Course Evaluations: Making Sense of Student Comments

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