Teaching and Learning
To match the changes in higher education’s student demographic, methods of instruction must transform as well. Today’s students have constraints on their time and bring more experience to the classroom than ever before. Instruction must adapt to ensure the needs and expectations of students are being met.
Creating Clarity to Enhance Understanding
Jeffrey Czarnec | Associate Dean of Criminal Justice and the Social Sciences in the College of Online and Continuing Education, Southern New Hampshire UniversityIn the text-based learning arena, a consistent emphasis on clarity in communication is an absolute. If we assume that those charged with reading the litany of words sculpted into sentences…
Online Tools and Techniques Transform Teaching in the Offline Environment Too
Nancy Rubin | Executive Director of Distance and Online Learning at Columbia Video Network, Columbia UniversityThere are many best practices faculty who teach online learn, and share, with their on-campus counterparts. Some of the ideas I often hear shared include content storage and sharing materials,…
The Future of Online Education: Will Our Courses Foreshadow Our Ends?
Anthony Picciano | Executive Officer of Urban Education, City University of New YorkThis article based on material from my new book, Online Education Policy and Practice: The Past, Present, and Future of the Digital University (Taylor & Francis/Routledge), which examines the development…
Technology and the Liberal Arts: Expanding the Dialogue
Edward W. Finn III | Liaison for Technology in Teaching and Learning, Associated Colleges of the MidwestWhat is the impact of technology on teaching and learning? While pondering this in the context of the purpose of education, it triggered my memory back to a presentation I…
No One Is an Island, But How Can We Build a Continent? (Part 4)
Jamie Holcomb | Associate Dean of Faculty and First-Year Experience, Southern New Hampshire UniversityThis is the final installment in a four-part series by Jamie Holcomb on the creation of engaging and inclusive faculty communities. In the last segment, Holcomb shed some light on…
Helicopter Professor and Proud!
Barry Thomas | Adjunct Professor, Carroll Community CollegeThe term “helicopter professor” has begun to emerge in various higher education media lately. I believe the term started to become popular approximately one year ago, when Mr. Berlin Fang,…
No One Is an Island, But How Can We Build a Continent? (Part 3)
Jamie Holcomb | Associate Dean of Faculty and First-Year Experience, Southern New Hampshire UniversityThis is the third installment in a four-part series by Jamie Holcomb on the creation of engaging and inclusive faculty communities. In the last segment, Holcomb discussed the creation of…