This article first appeared in The Best of the 2022 Teaching Professor Online Conference (Magna Publications, 2023).
Belonging describes the human emotional need to
Today’s undergrads are pulled in so many directions, including working full or part time while trying to get an education. Add in family responsibilities
My name is Teacher, and my mistakes are Legion.
None of these mistakes are catastrophic. I haven’t lost my temper and pulled my hair
Peter Filene, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says that “teaching is only as successful as the
With the end of the semester looming, how often have you begun class wondering where the students have gone? Does it seem like
“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others;
The end of a term typically brings increased stress to educators. To borrow a term used by Cross and Dillon (2023), stress often “snowballs”
Faculty often use discussion strategies to engage their students and push them into higher levels of learning. But many instructors we have talked to
“Last impressions can be lasting impressions.”
—Donald Redelmeier (Lewis, 2017 p. 236)
Have you worked with students for months to create a
Online courses are normally designed from an institutional template of common elements without reference to any particular subject matter. But this lack of context
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