Archive for the 'Best Practices' Category

Sometimes, students need more than just their professors’ feedback. Students benefit from learning to assess their own work and from evaluating the work of their peers.
There are many benefits to self and peer assessment. The most obvious benefit to self assessment is that it encourages autonomy and independence in [...]

Wimba Pronto is an instant messaging application that allows audio and text conferencing. It is integrated into Blackboard and is automatically populated with a list of courses a user is enrolled in.
Some of the features of Wimba Pronto include:

voice conferencing
text messaging
group chat
automatic population of [...]

The H1N1 virus (Swine Flu) is expected to make a comeback to the United States this school year and officials say that college campuses could be impacted. It’s prudent for faculty to be proactive by considering how their teaching may be affected by an illness outbreak and exploring steps to continue [...]

A recent article in the Armed Forces Journal discusses the destructive use of PowerPoint — in terms of thinking and decision making. Here is a short excerpt and a link the full article called “Dumb-Dumb Bullets” by T.X. Hammes (Retired Marine Corps)
Every year, the services spend millions of dollars teaching our people how to think. [...]

One of the foremost concerns of online instructors is that teaching online requires more time than the traditional face-to-face classroom setting. The Strategies for Managing the Online Workload (SMOW) video podcast offers a collection of short descriptions, tips, techniques, and methods developed and used by experienced online educators to manage their time more effectively in [...]