Two weeks into a start course, a faculty member became concerned about the whereabouts of one of his students.  During the course of a poignant phone call, the twentysomething student disclosed to the instructor how...Continue Reading »

Have you ever wondered if there are better ways to setup discussion boards to make them more interactive and interesting for students?  Discover a protocol where cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence are three...Continue Reading »

The APA 6e Guide is considered a living document as it is routinely updated. In this series, Jule Kind, Director of Off Campus Library Services (OCLS), shares about some of the most used library resources....Continue Reading »

At the conclusion of the Establishing and Maintaining Positive Relationships With Students webinar simulcast, we asked attendees to participate synchronously in five concurrent chat sessions. In the first session, attendees shared their best strategies for...Continue Reading »

Although they makeup a fraction of the teaching population in the College of Adult and Professional Studies, full-time faculty devote all of their energies to the many aspects of teaching.  Andragogy, curriculum, and Scholarship of...Continue Reading »

At the conclusion of the Establishing and Maintaining Positive Relationships With Students webinar simulcast, we asked attendees to participate synchronously in five concurrent chat sessions. In the second session, attendees shared their best strategies for...Continue Reading »

She is the student with a closed posture who wants nothing to do with God stuff.  Then along comes a painful, sometimes tragic life event.  The walled off student now asks, Will you pray for...Continue Reading »

At the conclusion of the Establishing and Maintaining Positive Relationships With Students webinar simulcast, we asked attendees to participate synchronously in five concurrent chat sessions. In the third session, attendees shared their best strategies for...Continue Reading »

Helicopter professors are always there, always helping students. They build scaffolds of crutches for students to lean upon for the duration of a course. But do we want to teach helplessness? Should we allow some...Continue Reading »

At the conclusion of the Establishing and Maintaining Positive Relationships With Students webinar simulcast, we asked attendees to participate synchronously in five concurrent chat sessions. In the fourth session, attendees shared their best strategies for...Continue Reading »