Innovation Abstracts, NISOD’s flagship teaching strategies publication, provides an excellent opportunity for community and technical college educators to learn about and share best ideas about programs, projects, and strategies that improve students’ higher education experiences.

18 Feb, 2025

Strengthening Students’ Argumentation Skills to Enhance Source Credibility Assessment: A Study on Critical Thinking in Online Research

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Volume XLVII, No. 3 |  February 20, 2025 Strengthening Students' Argumentation Skills to Enhance Source Credibility Assessment: A Study on Critical Thinking in Online Research  The way students approach research has changed dramatically with the rise of the internet. While more information is readily available within seconds, I found my students often [...]

Strengthening Students’ Argumentation Skills to Enhance Source Credibility Assessment: A Study on Critical Thinking in Online Research2025-02-18T16:30:19-06:00
4 Feb, 2025

Using ChatGPT to Improve Your Instruction

2025-02-04T17:37:11-06:00

Volume XLVII, No. 2 |  February 2, 2025 Using ChatGPT to Improve Your Instruction Generative Artificial Intelligence (“GenAI”) took the education world by storm in late 2022 and has triggered frequent predictions on how this technology may positively or negatively affect higher education. In this article, I propose some ways that this [...]

Using ChatGPT to Improve Your Instruction2025-02-04T17:37:11-06:00
22 Jan, 2025

Emotional Labor: The Unseen Baggage Causing Faculty Burnout

2025-01-22T17:24:58-06:00

Volume XLVII, No. 1 |  January 23, 2025 Emotional Labor: The Unseen Baggage Causing Faculty Burnout Anne knew something was wrong, but she could not put her finger on it. Each day before class, she felt the need to pump herself up to give her lectures. Exhausted after a 75-minute class session, [...]

Emotional Labor: The Unseen Baggage Causing Faculty Burnout2025-01-22T17:24:58-06:00
5 Dec, 2024

Is Your Classroom Woke?

2024-12-05T08:54:35-06:00

Volume XLVI, No. 17 |  December 5, 2024 Is Your Classroom Woke? Since its inception, the term woke has grown from a 1930’s African American vernacular grounded in Feminist Ideology, to advertised presentations of power, resistance, solidarity, capitalism, privilege, and social justice.   This growth has prompted the awareness of a need for [...]

Is Your Classroom Woke?2024-12-05T08:54:35-06:00
13 Nov, 2024

Using Class Participation to Create Test Questions

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Volume XLVI, No. 16 |  November 14, 2024 Using Class Participation to Create Test Questions Introduction  There is a sub-population of students who enter each freshman class with marginal qualifications. The following activities were developed to help this sub-group of students have a positive learning experience. The activities described include the use [...]

Using Class Participation to Create Test Questions2024-11-18T09:10:00-06:00
31 Oct, 2024

Promoting Diversity in STEM History: A Multicultural Perspective

2024-10-31T09:35:30-05:00

Volume XLVI, No. 15 |  October 31, 2024 Promoting Diversity in STEM History: A Multicultural Perspective  Introduction: What Does the Data Say?  In the contemporary landscape of the STEM workforce, Hispanic, Asian, and Black workers represent 15%, 10%, and 9% respectively1. Conversely, American Indians and Alaska Natives collectively constitute less than 1% [...]

Promoting Diversity in STEM History: A Multicultural Perspective2024-10-31T09:35:30-05:00
15 Oct, 2024

The Apposite Learning Model: Forging Students Into Skilled Professionals of the Future

2024-12-02T13:40:38-06:00

Volume XLVI, No. 14 |  October 17, 2024 The Apposite Learning Model: Forging Students Into Skilled Professionals of the Future Acquiring or enhancing soft skills is an important part of the learning process. Examples of soft skills are interpersonal communication, time management, adaptability, problem solving. The importance of soft skills has been highlighted [...]

The Apposite Learning Model: Forging Students Into Skilled Professionals of the Future2024-12-02T13:40:38-06:00
2 Oct, 2024

A Recipe for a Successful Collaboration: Coming Together, Staying Together, Working Together

2024-10-04T15:25:14-05:00

Volume XLVI, No. 13 |  October 3, 2024 A Recipe for a Successful Collaboration: Coming Together, Staying Together, Working Together  Introduction  One approach to teaching complex concepts to students is to teach from multiple perspectives—i.e., integrative interprofessional teaching. Integrative interprofessional teaching is when two faculty, from two different schools, two different disciplines, [...]

A Recipe for a Successful Collaboration: Coming Together, Staying Together, Working Together2024-10-04T15:25:14-05:00
18 Sep, 2024

Western Dakota Technical College’s Two-Year Mentorship Program for New Faculty

2024-09-18T09:35:14-05:00

Volume XLVI, No. 12 |  September 19, 2024 Western Dakota Technical College’s Two-Year Mentorship Program for New Faculty   Purpose  Western Dakota Technical College (WDTC) developed a two-year mentorship program to successfully onboard, track, and retain new faculty to meet state credentialing requirements. Technical colleges in South Dakota follow a credentialing policy that [...]

Western Dakota Technical College’s Two-Year Mentorship Program for New Faculty2024-09-18T09:35:14-05:00
3 Sep, 2024

Humanities and Pedagogy: Freud and Jung

2024-09-03T18:07:30-05:00

Volume XLVI, No. 11 |  September 5, 2024 Humanities and Pedagogy: Freud and Jung Using films to teach Freudian and Jungian psychology is a unique way to introduce psychoanalysis to students. Carl Jung's study of archetypes and the human psyche is a significant departure from Freudian perspectives. Both divergent viewpoints can allow [...]

Humanities and Pedagogy: Freud and Jung2024-09-03T18:07:30-05:00