Volume XL, No. 9| March 15, 2018 So, You Want to Bring OER to Your Institution: Lessons Learned From the Texas Consortium What Is OER? Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that can be freely downloaded, edited, and shared to better serve students. OER differ from copyrighted materials in [...]
Volume XL, No. 8 | March 8, 2018 Removing Neutral: Using Student Experiences to Gather Meaningful Data in a Survey-Heavy World “Please complete this survey.” These dreaded four words fill up our students’ inboxes after almost every experience they have in college. As a doctoral student, I’m asked to respond to a [...]
Volume XL, No. 7 | March 1, 2018 Creating Socially, Emotionally, and Culturally Responsive Environments to Improve Conditions for Learning Colleges and universities are becoming more diverse, making the need to be inclusive and socially skilled increasingly important. When it comes to communication, respect and professionalism are key to being productive and [...]
Volume XL, No. 6 | February 22, 2018 Rip Van Winkle Goes to College Most of us are familiar with Washington Irving’s story about a man in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who fell asleep in the Catskill Mountains and woke up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. Just imagine how [...]
Volume XL, No. 5 | February 15, 2018 Online Learning: Creating a Culture of Accountability At Madisonville Community College (MCC), online courses are becoming an increasingly popular scheduling alternative. Our students demand the flexible scheduling available through online instruction, and if MCC doesn’t provide it, they seek it elsewhere. Over the last [...]
Volume XL, No. 4 | February 8, 2018 How Google Classroom Is Quickly Becoming My Learning Management System I typically do not like to use a new technology just because it’s trendy. However, if a new technology appears to be more effective or efficient than what’s currently available, I will test it [...]
Volume XL, No. 3 | February 1, 2018 Essay in Progress: Process and Application in Composition Writing When it comes to writing, I believe two things: there’s more than one way to write, and with practice and application, anyone can be an effective writer. Being a “good” writer seems to carry an [...]
Volume XL, No. 2 | January 25, 2018 Flipped Classroom: Pre-Class Assignment Process Imagine a world where your students come to class prepared! Does that sound too good to be true? For the past several years, my students have been coming to class prepared to start a new topic. According to a [...]
Volume XL, No. 1 | January 18, 2018 What Do Students Really Want? Providing students with the class syllabus is a top priority at the beginning of each semester. It is by understanding the class syllabus that students know what’s expected of them for the semester. However, during the process of discussing [...]
Volume XXXIX, No. 31 | December 14, 2017 Helping Students Survive So They Can Succeed A recent Wisconsin HOPE Lab report (Goldrick-Rab, Richards, Hernandez, 2017) surveyed 33,000 students at 70 community colleges in 24 states and found that half of the students had unstable housing and two-thirds of them had low food [...]
