Volume XXXIV, No. 15 | May 4, 2012 Effective Faculty Communication in Online Learning: What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate! How did things go so wrong? When Dr. Adams (fictitious name) was hired as an adjunct faculty member to teach psychology online, he seemed so motivated and ready to work [...]
Volume XXXIV, No. 15 | May 4, 2012 Transforming the Accounting Classroom Into a Laboratory As faculty and administrators, we can agree that student learning is our goal; and we must do what it takes to engage students while they are members of our learning environments. So how do we “catch,” or engage, [...]
Volume XXXIV, No. 14 | April 27, 2012 Teaching Theatre in a Theatre-less World Students at Calhoun Community College (CCC) are mostly working-class young adults, members of the military, and non-traditional students. Each student must choose an arts elective from Theatre Appreciation, Arts Appreciation, and Music Appreciation. I teach Theatre Appreciation. Upon my [...]
Volume XXXIV, No. 14 | April 27, 2012 It Makes a Difference Let’s start with the question “What’s the difference between 7 and 3?” The answer is 4. If you ask students how they got that answer, they will say something like, “I took 4 from 7,” or “I subtracted them.” The point [...]
Volume XXXIV, No. 13 | April 20, 2012 Why Study Math? As an instructor of students in the area of mathematics, I am sometimes asked such questions as, “When am I ever going to use this?” or “Why do I have to study math?” I usually take the time to go over the [...]
Volume XXXIV, No. 12 | April 13, 2012 The Benefits of Crossing Disciplines: Writing + Calculus = A Happy Marriage I recently taught a section of first-semester calculus for the Honors Program at Moraine Valley Community College. The Honors Program has specific goals that make the experience unique. One of the more challenging [...]
Volume XXXIV, No. 11 | April 6, 2012 Let’s Party Like Our (Successful) Future is Now: The 10-Year Class Reunion as a Goal-Setting Exercise One of the most challenging tasks college students face is defining and developing educational goals that align with their dream career. The students who never define an end or [...]
Volume XXXIV, No. 11 | April 6, 2012 Let’s Party Like Our (Successful) Future is Now: The 10-Year Class Reunion as a Goal-Setting Exercise One of the most challenging tasks college students face is defining and developing educational goals that align with their dream career. The students who never define an end or [...]
Volume XXXIV, No. 10 | March 30, 2012 DEVELOPING KEY JOB INTERVIEW SKILLS IN A VOICE AND DICTION COURSE Communication skills are important to employers evaluating job candidates. Employers and human resources personnel view communication skills as among the key qualities they seek in qualified applicants; lamentably, employers’ recurrent criticism of community college [...]
Volume XXXIV, No. 8 | March 9, 2012 Building Junior Faculty: Peer Mentoring and Learning Communities Six new junior faculty members, each with different concentration areas and research specialties, joined the faculty in a large school of social work over a two-year period. In addition to attempts by senior faculty and administration to [...]
