Source: certi.mst.edu Teaching Partners is a confidential professional development service for instructors who want to enhance their teaching through peer observation and feedback. Trained faculty mentors and instructional designers meet with interested instructors in a collegial atmosphere where there is mutual sharing that benefits both parties. EdTech and CERTI worked together with faculty to develop […]

There’s no shortage of lists identifying desirable teacher characteristics, are students are fairly consistent in naming the behaviors that help them learn.

Our institutional and/or course policies aren’t doing much to stop cheating in college. How we get students to realize how much cheating hurts them? It has nothing to do with whether they’re caught, but rather the personal consequences.

Source: tomprof.stanford.edu Student engagement and class participation are two of the characteristics that most everyone identifies with a successful course. But how do you get this engagement? In this article is one strategy on building that engagement in your classroom. 

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In a recent study, more than 85% of students said it was important to them that their instructors knew their names. Their reasons were quite convincing.

Source: tomprof.stanford.edu Dealing with students is never easy and it seems like more and more students like to complain and argue with you, the instructor. We can talk forever about what has led to this but that isn’t as important on a daily basis as it is to know how you can deal with difficult […]

Sometimes teaching gets tired because we’ve done what we’re doing a hundred times before. We march through the material along well-worn paths.

The online classroom can sometimes feel isolating for students and faculty. Here are five ways you can build a sense of community in your online courses.