Reboot Your Class by Teaching With Presence and Compassion As faculty enter the post-Covid teaching arena, there are many strategies available to bring life and engagement to their classes. Contrary to what students think, online courses are not effortless. Online courses require students to have self-management, discipline, and inner motivation. Faculty can help [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 2 | February 3, 2022 Adopting OER to Support Equity in Instruction and Learning Open Educational Resources (OER) are having a moment. The state of California just invested an unprecedented $115 million to develop zero textbook cost degrees and OER at the California Community Colleges. But OER adoption [...]
Publishing and Presenting With NISOD Whether you’ve been active with NISOD for years, just found out that your college is a member of NISOD, or you want your college to become a NISOD member, we invite you to join us for NISOD in a Nutshell LIVE! This session focuses on the publication and presentation opportunities that [...]
Financing the College Experience This session focuses on various considerations, approaches, and strategies one might consider regarding financing higher education. Glenn Kent works as a financial advisor with Ameriprise. He earned an associate degree while attending community college in Pennsylvania and continued his path in education, obtaining a PhD in psychology. In addition [...]
Faculty Mental Wellness in Academe: Is Leadership Up to the Challenge? In an era of global pandemics, social distancing, covered faces, and vaccine debates, college educators and their students are expected to forge ahead. Yet the question arises: Is leadership prepared? Much is made of student mental wellness, and rightly so, but the [...]
In Need of a Course Chiropractor? Using Distance Learning Alignment Strategies to Improve Student Success Anyone who has ever taken a seminar or course in improving online course design has undoubtedly heard the term "alignment" again and again. Seasoned faculty sometimes resist the concept, especially when they are told to work on learning [...]
The NISOD Papers Issue No. 23 • January 2022 In “Innovations in Community College Liberal Arts Programs,” Terry O’Banion, Senior Professor of Practice, Kansas State University, and President Emeritus, League for Innovation in the Community College, explores three innovative community college liberal arts programs. Download the article below:
This article is a continuation of the research that began in a previous issue of Innovation Abstracts, "Pivoting in a Time of Pandemic: The Faculty Experience" (Peterson et al., 2020). If you have not already read the first article, you can do so here. y Volume XLIV, No. 1 | January 20, 2022 [...]
Two Things Are Certain in This World: Today We Are Going to Discuss One ~ Taxes! This session addresses one of the two “musts” in this world: taxes. Learn some of the underpinnings of our modern-day taxes, where our tax money goes, considerations when filing our tax returns, plus several additional facets of [...]
Creating Engagement in the Virtual Classroom In this webinar, participants explore ways to create engagement through the tools provided by the virtual meeting platform Zoom. They also learn additional strategies such as group brainstorming, active roll call, movement, 40-second blah-blah-blah, and off-camera reflections that are designed to keep students focused and active during [...]