Volume XL, No. 29 | September 13, 2018 A Flipped Classroom Approach Can Invigorate Instructors and Students “Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?” Most people are likely aware of the iconic “Bueller?” scene from the 1986 film, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, when the monotone, high school instructor takes attendance for a less than enthusiastic classroom [...]
Volume XL, No. 28 | September 6, 2018 The Faculty Engagement Trend: How Years of Work Experience Impact Engagement Those of us in higher education often think about student engagement, but not employee engagement. However, business leaders have said that employee engagement should be a business’s main priority. In fact, in 2015, [...]
Volume XL, No. 27 | August 30, 2018 Three “M” Philosophy: Meaningful, Measurable, and Manageable Currently, four generations of educators are working side by side: baby-boomers, echo-boomers, Generation X’ers, and millennials. Professional roles are about to be passed on from the generation that elected President Kennedy to the generation that elected President [...]
Volume XL, No. 26 | August 23, 2018 Teaching Dually-Enrolled High School Students Over the past few years, Harford County Public Schools (HCPS) have developed a working relationship with Harford Community College (HCC) to provide high school students with the opportunity to enroll in college courses while still being enrolled in high [...]
Volume XL, No. 25 | August 16, 2018 Teamwork: Teaching Reality, 25 Years Later Teamwork consists a group of individuals working together to reach a common goal. Highly effective teams have the same desired end goal as any group of students or business workers, and that is to achieve a shared purpose. [...]
Volume XL, No. 24 | August 2, 2018 Let Me Take a Selfie Student engagement in the classroom and on campus is thought to improve students’ grades and increase retention rates. Having students involved in on-campus activities is beneficial because of the personal connections and relationships students build through their participation in [...]
Volume XL, No. 23 | July 19, 2018 College Orientation for New Students 2.0 In 1995, I authored the Innovation Abstracts, “College Orientation for New Students,” after Central Florida Community College’s (CFCC) Counseling Department won the Florida Association of Community Colleges Exemplary Practice Award for its student orientation program. As a young, [...]
Volume XL, No. 22 | July 5, 2018 The Writing Process: A Look at Pedagogy One of the lessons I’ve learned about the writing process is that the final product is never finished. After submitting an essay to a journal or newspaper, I still get a queasy, uneasy feeling that the essay [...]
Volume XL, No. 21 | June 21, 2018 Divide-and-Conquer Programming Revisited When I wrote my 1998 Innovations Abstracts, “Divide-and-Conquer Programming: Using Interdependent Teams,” I was an adjunct professor, only teaching face-to-face classes. In the article, I argued that student group projects that used the divide-and-conquer approach—where students in each group divided project [...]
Volume XL, No. 20 | June 7, 2018 Using Google Docs to Enhance Group Work Group work can be a valuable learning activity for students in any course. Implementing group work in online courses, however, can be challenging for instructors and students. At Davidson County Community College (DCCC), several lower-level math courses [...]
