Volume XL, No. 41 | December 13, 2018 Academic Skills 101: In-Class Support Services Scholarship continues to indicate that many community college students enter higher education unprepared for the rigor of their academic courses. As a faculty member of nearly 15 years who has taught at urban and suburban, predominately white, predominately [...]
Volume XL, No. 39 | November 29, 2018 Revising Student Group Work Not long ago, as I typed up minutes for a college committee that I am a part of, I found myself wondering how much time the committee could save if we completed tasks by email instead of in person once [...]
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 XXXVII, No. 29 | December 4, 2015 “We the Students”: Employing a Code of Conduct in Student Group Projects The benefits of group work have long been established. Most instructors agree that student learning is improved by sharing their experiences with their colleagues, and that there is truth to the old adage, [...]