Webinar Series Archive
Entrepreneurial Learning Environments: Why Building an Entrepreneurial Culture On Your Campus Is the Key to Student and Staff Engagement
Entrepreneurial Learning Environments: Why Building an Entrepreneurial Culture On Your Campus Is the Key to Student and Staff Engagement Entrepreneurial Learning Environments: Why Building an Entrepreneurial Culture On Your Campus Is the Key to Student [...]
Human Cannonballs and Evil Geniuses: Boosting Performance in Online Discussions
Human Cannonballs and Evil Geniuses: Boosting Performance in Online Discussions Students often struggle with providing practical comments in online discussions and feedback forums. Even students who write meaningful and accurate responses to discussion questions find it [...]
Insights to Corequisite Design and Implementation From the Carnegie Math Pathways Network
Insights to Corequisite Design and Implementation From the Carnegie Math Pathways Network In response to the increasing demand for quality corequisite math courses, Carnegie Math Pathways has partnered with math faculty from institutions [...]
When the “A” Student Checks Out: The Art of Recognizing and Responding to Self-Sabotage in Our Classrooms
When the “A” Student Checks Out: The Art of Recognizing and Responding to Self-Sabotage in Our Classrooms The following description is a student that many academics have come across: We have all had [...]
The New Science of Learning: Teaching That Promotes Student Success
The New Science of Learning: Teaching That Promotes Student Success There is a proliferation of misinformation pertaining to how students learn and how best to teach them. Moreover, students often do not understand [...]
Everyone Communicates, but Few Connect: Effectively Engaging Today’s Learner
Everyone Communicates, but Few Connect: Effectively Engaging Today’s Learner Instructors set the tone in the classroom with their approach to their work and students; through their actions, instructors communicate their character, credibility, and [...]
Growth Mindset: Growing the Minds of First-Year College Students
Growth Mindset: Growing the Minds of First-Year College Students At the beginning of each semester or term, college campuses are overtaken by the excitement and curiosity of incoming freshmen students. They are excited, [...]
Jumpstart to Successful Instruction
Jumpstart to Successful Instruction Are you interested in becoming a more effective instructor, but aren’t sure where to start? The SkillsCommons Industry Expert to Expert Instructor (IE2EI) IMPACT community has a ready-to-use, free, and open answer for you! The Jumpstart [...]
The Luddite Instructor in the Wired Classroom: The Trials and Tribulations of Incorporating Information Technology in the Classroom
The Luddite Instructor in the Wired Classroom: The Trials and Tribulations of Incorporating Information Technology in the Classroom College students in the 21st century are preoccupied by their mobile devices and social media [...]
Claiming Our Right to Be Here: The Art of Overcoming Self-Sabotage
Claiming Our Right to Be Here: The Art of Overcoming Self-Sabotage We’ll call it baggage…the stuff we thought we’d left behind long ago—the old hurts, regrets, and insecurities—that have a way of showing [...]
Impacting Student Success Through the Power of Hope
Impacting Student Success Through the Power of Hope Hope is the belief that tomorrow will be better than today and that you have the power to make it so. In his book, Making Hope [...]
Informational Webinar: NISOD 101: How to Engage With NISOD
Informational Webinar: NISOD 101: How to Engage With NISOD This complimentary webinar informs attendees about the following membership opportunities: Innovation Abstracts, The NISOD Papers, #NISODProfiles, and Member Spotlights. NISOD’s Publications and Communications Manager, Brigitte Pentecost, will facilitate [...]
Widening the Aperture: Experiential Teaching for Engaged Learning
Widening the Aperture: Experiential Teaching for Engaged Learning As community college faculty members and professional staff, we know good teaching. In fact, we specialize in it (i.e., experiential education, applied learning, student-centered instruction, interactive teaching). However, what are the mechanisms by which [...]
The Known Unknowns: Some Best Practices for Onboarding and Training New Full-Time Faculty
The Known Unknowns: Some Best Practices for Onboarding and Training New Full-Time Faculty Each year, community college administrators and Human Resources departments are busy hiring new full-time faculty members. These new faculty members then [...]
The Office Hours Initiative (OHI): Outreach, Support, and Success
The Office Hours Initiative (OHI): Outreach, Support, and Success Office hours at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College (North Carolina) recently became an issue. Although some faculty members were not available during their advertised hours, many were [...]
Practical Strategies for Supporting English-as-an-Additional-Language Students
Practical Strategies for Supporting English-as-an-Additional-Language Students This webinar considers pedagogical challenges from the perspective of learners of English-as-an-additional-language (EAL). In particular, it illustrates the salient linguistic features of a chosen source language, in this case [...]
Can Science Survive Without the Humanities?
Can Science Survive Without the Humanities? In modern curriculum, there has been a gradual disengagement of the arts from the sciences. Standard language has changed from the arts and sciences to the arts or sciences. [...]
Evidenced-based Strategies for Implementing Critical Learner Reflection
Evidenced-based Strategies for Implementing Critical Learner Reflection At one point or another in our learning journeys, we have probably all been asked to reflect on our learning experiences. Although educators across disciplines have long [...]
Active Learning Using Free Polling Software
Active Learning Using Free Polling Software Active learning has been proven to help students analyze and apply course materials to develop a deeper understanding of the concepts being taught. Active-learning strategies include brainstorming, think-pair-share, case [...]
Elevating Success Opportunities for Our Students: Encouraging Emotional Intelligence Skill Usage Throughout the Community College Curriculum
Elevating Success Opportunities for Our Students: Encouraging Emotional Intelligence Skill Usage Throughout the Community College Curriculum This webinar reviews the principles of emotional intelligence. The webinar facilitator provides reasons why it is beneficial to [...]
CHEERS! Teaching Strategies
CHEERS! Teaching Strategies This webinar shares teaching strategies that the facilitator has used to increase student engagement and obtain good reviews from students and peers. CHEERS is an acronym that stands for: Challenge students to think critically, Help students by providing many resources, Encourage often, Excite [...]
Providing Increased Access and Affordability for Students via “Inclusive Access”
Providing Increased Access and Affordability for Students via "Inclusive Access" Co-chairs of the Tarrant County College Inclusive Access Project, Dr. Mark McClendon and Dr. Tyson McMillan, discuss their affordability program called TCC Plus, which [...]
Informational Webinar: NISOD 101: Call for Presentations
Informational Webinar: NISOD 101: Call for Presentations Are you interested in learning more about the 2019 Call for Presentations for NISOD’s International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence? This complimentary webinar covers the twelve [...]
Minority-Serving Community College Communities of Practice: Career Pathways for Students of Color
Minority-Serving Community College Communities of Practice: Career Pathways for Students of Color The design and implementation of career pathways are critical to advancing the achievement of students of color at community colleges. During this [...]
Keeping Students Engaged
Keeping Students Engaged This webinar is designed to share best practices for getting and keeping students engaged in the classroom. Too many times, professors find they are asked questions they answered during their lectures. Instead of paying attention, students are often checking social [...]