Articles on Teaching Students

Below please find a few recent, relevant articles on teaching and working with students. Enjoy.

“Creating a Sense of Instructor Presence in the Online Classroom” by Rob Kelly (1/7/14)
From Faculty Focus:
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/creating-a-sense-of-instructor-presence-in-the-online-classroom/

“Three Strategies for Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences” by Steven A. Meyers (2/24/14)
From Faculty Focus:
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/three-strategies-creating-meaningful-learning-experiences/

“Father Guido Was Right” by Rob Weir (2/28/14)
From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2014/02/28/essay-making-midcourse-changes-teaching-plans

“Top 10 Rules for Developing Your First Online Course” by John Orlando (3/3/14)
From Faculty Focus:
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/top-10-rules-developing-first-online-course/

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Articles on Teaching Students

Below are a few relevant articles on teaching and working with students. Enjoy, and as always, feel free to comment in the CCCOnline Community.

“Everyone Should Teach ‘Freshman Comp’” by John Warner (9/16/13)
From Inside Higher Ed’s “Just Visiting” blog:
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/everyone-should-teach-freshman-comp

“Structuring Discussions: Online and Face-to-Face” by Maryellen Weimer (9/25/13)
From Faculty Focus’ “The Teaching Professor Blog”:
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/structuring-discussions-online-and-face-to-face/

“How We Respond to Students” by Andrew Joseph Pegoda (10/9/13)
From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2013/10/09/essay-communicating-students

“TMI From Professors” by Scott Jaschik (10/9/13)

From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/09/study-indicates-role-over-sharing-professors-encouraging-uncivil-student-behavior

“The Messy and Unpredictable Classroom” by Melissa Hudler (10/14/13)
From Faculty Focus:
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/the-messy-and-unpredictable-classroom/

Effectiveness in the Classroom

For your reading enjoyment, below are a few recent articles with the general theme of effectiveness in the classroom:

 

“Who Does Screencasting Help the Most?” by Robert Talbert (5/6/13)
From The Chronicle’s “Casting Out Nines” blog:

http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/2013/05/06/who-does-screencasting-help-the-most/

 

“Charisma Doesn’t Count” by Chris Parr (5/30/13)
From Inside Higher Ed:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/30/study-finds-students-dont-learn-more-charismatic-lecturers

 

“New Research Effort Aims to Examine Effectiveness of MOOCs” by Sara Grossman (6/10/13)
From The Chronicle’s “Wired Campus” blog:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/new-research-effort-aims-to-examine-effectiveness-of-moocs/44217

What’s Your Super Power?

As we count down to the CCCOnline Annual Conference, we’d like to ask you, our instructors:

What is YOUR super power and how does it help you to teach online?

Please respond in the companion Community discussion thread!

CCCOnline Annual Conference Information:
When: Sept. 30, 2011, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Where: Arapahoe Community College

For more information, including registration instructions, please visit http://media.ccconline.org/ccco/Conference/index.html.

Best Session Ever?

A powerful workshop, conference, webinar, or class… 

What was your favorite of all time?

If you have experienced a session that impacted your teaching significantly, please share your story in the Cultivating Excellence topic in the Community!

Please note: since next week is the eLearning Consortium of Colorado Conference, we will not be posting the week of 4/11; however, we will share what we learned afterwards!

Research & Writing Toolkit, Illustrated!

The library and information literacy talk continues with special guest Mary Cash.

Impressed by what you see here in our Wordle? You can find information on these topics and more when you visit the Research and Writing Toolkit on our Student Wiki: http://at.ccconline.org/students/wiki/Academic_Resources_-_Research_and_Writing_Toolkit

And, for those of you who already know about the Toolkit, how do you use the Research and Writing Toolkit in your courses?

Besides having links to the Toolkit on my Resources page and on several of my Unit Homework page, I send my students to specific assets we've listed on the Toolkit, including the Research 101 tutorial from the University of Washington's library. Also, when I grade papers and run into students who have grammar or sentence issues, I often send them to a specific section in the Help with Writing part of the Toolkit - I often send students to the Comma Splices and Fused Sentences section.

LisaMarie has a discussion early in the semester in her anthropology courses that has students go to the Research Writing Toolkit to do some exploring and then they need to find something they liked and report back to the other students on that website or tutorial.

So, how do you use the Research and Writing Toolkit in your courses? Liz and I are going to be giving presentations on the Toolkit at the eLCC conference in April and at the D2L Fusion conference in July, and we'd like to share with others how our faculty use the Research and Writing Toolkit. And, if you're not using it now, perhaps we've inspired you to try to come up with some ideas on how to incorporate the toolkit into your course:) Please share those ideas with us in the Community's Cultivating Excellence discussion.

-Mary Cash

Why Do You Love to Teach Online?

We’d love to hear your answers in the Cultivating Excellence discussion in the Community.

Al Turner, 2009 CCCOnline Faculty of the Year, offers the following to get us started:

“I love teaching online because it is a personal thing for me. I get to know each of my students by our one-on-one interactions. And that means there are no students in the back of my classroom *just taking notes and not engaging.* Also, I have a passion of helping my students develop and fine-tune their critical thinking skills.”