by Alisa Gross | May 27, 2014 | EdTech, Social Media, Teaching
More and more professors are finding that Facebook inspires more enthusiasm and interaction than LMSes as a forum for online discussion and class collaboration. Blackboard is difficult to use, and the process of incentivizing students to engage in discussion...
by Alisa Gross | May 19, 2014 | Teaching
This is a guest post by Stacy Rosenberg, Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University If you have been tempted to look down at your phone in the middle of a presentation – no matter how relevant the content – you suffer from The Swipe Effect. The Swipe...
by Alisa Gross | May 12, 2014 | Acclaim Posts
Chuck Sacco teaches an experiential entrepreneurship class called Launch It! at Drexel that allows him to work with students entrepreneurs to create and launch their own ventures with the help of up to $2,000 in seed funding. After co-founding PhindMe, a mobile...
by Alisa Gross | May 1, 2014 | Teaching
The following five professors come from a range of disciplines, but all have game-changing perspectives on teaching and issues within higher education. John Boyer, Virginia Tech, Geography Websites: The John Boyer, The Plaid Avenger John Boyer has worked to engage...
