Preparing for The Academic Calendar Change As you may already know, beginning in Fall of 2018, the semester length at Delaware Tech will shift from 16 to 15 weeks. Faculty may have questions about how to best alter their instruction in order to still meet all course objectives within a shortened time frame This brief […]
D2L Announces Delaware Tech’s Selection of Brightspace Yesterday, D2L formally announced Delaware Technical Community College’s selection of Brightspace to serve as the college’s learning management system of choice. President and CEO of D2L, John Baker, shared in the announcement… To reach every learner, higher learning institutions need to personalize their learning environments while streamlining the […]
Tips to help prevent and manage cheating in the classroom By Jennifer Williams Human Services Delaware Technical Community College George Campus Teaching comes with many rewards as well as some challenges. One of the challenges many of us may face is how to handle when a student cheats on an exam. We as instructors offer […]
Incorporating Service Learning into Human Services Courses By Malinda Hudson Human Services Delaware Technical Community College Owens Campus Sussex County is expanding with new housing developments breaking ground every day and new businesses generated to accommodate the needs of a larger population. People are choosing to migrate to this area, some for business, others for […]
Are We There Yet? By Rachelle Hawtof Math Department Delaware Technical Community College George Campus Ever gone on a really long car ride? I don’t care how old you are, we all think the same thing at some point in the ride. Are we there yet? How much longer? Unfortunately, I think this is the […]
By Erin Hanlon Mechanical Engineering Department Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus Recently in my Friday afternoon class (who thought Friday afternoon was a good time to lecture, anyway?), as students’ eyes glassed over, one of them asked that we do a lab instead of the lecture that I had planned. Having not planned a […]
By Jerry Pearson Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Terry Campus Whether you are recording live footage in your classroom to add to your teaching portfolio, making an educational demonstration for your students, or just snapping a quick video for fun–these tips should help you get the most out of your […]
By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus If you are a hobbyist, an entrepreneur, or just a lifelong learner looking to explore new territories of expertise, you may have come across one of the ten million online courses floating around the internet. Usually it happens like this. […]
By Megan Wagaman Math Department Delaware Technical Community College George Campus Recently, the research discussion group of the Stanton/George Instructional Innovation Committee met to discuss an article by Scott Gaier titled Understanding Why Students Do What They Do: Using Attribution Theory to Help Students Succeed Academically. In this post, I wanted to share some […]