If you didn’t know it, today is National Online Learning Day, a day to celebrate and showcase success of online education. Online Learning Day is a chance to recognize that online environments provide students the opportunity to learn almost anything, from anywhere, at any time. If you’ve taken a class online or taught one–whether […]
By Kimberly Hopkins MSN, RN Nursing Instructor Delaware Technical Community College Owens Campus One of the many foundational skills that I strive to pass on to future nursing students in one of my pre-nursing courses is effective communication. In this post, I want to share a few activities that I use to make the topic […]
By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus If you haven’t already heard of Adobe Spark, it’s an amazing free tool for designing visually stunning presentations, social media posts, and videos. I first stumbled upon Spark when I was trying to find something to use to create a […]
By Susan Chumley Nursing Department Delaware Technical Community College Terry Campus Teaching has evolved through the years. Instructors are no longer considered strictly the providers of information, but now they are the “facilitator(s) of knowledge” (p. 121) to self-directed learners, according to Carol S. Sternberger in her research article entitled Interactive Learning Environment: Engaging […]
By Michelle Marshall Librarian Delaware Technical Community College Owens Campus As a librarian, it is my hope to apply what I learn about teaching and instruction to the informal learning environment in which I work every day, namely, the library. The challenge has become how to apply concepts such as “student-centered” and “active learning” to […]
By Dr. Richard Kralevich Associate Vice President for Information and Instructional Technology Delaware Technical Community College In 1956, Benjamin Bloom and a few of his colleagues had a thought. Their idea – develop a framework that educators and student alike could leverage to better organize and understand the learning objectives associated with their shared educational […]
By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus My sharing of this video, created by the Baltimore Sun’s John McIntyre, is simply an attempt to gauge how many English teachers and grammarians read this blog. I know you’re out there, and once you watch this you simply won’t […]
By Rachel Chase Mathematics Department Delaware Technical Community College George Campus After attending an undergraduate research conference, I was inspired to implement a research driven assignment into the statistics courses I teach. Over the last few semesters of trials and tribulations, I have learned much about what works and what doesn’t.
By John Burbage Bio/Chem Department Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus If you have ever taught a class in an accelerated format, you know how hard it can be to keep the student’s attention for three, four, or even 5 hours. To keep the students engaged, I like to include a project that requires the […]
By Kate Lind Nursing Department Delaware Technical Community College Owens Campus After teaching in the K-12 sector of education, I was initially shocked at how difficult it was to involve active learning at the collegiate level. At the high school level, I developed a Medical Program, using Learning Focused Strategies (LFS) as the delivery system. […]