By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus Have you been using Blackboard in the same way for the past five years? Are your Learning Materials still a dumping ground for every handout and PowerPoint ever? These 5 Blackboard Hacks will have you running a smoother course (for […]
By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus Last semester, I began a new learning activity in my ENG 102 course: having students teach the class. This is nothing new to academia. I remember my college years.
By Al Drushler Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College George Campus I recently attended a 3-day workshop on Problem-Based Learning (or PBL) at the University of Delaware. The main sponsor of the workshop was University of Delaware’s Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, started in the 90s by a group of professors […]
By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus Sometimes, it’s easy to fall back on lecture or other teacher-centered instructional methods when crunch time comes. You’ve got a ton of grading to do, reporting deadlines to meet, and 1,001 emails waiting gloomily in your inbox. There’s just […]
By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus If you’re anything like me, your motivation comes in waves. At the start of a project, you’re all gung ho to dive in and get it done. Then you get deep in it and realize just how draining all the […]
By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus PhD student Anjali Gopal recently wrote a piece for the GradHacker blog over at Inside Higher Ed called Setting Five Minute Timers. In her article, Gopal talks about how the practice of setting short timers for herself has helped her […]
By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus Last month, the New York Public Library announced the addition of almost 200,000 items to their digital collections. In their announcement, they make it clear that these are free to use without restriction with the following words: No permission required, […]
By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus Author’s Note: Last semester, I had the pleasure of teaching the first-ever offering of IDT G91: Peer Observation, for employees at Delaware Tech. This course provided participants an opportunity to observe their colleagues in the classroom and reflect on those […]
By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus Now that a new year is upon us and spring semester is underway, it’s a good time to look back and remember what happened here at Forward Thinking in 2015. Here are our top 5 most-viewed posts from last year.
By Melissa Brown Nursing Department Delaware Technical Community College Owens Campus As a new instructor I am constantly looking for ways to determine if my teaching was effective and if the students are “getting it.” I am always looking for ideas to strengthen my lessons. What better way than to ask the students for input? […]