"5 Course Hacks Any Humanist Can Try: Digital Humanities as a Teaching Playground"
Tweed-jacketed, book-loving humanities professors seem as if we are at a disadvantage when faced with today's Millennial students. New approaches to the digital humanities offer to engage students, academics, and public ..
"What Do You Think?" - Promoting Student Collaboration using the Discussion Board
Discussion Boards are collaborative tools, offering students the chance to read a full range of perspectives about a topic. Traditional classroom discussion is usually limited to a few students who are comfortable speaki..
A Hybrid Approach to English Basic Skills Instruction
This hybrid distance learning approach to teaching and enhancing reading, writing and critical thinking in Basic Skills students incorporates a variety of learning experiences using novels as the foundation of instructio..
A Method to Online Course Design Madness: A Collaborative Approach
Montclair State University (MSU) has been moving quickly in developing online degree programs and individual online courses. In order to ensure high-quality online education, a social interaction-embedded content develop..
Bridging the Divide: Transitioning from the Classroom to the Internet
College students today need to be proficient in using the latest technological tools that are available. Although most have mastered how to use the popular social network sites there are many students who are intimidated..
Creating Online Learning Spaces through Peer-to-Peer Blogging
Using Blackboard Blogs, students in Global Social Change, an online social science course, were assigned to create individual blogs that focused on global issues-social, environmental, and political-and their relevance t..
Creating Pedagogically Sound Hybrid Courses
In an effort to meet the educational needs of all students, regardless of location, personal time commitments and responsibilities, Montclair State University has chosen to focus their efforts on increasing their Hybrid/..
Creating a Helpdesk Where None Exists
As the use of technology in education continues to increase, so does the need to train people to use it effectively. When an institution cannot provide a 24/7 helpdesk to assist students, faculty are often level one supp..
Critical Thinking and EAP in a Summer Bridge Program
Incoming college freshmen often suffer from lack of academic readiness, and colleges increasingly do less general education and more specialized, career-oriented learning. A Summer Bridge Program, funded by NJ Educationa..
Differentiated Instruction Methods to address the needs of all students
This presentation will address the learning needs of Digital Natives. Students and children today are heavily exposed to gaming, new media and mobile devices. This presentation will propose several Instructional Methods ..