MOOCs have drawn attention to the different requirements of online vs. traditional teaching jobs. I recently watched Dr. Dani Babb’s Udemy presentation titled How to Make Money Teaching as an Online Professor. She said something that I thought was interesting. She...
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Advantages of Peer Interaction in Online Learning
One of the most important ways students learn in online courses is through peer-to-peer interaction. In my experience with traditional classrooms, there were far more lectures and much student involvement. The professors spoke “at us” in traditional courses. In...
How to Get an A in Your College Courses
Some of the top reasons that students don’t pass courses, based on my experience as a professor, is that they do not read the requirements for the classes or they don’t turn in material on time. If a student really wants to receive an “A”, there are some important...
Top 10 Tips for Surviving a Doctoral Dissertation
Today's Ask Dr. Diane: Do you have any suggestions on how to avoid the pitfalls many other doctoral students may have encountered when writing their dissertations? As a doctoral chair, I guide students through the process of writing a dissertation. There are...
Adjunct Advantages: The Future of Education
Professors who work on a contracted, part-time basis are referred to as adjuncts. There are advantages for universities that hire adjuncts rather than tenured faculty. However, many adjunct professors do not like this option. Some refer to the way things have...
Having Difficulty Making Decisions? Take a Quiz to See if You see Things in Black and White or Shades of Gray
There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today about why people can’t make decisions. Of interest was how some people are so ambivalent. Shirley Wang’s article in the WSJ stated: Now, researchers have been investigating how ambivalence, or lack of...
Associate Professor Writes Book for Online Students
Story by Trevor Green - UAT.edu Advances in computer technology have made education available to students far removed from a traditional classroom, with universities of all sizes instructing learners digitally - never physically interacting with their teachers. For...
Posting Teacher’s Reviews Online – What is RateMyProfessor?
Today's Ask Dr. Diane: What is the site ratemyprofessor.com all about? Ratemyprofessor.com is a website dedicated to allowing students to find out more about their professors and the courses they are going to take before they begin class. The site allows students to...
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Applied Creativity: How To Infuse Innovation Into Your Work With Natalie Nixon
Discover the power of applied creativity, where intentional curiosity sparks innovation and propels leadership. In this episode, our guest is the one and only creativity strategist Natalie Nixon, the founder of Figure 8 Thinking, and "the creativity whisperer to the...