Engaging Students During Your Lecture

Would you like to make your lectures more interactive? Consider creating a variety of activities to engage your students during your lecture. Activities not only involve the students in the material, they can also promote critical thinking, develop skills, and allow for informal assessment of student understanding. You can make your lectures more interactive by […]

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Tips for Faculty for Preventing, Detecting and Reporting Plagiarism in Student Assignments

What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is the “submission or inclusion of someone else’s words, drawings, ideas, or data (including that from a website) as one’s own work without giving credit to the source” (see 2016-2017 Academic Catalog: Academic Honesty Policy). One common example of plagiarism in student papers is copying and pasting text from the Internet […]

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Top Tips for Improving Course Accessibility

48.9 million Americans are living with disabilities (ICI, n.d.), which include but are not limited to mobility issues, visual or auditory impairment and different levels of cognitive ability. The law mandates that places of public accommodation are made accessible to people with disabilities (Johnson, 2009). Classrooms  in higher education (both traditional and online) are considered […]

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