Why? Setting the agenda for the class meeting will reinforce to students what topics will be covered, while also demonstrating how prepared you are as an instructor, and can also help establish your ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Philip Zelikow packs a lot into his modern world history course, roaming in a given week from the Napoleonic wars to Latin American revolutions to India circa 1800. But the ...

On a Thursday afternoon in February, I watched my students at the whiteboard. Gaby was drawing a series of cartoons and a list of the kinds of animals that had been sent into space by different ...

Michelle Bitten isn’t a morning person, which made it hard for her to get to her 8 a.m. biology class at UC Berkeley three times a week. And when she did attend, she felt that the instructor tended to ...

Understanding how time “works” in online teaching and course design is often a challenge for online instructors, especially those new to online education. Four distinct yet related questions can ...

A free, massively open online course (MOOC) on Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life will begin Monday, April 28, and will include what may become the world’s largest memory ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. This summer I'm teaching a fully online ...