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Teaching at a Small Private College? Take our AdviceĀ 

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Jenni, the early career Assistant Professor, was in her second year of teaching at the institution after leaving an even smaller liberal arts institution which she felt was on shaky financial footing. She teaches at an entirely online public institution and has started the tenure process again.

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Teaching at a Small Private College? Take our AdviceĀ 

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Jenni, the early career Assistant Professor, was in her second year of teaching at the institution after leaving an even smaller liberal arts institution which she felt was on shaky financial footing. She teaches at an entirely online public institution and has started the tenure process again.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. ā€œI In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. Wieman has led efforts to improve science teaching. Well, I always hesitate to use myself as data.

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U. of Florida Asks Students to Use App to Report Profs Who Donā€˜t Teach In Person

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Administrators at the University of Florida are so concerned that professors will refuse to teach in person this semester that they’re asking students to use an app to report any professor who teaches online instead. And some professors are outraged by the tactic. Smith, chair of the university’s political-science department.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. These contract faculty often cobble together patchwork teaching schedules across multiple colleges each semester.

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Why Professors Should Ask Students For Feedback Long Before the Semester Is Over

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Experts say it’s an effective strategy for improving teaching and learning quickly—sometimes as soon as the very next class period. And research shows that professors who collect early-term feedback, and who use it to make changes to their courses with the help of a consultant, can raise their end-of-semester teaching evaluations.

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16 Education Podcasts to Check Out In 2017

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When asking around, several folks we talked to praised Teaching in Higher Ed as a podcast with particularly engaging discussions. Teaching Strategies Cult of Pedagogy Podcast Jennifer Gonzalez, a former middle school teacher, hosts this podcast as part of her popular blog on teaching strategies, education reform, and ed tech.

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