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Adult Learner Resources

This article outlines these six strategies; keep it relevant, remember student backgrounds, integrate emotion into lessons, encourage exploration, make assignments convenient and always offer feedback. Understanding how to teach adults will help with attrition and student success. Duverge. G. (2016). 6 Effective Strategies for Teaching Adults. Point Park University/Online. Retrieved from https://online.pointpark.edu/education/strategies-for-teaching-adults/
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Adult Learner Resources

Innovative methods in teaching should be used in every college classroom to enhance student engagement, support any teaching environment and encourage inquiry among learners. Adults learn best by participation in relevant experiences and utilization of practical information. When adult students are active in their learning they are able to develop critical thinking skills, receive social […]
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Use VR and AR in sciences

NWC should investigate whether VR/AR equipment could replicate lab experiences to the extent that repeated purchase of lab equipment and materials could be eliminated. “ASU is the first university to offer a virtual-reality biology lab for online students, who use headsets to manipulate DNA and complete dissections.” https://asunow.asu.edu/20180909-asu-news-ranked-most-innovative-US-school-fourth-time
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Online summer bridge course

To help students from less academically rigorous backgrounds succeed, NWC should offer an online bridge course. This would be less complicated logistically and financially than onsite coursework while still helping prepare students. If done right, it should improve retention as well. Summer bridge program called CUBE (Carleton Undergraduate Bridge Experience) https://apps.carleton.edu/cube/
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Reformulate teaching evaluation

Change how we evaluate teaching in order to promote innovation, quality, and fairness. “Oregon is among a small but growing number of institutions that are looking to de-emphasize the use of student evaluations in personnel decisions. Instead, faculty members are increasingly evaluating one another’s teaching. They are also writing reflections on their own teaching. Meanwhile, […]
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Faculty learning communities: Learning to teach together

Teaching tends to be faculty members’ most solitary activity–we rarely visit each other’s courses, comment on each other’s syllabi or assignments, help each other develop new ideas, comment on each other’s lecture style and content, etc. This article discusses the creation of faculty learning communities that are an essential part of faculty development. Faculty are […]