Online classrooms – now a mainstay in higher education – provide students and educators with unique opportunities to learn-by-collaboration. One powerful tool that fosters active engagement and critical thinking in virtual classrooms is well-crafted discussion prompts. By designing thoughtful and stimulating prompts, educators can create vibrant and dynamic online discussions that enhance the learning experience for… Read more »
Posts By: Brooke Shriner
This Week’s Online Teaching Job Listings – 8/6/2023
Each week we will summarize all the online adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference. If you’d like to be notified right after we post a new online teaching job in your discipline area, giving your application a jump start, consider becoming a Premium Member! Premium membership also offers bigger discounts on our professional… Read more »
Building Community in the Asynchronous Online Classroom
Asynchronous online classrooms offer a flexible and convenient learning experience for diverse groups of learners. While you might think that the absence of real-time interaction can pose a challenge in establishing a sense of community among students and instructors, the asynchronous learning environment is rife with opportunities to community-build. Creating a supportive and connected learning environment… Read more »
This Week’s Online Teaching Job Listings – 7/30/2023
Each week we will summarize all the online adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference. If you’d like to be notified right after we post a new online teaching job in your discipline area, giving your application a jump start, consider becoming a Premium Member! Premium membership also offers bigger discounts on our professional… Read more »
Active Learning In the Online Classroom: Increasing Student Engagement
Experience and research have shown us time and time again that the critical component of any successful online course is student engagement. The more students are actively involved in their online course work, the better they perform, the more enjoyable they find the course, and the more likely they are to continue on to graduation…. Read more »
This Week’s Online Teaching Job Listings – 7/23/2023
Each week we will summarize all the online adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference. If you’d like to be notified right after we post a new online teaching job in your discipline area, giving your application a jump start, consider becoming a Premium Member! Premium membership also offers bigger discounts on our professional… Read more »
Collaborative Exams – An Interesting Idea!
I once sat through a new faculty hire orientation where one of the speakers spoke at length about test integrity, emphasizing how we should prohibit students from working on exams with each other (the standard exam instructions at this school say that if the student is caught doing so, they will be reported to the… Read more »
This Week’s Online Teaching Job Listings – 7/16/2023
Each week we will summarize all the online adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference. If you’d like to be notified right after we post a new online teaching job in your discipline area, giving your application a jump start, consider becoming a Premium Member! Premium membership also offers bigger discounts on our professional… Read more »
Am I Qualified to Teach Online?
This is one of the most common questions members of our community ask: Am I qualified to teach online college courses? Obviously, there is no one size fits all answer to this question. So much depends on variables such as what discipline you teach in and the competitiveness within that area, whether you are looking… Read more »
This Week’s Online Teaching Job Listings – 7/9/2023
Each week we will summarize all the online adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference. If you’d like to be notified right after we post a new online teaching job in your discipline area, giving your application a jump start, consider becoming a Premium Member! Premium membership also offers bigger discounts on our professional… Read more »
