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Taking the Task to Task: Developing Scenarios for Adult Students

Adult learners expect to integrate workplace experience into formal study, and one way for faculty to meet that expectation is to use scenarios as the basis for discussions, projects, papers and even exams.
Scenarios are fictional situations that parallel reality by presenting situations or problems that could actually occur, applying academic topics (ex: consumer behavior) to [...]

Peer Coaching: Mentoring New Online Faculty

New faculty members can get the most productive start via coaching. In the online educational environment, the challenges encompass both traditional concerns like topical coverage, and process issues like ‘communicating virtually’. Mentors who serve as coaches should have expertise in both.
Traditional and nontraditional institutions alike screen prospective faculty for their academic credentials and relevant professional [...]

Seek and Ye May Find: Financial Aid For Adult Learners

Collegiate students 26 years and older are considered ‘adults’ to institutions of higher education, and ‘nontraditional’ to providers of financial support.  The categories create both hazards and opportunities for finding and acquiring financial assistance.
 
 

 
 
The most prevalent source of aid for adults is the workplace: employer-provided tuition reimbursement crosses industries, sectors and levels of employee status.  [...]

Yoo Who? Online Student/Professor Communications

Asking ‘the professor’ a question has never been easy.  In the classroom, the student—whether traditionally-aged or adult—fears embarrassment at ‘not knowing something’.  Online, there is a further complication that dissuades communication—the two individuals have never met.

 
Questions generally fall into three categories; topics, procedures and results.  Topical queries are simplest, in that they refer to a [...]

Just Ask: Online Databases

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Way Outside That Box: Creative Problem Solving

problem solving with the cube by colleen_taugher

Accelerated Format: Learning In The Fast Lane

Acceleration by Lin Pernille

I Say, An Essay! Tips on Writing Them Successfully

Where Media Writing Begins by topgold

Google This: Online Research

research-in-progress by wili hybrid

Accreditation: Purpose and Process

self-study at study by hermes