By Precious Akponah, Hela Hassen, Matthew Higgins A death threat, dispatched via email from an undergraduate student to their tutor, prompted a visit from the police to campus. The sender of the email was unhappy with their mark, and appreciating …
By Kathryn A. Sutherland, Rachel Forsyth, and Peter Felten We became intrigued by this question during conversations in mid-2021 as part of an Elon University Center for Engaged Learning research seminar. Thrust online for the first year of the three-year …
By Ruth L. Healey and Alison Cook-Sather Learning is an inherently emotional experience. The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) field has supported the development of intentional practices attentive to students’ emotional experiences of receiving feedback, but we do not …
By Joko Slamet, Yazid Basthomi, Francisca Maria Ivone, Evi Eliyanah. Our exploration of gamification in massive open online courses (MOOCs) was driven by a commitment to reshape online education. This study, part of the first author’s dissertation at Universitas Negeri …
During the shift to emergency remote teaching, undergraduate biology instructors were challenged with the unprecedented: transitioning lab and experiential-based activities online. Given this challenge—and in a discipline where faculty are not traditionally taught how to teach online—we wanted to understand …
By Michael Lahey This publication stems from my lived experience as a degree coordinator and educator who cares about curriculum and student experiences in the classroom. I have noticed the challenges undergraduate students have adapting to classrooms where there are …
By Shannon Kell In the world of education, wellness is foundational to everything: our ability to teach and learn, function, meaningfully interact, balance work and life, behave appropriately, and perhaps most importantly: enjoy life and to flourish. Wellness needs to …
By Jamie Magrill and Barry Magrill Disruptions to higher education from the rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) began with concerns around misuse of GenAI and have quickly evolved into a sea-change that all of academia must grapple with, …
Michael Wong1,2, Sarah Ali2 1 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Canada 2 Honours Health Sciences (BHSc) Program, McMaster University, Canada Email Correspondence: wongm8@mcmaster.ca Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy that facilitates learning through the process of …
By Aliyah Dosani, Jocelyn Lehman and Alexander Cuncannon Our research team had a shared interest in the potential for arts-based activities to enrich social justice learning. A shift to online delivery of courses added incentive to enhance engagement in learning …
