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Humor Breaks in Seminars:
Inspiring Engagement, Focus, and Community By January Pearson In the online classroom, where the community is essential to student success, incorporating humor in seminars provides a simple yet effective way to enhance student engagement and learning. Considering research on the benefits of humor and mini-breaks, this strategy invites students to share simple pun-based humor halfway…
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Like a Human Being: Building Student Success
By Dr. Jacob Kaltenbach Stories from teaching and other vocations can help educators reflect on successes and failures in simply treating students as human beings. Examples from students’ reading and critical thinking show they are compelled to affirm their humanity by drawing connections to life outside school. In the interest of building patience and becoming…
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“Trick or Treat!”: Student Success and Halloween Pictures
By Dr. James McAdams Faculty now have permission to create extracurricular discussion modules as an option to boost student engagement. Examples might include modules for students in recovery, students in the military, cute pet pictures, baby advice, and so forth. Exploration and experimentation with this integration have resulted in increased audiovisual participation and a more…
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