It may sound pretty routine to convert a course to an online format, but doing so presents many unexpected challenges and can even challenge a professor’s assumptions about the nature of academic ...

We’ve all watched the scene in teen movies: a terrified student has to present in front of the class. The student freezes or panics. The class erupts into jeers and laughter. Fortunately, students in ...

Student Involvement and Leadership supports leadership development through a Learn to Lead series. Learn to Lead brings leadership development into UAB classrooms and student organization meetings ...

It is a pedagogical approach in which “direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space”, according to the Flipped Learning Network. What this means in practice ...

Students spend more time playing around with presentation software than you might think. Shouldn’t they be using that time on the material itself? Imagine if there was presentation software that could ...

I vividly recall my first speech in my public speaking class. The instructor taped our speeches and made us watch the recording. I remember hearing my voice cracking and watching my neck and then my ...