Episode 18 | Be Mindful About Going Over Time During Your Consults

Do you have a habit of going over time during your consultations?It's very common!In this episode, I go over a few things to consider if you notice this

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Episode 17 | Reflections on Publishing Research

Transcript of Reflections on Publishing Research episodeThe trials and tribulations of survey research.A paper that I've been working on with a team of other folks was published in

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Episode 23 | Using Zoom to Take Offline Courses Online

​L​isten to the Episode: ​​Using Zoom to Take Offline Courses Online  ​Y'all, my biggest point here is that you don't have to do this. Your on-campus course doesn't

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Episode 22 | Online courses and the coronavirus

​L​isten to the Episode: ​Should you change yo​ur online course due to the coronavirus?In short: yes. You probably should.​Courses are specific to the people who are in them.

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Episode 21 | Late Work Policies

​​Whenever I'm working with groups of people, I can always count on some ​of them being late. Life shows up, no matter how committed we are or how

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Episode 20 | When to Make Exceptions for Unusual Circumstances

​Even with the most carefully-crafted syllabus, it's still likely that you'll encounter situations where students are asking for exceptions based on unusual circumstances.When should you make exceptions to

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Episode 19 | What to do when students don’t have their textbooks yet

Have you ever found out that a student doesn't yet have their textbook, even several weeks in the your course? I have.​I suspect that this is more common

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Episode 18 | How to Handle High Question Volume in the First Week of Class

​The first week of ​an online class - at least for me - brings the highest volume of questions that I'll get all trimester. In this episode, I've

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Episode 16 | When a Student Objects to “Teaching Myself”

It's very common for students to say that they feel like they're teaching themselves in an online course. As a faculty member, it's easy to get defensive when

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Episode 15 | Ideas for Working with Non-Native English Speakers

Today's question has to do with how to kindly and effectively give feedback to students who are not native English speakers and are having some difficulty communicating clearly.

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