Text Your Students 🙂
Speak the language your learners are listening in. reproduced with permission from Scott Hamm, Abilene Christian University What is this language? Â This language is normally portable, visual, and entertaining. Using a text message to communicate with students is an...
Diversifying the Role Course Content Plays
Maryellen Weimer discusses the role of content in her highly-acclaimed "Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice" (Osterlin's CIE collection has a few copies). In this recent article for The Teaching Professor Blog, she challenges us once again to look...
The Power of Choice
"The main ingredient in all success is wise choices. That's because the quality of our lives is determined by the quality of the choices we make on a daily basis." Skip Downing, On Course, Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life. The Wise Choice Process...
How Do You Teach Bright Students to Ask for Help?
“Most people are hung up on the idea of asking for help. From the time we're born, we are told that the American ethic is self-reliance. Pull your own weight, row your own boat, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and a host of other similar sayings pervade our...
Accessibility Experience – Ready to Listen?
Listen to your content As educators we spend a lot of time planning and designing the learning environment for our students. Documents and web content are an important part of supporting that learning environment; from the welcome message, the syllabus, the course...
MAP – An Academic Planning Tool
Beginning September 22nd, all NMC students will be introduced to MAP - an academic planning tool they can use to stay on track for graduation. Students will access their MAP from their myNMC page or their Self-Service page. They will also find a link to a tutorial...
MTA – What it is and what happened to MACRAO
As students are shuffling into your offices with spring/summer registration questions, you might be hearing, “what the heck is MTA?” We’ve got you covered! For those who aren’t aware, the MACRAO Agreement was replaced by the Michigan Transfer Agreement (MTA) this...
Moodle: Dropped Students in Gradebook
Have you noticed dropped students showing up in your grade book? We made a setting change that will now default to showing all students in the course in your grade book. This was done so that your averages would calculate correctly. If you would like your dropped...
Accessibility challenge: YOUR SYLLABUS
As we explore accessibility at NMC throughout the semester, we will throw out a challenge each month. Our challenges are designed to help you make small (but significant) changes and to help you set up good development practices to ensure that your course is...
What is On Course?
You may have heard of the workshops. You may have heard of classes that use it. What is this On Course? On Course is both a book for students to use in a study skills course and a framework for teaching. It provides students with a guide for college success. It...