Social media has had a profound effect on how we communicate with one another. The intense connectivity brought about by this new modality of communication has had and will continue to have a significant influence on society in many different aspects. Politicians can now view how certain issues our trending and respond base on the emerging data. Businesses can use social media to "crowd source" innovation and develop marketing schemes to meet consumer demands. Being as social media has…

I just got done reading the book "The Power of Full Engagement" in which authors Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy posit that we need to manage our energy not our time. Similarly in his article for HBR Schwartz notes that it is important to develop rituals that allow our brains and bodies to recover by working in alternating phases of high focus and then rest.

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There has been a substantive amount of research and scholarly articles written about the so-called flipped classroom. Although many practitioners and scholars have posited the advantages of flipping the classroom, others have lamented the loss of the more traditional classroom paradigm. The benefit of the flipped classroom is that it allows for student-to-student learning, lessening the amount of work for the instructor and encouraging student engagement. Conversely, the…

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Have you ever wondered if the eccentric rituals sport teams go through before, during, and after games have any effect on their performance? Paolo Guenzi says that they can positively affect performance. In one example, the author notes that rituals can create a sense of shared identity and belonging. Intuitively, this seems to make sense, think on the number of rituals that we take for granted that act as a mechanism for creating personal and shared group identity- religious rites or…

Have you integrated a classroom assessment technique that is particularly effective in promoting critical thinking, enhancing student learning or fostering student engagement? If so, please submit your best practice idea for presentation at the Online Teaching Showcase (OTS). OTS is designed to encourage scholarly dialogue about best practices in online instruction and assessment among GCU faculty teaching online. As such, if you have experience working with classroom assessment techniques, we…