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Teaching with Screenleap

Sometimes we feel like we could better help our students if we were right there with them at the computer.  Screenleap is a simple way for students to share their screen with you.  It can even be used to broadcast your screen to 50 students at one time. Add in Screenleap's audio conferencing and you have a powerful for real time student communication.   Attend this 30-minute webinar to learn more about this effective, time saving resource.

• Tuesday, February 12,…

The Journal of Instructional Research (JIR) is an annual publication by the Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching at Grand Canyon University that highlights research relevant to best practices in post-secondary instruction. Unique to JIR is the use of a two-stage evaluation process with public peer review, interactive discussion and final formalized peer review.

We are seeking your participation in reviewing, providing feedback and discussing the current submissions to JIR. All…

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To help ensure a successful first experience, Dr. Jazzar offers the following baker's dozen of recommendations for effectively teaching adult learners online (to read the complete article, see Faculty Focus): 

1. Online foundation classrooms need to remain as centers of encouragement where the professor's enthusiasm is contagious. 
2. Professors need to maintain a learner focus of support as the needs of students in the foundation course will greatly vary. 
3. The responsiveness of the professor to…

The rule "Use two spaces after punctuation marks at the end of a sentence" has been changed to "Use one space after punctuation marks at the end of a sentence." The two space rule was based on a misreading of section 4.01 in the APA 6th edition manual on page 88 where it states  "Exceptions:… Spacing twice after punctuation marks at the end of a sentence aids readers of draft manuscripts." To clarify the meaning of this, CDD Curriculum editors emailed APA manual editors, who informed them that…

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