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"When this semester started, I spent the first two weeks tracking down students - via email and other methods - so that I could invite them to use the digital tools I've assigned for my online survey course on U.S. history. I could have just sent emails to their university accounts but, in my experience, most students hardly ever check their campus email. Getting the address that they do check was the first step in trying to bring my course to where students live their already-busy digital lives."

"Much of our work as educators consists of designing and delivering experiences in which students can develop their understanding and application of concepts and skills in our disciplines. Given that we have only 16 weeks with our students, we need various ways for deepening and expanding these formative experiences in our field. Visiting experts can be a wonderful way of developing expertise, and leveraging online tools like Skype and Zoom can open up powerful possibilities for new collaboration and conversation."

"Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) continues to be an area of emphasis in higher education during turbulent social times. Over the past few years, discussions about DEI have increasingly begun to focus on student experiences (particularly with regard to their social identities) in the classroom. This has caused faculty to reconsider their pedagogy and how to best meet the needs of the rapidly diversifying students in our classrooms."

For the last decade, millennial students have captured the attention of higher education. We've studied them, learned about their perspectives on the world, and sought to serve them well through our educational system. Now the stream of millennial-minded students is maturing; they are no longer our traditional-aged prospects.

"As a follow-up to last week's post, here's a final bit from my rummaging around old favorites in my personal library of teaching and learning resources."

"9 Tips To Improve Online Learners' Engagement 163 SHARES With the coming of Internet, the way learning is imparted has undergone a drastic change. It is no longer limited to teachers giving lessons to the students physically located in front of them in the classrooms. "

We all endorse it and we all want our students to do it. We also claim to teach it. "It" is critical thinking, and very few of us actually teach it or even understand what it is (Paul & Elder, 2013).

Curating content is an important skill. With Wakelet's new collaboration feature, we can give our students the opportunity to work together to curate and create. Here are ten ways to use this new feature in your classroom.