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• 7 Tips for Teaching Online

  When colleges and universities started to offer classes online during the 1990s, it was hailed as the future of learning, as many institutions rushed to offer distance learning using the ….

  Posted on March 17, 2020

• Teaching Courses in the Online Format

  The outbreak of COVID-19 has forced schools to close and forced instructors to rethink how to teach. We are in a transformative period in education. We are experiencing a paradigm ….

  Posted on March 17, 2020

• Developing Guidelines for Evaluating Work for Online Courses: A Primer

  Due to the recent COVID-19 scare, many faculty have been quickly migrating in-person and hybrid courses to entirely online versions. I’m an ardent proponent for the use of rubrics, written ….

  Posted on March 17, 2020

• Procrastination and Ways to Avoid It

  Procrastination is the avoidance of completing or even beginning a task or assignment that needs to be accomplished. Another aspect of procrastination is seeking out and actually participating in events ….

  Posted on March 17, 2020

• Study Plans: Why They’re Important and How to Use Them

  What is a Study Plan? A study plan is a chart or schedule that allows you to block out time needed each day for well-defined learning activities, goals, and routine ….

  Posted on March 17, 2020

• Academic Integrity in an Online Environment

  I can only imagine what faculty and administrators at on ground schools must be going through right now having to move hundreds of course sections online with only a few ….

  Posted on March 17, 2020

• Bettering Herself

  Melissa Burger pursues higher education to improve her and her family’s lives Full-time student, mother of four, and busy wife Melissa Burger, of Michigan, took advantage of her military benefits ….

  Posted on March 6, 2020

• New Initiative at Excelsior College Will Help Stopout Students Complete Their Degree

  Partnership with ReUp Education combines coaching, technology to help students return to college Embargoed until March 4, 2020. Albany, NY —  Excelsior College recently launched a program designed to help ….

  Posted on March 2, 2020

• Today’s Interview & Workplace Attire

  What do you wear to an interview and what exactly is workplace attire? Answers certainly vary on this topic, sometimes —or even especially—depending on your generation. Think about what people ….

  Posted on February 25, 2020

• Fulfilling the Promise

  Almost 50 years ago, Excelsior College was founded as a noble experiment: a higher education institution focused on providing adult learners with a flexible and affordable pathway to a credential—and ….

  Posted on February 7, 2020