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Explore Principles of Academic Vocabulary Fluency

Students may enter courses with varying degrees of familiarity with the academic vocabulary and terminology specific to our discipline. As...

Engage Your Culturally Diverse Students

Research shows that student engagement is multidimensional and an important contributor to academic performance and learning outcomes in the classroom...

Discover – Culturally-Responsive Teaching And HSI

This conversation took place on December 5, 2018. The interview facilitators were Bonni Stachowiak and Shannon Jonsson. Participating on the...

Discover Culturally Responsive Teaching – Sylvia Kane

In the following series of videos, Dr. Sylvia Kane shares ways that we can collectively become more culturally-responsive in our...

Maximize Usability and Findability

Usability, findability, and visual design are critical aspects of the way your students experience your course.  A good student experience...

Design for Accessibility

In the context of your courses, accessibility means making it possible for all students, regardless of physical or developmental impairment,...

Establish and Maintain Instructor Presence

The concept of presence in teaching builds on the body of work on teaching and learning including Dewey, Chickering and...

Teach Online

Faculty in colleges and universities across the country often learn about teaching and classroom management informally through observing faculty whose...

Foster Group Work and Participation

Group work is challenging for many students in a face-to-face class. When you add the extra layers of complication from...

Support Active Learning

Keeping students actively engaged with you, the content, and each other promotes student success. When students are observing, doing, communicating,...

Assess Usability and Visual Design 

Seeing your course and materials from the perspective of someone unfamiliar with your content and organizational structure can help you to...

Improve Accessibility in Your Courses

By employing a few simple techniques when creating your courses and materials that maximize accessibility, you won’t be scrambling when a student...

Explore Tools for Interactive Teaching and Learning

It is tempting to fall into the habit of thinking that you have to use a lot of complicated technological...

Using Video in Your Classes

You may ask yourself, ‘How should I do videos?’  The answer is, ‘it depends’. It depends on your learning objectives,...

Track Attendance with Qwickly

Vanguard has subscribed to Qwickly Attendance, which produces a standard attendance record for all courses across the institution. Adopting a...

Use Games in Your Classroom

Games are a great way to get students engaged in course content in a fun and exciting way, while at...