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Creating Classroom Camaraderie to Promote Learning: 3 Strategies

The Scholarly Teacher

Maintaining student engagement is difficult; this is not a controversial opinion or surprise to most faculty. Stoner and Fincham (2012) say, “Part of the responsibility of being a faculty member is to identify what motivates students and to adapt teaching styles so that they are conducive to effective learning” (para. Introduction.

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Presidential habits: How a track record of successes (or failures) has shaped their careers

University Business

Julie Schornack will be the second president and first female president to lead the school since its expansion and name change in 2013. MBKU’s primary focus is healthcare, and it’s comprised of three primary schools focused on optometry, pharmaceuticals and schooling for physician assistants. Dr. Fayneese S.

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Moving Right Along to Improve Mood and Memory

The Scholarly Teacher

Mark Tarnopolsky, a genetic metabolic neurologist at McMaster University, said that “if there were a drug that could do for human health everything that exercise can, it would likely be the most valuable pharmaceutical ever developed” (Oaklander, 2016, para. Increased levels of BDNF translate directly to better learning (Erickson et al.,

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

Despite all of the complaints about how bad textbooks are and how clueless these companies are, the relationship between textbook publishers and faculty is unusually intimate. You can fairly accuse the textbook publishers of many different faults and sins, but not taking faculty input seriously isn’t one of them.

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