Fibonacci Day is on November 23rd. Only true fans of the influential mathematician or stalkers of national Fill-in-the-Blank Day have this one in their Outlook calendar. That said, its absolutely more than fine to take a moment and give a nod to the Italian who invented the eponymous sequence that continues to be used in science…
On November 3rd 1906, at the International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin, Germany, the famous SOS signal of three dots, three dashes and three dots was adopted as the international signal of distress. Since then, countless stories have surfaced of people around the world blinking, or using mirrors, sound, or lights to signal they were in…
The academic fallout of the pandemic is far from over. Even while the fall semester is underway, many instructors are left wondering if they’ve managed to pull together a workable, effective, durable lab experience for their students in this environment. As instructors continue to tinker with the mix, here are some reasons to keep digital…
September 15th is National Online Learning Day, a day celebrating how far we’ve come in digital learning since the early days of electronic instruction. And maybe one of the more remarkable aspects of digital learning is how it has segued from something that busy, transient, and inquisitive adults could do online to earn college credit…
September 15th is National Online Learning Day, a day celebrating how far we’ve come in digital learning since the early days of electronic instruction. And maybe one of the more remarkable aspects of digital learning is how it has segued from something that busy, transient, and inquisitive adults could do online to earn college credit…
The fall semester starts off with a holiday and depending on your school you also may have off for a long weekend for Fall Break, Martin Luther King Day, a long weekend for Easter, etc. There may also be the emergency school closings for hurricane warnings in the south and extreme cold and snow in…
Welcome to another academic year of teaching! Hopefully you are feeling good about the trajectory your labs will be taking this fall. At the very least you are probably thankful that it’s fall 2021 and not fall 2020. Last year at about this time you may have been stressed, unsure of what to expect, apprehensive…
The President of Yale Explains How Technology Can Help Us Expand Access and Blend Physical and Virtual Teaching For the Future… In describing the current academic environment, the president of Yale University, Peter Salovey, opines, “We have a responsibility to apply what we have learned [from transitioning to remote learning because of the pandemic] to…
Van-Griner Learning Partnership with Merlot Offers More for Lab Instructors… Van-Griner Learning and Merlot are partnering up to deliver discipline-specific STEM material on an interactive digital platform called LabRight that drastically simplifies the busy lives of instructors and the delivery process for students. Merlot is a curated online learning provider for higher education made up…
4 Ways to Construct a Digital Chemistry Pre-lab That Reaps Rewards… Whatever a lab coordinator’s paradise is it surely looked nothing like last year. Forced digital delivery obliterated many of the honed lab processes required to run an efficient lab. TA training, stockroom supplies, scheduling all had to be re-done in a week’s notice. Now…