We are excited to announce a new event for our institution: Vanguard Scholars Day. This campus-wide event is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship and learning. Vanguard University is launching this campus-wide Scholars Day to celebrate scholarship and academic engagement which embodies the institution’s commitment to pursue knowledge. Vanguard affirms its dedication to critical thinking and information competency by hosting this multidisciplinary day of scholarship commemorating academic…Read More
Form: Vanguard Scholars Day Interest
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How to Get Students Engaging with Each Other Using EdTech
This article originally appeared in Bonni Stachowiak’s Toward Better Teaching: Office Hours Column on EdSurge. It is reposted here with permission. You can pose a question for a future column here. Dear Bonni: How can we make student-to-student interaction more personable and engaging in online learning? —Andrea Fuentes, Director of Online Learning, Doral College Cultivating an engaging…Read More
Supporting Students in Developing Writing Skills
This article originally appeared in Bonni Stachowiak’s Toward Better Teaching: Office Hours Column on EdSurge. It is reposted here with permission. You can pose a question for a future column here. How can I best support students with very poor writing skills when the class is not one specifically focused on writing? I’m already encouraging them to…Read More
5 Tips for Teaching Live Online
This article originally appeared in Bonni Stachowiak’s Toward Better Teaching: Office Hours Column on EdSurge. It is reposted here with permission. You can pose a question for a future column here. Dear Bonni: I’m wanting to learn about best practices for virtual courses that are “live” (e.g., using a platform like Zoom). It differs both from face-to-face…Read More
Keep Content Current in Canvas
This article originally appeared in Bonni Stachowiak’s Toward Better Teaching: Office Hours Column on EdSurge. It is reposted here with permission. You can pose a question for a future column here. NOTE: The approaches described here are in answer to the person’s question, below, about working in two different LMSs. However, they all apply equally well to keeping…Read More
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
Information is coming at us faster these days than we know what to do with it. We need a way of capitalizing on the opportunity that this potential knowledge presents, without becoming burdened by it. We need what is often referred to as: A Definition: Personal Knowledge Management However, one of the experts in this…Read More
Learning: A Never-ending Pursuit
One might assume that professors working in a higher education context would always have a firm commitment to lifelong learning and have systems established to facilitate that pursuit. However, it can be easy to rely on our disciplinary research endeavors to build up a case that we have a framework for learning that is never-ending.…Read More
Ed Westbrook – A Legacy of Teaching Excellence
There’s a kind of joy that comes from following God’s call over a sustained period of time. In this series of A Legacy of Teaching Excellence clips, Professor Ed Westbrook looks back at his early days of teaching and how his approaches evolved over time. He concludes by stating without a doubt that coming to…Read More
Vince Gil – A Legacy of Teaching Excellence
Imagine teaching the same class for decades. Only it wouldn’t really be the same class. Each set of students would bring their own questions, prior learning, and backgrounds. In this series of videos, Dr. Vince Gil shares about his experience teaching Vanguard’s human sexuality class for all those years and what he learned in the…Read More
A Legacy of Teaching Excellence
This video series was developed in the Fall of 2018 after Naomi Kasa shared an idea for how to better celebrate and capture the learning from some of our retiring faculty members. The videos were filmed and edited by Ben Wilson, a talented Vanguard alum and owner of a video production company. We are thankful to…Read More
Classroom Observation Overview
Through the promotion and tenure process at Vanguard, we have historically had chairs typically observe classes for summative reasons. However, we have had less of an emphasis on what is called formative evaluation – a way to receive feedback not tied to any formal evaluation of one’s work. Improve Teaching Excellence Through Formative Feedback This…Read More
Quality Scorecards
We subscribe to the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). One set of tools they offer through our membership is their OLC Quality Scorecard Suite. Access the OLC Scorecards Access the OLC scorecards on their centralized page. Of particular benefit to all faculty is their blended learning handbook and rubric. Set Up an OLC Profile Within Vanguard’s…Read More
Quality Teaching at Vanguard
Quality teaching has always been essential at Vanguard. However, in recent years there have been more attempts at defining what that actually means. Additionally, as our student demographics have changed so radically in the last ten years, so has the importance of meeting the needs of all our students. How Two Individuals Began to Change…Read More
Mentimeter
Mentimeter is an interactive polling service you can use to interact with your students using their cell phones. This video demo from Sibylle Georgianna discusses how attending the ESCALA training in September of 2018 helped her discover Mentimeter and use it to engage students using technology. In the video, she shows how to: Create a…Read More