As the fall term winds down, many of us are thinking ahead to the winter and spring, planning courses and refreshing syllabi in anticipation of the coming year. One part of the syllabus design that ...

Last April, I was a month out from the end of the spring semester when I read in The Chronicle about the “stunning’ level of student disconnection.” At the time, I was teaching three in-person courses ...

Academics are the cornerstone of the college experience, but students can be uninterested in their courses. Student attendance is a problem as old as higher education itself, and faculty members ...

The physics professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, had tried every way he could think of to take attendance efficiently in his large classes. He used a good ...