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Jennifer Duncan has been teaching English for twenty years, first at Chattanooga State Community College in Tennessee and now at Georgia State Univers...
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david_myers
Most academic fields are blessed with public intellectuals—people who contribute big ideas to their disciplines and also to public discourse. Economic...
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andrea_lunsford
I’ve been following MIT Professor Ethan Mollick’s newsletter One Useful Thing for some time now, with interest and admiration—and I have also watched ...
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davidstarkey
This spring, I am offering five tips to students writing in each of the four genres covered in my textbook, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief. Th...
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EllieC
Welcome to "Try This!", a weekly blog series where we dive into the ever-evolving world of generative AI and share valuable insights and practical tea...
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andrea_lunsford
Kim Haimes-Korn is a Professor of English and Digital Writing at Kennesaw State University. She also trains graduate student teachers in composition t...
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MarisaBluestone
Today, April 22, communities around the globe unite in celebration of Earth Day, a testament to our collective commitment to protect our planet. This ...
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sue_frantz
With the NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournaments behind us, the NBA playoffs coming up, and the WNBA season starting soon, here’s a timely resea...
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nbrady
Why did the economics instructor join the Tortured Poet's Department? She wanted to put the "verse" in "diverse portfolio" Catch up on your #Swiftieno...
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susan_bernstein
Earthquake WritingNeurodivergent Teaching On Friday April 5 at 10:23 a.m. at my home in Queens, N.Y., the furniture began to shake. It was the day aft...
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andrea_lunsford
I’ve been collecting sentences for a long time. And one kind of sentence I look for—and love—is one whose structure somehow enacts or performs what it...
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Deanna_Ferrante
Accessibility may be hard to spell, but it shouldn’t feel like it’s hard to achieve. Accessibility is the extent and ease with which a person with a d...
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EllieC
Welcome to "Try This!", a weekly blog series where we dive into the ever-evolving world of generative AI and share valuable insights and practical tea...
by Macmillan Employee Macmillan Employee in Macmillan Learning Digital Blog a week ago
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mimmoore
I wrote earlier about “insight on demand,” the way our assigned reflections require students to find and articulate an insight that demonstrates learn...
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adam_whitehurst
During the course, you will access content and assignments via Macmillan Learning courseware platform, Achieve. ⚠ You may already have an Achieve acco...
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sue_frantz
This is the most horrifying thing I have read in some time:Nearly two-thirds of women in [Indiana University’s Debby Herbenick’s] most recent campus-r...
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davidstarkey
This spring, I am offering five tips to students writing in each of the four genres covered in my textbook, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief. My...
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andrea_lunsford
Decades ago, Lisa Ede and I did a nationwide study of members of seven professional organizations in the U.S., surveying a random sample of 1200 membe...
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Elizabeth Catanese is an Associate Professor of English and Humanities at Community College of Philadelphia. Trained in mindfulness-based stress reduc...
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EllieC
Welcome to "Try This!", a weekly blog series where we dive into the ever-evolving world of generative AI and share valuable insights and practical tea...
by Macmillan Employee Macmillan Employee in Macmillan Learning Digital Blog 2 weeks ago
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MarisaBluestone
Daniel Frank, PhD, is one of three subject matter experts who contributed to the first course at the Institute at Macmillan Learning, "Teaching with G...
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sue_frantz
Introduction to Psychology is the hardest course we teach because we are unfamiliar with so much of the course content (Frantz, 2024). We rely heavily...
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Symphonie
We are excited to share a new professional development course for educators looking to carefully consider and prepare their courses for a world with w...
by Macmillan Employee Macmillan Employee in Professional Development Blog 3 weeks ago
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david_myers
Basketball players, coaches, and fans agree: Players are more likely to make a shot after they’ve successfully completed one or multiple consecutive s...
by Author Author in Talk Psych Blog 3 weeks ago
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susan_bernstein
A Pedagogy of FallingNeurodivergent Teaching Preface: The City University of New York Board of Trustees holds meetings at which members of the CUNY co...
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guest_blogger
Jennifer Duncan has been teaching English for twenty years, first at Chattanooga State Community College in Tennessee and now at Georgia State Univers...
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sue_frantz
My first full-time job was at a small college. I was both the psychology and the sociology department—although after a year or two I convinced them to...
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EllieC
Supercharge Your Question Creation: Hands-on AI-Powered Tools Focus Group: Thursday, April 18th at 3:00 PM Eastern Join us for a limited-seat virtual ...
by Macmillan Employee Macmillan Employee in Macmillan Learning Digital Blog 3 weeks ago
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smccormack
In March I had the good fortune to participate in this year’s American Association of Colleges & Universities Conference (AACU) on Diversity, Equity, ...
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EllieC
Welcome to "Try This!", a weekly blog series where we dive into the ever-evolving world of generative AI and share valuable insights and practical tea...
by Macmillan Employee Macmillan Employee in Macmillan Learning Digital Blog 3 weeks ago
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MarisaBluestone
The flagship course at the Institute at Macmillan Learning, "Teaching with Generative AI: A Course for Educators," was created with leading voices in ...
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mimmoore
This blog almost didn’t happen. I came to 8:45 on the evening it was due with no clue what I wanted to write about. I was not particularly stressed ab...
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MarisaBluestone
Leonardo da Vinci epitomizes the essence of productivity and innovation. His remarkable ability to juggle painting, engineering, anatomy, and inventio...
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DerekWiebke
Dr. Brenda Stevenson is a busy woman. “I sort of have three jobs at the moment,” she said. When she’s not fulfilling her teaching duties as the Nickol...
by Macmillan Employee Macmillan Employee in Learning Stories Blog 4 weeks ago
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nbrady
Alex Tabarrok on teaching the Solow Model in Principles… The Solow Model is a very important model for understanding economic growth. But students in ...
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