Basic Course Division : Looking at Ourselves

Striving for Instructional Communication Competence: Maximizing Students' Learning Potential through Awareness and Assessment of Instructional Communication Behaviors


This essay synthesizes the author's first-time experience teaching the basic course with instructional communication literature, as it explores the various pedagogic strategies teachers...

PowerPoint -- from Fabulous to Boring: The Misuse of PowerPoint in Higher Education Classrooms

This research paper evaluates the uses, and more importantly, the misuses of PowerPoint in modern American classrooms of higher education. In order to understand how PowerPoint is misused in...

Basic Course Instructors' Perceptions of Web-based Ancillary Materials

Web-based ancillaries, like interactive exercises and self-directed quizzes, are commonplace, but why? Publishers aggressively market texts having extensive web-based supplements; how useful....