I am a professor who teaches in the humanities at a U.S. university. I am passionate about exploring how to do education. I believe that the key to encouraging education in contemporary virtual frontiers is to create learning communities inside and outside the classroom.
By Zainab Cheema When grocery shopping over Christmas, I knew that my final purchase wouldn’t be chocolate. It would be the Harvard Business Review special issue How AI is Changing Work, …
By Zainab Cheema As the semester draws to a close, the time is ripe to reflect on the hottest trends in education. And the name of the game is, well, gamification. …
By Zainab Cheema As schools and colleges embark upon exam period, tragedy strikes the national news. In another punctuation in the bloodstained national nightmare of school shootings, a 15 year old …
By Zainab Cheema After students returned to face-to-face classrooms following pandemic lockdowns, teachers noticed the effects of distance learning on their social emotional development. Student behavior referrals are climbing across colleges …
By Zainab Cheema How do we enhance student engagement in post-pandemic teaching? On Tuesday, September 21, 2021, the Chronicle of Higher Education sponsored an online panel featuring some notable heavy hitters …
By Zainab Cheema Let's Talk About Microaggression Let’s talk about microaggressions in Higher Ed. According to Benjamin Reese’s June 2020 article with Inside Higher Ed, there is a significant gap between DEI …
By Zainab Cheema Higher Ed and the Crisis of Diversity Higher Ed is facing a diversity crisis. Due to economic pressures placed by the pandemic, more students of color are deciding to …
By Zainab Cheema Hunger on College Campuses COVID 19 has spotlighted a problem that has existed for quite some time—food and financial insecurities experienced by college students across America. Even with existing …
By Zainab Cheema Macmillan recently streamed a hi-flex talk featuring two professors from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Department of Rhetoric and Writing. On August 25th, 2021, Rebecca Glazier …
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