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 A teacher exodus is underway, leading to massive shortages in public schools across the United States. While COVID-19 acted as the trigger to the educator walk outs, in …
By Zainab Cheema I was lucky. My parents were immigrants, and I am a second generation American. My parents moved to an area that had the best public high school in …
By Zainab Cheema Sometimes, you just know that you’ve met a star in the making. Ashley Greulich is a senior majoring in psychology and neuroscience at FGCU. She is one of the …
By Zainab Cheema This past week, in my global travel literature class, a student came up to me and shyly asked for encouragement. She is a math major who is taking …
By Zainab Cheema What does it mean to be an inspirational leader? During the memorial of Dr. Fiona Tolhurst held at the Veterans’ Plaza on the campus grounds of FGCU on …
By Zainab Cheema New Year Goals Reflecting over the past year, my New Year’s Resolution for 2022 is to forge a new work-life balance. In the past, the reason that so many …
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 …
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.
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