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 Returning to face-to-face classrooms this fall is proving to be overwhelming for students. Alongside fear of COVID-19’s variants and the everyday anxieties of juggling academics and activities, another …
By Zainab Cheema In my last blog post, I covered the first part of Course Hero’s online Education Summit 2021. Three proved to be the magic number for community building. The …
By Zainab Cheema Course Hero’s Education Summit 2021 (#EdSummit21) featured some of the most exciting voices in Education today. From July 28 to July 30, 2021, faculty members, K-12 teachers, administrators, …
By Zainab Cheema Do you remember the story of the hare and the tortoise? As it turns out, Aesop’s fable is grounded in neuroscience. Hiker brain learners (the learners who take …
By Zainab Cheema Pursuing an inclusive classroom often feels like the search for El Dorado. Despite best practices and the best of intensions, teachers come to realize that our standard lesson …
By Zainab Cheema Nikole Hannah-Jones has made waves by her decision to reject UNC's tepid offer for tenure for a teaching position at Howard University. While UNC ultimately decided in favor …
By Zainab Cheema On Friday, July 9, 2021, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the TEAACH Act, which requires public schools to teach a unit of Asian American History. This historic move …
By Zainab Cheema On May 19, 2021, the Modern Language Association of America hosted an online Zoom talk about the effectiveness of online teaching with three university educators. Paula Krebs, the …
By Zainab Cheema This blog post casts a backward glance at the challenges and victories of distance teaching and learning in 2020-2021. Both in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021, I taught …
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