Michael W. Marek

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Are you looking for a quality online conference on teaching and learning technology?

This large international conference will be held online this year due to COVID. I am submitting a paper to the Technology Enhanced Language Learning track (8). It is about a topic I have never...

16 February 2021 2,209 15 View

I see a lot of research right now that is inspired by COVID-19, even outside the medical field. Has your research focus changed due to the pandemic?

My question says it all. I am wondering if research agendas across many fields have changed due to the COVID-19 circumstances, and why.

07 July 2020 3,644 6 View

Does anyone know of a world-wide profile of higher education faculty?

For a research project, I am looking for a world-wide profile of higher education faculty. I am looking for distributions such as age, faculty rank, discipline taught, years of teaching, graduate...

12 May 2020 6,660 19 View

Can you help with an urgent survey about teaching during COVID-19?

Update: Data collection is closed and our manuscript has been published. Thank you to everyone who participated. You can find it at: Teacher Experiences in Converting Classes to Distance...

07 May 2020 1,861 46 View

If you are forced to transition an in-person class to online due to the coronavirus how will you use theory to create your new learning environment?

Many teachers are faced with the challenge to quickly transition an in-person class to online delivery for future semesters due to the coronavirus. Based on my research and experience, I prepared...

18 March 2020 370 21 View

How do you stay organized and focused during Finals Week?

Final Test Week is here for my school, and rapidly approaching for many faculty members. It includes a huge crunch of test-giving and test grading, plus many other end-of-the-semester tasks....

28 April 2018 6,653 10 View

How do we crowd-source political persuasion?

Right after the 2016 US election, we heard a lot about the "echo chamber" that saw a lot of people talking about issues in social media, but mostly to people of similar beliefs. Why did neither...

19 January 2018 6,750 2 View

What role should teaching culture have in teaching a foreign language?

In the past, teaching about native speaker culture was challenging for teachers who had never lived in that culture. Today we know that learning English is not only about interacting with native...

28 August 2016 6,471 11 View

Are any scholars studying 义和团 (Yì hé tuán), known in the West as the Boxer Rebellion?

I am in possession of my grandfather's photograph album from when he was in the Prussian military in China in 1903-1906. This was immediately after 义和团, Yì hé tuán, the Boxer Rebellion If you...

14 April 2016 7,330 3 View

In teaching English as a Foreign Language, how much of the class should be about culture?

Most teachers agree that teaching the culture of native speaking countries is valuable, but how MUCH should this be done? Do you have a percentage in mind or other way of saying how much of the...

22 December 2014 7,172 40 View

Do mobile services reduce our self-efficacy by forcing us to see the content THEY select, rather than what we select?

I had the thought today about Facebook, Twitter, and many other online/mobile platforms which continually feed us "top posts" or content based on location. I don't like this because I like to...

01 January 1970 6,728 7 View

Who's going to the 18th Annual International CALL Conference in Berkeley this coming week?

It will be my third CALL Conference, and I am looking forward to seeing friends there, and meeting new colleagues. My presentation wil be Sunday morning.

01 January 1970 1,006 7 View