How faculty can learn emerging technologies
Try these strategies and tools to find the time to learn technology despite your busy schedule.
This monthly e-newsletter brings you a roundup of the top stories affecting accounting education, ideas for innovation in the classroom, and resources from the AICPA to support educators.
Choose the right service opportunities
While some forms of service can feel burdensome, others can enhance your career and raise your profile on campus.
How to identify and prevent contract cheating
Accounting faculty and academic integrity experts weigh in on contract cheating and recommend ways to identify it and keep students from engaging in the practice.
Why you should use metacognition in the classroom
Introducing students to metacognition — or examining the ways they think and study — can help them move beyond memorization to higher levels of critical thinking.
Tips for better PowerPoint presentations
Try these ideas to hold students’ interest during lectures with slides.
5 ways you can help students cut textbook costs
Older editions and free online resources can produce hundreds in savings.
What to know about AACSB Accounting Standard A5
Learn what peer review teams are looking for in terms of the technology standard.
Are you getting the most from your advisory board?
Discover the many ways the practitioners on your board can contribute to your students’ success, and read up on best practices for creating and maintaining a strong advisory board.
4 books that can improve your teaching
Educators recommend books that helped them in the classroom.
Valuable resources for the accounting classroom
Liven up your classes with these tools from the 2018 CTLA/AAA Annual Meeting.
Tips and ideas for teaching Excel
Excel skills are an essential part of the accounting curriculum, but they’re not always the easiest topic to teach.
What to tell your students about AI
Try these tips and topics for discussing technology in class.
Teaching tips from prize-winning professors
Honorees pass along valuable insights at the AAA Annual Meeting.
Great activities for the first day of class
Help students get to know one another and you as the semester begins.
Tips for teaching accounting ethics
It can be hard to find room on your syllabus for ethics. But it’s still a crucial subject for accounting students to learn.
Keep students from using test banks to cheat
Test bank questions are easy to find online.
Should students learn sustainability accounting?
Faculty members weigh in on ways to cover this emerging topic in a crowded curriculum.
Educator resources from the Big Four
From case studies to curriculum guides, major firms make a wealth of tools available.
How to attract more diverse accounting students
Formal programs and informal classroom interactions make a difference.
Summer reading for accounting faculty
If you’re looking for summer reading that will keep you turning pages and give you insight into world of finance at the same time, try one of these picks from your fellow educators.
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