Teaching in Lebanon - May Mikati's Blog

The title of AUB’s latest international conference on effective teaching and learning was “Negotiating New Norms of Teaching and Learning in...

 The World Economic Forum recently published an article on “Universities After Covid”, by  Kyungmee Lee, a Senior Lecturer in Technology Enh...

Those who hadn’t heard of hybrid or blended teaching ended up hearing about them during the past year or two. While the two terms were often...

While the 2020 dictionary words of the year revolved around the problem of Covid-19, including pandemic , lockdown , superspreader , and qua...

 If you google teaching post Covid, you will probably find more articles dated 2020 than 2021. A year ago, teachers and administrators were ...

Unsurprisingly, the unusual circumstances of the pandemic have brought to light the need to appreciate the efforts of essential workers such...

Those of us who have kept our blogs going during the Covid-19 pandemic must be wondering how this pandemic has affected other bloggers. One ...

  What is a university? A set of buildings and grounds, or an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills, and share widely? Judging from my ...

Visitors to Lebanon tend to wonder why the country is in a chronic and growing mess despite the high level of education in the country – and...

  The term infodemic ( a blend of information and epidemic ) is not very new. However, it has become popular lately, with the spread of Co...

The term VLE (virtual learning environment) has been with us since at least the 1990s. Back then, academic institutions in the U.S. and the ...

  Unsurprisingly, the Merriam-Webster word of the year is pandemic , a word defining this era, as the dictionary editors put it. It earned t...

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Among the figures of speech used for responses to corona are the usual war ones often borrowed in medicine from the military, as in Trump’...

When news spreads like wildfire on social media, we say it has gone viral . How many of us had ever reflected on the origin of the adjec...

The dictionary words of the year 2018 included many that were environment related, whether as top scoring words or runners up. This past ye...

It is always good to blog out of the blue, spontaneously, even verging on “stream of consciousness”, letting your thoughts flow on the pa...

Inviting guest bloggers with similar interests can add diversity to one’s blog. Guest postings are useful for both the host and the g...

Taking a long break from blogging can seem strange after years of regular postings. You may feel awkward yourself, and your readers may rig...

A look at the past year’s English words of the year sheds light on people’s current interests and concerns globally. Merriam Webster ’s ...

Having tutored at the AUB Writing Center, I can confirm that tutoring is a different ball game than classroom teaching in many ways. It i...

Last week some university students who had read my recent blog post on ghost writing jokingly commented that they were tempted to t...

Reading student essays is usually a pleasure for writing teachers, especially when students research fresh topics, argue effectively, or...

It is good to be blogging about language and teaching. A University of Westminster PhD dissertation by Maha Taki analyzing blogging in Le...

When the Collins Dictionary announced “Fake News” as Word of the Year 2017, Human Rights Watch rightly expressed concern. Defined as “fa...

This semester I told one of my classes that they had broken an attendance record. Several weeks had passed and not one of the students i...

Handwriting is dead! Studies comparing people who are used to handwriting with those more accustomed to typing have shown a relative defi...

How much attention do you pay to your audience when you write? Linda Flower, a professor of rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University once w...