Dr. Paivi Hoikkala teaches upper-level online history courses at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. Her primary goal, aside from getting her students to have a general sense of chronology, is to help them make connections between the past and the present.
Dr. Corey Fox of Texas State University wanted to find a way of improving communication and critical thinking skills in his management students. Dr. Fox decided to start using Packback in one of his courses and required students to ask and answer questions almost every week.
Dr. Bryan McCarthy shares what it’s like working with Packback and how the Packback team stands out from other EdTech companies.
Dr. Bryan McCarthy teaches introduction and upper-level philosophy courses to non-majors at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg. He challenges his students to move beyond memorizing theories and philosophers and to engage with readings and discussions that challenge the way they think.
Since implementing Packback, Dr. Matt Goren from the University of Georgia has not only been satisfied by students’ posts online, he also noticed students becoming more vocal in the classroom.
Dr. Bryan McCarthy shares some of the challenges he faces in teaching philosophy and how Packback helped to overcome some of those challenges.
Dr. Kaston Anderson-Carpenter shares how he’s using technology to keep his students engaged in the classroom.
Dr. Kaston Anderson-Carpenter from Michigan State University shares how the features on Packback make it a more valuable tool than Learning Management System discussion boards.
Dr. Matt Goren compares student posts from Packback and Blackboard and explains why he believes Packback posts were of a higher quality.
Learn what happened to student grades when Michigan State University professor Dr. Kaston Anderson-Carpenter turned student posts on Packback into test questions.
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