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Teachers in higher education are constantly looking for ways to engage students and motivate them to respond creatively and actively to their disciplines -- but frequently lack the formal grounding in teaching to design effective courses and implement appropriate learning strategies. This book reflects and incorporates McGill University's thirty years' experience developing teaching programs and workshops at its Centre for University Teaching and Learning. Eight authors from the Centre, working as a coordinated team, here develop their most successful program into a portable workshop for anyone who is interested in improving their teaching knowledge and skills. The program in question is a week-long intensive workshop that offers professors in an opportunity to discuss their teaching, reflect on it, and put new strategies into practice to enhance the quality of student learning. This book takes the reader through the process, walking him or her through the principles of course design and teaching, and providing concepts to frame them within the reader's disciplinary knowledge and expertise. The book also incorporates the perspectives of professors from a wide range of disciplines who participated in the program, and who offer their personal accounts of conceptual change about teaching and learning and their current involvement toward the improvement of student learning. This book will appeal to new and seasoned teachers in higher education, as well as to graduate students planning an academic career and wanting to develop their teaching skills. For faculty developers the book captures and reflects the thinking behind the development of this workshop, its evolution since it was first implemented in 1993, and constitutes a practical guide for designing and implementing similar workshops. (From the Publisher)

Engaging the Online Learners includes an innovative framework—the Phases of Engagement—that helps instructors become more involved as knowledge generators and cofacilitators of a course. The book also provides specific ideas for tested activities (collected from experienced online instructors across the nation) that can go a long way to improving online learning. Engaging the Online Learner offers the tools and information needed to: · Convert classroom activities to an online environment and use online activities in a classroom-based course · Assess the learning that occurs as a result of collaborative activities · Phase-in activities that promote engagement among online learners · Help online learners use online tools · Build peer interaction through peer partnerships and team activities · Create authentic activities · Implement games and simulations (From the Publisher)

Theory and Practice of Online Learning, edited by Terry Anderson and Fathi Elloumi, is concerned with assisting providers of online education with useful tools to carry out the teaching and learning transactions online. It presents, in an easily readable form, the theory, administration, tools, and methods of designing and delivering learning online. By doing so, the authors bring to the teaching community a valuable product which should go a long way in popularizing the use of the learning technologies. Education, more than any other human endeavor, should be a real and lasting beneficiary of the ICT revolution. However the potential of this revolution can only be realized if those engaged in delivering education are knowledgeable, skilled, and able to apply these technologies effectively and efficiently. Despite the loud rhetoric of recent times, the uptake of learning technologies by the educational community is rather slow, reflecting partly the low levels of investment, in money and time, in the training of educational workers by individuals and their institutions, as well as the paucity of training materials on the subject. This publication, with its clarity and detail, greatly enhances our knowledge of the issues and our skills in addressing them. (From the Publisher)

Research has shown that in order to develop information literacy skills, students must be given repeated opportunities throughout their college years to acquire and exercise these skills in their daily lives. Integrating Information Literacy into the Higher Education Curriculum is filled with information and practical examples from a wide variety of institutions that show how information literacy programs and partnerships can transform the higher education teaching and learning environments. The contributors to this important resource are experts in the field and include such leaders as Pam Baker, Amelie Brown. Lynn Cameron, Renee R. Curry, Susan Carol Curzon, Trudi E.Jacobson, Bonnie Gratch Lindauer, Ilene F. Rockman, and Patrick Sullivan. The Foreword is by Patricia Senn Breivik. (From the Publisher)

The services and resources in this work reflect the Iona Community's commitment to the belief that workship is all that we are and all that we do, both inside and outside the church, with no division into the sacred and the secular. The material draws on many traditions, including the Celtic, and aims to help become fully present to God.;This new edition has been extensively revised and rearranged includes much new material developed by the resident group on Iona. (From the Publisher)

A collection of actual liturgies, litanies, responses, and meditations used by the world-famous ecumenical community, representing Celtic spirituality at its best. For both personal and group use. (From the Publisher)

Higher education faculty detail techniques used to enhance the classroom experience with multimedia technology, offering case studies of actual programs at institutions including Wellesley College, Washington State University, City University Business School, and New England Conservatory. Topics include the affect of computers on college writing, integrating electronic media into the art and design classroom and into the health information management curriculum, developing a multimedia computer/video environment in a community college, and establishing a networked lab. (From the Publisher)

Assessment is central to the work of all education professionals in higher education, and is recognized as the main driver of learning for most students. Offering a compelling series of case studies, this book brings together a variety of assessment techniques. By taking the reader right into the middle of "real-life" situations it focuses on showing how assessment can provide a transparent and meaningful link between learning activities and desired learning outcomes. The book is accessible to a broad range of readers, regardless of experience. It includes authoritative and stimulating cases from the UK, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, covering traditional and contemporary assessment techniques. Key topics include: information technology and assessment; reflective assessment techniques; institution-wide assessment; assessment methods for problem-based learning and short, intensive courses; dealing with everyday problems in assessment. "Assessment" will be welcomed by teachers, lecturers, tutors and support staff, as well as course leaders and developers - whatever their subject area or level of experience. (From the Publisher)

In the highly successful '500 Tips' format, the authors look at the questions and problems that teachers face and provide them with practical guidance. Their advice is down-to-earth, jargon free and digestible, covering such key issues as developing strategies and structures; assessment quality control; traditional exams, vivas, multiple choice questions; assessing independent learning; self, peer and group assessment; and assessing competence and transferable skills. 500 Tips on Assessment is an invaluable dip-in aid for hard-pressed lecturers and teachers in further and higher education. It should be read, enjoyed and seriously considered by anyone concerned about the quality and appropriateness of their assessment methods. (From the Publisher)