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Written for faculty, instructors, and trainers in any distance learning environment, Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace shows how to create a virtual classroom environment that helps students excel academically, while fostering a sense of community. This practical, hands-on guide is filled with illustrative case studies, vignettes, and examples from a wide variety of successful online courses. (From the Publisher)
This publication is designed to improve college instruction at the undergraduate level. Intended to be used as a tool box, it is a concise compilation of hundreds of teaching techniques and formats, classroom activities and exercises, suggestions to enhance instructor-student rapport, guidelines for assignments and papers, and tips for teaching any material more effectively. Concise summaries of teaching options and innovations based on current research in teaching are included. The 30 chapters are grouped in five parts. Part 1, "Sound Preparations," addresses the tasks that need to be done before a semester or quarter begins. Part 2, "Good Beginnings," focuses on what to say and do on the first day of class and on how to set policies, tone, and a productive learning environment for the entire term. Part 3, "Varieties of Learning and Teaching Strategies," presents an extensive and varied menu of the most effective teaching techniques and formats available at the college level, appealing to a range of student learning styles and adaptable to any subject matter. Part 4, "Disciplinary Differences," concentrates on methods that are discipline-specific. Part 5, "Assessment/Measuring Outcomes," offers guidance on evaluating student learning and assessing teaching effectiveness. (Contains approximately 200 references.) (From the Publisher)
This book is an attempt to take an overview of reflection, both in terms of the literature, the common meaning of reflection and, in particular, in terms of its value in practical ways of improving learning and professional practice. The existence of an enormous gap in the literature between an identification of the nature of reflection and the processes of learning means that the many applications of reflection in educational and professional situations are guided by assumption or guesswork. The book begins by addressing this issue. In doing so, the authors do not attempt to pull the ideas in the literature into one precise definition. They establish boundaries that can be placed around the term to provide it with greater coherency. The book concludes with the practical use of reflection to improve learning and practice. The author considers the conditions of the learning environment which encourage reflection and presents two case studies in professional development and practice where deliberate and carefully designed exercise of reflection contributed to the greater impact of short courses and to effective decision making. The book includes practical activities and exercises which encourage learners to reflect on their learning or practice. (From the Publisher)
The aims of this publication are: - Demystify certain parts of the academic careers that typically bewilder or confuse junior faculty as well as graduate students considering such careers - Coach junior and future faculty in concrete ways so they can increase their likelihood of success in and enjoying of the profession - Spotlight and tell the truth about the special burdens and 'taxes' imposed on non-majority faculty in majority settings (the burdens and taxes are usually related to perceived differences because of the non-majority person's gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual preference, and/or social class) - Prompt senior faculty, department chairs, deans, provosts, and campus vice presidents and presidents so they better understand the stresses and confusions experienced by majority and non-majority junior faculty; and then, based on that understanding, they take pro-active steps to reduce barriers for newcomers and clue them in to implicit agendas and expectations. (From the Publisher)
This comprehensive overview of higher educational assessment features a guide to setting, marking and reviewing the coursework, assignments, tests and examinations used in higher education. In addition, the authors examine the various programs for certificates, diplomas, first degrees as well as higher degrees. The strong influence that assessment has on the way students approach their learning is also discussed. Truly international in focus, this book features authors with higher education experience in Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, England, Canada, Hong Kong, USA, and Thailand. (From the Publisher)
McKeachie's Teaching Tips provides helpful strategies for dealing with both the everyday problems of university teaching and those that arise in trying to maximize learning for every student. The strategies suggested in the text are adaptable to specific classroom situations. The book does not suggest a "set of recipes" to be followed mechanically; it gives instructors the tools they need to deal with the ever-changing dynamics of teaching and learning. (From the Publisher)
This highly focused and practical book looks at the issues involved in integrating learning technologies within teaching and learning. With in-text activities to encourage readers to think about what they do, the book demonstrates how academics can improve their teaching using technology. It raises issues about the educational value of using technology and considers the pressures forcing change in higher education. The book covers a wide range, from making lecture aids to creating multimedia resources, and includes discussion of: +educational perspectives +developing new teaching strategies for larger student groups +using computers to deliver teaching and learning resources +using computers to communicate with and between students. This book can stand alone or can be used in conjunction with Technology In Teaching And Learning. The two books cover all aspects of transforming teaching using technology. This book covers the educational issues. (From the Publisher)
Here is the writing treasured by a sampling of 30 artists, pastors, scholars, musicians, and educators: the fiction and the poetry, the scholarship and the reflections. From Dix to Dillard, from Thomas Merton to Thomas More, from Isamu Noguchi to Flannery O’Connor—this is a gathering from hundreds of directions to illuminate all of us about what we do when we do ritual. (From the Publisher)
Examining the rapidly growing field of remote computer-based learning, this title discusses how to use and create a Web-based system for teaching and learning, using groupware for collaboration, multimedia, distance learning, and much more. (From the Publisher)