A Handbook for Student Engagement in Higher Education: Theory into Practice by
Provides ideas and examples alongside compelling theory- and research-based evidence to offer a thorough and innovative exploration of how students and staff can work together to genuinely transform the higher education learning experience. With evidence from successfully embedded schemes, the book uses case studies and practical, workable examples from a variety of international institutions. Chapter topics include: Creating relationships between students, staff and universities; Offering non-traditional students extracurricular opportunities; Taking a students-as-partners approach; Critically reflecting on identities, particularities and relationships; The future of student engagement.
The Will to Learn: Cultivating Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own by
The author shares five key beliefs beneath all motivated student learning - credibility, value, effort, efficacy, and belonging. He also offers ten strategies for incorporating the Five Key Beliefs into everyday teaching.
Creating an Actively Engaged Classroom: 14 Strategies for Student Success by
Provides 14 strategies to transform your classroom into a rich and interactive environment-- no matter the subject, context, or age of your students. Descriptions, advantages and disadvantages of each strategy is presented, together with how and when best to use them. Divided into three parts, you will be guided through verbal engagement strategies, such as whip around, choral responding, quick polls, and individual questioning; non-verbal engagement strategies, such as stop and jot, guided notes, response cards, and hand signals; and partner and teaming strategies, such as turn & talk, cued retell, four corners, and classroom mingle.
Discussion in the College Classroom: Getting Your Students Engaged and Participating in Person and Online by
Keep students engaged and actively learning with focused, relevant discussions. This book is a practical guide which utilizes that research, frames it sociologically, and offers advice, along with a wide variety of strategies, to help you spark a relevant conversation and steer it toward specific learning goals. Applicable across a spectrum of academic disciplines both online and on campus, these ideas will help you overcome the practical challenges and norms that can undermine discussion, and foster a new atmosphere of collaborative learning and critical thinking.
The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom by
Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teaching. Students say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch their thinking, and keep them actively involved in class.
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International Handbook of Engineering Education Research by
This comprehensive handbook offers a broad overview of contemporary research on engineering education and its practical application. Topics covered include technology and online learning in engineering education, curriculum design, teaching practices, teacher education at all levels, as well as research methods and assessment in engineering education.
The Future of Sustainability Education at North American Universities by
This collection explores sustainability education in the North American academy. The authors advocate for a more integrated approach to teaching sustainability in order to help students address the most pressing problems of the world, embrace experimentation, and foster more meaningful involvement with the communities in which universities are located. Throughout, they remain focussed on identifying opportunities for sustainability in higher education and suggesting specific strategies and tactics to achieve them. Recommendations include pedagogical and structural changes aimed at helping students understand the systems in which they can advance sustainability.
Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Course: A Concrete, Practical Approach by
This book provides strategies to overcoming the challenges that teaching critical thinking presents and identifies the type of course content to which critical thinking can be applied. It also shows how to integrate critical thinking into the design of a new or existing course in any discipline and write assessable critical thinking learning outcomes that are compatible with and make sense in any discipline. In addition, it covers selecting and adapting activities and assignments that will give students no- or low-stakes practice with feedback in critical thinking using a variety of questions, tasks, and teaching methods.
Facilitating the Integration of Learning: Five Research-Based Practices to Help College Students Connect Learning Across Disciplines and Lived Experience by
Offers a guide for college educators on how to promote students' integration of learning, and help them connect knowledge and insights across contexts, whether in-class or out-of-class, in co-curricular activities, or across courses and disciplinary boundaries. The opening chapters lay the foundation for the book, defining what integration of learning is, how to promote it and students' capacities for reflection; and introduce the author's research-based Integration of Learning (IOL) model. The second section of the book provides practical, real-world strategies for facilitating integration of learning that college educators can use right away in multiple learning contexts. The author concludes by outlining how to apply IOL to a multiplicity of settings, such as a major, a single course, programming for a student organization, or other co-curricular experience; as well as offering guidance on assessing and documenting students' mastery of this outcome. This book is addressed to anyone concerned with student development.
The ID CaseBook: Case Studies in Instructional Design by
Educators often report that their graduates are unable to apply what they've learned in school to the solution of authentic problems in practice. This book gives specific examples on how educators and instructional designers can integrate the development of practical skills with conceptual knowledge in a variety of ways.
A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives by
Bloom's taxonomy is a framework for classifying statements of
what we expect or intend students to learn as a result of instruction. The framework was conceived as a means of facilitating the exchange of test items among faculty at various universities in order to create banks of items, each measuring the same educational objective. This book provides a revision of the taxonomy and demonstrates its uses and usefulness.
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The Future of Higher Education in an Age of Artificial Intelligence by
This book explores the landscape of AI adoption and suggests ways in which AI can be deployed to improve learning and assessment. It also examines ethical and change management implications of AI. A strong focus on ethical AI, the use of AI for regenerative thinking and a shift to problem and project-based learning are all explored as ways of overcoming faculty concerns.
Evidence-Based Blended and Online Learning: Course Design For University Teachers by
Provides a thorough evidence-based overview of each step required to make an effective course redesign. The book's design approach makes it much easier to translate the results of educational research on applying blended learning in educational practice. It gives lecturers tailor-made pedagogical suggestions for designing modern higher education. Course design tasks are re-described, using features from technical design, problem solving, and design thinking, where creative design has a unique and essential role.
Digital Transformation and Disruption of Higher Education by
This book analyses higher education's digital transformation and potential disruption from a holistic point of view. It looks at case studies on educational and emerging technology, their impact, the potential risk of digitalization disrupting higher education, and also offers a glimpse into what the future of digitalization will likely bring. Researchers and practitioners from countries including New Zealand, Russia, Eswatini, India, and the USA analyse academia's digitalization along the broad topics of the sector's general digital (r)evolution. The book looks at changes in instructional formats from the Massive Open Online Courses to Small Private Online Courses and artificial intelligence. In addition, it provides analysis on how skills, competences and social networks demanded by future jobs and job markets can be further integrated into higher education.
Engaging Virtual Environments: Creative Ideas and Online Tools to Promote Student Interaction, Participation, and Active Learning by
This book provides a framework for considering different types of student engagement, including participation, collaboration, and quick feedback. It introduces available online tools and offers practical tips and guidance on making the most of commonly available technologies to achieve educational goals. The authors present a range of easy-to-use online tools within the context and progression of a course, from developing a welcome page and presenting the instructor and course purpose, to icebreakers, assignments, and alternative forms of assessment. These tools, which the authors have introduced to faculty and teachers in their classes, are designed to foster active learning and student engagement.
Reigniting Curiosity and Inquiry in Higher Education: A Realist's Guide to Getting Started with Inquiry-based Learning by
This book offers higher education instructors at any career stage and in any discipline, a realistic guide to incorporating curiosity and inquiry-based learning (IBL) into their classrooms to promote long term knowledge creation and retention and life-wide learning. Beyond its inherent capacity to promote independent learning, IBL offers a perfect foundation for preparing students for Signature Work and capstone courses; and is adaptable to small and large classes.
Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility by
Now in its 3rd edition, Better Learning Through Structured Teaching is the definitive guide to the gradual release of responsibility - an instructional framework any teacher can use to help students to be more successful and self-directed learners. The authors describe how to deliver lessons intentionally structured to incorporate four interrelated phases: Focused Instruction, Guided Instruction, Collaborative Learning and Independent Learning.
Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making by
This book highlights seven higher-order thinking skills that facilitate students' acquisition of information for greater retention, retrieval, and transfer. These skills, which cut across content areas and grade levels and are deeply embedded in current academic standards, separate high achievers from their low-performing peers. The authors explore what kind of content is worth having students make meaning about. They provide practical tools and strategies to help teachers target each of the seven thinking skills in the classroom. The authors explain how teachers can incorporate the thinking skills and tools into lesson and unit design. They also show how teachers can build students' capacity to use the strategies independently.
Getting Started with Team-Based Learning by
TBL is a uniquely powerful form of small group learning. It harnesses the power of teams and social learning with accountability structures and instructional sequences. This book provides the guidance, from first principles to examples of practice, together with concrete advice, suggestions, and tips to help you succeed in the TBL classroom.
