Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors

(The classic teaching toolbox, updated with new research a...)

The classic teaching toolbox, updated with new research and ideas Teaching at Its Best is the bestselling, research-based toolbox for college instructors at any level, in any higher education setting. Packed with practical guidance, proven techniques, and expert perspectives, this book helps instructors improve student learning both face-to-face and online. This new fourth edition features five new chapters on building critical thinking into course design, creating a welcoming classroom environment, helping students learn how to learn, giving and receiving feedback, and teaching in multiple modes, along with the latest research and new questions to facilitate faculty discussion. Topics include new coverage of the flipped classroom, cutting-edge technologies, self-regulated learning, the mental processes involved in learning and memory, and more, in the accessible format and easy-to-understand style that has made this book a much-valued resource among college faculty. Good instructors are always looking for ways to improve student learning. With college classrooms becoming increasingly varied by age, ability, and experience, the need for fresh ideas and techniques has never been greater. This book provides a wealth of research-backed practices that apply across the board. • Teach students practical, real-world problem solving • Interpret student ratings accurately • Boost motivation and help students understand how they learn • Explore alternative techniques, formats, activities, and exercises Given the ever-growing body of research on student learning, faculty now have many more choices of effective teaching strategies than they used to have, along with many more ways to achieve excellence in the classroom. Teaching at Its Best is an invaluable toolbox for refreshing your approach, and providing the exceptional education your students deserve.

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Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors

( Teaching at Its Best This third edition of the best-se...)

Teaching at Its Best This third edition of the best-selling handbook offers faculty at all levels an essential toolbox of hundreds of practical teaching techniques, formats, classroom activities, and exercises, all of which can be implemented immediately. This thoroughly revised edition includes the newest portrait of the Millennial student; current research from cognitive psychology; a focus on outcomes maps; the latest legal options on copyright issues; and how to best use new technology including wikis, blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, and clickers. Entirely new chapters include subjects such as matching teaching methods with learning outcomes, inquiry-guided learning, and using visuals to teach, and new sections address Felder and Silverman's Index of Learning Styles, SCALE-UP classrooms, multiple true-false test items, and much more. Praise for the Third Edition of Teaching at Its BestEveryone—veterans as well as novices—will profit from reading Teaching at Its Best, for it provides both theory and practical suggestions for handling all of the problems one encounters in teaching classes varying in size, ability, and motivation."—Wilbert McKeachie, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, and coauthor, McKeachie's Teaching TipsThis new edition of Dr. Nilson's book, with its completely updated material and several new topics, is an even more powerful collection of ideas and tools than the last. What a great resource, especially for beginning teachers but also for us veterans!"—L. Dee Fink, author, Creating Significant Learning ExperiencesThis third edition of Teaching at Its Best is successful at weaving the latest research on teaching and learning into what was already a thorough exploration of each topic. New information on how we learn, how students develop, and innovations in instructional strategies complement the solid foundation established in the first two editions."—Marilla D. Svinicki, Department of Psychology, The University of Texas, Austin, and coauthor, McKeachie's Teaching Tips

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Online Teaching at Its Best

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Online Teaching at Its Best will address online course design, online teaching, and online student motivation, integrating these with pedagogy and cognitive science, and grounding its recommendations in research. The book will help faculty, the primary audience, design or redesign their online courses to ensure strong course alignment and effective student learning. The authors will draw on cognitive science to explain how learning works and both instructional design research and the scholarship of teaching and learning to recommend research-based teaching methods for the online environment. The emphasis on evidence-based practices will make this book the most scholarly – in fact, the only scholarly – one of its kind on the market today.  In addition, the proposed book will ensure that undergraduate and graduate students in courses in education, curriculum and instruction, instructional design, and instructional systems design will graduate and begin their careers with a background in research-based course design, teaching, community-building, motivational methods, and accessibility measures. It will also help administrators and instructors at online institutions to increase student retention in their courses and programs, build the necessary support structures for online faculty, and help faculty/educational developers advise and train their online faculty to design and deliver better online courses.

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Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for the Vanderbilt teaching community

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Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors 3rd edition by Nilson, Linda B. (2010) Paperback

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Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors 3rd edition by Linda B. Nilson. Jossey-Bass Inc Pub,2010

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