Authors: Susan Ko, Steve Rossen Published: March 13, 2017 UTHSC Library Teaching Online: A Practical Guide is an accessible, introductory, and comprehensive guide for anyone who teaches online. The fourth edition of this bestselling resource has been fully revised, maintains its reader-friendly tone, and offers exceptional practical advice, new teaching examples, faculty interviews, and an updated… Read More
Authors: Kimberly A. Lowe, Liv Cummins, Summer Ray Clark, Bill Porter, Lisa Spitz Published: October 11, 2022 UTHSC Library Student-led peer review can be a powerful learning experience for both giver and receiver, developing evaluative judgment, critical thinking, and collaborative skills that are highly transferable across disciplines and professions. Its success depends on purposeful planning and scaffolding to… Read More
Authors: Mirko Chardin, Katie R. Novak Published: August 6, 2020 UTHSC Library When it comes to the hard work of reconstructing our schools into places where every student has the opportunity to succeed, Mirko Chardin and Katie Novak are absolutely convinced that teachers should serve as our primary architects. And by “teachers” they mean legions of teachers working in… Read More
Authors: Tina Stavredes Published: July 20, 2011 UTHSC Library Effective Online Teaching is an essential resource that offers a clear understanding of how cognition and learning theory applies to online learning. This much-needed resource provides specific strategies for incorporating this knowledge into effective learner-centered teaching that gets results. The book includes strategies on motivation, tailored… Read More
Authors: Emily Ladau Published: September 7, 2021 UTHSC Library People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us—disabled and nondisabled alike—don’t know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on… Read More
Authors: Daniel P. Barbezat, Mirabai Bush Published: December 4, 2013 UTHSC Library Contemplative pedagogy is a way for instructors to: empower students to integrate their own experience into the theoretical material they are being taught in order to deepen their understanding; help students to develop sophisticated problem-solving skills; support students’ sense of connection to and compassion… Read More
Author: Joseph E. Aoun Published: August 14, 2018 UTHSC Library Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open doors, win Jeopardy, analyze stocks, work in factories, find parking spaces, advise oncologists. In the past, automation was considered a threat to low-skilled labor. Now, many high-skilled functions, including interpreting medical… Read More
Author: Norman Eng Published: March 10, 2017 UTHSC Library Your students aren’t reading. They aren’t engaged in class. Getting them to talk is like pulling teeth. Whatever the situation, your reality is not meeting your expectations. Change is needed. But who’s got the time? Or maybe you’re just starting out, and you want to get… Read More
Author: Saundra Yancy McGuire Published: October 13, 2015 UTHSC Library Human minds are made of memories, and today those memories have competition. Biological memory capacities are being supplanted, or at least supplemented, by digital ones, as we rely on recording—phone cameras, digital video, speech-to-text—to capture information we’ll need in the future and then rely on… Read More
Author: Michelle D Miller Published: April 1, 2022 UTHSC Library Human minds are made of memories, and today those memories have competition. Biological memory capacities are being supplanted, or at least supplemented, by digital ones, as we rely on recording—phone cameras, digital video, speech-to-text—to capture information we’ll need in the future and then rely on… Read More
