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Team-Based Learning: Small Group Learning’s Next Big Step

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Editors: Larry K. Michaelsen, Michael Sweet, Dean X. Parmelee Published: December 30, 2008 UTHSC Library Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a unique form of small-group learning designed in and for the college classroom. TBL’s special combination of incentives and corrective feedback quickly transforms groups into high-performance learning teams, with no time taken from the coverage of… Read More

Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups in College Teaching

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Editors: Larry K. Michaelsen, Arletta Bauman Knight, L. Dee Fink Published: February 6, 2004 UTHSC Library This book describes team-based learning (TBL), an unusually powerful and versatile teaching strategy that enables teachers to take small group learning to a whole new level of effectiveness. It is the only pedagogical use of small groups that is based… Read More

Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments

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Authors: Derek Bruff Published: February 17, 2009 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 resource section.… Read More

Teaching Online: A Practical Guide

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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

Student-Led Peer Review: A Practical Guide to Implementation Across Disciplines and Modalities

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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

Equity by Design: Delivering on the Power and Promise of UDL

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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

Effective Online Teaching: Foundations and Strategies for Student Success

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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

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally

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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

Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning

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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

Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artifical Intelligence

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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