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Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments

Written by Tom Laughner

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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

Written by Tom Laughner

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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

Teaching College: The Ultimate Guide to Lecturing, Presenting, and Engaging Students

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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

Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation

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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