Learning from Each Other includes 20 original chapters written by well-known experts in the field of teaching and learning. Conceived for both new and experienced faculty at community colleges, four-year institutions, and research-intensive universities, the volume also addresses the interests of faculty and graduate students in programs designed to prepare future faculty and campus individuals responsible for faculty professional development. With the aim of cultivating engagement amongst students and deepening their understanding of the content, topics covered in this edited volume include:
- employing the science of learning in a social science context
- understanding the effects of a flipped classroom on student success
- pedagogical techniques to create a community of inquiry in online learning environments
- the risks and rewards of co-teaching
- reaching and teaching "non-traditional" students
- facilitating learning and leadership in student team projects
- connecting students with the community through research
- issues of assessment, including backward design, developing and using rubrics, and defining and implementing the scholarship of teaching and learning
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Learning from Each Other, all faculty who care about their teaching, but especially faculty in the social sciences, can successfully employ curricular innovations, classroom techniques, and advances in assessment to create better learning environments for their students.
"The first step to enhancing teaching in any academic discipline is to build a community of reflective, engaged, and evidence-oriented instructors. The editors have brought together a multitude of perspectives and scholarly techniques that will help move this critical conversation forward, in sociology as well as in other social science disciplines."—Mary C. Wright, Director of the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University
"No matter what you teach or how you teach it, readers will find practical guidance for improving the learning of their students, all of it solidly grounded in evidence and scholarship. An expansive and impressive contribution to the literature."—James Lang, author of Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
"An essential addition to the bookshelf of anyone teaching in higher education. Those of us looking for a resource for faculty teaching across a variety of disciplines and student populations need look no further; this will be a 'go-to' book for instructors in every type of college classroom."—Kevin Gannon, Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Grand View University, Des Moines, Iowa
"Learning from Each Other provides an overview of both the latest research and resources and tips for improving time-honored teaching strategies and incorporating cutting-edge, innovative teaching techniques. The variety of topics ensures that even the most experienced faculty member or faculty developer will find something of use. . . . Readers will find that while the authors all teach in the United States, the broad focus makes the techniques and issues addressed applicable to a global audience."
