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  • Managing Your Academic Careerby D. Royce Sadler

    Allen & Unwin 1999; US$ 21.78

    This text provides advice and information for academics across disciplines, including: how to establish networks; how to assess your prospects for promotion; how to climb out of a teaching rut; how to develop a theme for your journal publication; and how to convert your thesis into a book. more...

  • Understanding Faculty Productivityby Michael F. Middaugh

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 40.00

    "An invaluable resource for any college and university striving to meet the National Cost Commission's call to make what colleges do and what it costs more 'transparent' to the public." --Jacqueline E. King, director, federal policy analysis, American Council on Education Defining and measuring faculty productivity are among the most central issues for quality and accountability in higher education. Known for assembling some of the most authoritative research on faculty productivity--and for analyzing its impact on academic and institutional accountability--Michael F. Middaugh presents this comprehensive volume to help campus professionals build greater accountability for students, parents, foundations, governmental organizations, and other... more...

  • Learning to Teach in Higher Educationby Paul Ramsden

    RoutledgeFalmer 1991; US$ 47.50

    'Everyone who teaches in higher education should read this book...it is sparkling with insight ... is accessible and interesting.' - Journal of Further and Higher Education more...

  • Developing Teaching and Learning in Higher Educationby Gill Nicholls

    RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 58.95

    This text details how to achieve associate membership of the ILTHE and provide evidence for promotion. more...

  • Gender Equity or Bust!by Mary Dee Wenniger; Mary Helen Conroy

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 40.00

    Gender battles still rage on most college and university campuses today. For eight years, Women in Higher Education has reported women's strategic advances in the academy. Its goal is to enlighten, encourage, empower, and enrage women administrators, faculty, and students in higher education.This book is a compendium of lively, hard-hitting articles from the successful newsletter. Its thematic sections blend serious commentary, research results, and practical advice with wry humor. Readers will find a broad view of recent progress as well as effective strategies from women who have changed the academy. Topics include women's leadership and management styles and strategies, valuing the self, sex and sexuality, playing politics, and much more.... more...

  • 500 Tips for Tutorsby Phil Race; Sally Brown

    RoutledgeFalmer 1993; US$ 42.95

    This manual offers tutors and teachers 500 practical suggestions covering such topics as negotiating learning agreements, helping the learner to use a mentor and helping the learner to benefit from a tutorial. The text should be beneficial to those planning new courses. more...

  • Creating Significant Learning Experiencesby L. Dee Fink

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 40.00

    Dee Fink poses a fundamental question for all teachers: "How can I create courses that will provide significant learning experiences for my students?" In the process of addressing this question, he urges teachers to shift from a content-centered approach to a learning-centered approach that asks "What kinds of learning will be significant for students, and how can I create a course that will result in that kind of learning?" Fink provides several conceptual and procedural tools that will be invaluable for all teachers when designing instruction. He takes important existing ideas in the literature on college teaching (active learning, educative assessment), adds some new ideas (a taxonomy of significant learning, the concept of a teaching... more...

  • Learner-Centered Teachingby Maryellen Weimer

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 38.00

    In this much needed resource, Maryellen Weimer-one of the nation's most highly regarded authorities on effective college teaching-offers a comprehensive work on the topic of learner-centered teaching in the college and university classroom. As the author explains, learner-centered teaching focuses attention on what the student is learning, how the student is learning, the conditions under which the student is learning, whether the student is retaining and applying the learning, and how current learning positions the student for future learning. To help educators accomplish the goals of learner-centered teaching, this important book presents the meaning, practice, and ramifications of the learner-centered approach, and how this approach transforms... more...

  • Learning to Teach in Higher Educationby Paul Ramsden; Sir David Watson

    RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 58.95

    This bestselling book is a unique introduction to the practice of university teaching and its underlying theory. This new edition has been fully revised and updated in view of the extensive changes which have taken place in higher education. more...

  • Small Group Teachingby Kate Exley; Reg Dennick

    RoutledgeFalmer 2004; US$ 39.95

    This indispensable guide for new university or college teachers brings together straightforward and practical advice on small group teaching as well as examples of practice across disciplines and a sprinkling of sound educational theory. more...