Books

The books listed here are ones that the Faculty Learning Communities at the University of Arizona have used to support their teaching and learning endeavors. If you are at the University of Arizona, these should all be available online at the UA library.

Fall 2020: Small Teaching Online

"Find out how to apply learning science in online classes

The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.

This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains.

• Explains how you can support your online students

• Helps your students find success in this non-traditional learning environment

• Covers online and blended learning

• Addresses specific challenges that online instructors face in higher education

Small Teaching Online presents research-based teaching techniques from an online instructional design expert and the bestselling author of Small Teaching." From Wiley.com

Summer 2020: The Blended Course Design Workbook

"The Blended Course Design Workbook: A Practical Guide meets the need for a user-friendly resource that provides faculty members and administrators with instructions, activities, tools, templates, and a week-by-week structure to guide them through the process of revising their traditional face-to-face course into a blended format. The Blended Course Design Workbook includes detailed instructions for each stage of course design and can be used by faculty across disciplines and with a range of technology comfort levels." From BCDWorkbook

Spring 2020: Student Engagement Techniques-A Handbook for College Faculty

"Keeping students involved, motivated, and actively learning is challenging educators across the country, yet good advice on how to accomplish this has not been readily available. Student Engagement Techniques is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to help teachers from a wide variety of disciplines and institutions motivate and connect with their students."

Fall 2019: Teaching at Its Best-A Research Based Resource for College Instructors

Spring 2019: The Discussion Book - 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking

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