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Creating Inclusive Learning Opportunities in Higher Education: a Universal Design Toolkit, by Sheryl E. Burgstahler is a timely and practical guide to creating flexible, inclusive, and barrier-free learning environments in the online and physical classroom. Explore more about Creating Inclusive Learning Opportunities.

Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students covers how culture impacts the brain and speaks to the achievement gap that remains as a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Explore more about Culturally Responsive Teaching.

Many students struggle with the transition from high school to university life. This is especially true of first-generation college students, who are often unfamiliar with the norms and expectations of academia. Explore more about 33 Simple Strategies.

Minds Online, by Michelle D. Miller, is a concise, nontechnical guide for academic leaders and instructors who seek to advance learning in this changing environment, through a sound scientific understanding of how the human brain assimilates knowledge. Explore more about Minds Online.

The Online Teaching Survival Guide provides a robust overview of theory-based techniques for teaching online or technology-enhanced courses. Explore more about Online Teaching Survival Guide.

Is written by Flower Darby and James M. Lang. Small Teaching Online explores the unique challenges of online instruction and shares the small teaching strategies that have proven to have a powerful effect on online classroom engagement and learning. Explore more about Small Teaching Online.

In Small Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful changes that make a big difference - many of which can be put into practice in a single class period.  Explore more about Small Teaching.