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Teachers who aspire to improve their teaching should constantly look for a book that can explain and summarize the philosophy of learning in a simple manner without ambiguous jargon that distracts the unmotivated readers.

I would like to share one of my favourite books which fulfils these criteria – simple, concise, straight to the point, well organized, and clearly written. The book, How Learning Works: 7 Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching is authored by faculties from Carnegie Mellon's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence (S.A. Ambrose, M. Dipietro, M.C. Lovett, M.K. Norman).

When I visited the main author (Susan Ambrose) at Carnegie (she was the Director of Carnegie Mellon's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence), she gave me a signed copy of the book. I've also purchased the ebook version for reading on my iPad.

I've also written a review of the book which was published 10 years ago in the Journal of Food Science Education. You can read it here.