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Book Review: “Blended Learning & Flipped Classrooms: A Comprehensive Guide”
This handbook would be especially relevant for new faculty, adjunct or full-time, as it includes tools that some professors might never have thought of or dared to try. The language is lively and enthusiastic, not too laden with academic…
A Review of "The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy"
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber (University of Toronto Press, 2016; $26.95) Reviewed by Christina Turner Symbols of the neoliberal university in Canada are so common…
New Study: Who's NOT Reading Books in America? (The Answer May Surprise You)
The share of Americans who report not reading any books in the past 12 months is largely unchanged since 2012, but is slightly higher than in 2011, when the Center first began conducting surveys of book-reading habits. That year, 19 percent…
Print vs. Digital Books? The Majority of Americans Still Favor Print
by Andrew Perrin A growing share of Americans are reading e-books on tablets and smartphones rather than dedicated e-readers, but print books remain much more popular than books in digital formats. Americans today have an enormous variety…
Adjunct Writes Guidebook on Thriving in the Online Classroom
by Cindy O’Dell Taking a completely online class can be a case of sink or swim, says Jeffrey M. Welch, an adjunct professor in the School of Education. After more than nine years of teaching at Brandman in both blended and online…
How Bloom's Toxonomy Can Make You a Better Teacher
Used with permission from A Handbook for Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty and Teacher’s of Adults, 7th ed. by Dr. Donald Grieve, Ed.D. Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives If there is a single paradigm that has stood the test of time…
A Round-up of the Best Books on College Teaching
by Linda B. Nilson We can’t keep up with our own discipline’s research, so how are we supposed to stay abreast of the college teaching literature? Let me make it a little easier for you. Here are six recently published books that capture…
Book Review: ‘Building a Better Teacher,’ on Secrets of Good Teaching by Elizabeth Green
By Michael S. Roth BUILDING A BETTER TEACHER How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) By Elizabeth Green Norton. 372 pp. $27.95 America has some of the best schools on the planet and one of the worst systems of education…
Book Review: The Good Girls Revolt—How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the…
by Anne Fischer The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace by Lynn Povich ISBN: 978-1610391733 288 pages On March 18, 1970, over one hundred activists occupied the offices of the …
John Wiley & Sons Sues Hundreds For Copyright Infringement & Illegal Downloads of Digital…
by Ernesto Van Dersar John Wiley & Sons, one of the world’s largest book publishers, is continuing its efforts to crack down on BitTorrent piracy. The company has now named several people who allegedly shared Wiley titles online, and is…