Engaging College and University Students outlines creative and effective course organization and teaching-learning strategies for higher education courses. By describing specific instructional best practices, rather than addressing general questions about teaching in higher education, the author presents a valuable resource for educators to consult in the moment. The author explores the challenges of engaging students in online settings and draws comparisons with face-to-face strategies of engagement. By organizing the strategies according to course progress, and offering corresponding rubrics for assessment, this guide for instructors offers a solid foundation for an ever-changing teaching and learning landscape.

Engaging College and University Students outlines creative and effective course organization and teaching-learning strategies for higher education courses. By describing specific instructional best practices, rather than addressing general questions about teaching in higher education, the author presents a valuable resource for educators to consult in the moment. The author explores the challenges of engaging students in online settings and draws comparisons with face-to-face strategies of engagement. By organizing the strategies according to course progress, and offering corresponding rubrics for assessment, this guide for instructors offers a solid foundation for an ever-changing teaching and learning landscape.

-Explores the sources, nature, and extent of teacher authority, and distinguishes authority from authoritarianism. - Deals with foundational questions related to the nature and sources of authority, situating classroom management in that larger conversation.

-Explores the sources, nature, and extent of teacher authority, and distinguishes authority from authoritarianism. - Deals with foundational questions related to the nature and sources of authority, situating classroom management in that larger conversation.

Experienced editors bring widespread knowledge of foundations of teacher preparation from global contexts. Volume invites teachers to reflect on their work rather than simply be technicians of their work. Connects teachers' often abstract motivations to the realities of the profession.

Experienced editors bring widespread knowledge of foundations of teacher preparation from global contexts. Volume invites teachers to reflect on their work rather than simply be technicians of their work. Connects teachers' often abstract motivations to the realities of the profession.

-Uses students' and teachers' own accounts of effective classes to understand these all-too-rare classroom experiences. -Works in the conceptual space between two theoretical frameworks to distinguish the classroom experience of teachers from the experience of students. -Strikes a balance between theoretically-sophisticated and practically-oriented, in order to cut across scholarly and practitioner markets.

-Uses students' and teachers' own accounts of effective classes to understand these all-too-rare classroom experiences. -Works in the conceptual space between two theoretical frameworks to distinguish the classroom experience of teachers from the experience of students. -Strikes a balance between theoretically-sophisticated and practically-oriented, in order to cut across scholarly and practitioner markets.

Curriculum Planning with Design Language provides a streamlined, adaptable framework for using visual design terminology to conceptualize instructional design objectives, processes, and strategies. Drawing from instructional design theory, pattern language theory, and aesthetics, these ten course and unit design principles help educators break down and clarify their broader planning tasks and concerns. Written in clear, direct prose and rich with intuitive examples, this book showcases insights leading to effective curriculum design that will speak equally to pre-service and experienced educators.

Curriculum Planning with Design Language provides a streamlined, adaptable framework for using visual design terminology to conceptualize instructional design objectives, processes, and strategies. Drawing from instructional design theory, pattern language theory, and aesthetics, these ten course and unit design principles help educators break down and clarify their broader planning tasks and concerns. Written in clear, direct prose and rich with intuitive examples, this book showcases insights leading to effective curriculum design that will speak equally to pre-service and experienced educators.