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High-Impact Practices in Online Education
This volume offers the first comprehensive guide to how high-impact practices (HIPs) are being implemented in online environments and how they can be adjusted to meet the needs of online learners. This multi-disciplinary approach will assist faculty and administrators to effectively implement HIPs in distance education courses and online programs.With a chapter devoted to each of the eleven HIPs, this collection offers guidance that takes into account the differences between e-learners and traditional on-campus students.A primary goal of High-Impact Practices Online is to share the ways in which HIPs may need to be amended to meet the needs of online learners. Through specific examples and p...
Going Alt-Ac
A growing number of people completing or holding graduate degrees now seek non-faculty positions—also called alternative academic, or “alt-ac” positions—at different stages in their careers. While an increasing number of people with doctoral degrees are hunting for a diminishing pool of tenure-track faculty jobs, most degree-granting institutions do not adequately prepare their graduate students to enter the new reality of the alt-ac job market. Yet the administrative ranks in higher education institutions are growing, as colleges and universities are creating a diverse range of positions that support teaching and learning efforts.Focusing on the range of potential alternative career...
Transforming History
Teaching history well is not just a matter of knowing history—it is a set of skills that can be developed and honed through practice. In this theoretically informed but eminently practical volume, Mary Jo Festle examines the recent explosion of research on the teaching and learning of history. Illuminated by her own work, Festle applies the concept of "backward design" as an organizing framework to the history classroom. She provides concrete strategies for setting up an environment that is inclusive and welcoming but still challenging and engaging. Instructors will improve their own conceptual understandings of teaching and learning issues, as well as receive guidance on designing courses and implementing pedagogies consistent with what research tells us about how students learn. The book offers practical illustrations of assignments, goals, questions, grading rubrics, unit plans, and formats for peer observation that are adaptable for courses on any subject and of any size. Transforming History is a critical guide for higher and secondary education faculty—neophytes and longtime professionals alike—working to improve student learning.
Approaches to Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
One of the most commonly taught slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is rightly celebrated for its progressive and distinctive appeals to dismantle the dehumanizing system of American slavery. Depicting the abuse Jacobs experienced, her years in hiding, and her escape to the North, the work evokes sympathy for Jacobs as a woman and a mother. Today, it continues to inform readers about gender and sexuality, power and justice, and Black identity in the United States. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," discusses different editions of the work and suggests background readings. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," explore Jacobs's literary techniques and influences, drawing on autobiography theory, medical humanities, and theology, among other perspectives. Contributors also propose pairings with historical and recent literary works as well as teaching approaches involving visual arts, geography, archives, digital humanities, and service learning.
El gran impacto de la formación online
¿Qué relación existe entre un curso online de alta calidad y una práctica formativa de gran impacto para el estudiante? ¿La educación online es una variedad, sin más, de la vieja educación a distancia, o puede tener algún factor diferenciador? Son las preguntas a las que trata de responder este libro. George Kuh acuñó la expresión prácticas educativas de gran impacto, y la definió con los diez componentes de la educación universitaria: los seminarios de primer año; las experiencias intelectuales comunes; las comunidades de aprendizaje; los cursos intensivos de expresión escrita; los trabajos y proyectos en colaboración; la investigación a nivel universitario; la inclusión...
La transferencia de conocimiento en educación
El progreso y bienestar de las sociedades que tenemos por desarrolladas se ha debido, en buena medida, a la sistemática transferencia de conocimiento desde los diversos ámbitos del saber a los sectores productivos, especialmente en la industria, la tecnología y los servicios. Curiosa y paradójicamente, el campo de las Ciencias de la Educación ha permanecido falto de análisis, cuando no bastante invisible, en tal dinámica histórica, pese a las cadenas de valor social, cultural y económico generadas en procesos de investigación, y también de innovación, dentro y fuera de las aulas, para beneficio cognitivo de personas y oportuna proyección de las comunidades. Lo que en este libro se pretende no es otra cosa que reivindicar, con razones de peso epistémico y de neto pragmatismo, la necesidad de entender la transferencia de conocimiento en educación como un asunto de acciones, que han de servir a la formación de profesionales capacitados para seguir aprendiendo y resolver problemas reales en sus entornos de vida.
El gran impacto de la formación online
Reseña del editor: ¿Qué relación existe entre un curso online de alta calidad y una práctica formativa de gran impacto para el estudiante? ¿La educación online es una variedad, sin más, de la vieja educación a distancia, o puede tener algún factor diferenciador? Son las preguntas a las que trata de responder este libro.George Kuh acuñó la expresión prácticas educativas de gran impacto, y la definió con los diez componentes de la educación universitaria: los seminarios de primer año; las experiencias intelectuales comunes; las comunidades de aprendizaje; los cursos intensivos de expresión escrita; los trabajos y proyectos en colaboración; la investigación a nivel universit...
Teaching Online
Demystifies online teaching for both enthusiastic and wary educators and helps faculty who teach online do their best work as digital instructors. It is difficult to imagine a college class today that does not include some online component—whether a simple posting of a syllabus to course management software, the use of social media for communication, or a full-blown course offering through a MOOC platform. In Teaching Online, Claire Howell Major describes for college faculty the changes that accompany use of such technologies and offers real-world strategies for surmounting digital teaching challenges. Teaching with these evolving media requires instructors to alter the ways in which they ...
The Assault on American Excellence
A New York Times Editors’ Choice The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is out of place at institutions whose job is to prepare citizens to live in a vibrant democracy. In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest the names of buildings and seen colleagues resign over emails about Halloween costumes. He is no stranger to recent confrontations at American universities. But where many see only the suppression of free speech, the babying of students, and the drive to bury the imperfect parts of our history, Kronman recognizes in these on-campus clashes a threat to our democracy. A...
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