Written by experts in the field, this book aims to provide an alternative approach to quality teaching in higher education by deriving a model of good university teaching from the academics which universities have chosen as their best teachers. Award-winning teachers outline their beliefs and practices as a teacher, covering key topics including: 
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<li>assessment</li> <li>motivating students</li> <li>planning courses and lessons</li> <li>teaching large classes</li> <li>reflection and feedback</li> <li>managing discussion and group work.</li>
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Illustrated with extracts from interviews with the award-winning teachers, and packed with activities and further reading, this textbook provides a set of principles for good teaching internationally.

Enhancing University Teaching

Politics & Social Sciences

Kember, David

McNaught, Carmel

Sociology

Routledge

How can novice e-learning researchers and postgraduate learners develop rigorous plans to study the effectiveness of technology-enhanced learning environments? How can practitioners gather and portray evidence of the impact of e-learning? How can the average educator who teaches online, without experience in evaluating emerging technologies, build on what is successful and modify what is not?   By unpacking the e-learning lifecycle and focusing on learning, not technology, Evaluating e-Learning attempts to resolve some of the complexity inherent in evaluating the effectiveness of e-learning. The book presents practical advice in the form of an evaluation framework and a scaffolded approach to an e-learning research study, using divide-and-conquer techniques to reduce complexity in both design and delivery. It adapts and builds on familiar research methodology to offer a robust and accessible approach that can ensure effective evaluation of a wide range of innovative initiatives, including those covered in other books in the Connecting with e-Learning series.   Readers will find this jargon-free guide is a must-have resource that provides the proper tools for evaluating e-learning practices with ease.

Evaluating e-Learning: Guiding Research and Practice (Connecting with E-learning)

Education & Teaching

Phillips, Rob

Kennedy, Gregor

Higher & Continuing Education

Interactive multimedia is the merging of previously separate media - video, text, audio, graphics and animation - under computer control. This publication focuses on the challenges of developing interactive multimedia for use in teaching and learning at university level, including open university education. Case studies and papers presented address three main themes: design, implementation and evaluation. Contributions are sourced from experts actively engaged in interactive multimedia development, ensuring the book offers a comprehensive specialist perspective of the field. It will be of particular interest for higher education policy makers, university and open learning lecturers and multimedia developers.

Interactive Multimedia in University Education: Designing for Change in Teaching and Learning : Proceedings (Ifip Transactions A-59 Computer Science)

Beattie, Kate

Schools & Teaching

North-Holland

Quality of teaching has proved to be an elusive construct. This book is based on extensive interviews with 18 truly exemplary teachers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The book explains and illustrates the principles of excellent teaching that underpin the way these teachers plan and teach their courses. What content, teaching strategies and assessment tasks do they select? What do they actually do in their classrooms? How do they establish and maintain relationships with their students? How do they improve their own practice through evaluation? These principles of excellent teaching apply across all disciplines and, indeed, across the global higher education community. Book jacket.

Excellent University Teaching

Ma, Rosa

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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