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Handbook of College and University Teaching: A Global Perspective presents international perspectives on critical issues impacting teaching and learning in diverse higher education environments, all with a unique global view. The need to understand learning and teaching from multiple cultural perspectives has become critically important in educating the next generation of college students. Education experts from around the world share their perspectives on college and university teaching, illuminating international differences and similarities. The chapters are organized around a model developed by James Groccia, which focuses on seven interrelated variables, including teacher, learner, learning process, learning context, course content, instructional processes, and learning outcomes. Using this logical model as the organizational structure of the book provides a guide for systemic thinking about what actions one should take, or suggest others take, when planning activities to improve teaching and learning, curriculum development, and assessment.
Learning, Teaching, and Assessment Using Technology
Learning, Teaching, and Assessment Using Technology
Each year the New Medium Consortium publishes the Horizon Report, a summary of key technology trends that are likely to affect education in the next 1 to 5 years (Johnson, Smith, Levine, & Haywood, 2010). These reports have highlighted the rapid pace of development in digital technologies and the resultant changes in expectations that have been placed on teachers and educational institutions by students and the wider community. Today, it is almost impossible to conceive of a learning environment that does not make some use of technology; the challenge for teachers, students, and institutions is to use the potential of digital technology to deliver quality learning, teaching and assessment, in addition to flexible and ...
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