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Title:
Small Group Instruction in Higher Education
: Lessons from the Past, Visions of the Future
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Author: Edited by James L. Cooper, Pamela Robinson & David Ball
Brief Description: This text represents a compilation of work completed by Jim Cooper and his colleagues
in the Network for Cooperative Learning in higher education over the last fifteen years, including eight new chapters were written specifically for this edition. It presents a look at the history of small group instruction
research, theory and practice and offers a glimpse at the future of this powerful
instructional strategy.
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Price: $24.95
Item No: 20030104
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Title:
Preparing Effective Essay Questions
: A Self-directed Workbook for Educators
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Author: Christian M. Reiner, Timothy W. Bothell, & Richard R. Sudweeks
Brief Description: Do you want to improve the use of essay questions but have little time to
review existing research? Or, are you concerned about using essay questions to obtain
useful information about student learning? This workbook series was developed to provide self-guided training and
practice in discerning the often difficult-to-see characteristics of effective essay
questions and to support educators in the development and use of essay questions. . .
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Price: $13.95
Item No: 20030103
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Title:
Improving Faculty Governance
: Cultivating Leadership & Collaboration in Decision
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Author: Michael T. Miller
Brief Description: Improving Faculty Governance begins with a critical examination of
the contemporary faculty member and the challenges of protecting academic democracy in the
context of the increasingly corporate university. The ideas of trust and respect are
examined between faculty and administrators, along with the positive and negative aspects
of part-time faculty reliance . . .
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Price: $20.95
Item No: 20030102
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Title:
Making Time, Making Change
: Avoiding Overload in College Teaching
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Author: Douglas Reimondo Robertson
Brief Description: Lack of time may be the single most commonly experienced problem among American faculty. The objective of this book is to elevate our awareness of how we use our time and how we might improve that use of time.
In Making Time, Making Change, author Douglas Reimondo Robertson leads you on the road to a more rewarding, and less harried, teaching life!
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Price: $15.95
Item No: 20030101
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Title:
Organizing to Collaborate
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Author: Joseph B. Cuseo
Brief Description: This book focuses on the terms "collaborative learning," "cooperative learning," and "learning community" in which they have been bandied about in American higher education with great frequency and enthusiasm. One primary purpose of this monograph is to provide a more precise delineation of postsecondary practices that are subsumed or assumed to be embraced by the umbrella terms, collaborative learning, cooperative learning, and learning community, and organize these practices into a coherent classification system or taxonomy. . .
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Price: $13.95
Item No: 20020201
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Title:
Ready to Teach
: Graduate Teaching Assistants Prepare for Today and for Tomorrow
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Author: Edited by Will Davis, Jan Smith, & Rosslyn Smith
Brief Description: A refereed collection of papers based on presentations made during Changing Graduate
Education: The Sixth National Conference on the Education and Employment of Graduate
Teaching Assistants. – Edited by Will Davis, Jan Smith, and Rosslyn Smith, this
excellent volume provides a rich array of insights into TA preparation methods. . .
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Price: $29.95
Item No: 20020107
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Title:
Igniting Student Involvment, Peer Interaction, and Teamwork
: A Taxonomy of Specific Cooperative Learning Structures and Collaborative Learning Strategies
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Author: Joseph B. Cuseo
Brief Description: The student-centered pedagogical practices of cooperative learning, collaborative
learning, and team learning can be united and defined inclusively as two or more learners
who work interdependently toward a common goal, on a common task, that culminates with a
consensual decision or creation of a common product. . .
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Price: $11.95
Item No: 20020103
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Title:
It Works for Me, Too! More Shared Tips for Effective Teaching
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Author: Hal Blythe & Charlie Sweet
Brief Description: "In the four years since our first book on teaching, we have noticed both on our campus and around the country a new emphasis on the instructor as teacher (vs. scholar). We have read books on the subject, attended the prestigious Lilly Conference, helped establish a Teaching & Learning Center on our campus, and written for new journals focusing on pedagogy.
It Works For Me, Too! is our contribution to the Renaissance in College Pedagogy, our attempt to fuel this brightening interest in effective teaching. Like its predecessor, this book is a compilation of tips from workers in the collegiate trenches, but this time our contributors reflect the national interest in this subject and come from all around the country. . . "
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Price: $15.95
Item No: 20020102
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Title:
Strategic Planning for Smart Leadership
: Rethinking Your Organization’s Collective Future through a Workbook-Based, Three-Level Model
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Author: William J. Austin
Brief Description: Finally, here is a first-rate nuts-’n-bolts how-to guide to the
next generation of strategic planning! Strategic Planning for Smart Leadership
reviews relevant planning, management, and leadership literature to create the context for
a heterarchical planning system within the theoretical framework of contemporary
leadership, planning, human resource development, and systems thinking . .
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Price: $29.95
Item No: 20020101
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Title:
Face to Face
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Author: Edited by Karron G. Lewis & Joyce T. Povlacs Lunde
Brief Description: A sourcebook of individual consultation techniques for faculty/instructional
developers — This continuing favorite edited by Karron Lewis and Joyce Povlacs
Lunde is a collection of informative chapters by successful faculty development
practitioners. The book provides an overview of the skills and techniques needed for
successful one-to-one consulting, lists of resources for information about
faculty/instructional development, and detailed descriptions of a variety of individual
consultation techniques with case studies to show the application of these techniques. . .
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Price: $29.95
Item No: 20010201
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Title:
Learning Together
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Author: Theodore Panitz
Brief Description: Keeping Teachers and Students Actively Involved by Writing Across the Curriculum
-- Writing is an evolutionary process whereby the author revises his/her ideas, values and
approaches, not just a mechanical act of placing words in a correct sequence with
appropriate grammar. It is intensely personal and interactive with the subject matter,
whether in the form of a brief One-Minute Paper at the end of class, a five-minute summary
during class, an extended essay, or research paper. . .
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Price: $19.95
Item No: 20010105
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Title:
The Teaching Assistant Training Handbook
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Author: Edited by Loreto R. Prieto & Steven A. Meyers
Brief Description: Subtitled "How to Prepare TAs for Their Responsibilities," this excellent work is designed for college faculty, staff, and administrators who train and supervise TAs in all disciplines. This edited book presents readers with a wealth of information that is essential for designing, implementing, or improving a TA training program in a department or university-wide office. . .
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Price: $19.95
Item No: 20010104
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Title:
The Dual-Credit Phenomenon! Challenging Secondary School Students Across 50 States
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Author: Hans A. Andrews
Brief Description: The Dual-Credit Phenomenon is the first comprehensive study published on this
fascinating new nationally-growing educational movement. This program allows those bright students to take college level
classes that secondary schools now count toward high school diploma completion. In short,
the student gets credit both ways. . .
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Price: $16.95
Item No: 20010103
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Title:
Education in Bosnia: Language, Religion, and Control
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Author: Doug McCreight
Brief Description: This book investigates the forces shaping the development of education systems in
Bosnia and the impact those historical forces may, or may not, have on the condition of
current secondary education in Bosnia today.
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Price: $24.95
Item No: 20010102
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Title:
Cases for Community College Teachers
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Author: Rebecca Kamm
Brief Description: Here are thought-provoking and practical solutions for community college educators! This excellent work provides addresses a critical need in two-year institutions by providing information about issues the faculty face regularly. The author, Dr. Rebecca Kamm, uses twenty case studies to illustrate situations involving practical, everyday situations. Cases cover a spectrum of student-teacher-classroom situations, such as: a student's animosity toward mathematics, a part-time instructor's conflicts with her supervisor, a teacher's frustrations with the use of new technology. . .
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Price: $16.95
Item No: 20010101
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Title:
Forever Better: Continuous Quality Improvement in Higher Education
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Author: Peter Knight, E. Nola Aitken, & Robert J. Rogerson
Brief Description: This book is a no-nonsense approach to teaching improvement that is geared to the needs of hard-pressed faculty in higher education. It covers major themes such as course planning, assessing student learning, lecturing, working with small groups and handling large classes. It covers the use of established and new technologies and methods to bring about improvements. . .
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Price: $22.95
Item No: 20000101
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Title:
Peers in the Classroom: Case Studies in Adult Higher Education
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Author: Regina Lopata Logan & Robert M. Frornberg
Brief Description: From one student's off hand remark, the idea of a casebook for use in adult education grew into a reality. These cases convey a sense of the dynamism and complexity that educators of adults and adult students experience when they return to school in the midst of busy adult roles and responsibilities. This is an ideal workbook for those involved in higher education, especially faculty developers, deans, department chairs, or anyone else who teaches about adults in the classroom. . .
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Price: $18.95
Item No: 19990102
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Title:
Responsive Academic Decision Making
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Author: Michael T. Miller
Brief Description: These writings provide a thematic examination of how faculty are involved in the governance process in different areas of higher education management. Although this text offers different styles and tones in various chapters, the discussions of involvement in academic and student affairs, athletics, advancement, and institutional effectiveness and planning are helpful to all of those interested in a setting where group input is valued and respected. . .
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Price: $19.95
Item No: 19990101
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Title:
Classrooms Without Fear: A Journey to Rediscover the Joy of Teaching
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Author: Thomas A. Marino
Brief Description: Here is one teacher’s story of how new technologies, rising education costs, and
personal, inward changes forced a reexamination of his teaching methods. . . Through technology and
awareness, the author hopes to replace his students’ fear of the classroom with a
renewed passion for learning. . .
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Price: $17.95
Item No: 19980202
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Title:
Motivating Teaching in Higher Education: A Manual for Faculty Development
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Author: Edwin G. Ralph
Brief Description: Edwin G. Ralph, Ph.D., Department of Curriculum Studies, University of Saskatchewan, has created this manual particularly for beginning instructors at the post-secondary level, who have never had previous teacher training. He not only presents the essentials of the instructional planning and implementation process, but in doing so, he provides key principles and practices that have been shown to enhance students' motivation to learn. . .
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Price: $20.95
Item No: 19980201
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