Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology
Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology

Author: Robin K. Morgan

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2012-02-29

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0253006155

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“A wealth of good ideas” for using technology in education, from increasing student engagement to managing hybrid and distance learning (Teachers College Record). How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does technology have on student learning? Is distance learning effective? Should I give online tests and, if so, how can I be sure of the integrity of the students’ work? These are some of the questions that instructors raise as technology becomes an integral part of the educational experience. In Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology, award-winning instructors representing a wide range of academic disciplines describe their strategies for employing technology to achieve learning objectives. They include tips on using just-in-time teaching, wikis, clickers, YouTube, blogging, and GIS, to name just a few. An accompanying interactive website enhances the value of this innovative tool.

Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities
Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities

Author: Christopher J. Young

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0253050243

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Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers is an edited collection of 24 articles that aims to introduce faculty, administrators, and staff to ways in which digital techniques from the arts, humanities, and social sciences can be incorporated in the classroom. These techniques can enhance learning and professional development experiences for undergraduate and graduate students and faculty alike. This essential handbook illustrates the breadth of digital humanities across the disciplines with rich examples that bring best practices to life. Anyone who teaches at an institution of higher learning will find entry into new digital paradigms. As the authors share simple and complex ways to introduce digital humanities into the classroom, they expand understandings of what constitutes these current technologies for learning.

More Quick Hits
More Quick Hits

Author: S. Holly Stocking

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1998-09-22

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780253212382

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The book tells how to create the best environment in which to teach the courses you love.

Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers
Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers

Author: Robin K. Morgan

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 0253018404

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Valuable practical advice for managing classrooms, workloads, and careers. Non-tenure-track lecturers and adjunct instructors face particular challenges at US colleges, including heavy teaching loads, lack of office space, little control over the selection of course topics or textbooks, and long commutes between jobs at two or more schools. Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers contains short, practice-oriented articles by experienced instructors that offer valuable teaching and career tips for balancing competing demands, addressing student issues, managing classrooms, and enhancing professional development.

Promoting Global Literacy Skills through Technology-Infused Teaching and Learning
Promoting Global Literacy Skills through Technology-Infused Teaching and Learning

Author: Keengwe, Jared

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2014-08-31

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1466663480

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The increasing internationalization of today’s classrooms calls for learning institutions to prepare students for success in an interdependent and technologically-advanced world. Faculty who are competent in multiple 21st century skills are best equipped to engage students in curricula that are relevant, transformative, and engaging across content areas and cultures. Promoting Global Literacy Skills through Technology-Infused Teaching and Learning examines the function and role of globalization in 21st century teaching and learning, especially in light of technology integration and the need to prepare and empower global educators and global citizens respectively. Covering topics that range from social networking in linguistics to software used in engineering curricula, this premier reference work will be relevant to academicians, researchers, students, librarians, practitioners, professionals, and engineers.

Preparing Foreign Language Teachers for Next-Generation Education
Preparing Foreign Language Teachers for Next-Generation Education

Author: Lin, Chin-Hsi

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2016-07-21

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1522504842

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The growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has changed the dynamics of education, as self-directed learning, especially on mobile devices, is as accessible as ever. Despite the near infinite amount of information available for students outside of school, the classroom remains the most critical aspect of student’s growth. Teachers now play crucial roles in engaging ICT’s full potential to create an environment of meaningful learning to develop students’ critical thinking skills. Preparing Foreign Language Teachers for Next-Generation Education concerns itself with the integration and study of new technologies in foreign-language education. Featuring theoretical and empirical chapters related to the confluence of teacher-education, teacher cognition, and innovative technologies, it provides engaging insight into foreign-language teachers’ perceptions and the influence of those perceptions. This publication is quintessential to foreign-language teachers, administrators, policy makers, students of education, programmers, and developers.

Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Modern Education Delivery
Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Modern Education Delivery

Author: Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-09-21

Total Pages: 1163

ISBN-13: 1522573666

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Recent innovations and new technologies in education have altered the way teachers approach instruction and learning and can provide countless advantages. The pedagogical value of specific technology tools and the cumulative effects of technology exposure on student learning over time are two areas that need to be explored to better determine the improvements needed in the modern classroom. Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Modern Education Delivery provides emerging research on educational models in the continually improving classroom. While highlighting the challenges facing modern in-service and pre-service teachers when educating students, readers will learn information on new methods in curriculum development, instructional design, and learning assessments to implement within their classrooms. This book is a vital resource for pre-service and in-service teachers, teacher education professionals, higher education administrative professionals, and researchers interested in new curriculum development.

Quick Hits for New Faculty
Quick Hits for New Faculty

Author: Rosanne M. Cordell

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2004-09-15

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0253111269

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This is the third and latest book in the "Quick Hits" tradition of providing sound advice from award-winning college faculty. This volume is designed to help new faculty negotiate the challenges of college teaching. Articles and strategies range from planning for that first day in the classroom, to evaluating student learning, documenting teaching, and understanding the politics of teaching and learning in the department and institution. This volume expands each "quick hit" with additional background information, rationale, and resources. Quick Hits for New Faculty guides new faculty through the start of a very important journey, a journey that ultimately will take the teacher from novice to accomplished professional.

Structures and Architecture - Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders
Structures and Architecture - Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders

Author: Paulo J.S. Cruz

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1351858157

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Structures and Architecture – Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders contains the lectures and papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA2019) that was held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2019. It also contains a multimedia device with the full texts of the lectures presented at the conference, including the 5 keynote lectures, and almost 150 selected contributions. The contributions on creative and scientific aspects in the conception and construction of structures, on advanced technologies and on complex architectural and structural applications represent a fine blend of scientific, technical and practical novelties in both fields. ICSA2019 covered all major aspects of structures and architecture, including: building envelopes/façades; comprehension of complex forms; computer and experimental methods; futuristic structures; concrete and masonry structures; educating architects and structural engineers; emerging technologies; glass structures; innovative architectural and structural design; lightweight and membrane structures; special structures; steel and composite structures; structural design challenges; tall buildings; the borderline between architecture and structural engineering; the history of the relationship between architects and structural engineers; the tectonic of architectural solutions; the use of new materials; timber structures, among others. This set of book and multimedia device is intended for a global readership of researchers and practitioners, including architects, structural and construction engineers, builders and building consultants, constructors, material suppliers and product manufacturers, and other professionals involved in the design and realization of architectural, structural and infrastructural projects.