The fifth edition of The Lecturers Toolkit addresses the needs and aspirations of all lecturers teaching in tertiary education. With a focus on practical, implementable strategies to enhance learning experiences and ensure best practice, it covers all of the need-to-know information crucial to teaching success.
Pinpointing aspects of teaching excellence, the challenges and stresses of teaching and adapted to cover digital and online learning as well as face-to-face contexts, this new edition covers:
designing and using learning outcomes
face-to-face, online and peer dialogues
using web extracts, video-clips, phones, tablets and social media in large group teaching
how online learning relates to the larger contexts of lectures and MOOCs
cheating, plagiarism, essay mills and online assessment
how particular aspects fit into the bigger picture of a module/course/degree/life
ensuring youre looking after yourself
Based on four decades of experience of higher education, The Lecturers Toolkit is written with authority and clarity in a jargon-free style. This invaluable guide is a must-read for every higher education professional.
Table of Contents - Preface; Chapter 1 How students really learn; Chapter 2 Designing assessment; Chapter 3 Feedback dialogues; Chapter 4 Large group teaching; Chapter 5 Making small-group teaching work; Chapter 6 Looking after yourself; Chapter 7 Onwards and upwards; References.
