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Center for theAdvancement of Teaching & Learning

Library and Video Collection

Stop by the Center for Advanced Teaching and Learning in IS 1144 to browse the selection. You are also welcome to e-mail the Center to borrow a book through campus mail. Please include author, title and topic/subject in your request. In addition, there is a video collection available to be checked out from the center.

Active Learning Approaches | Active Learning Materials | Assessment | Course Design | Creative & Critical Thinking / Significant Learning | Knowing Students | Online Teaching | Reflections on Teaching | Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | Teaching Methods / Techniques | Video Library

Book Collection

Active Learning Approaches

  • Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom
    Johnson, D.; Johnson, R.; Smith, K.
  • Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom
    Bonwell and Eison
  • Active Learning: 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject
    Silberman, Mel
  • Civic Engagement at the Center
    Hoy, Ariane & Meisel, Wayne (https://secure.aacu.org/source/Orders/index.cfm)
  • Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty
    Barkely, E. F.; Cross, K. P.; & Major, C. H.
  • Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age (pdf document)
    Siemens, George
  • Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty 
    Mills, B. J. & Cottell, P. G.
  • Cultivating the Learner-Centered Classroom: From Theory to Practice
    Tollefson, K. A. & Osborn, M. K.
  • Discussion as a Way of Teaching 
    Brookfield, Stephen & Preskill, Stephen
  • 40 Inquiry Exercises for the College Biology Lab
    Johnson, A. Daniel
  • The Future of Service Learning
    Strait, Jean R. & Lima, Marybeth, eds.
  • Helping Students Learn in a Learner-Centered Environment
    Doyle, Terry
  • Interdisciplinary Courses and Team Teaching: New Arrangements for Learning
    Davis, James
  • Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership Between Science Education & Students
    Wood, Bonnie S.
  • 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Sustainability
    Timpson, William; Dunbar, Brian; Kimmel, Gailmarie; Bruyere, Brett; Newman, Peter & Mizia, Hillary
  • Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual 
    Mazur, Eric
  • The Power of Problem-Based Learning
    Duch, B.; Groh, S.; & Allen, D.
  • Promoting Active Learning: Strategies for the College Classroom 
    Meyers & Jones
  • Start With a Story: The Case Study Method of Teaching College Science
    Herreid, Clyde Freeman, ed.
  • Student-Active Science 
    McNeal, Ann & D’Avanzo, Charlene
  • Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty
    Barkley, Elizabeth
  • Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry: A Guidebook for Institutions and Instructors
    Lee, V. S.
  • Team-Based Learning
    Michaelson, L.; Bauman, A.; Knight, L.; & Fink, D.
  • Using Simulations to Promote Learning in Higher Education
    Hertel, John Paul & Mills, Barbara

Active Learning Materials

    Boxes of active learning materials are available for use in classes. These boxes may be checked out via an e-mail to catl@uwgb.edu.

    Assessment

    • The Art and Science of Assessing General Education Outcomes: A Practical Guide
      Leskes, Andrea & Wright, Barbara (www.aacu.org/publications)
    • Assessing for Learning: A Common Sense Guide, 2nd ed.
      Suskie, Linda & Banta, Trudy W.
    • Assessing Student Learning
      Maki, Peggy
    • Assessing Students in Groups: Promoting Group Responsibility and Individual Accountability
      Johnson, D. W. & Johnson, R.
    • Assessment in Cycles of Improvement: Faculty Designs for Essential Learning Outcomes
      Miller, Ross (https://secure.aacu.org/source/Orders/index.cfm)
    • Assessment to Promote Deep Learning
      Suskie, Linda
    • Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers
      Angelo & Cross
    • College Science Teachers Guide to Assessment
      Lord, French, and Crow
    • Developing Outcome-Based Assessment for Learner-Centered Education: A Faculty Introduction
      Driscoll, A. & Wood, S.
    • Developing Tools to Assess Student Learning
      Suskie, Linda
    • Effective Grading
      Walvoord, Barbara & Virginia Johnson Anderson
    • Electronic Portfolios 2.0
      Cambridge, D.; Cambridge, B.; & Yancey, K. Blake
    • Getting Started With Student Learning Assessment
      Suskie, Linda
    • How Am I Teaching? - Forms and Activities for Acquiring Instructional Input
      Weimer, Maryellen; Parrett, Joan L. & Kerns, Mary-Margaret\
    • Interpreting Assessment Data: Statistical Techniques You Can Use
      Christmann, Edwin & Badgett, John
    • Introduction to Rubrics
      Stevens, Dannelle D.
    • Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses: Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning
      Huba & Freed
    • Portfolio Development and the Assessment of Prior Learning
      Michelson, Elana & Mandell,Alan, et.
    • Techniques for Evaluating and Improving Instruction. New Directions for Teaching and Learning No. 31
      Aleamoni, Lawrence M.
    • Techniques and Strategies for Interpreting Student Evaluations. New Directions for Teaching and Learning No. 87
      Lewis, K. G.
    • Thirteen Strategies to Measure College Teaching
      Berk, Ronald
    • Understanding Educational Measurement
      McDaniel, Ernest

    Course Design

    • Blueprint for Learning: Constructing College Courses to Facilitate, Assess and Document Learning
      Richlin, L.
    • Handbook of College Science Teaching
      Mintzes, Joel & Leonard, William, ed.
    • How to Design and Teach a Hybrid Course
      Caulfield, Jay
    • Idea-Based Learning: A Course Design Process to Promote Conceptual Understanding
      Hansen, Edmund J.
    • Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice
      Weimer, M.
    • Meaningful Course Revision: Enhancing Academic Engagement Using Student Learning Data
      Wehlburg, C. M.
    • Service-Learning Course Design: What Faculty Need to Know
      Magna Publications
    • Universal Design in Higher Education
      Burgstahler, S. E. & Cory, R. C.

    Creative & Critical Thinking / Significant Learning

    • The Complete Problem Solver
      Hayes, John R.
    • The Courage to Create
      May, Rollo
    • Creating Signification Learning Experiences
      Fink, L. Dee
    • Creative Problem Solving: Thinking Skills for a Changing World
      Lumsdaine, Edward & Lumsdaine, Monica
    • Developing Reflective Judgement: Understanding and Promoting Intellectual Growth and Critical Thinking in Adolescents and Adults
      King, P. M. & Kitchner, K. S.
    • Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking and Active Learning in the Classroom
      Bean, John
    • How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching: Four Practices That Improve Student Learning
      Benson, B.
    • Learning to Think Things Through: A Guide to Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum
      Nosich, Gerald
    • Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
      Hooks, Bell
    • Teaching With Your Mouth Shut
      Finkel, Donald
    • Transformative Learning in the College Classroom
      Cranton, P. & Weimer, M.
    • Understanding by Design
      Wiggins, G. & McTishe

    Knowing Students

    • Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
      Arum, R., Roksa, J.
    • Adults as Learners
      Cross, K. Patricia
    • The Art of Changing the Brain
      Zull, James
    • Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
      Medina, John
    • College Teaching and the Development of Reasoning
      Fuller, Robert G.; Campbell, Thomas C.; Dykstra, Jr. Dewey I.; Stevens, Scott M. (eds.)
    • Dyslexia, the Self and Higher Education
      Pollak, David
    • Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind
      Tammet, Daniel
    • The First Generation Student Experience
      Davis, Jeff
    • From Brain to Mind
      Zull, James
    • The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal
      Palmer, Parker J; Zajonc, Arthur; Nepo, Mark; and Scribner, Megan
    • How Minority Students Experience College
      Watson, Lemuel; Terrell, Melvin Cleveland; Wright, Doris J.; Bonner II, Fred A.; Cuylet, Michael; Gold, James; Rudy, Donna; & Person, Dawn R.
    • How People Learn
      National Research Council
    • iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind
      Small, M. D., Gary & Vorgan, Gigi
    • Iconoclast
      Burns
    • The Invisible Gorilla
      Chabis, Christopher & Simons, Daniel
    • Knowing Knowledge
      Siemens, George
    • Making Their Own Way
      Magdola, Marcia
    • Most College Students are Women
      Allen, J.; Bracken, S.; & Dean, D.
    • Motivating Millenials and Digital Natives
      Pattengale, Jerry
    • My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
      Nathan, Rebekah
    • The New Digital Shoreline
      McHaney, Roger
    • Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work & Learn
      Davidson, Cathy N.
    • Non-Western Educational Traditions: Indigenous Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice, 3rd ed.
      Regan, Timothy
    • The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
      Carr, Nicholas
    • Teaching Inclusively: Resources for Course, Department, and Institutional Change in Higher Education
      Ouellet, Mathew (ed)
    • Thinking About Teaching and Learning
      Leamnson, Robert
    • Understanding the Working College Student
      Perna, Laura W., ed.
    • What Matters in College
      Astin, Alexander
    • Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
      Baumeister, Roy F. & Tierney, John
    • A Whole New Mind: Moving From the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
      Pink, D. H.
    • Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What it Means for the Classroom
      Willingham, Daniel T.
    • The Young and the Digital
      Watkins, S. Craig

    Mentoring

    • Advice for New Faculty Members
      Boice, Robert
    • Career Strategies for Women in Academe: Arming Athena
      Collins, L. H.; Chrisler, J. C.; & Quina, K. (eds.)
    • The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars From Graduate School Through Tenure
      Goldsmith, J. A.; Komlos, J.; & Gold, P. Schine
    • Common Sense Mentoring
      Ambrose, Larry
    • The Department Chair's Role in Developing New Faculty into Teachers and Scholars
      Bensimon, E. M.; Ward, K.; Sanders, K.; & Plater, W. M.
    • 15 Survival Strategies for New College Instructors
      Saunders, Peter M.
    • Getting Tenure (Survival Skills for Scholars)
      Whicker, Marcia; Kronenfeld, Jennie; & Strickland, Ruth
    • Giving and Getting Career Advice: A Guide for Junior and Senior Faculty
      Smock, P. J.; Stephenson, R.; & Malley, J. E.
    • Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons From the First Year
      Lang, James
    • Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World
      Caplan, P. J.
    • The Mentee's Guide
      The Mentoring Group
    • The Mentor's Guide
      The Mentoring Group
    • The Mentoring Coordinator's Guide
      The Mentoring Group
    • Mentoring Early-Stage Faculty
      Moody, JoAnn
    • The Mentoring Pocketbook
      Alred, Geof & Smith, Richard
    • Ms. Mentors: Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
      Toth, Emily
    • Planning, Implementing and Evaluating a Successful Mentoring Initiative
      The Mentoring Group
    • Preparing for Promotion, Tenure, and Annual Review: A Faculty Guide
      Diamond, Robert M.
    • Promotion and Tenure Confidential
      Perlmutter, David D.
    • 75 Things You Can Do With Your Mentees
      The Mentoring Group
    • Skills for Successful Mentoring
      The Mentoring Group
    • Strategies for Getting the Mentoring You Need
      The Mentoring Group
    • Success and Survival Strategies for Women Faculty Members (pdf document)
      Sandler, B. R.
    • Teaching Your First College Class
      Lieberg, Carolyn
    • Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks
      Belcher, Wendy Laura

    Online Teaching

    • Applied E-Learning and E-Teaching in Higher Education
      Donnelly, R. & McSweeney, F.
    • Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace
      Palloff & Pratt
    • Building a Successful Online Course
      Heise, Karen & Haley, Ken
    • Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: Theory, Practice and Assessment
      Bender, Tisha
    • Essential Elements: Prepare, Design, and Teach Your Online Course
      Elbaum, B.; McIntyre, C.; Smith. A.
    • Increasing Cognitive Engagement in the Online Classroom
      Mandernach, B. Jean
    • Learning Networks: A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning Online
      Harasim, Linda Marie; Hiltz, Starr Roxanne; & Teles, Lucio
    • Online Grading Tools: Six Steps
      Bristol, Tim
    • Teaching and Learning Online: New Pedagogies for New Technology
      Stephenson, John
    • Teaching Literature & Language Online
      Lancashire, Ian
    • Using Concept Maps for Online and Traditional Courses
      Saulsberry, Donna

    Reflections on Teaching

    • Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
      Brookfield, S.
    • Clueless in Academe
      Graff, Gerald
    • The Courage to Teach
      Palmer, Parker
    • Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
      Nussbaum, Martha
    • Good Start: A Guide for New Faculty in Liberal Arts Colleges
      Gibson, Gerald
    • High Impact Educational Practices
      Kuh, George D.
    • Inspiring Teaching
      Roth, John
    • The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating the True Higher Learning
      Anronowitz, Stanley
    • Learning from Change
      DeZure, Deborah
    • The Learning Paradigm College
      Tagg, John
    • Peer Review of Teaching: A Sourcebook
      Van Note Chism, Nancy
    • Rethinking Service Learning
      Butin, Dan
    • Rethinking Teaching in Higher Education
      Saroyan, A. & Amundsen, C.
    • The Sustainability Curriculum
      Blewitt, J. & Cullingford, C.
    • Teaching at the People's University
      Henderson, Bruce
    • To Improve the Academy
      Lieberman, D. & Wehlburg, C.
    • What the Best College Teachers Do
      Bain, Ken

    Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

    • Balancing Acts: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Academic Careers
      Huber, Mary Taylor
    • Campus Progress
      Cambridge, Barbara
    • Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching
      Cross & Steadman
    • Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground
      Huber, M. Taylor & Morreale, S.
    • Engaging Student Voices in the Study of Teaching and Learning
      Werder, Carmen & Otis, Megan, eds.
    • Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning
      Weimer, Maryellen
    • Exploring Signature Pedagogies Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind
      Gurung, Regan A. R.; Chick, Nancy; & Haynie, Aeron
    • Lesson Study: Using Classroom Inquiry to Improve Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
      Cerbin, Bill
    • Optimizing Teaching and Learning: Practicing Pedagogical Research
      Gurung, Regan A. R. & Schwartz, Beth M.
    • The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Reconsidered: Institutional Integration & Impact
      Hutchings, Pat, Huber, Mary Taylor, & Ciccone, Anthony
    • Teaching on Solid Ground: Using Scholarships to Improve Practice
      Menges, R. & Weiner, M.

    Teaching Methods / Techniques

    • Beyond Bullet Points
      Atkinson, Cliff
    • Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement
      Marzano, R. J.
    • Engaging Large Classes: Strategies and Techniques for College Faculty
      Stanley, Christine & Porter, Erin
    • First Order Principles for College Teachers
      Boice, Robert
    • Lesson Study: A Handbook of Teacher-Led Instructional Improvement (pdf document)
      Lewis, Catherine
    • Mastering the Art of College Teaching (series)
      Saunders, Peter M.
    • Mastering the Techniques of Teaching
      Lowman, T.
    • The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity
      Frodeman, R.; Thompson Klein, J.; Mitcham, C. (ed.)
    • A Portrait of the Student as Young Wolf: Motivating Undergraduates
      Lewes, Darby & Stiklus, Bobby
    • Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design & Delivery
      Reynolds, Garr
    • Strategies for Energizing Large Classes: From Small Groups to Learning Communities: New Directions for Teaching and Learning
      McGregor, J.; Cooper J. L.; Smith, K. A. & Robinson, P.
    • Successful Beginnings for College Teaching
      McGlynn, Angela Provitera
    • Survival Strategies for Teaching Large Classes
      Saunders, Peter M.
    • Teach Like a Champion
      Lemov, Doug
    • Teaching With Classroom Response Systems; Creating an Active Learning Environment
      Bruff, Derek
    • Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors
      Nilson, L. B.
    • Teaching Large Classes: Tools and Strategies (Survival Skills for Scholars)
      Carbone, E. & Greenberg, J.
    • Teaching Tips: Innovations in Undergraduate Science Instruction
      Druger, Marvin; Siebert, Eleanor; & Crow, Linda, ed.
    • Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers (College Teaching)
      McKeachie, Wilbert J. & Svinicki, Marilla
    • Teaching Today's College Students
      McGlynn, Angela Provitera
    • Teaching Unprepared Students
      Gabriel, Kathleen
    • Teaching Within the Rhythms of the Semester
      Duffy & Jones
    • Teaching Your First College Class
      Lieberg, Carolyn
    • 10 Ways to Engage Your Students on the First Day of Class
      Clement, Mary C.
    • They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
      Graff, Gerald & Birkenstein, Cathy
    • Tools for Teaching
      Davis, Barbara Gross

    Video Library

    Periodically, the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs sponsors the downloading of satellite videoconferences that would be of interest to faculty and academic staff and purchases the rights to tape them.  CATL also purchases cd's and materials of teaching-related webinars. These videotapes and cd's are available for checkout, as well as handout materials that you may keep. Please contact catl@uwgb.edu if you are interested.

    • Academic Advising:  Campus Collaboration to Foster Retention
      Presented by: National Academic Advising Association
    • Assessment as a Learning Experience
      Saunders, Peter M.
    • Becoming a Master Teacher
      Presented by: College Survival (a program of Houghton Mifflin Co.) w/ David B. Ellis, author
    • The Changing Mosaic: Designing Successful Experiences for the
      New American College Student
      Presented by: National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and
      Students in Transition, University of South Carolina
    • Classroom Management 101: Working With Difficult Students
      Van Brunt, B. & Ebbeling J.
    • Developing Courses for Web-Based Delivery (Video unavailable – checked out & never returned)
      Presented by: Florida Community College at Jacksonville
    • Do's, Don'ts and Duhs: Using Classroom Powerpoints Effectively
      Gibler, Paul J.
    • Effective Lecturing: Engaging Students
      Stanford University
    • Effective Lecturing: Getting Students' Attention
      Stanford University
    • Evaluating Teaching Performance: When Will We Ever Learn to Use What We Know?
      Presented by: Virginia Tidewater Consortium for Higher Education
      National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN)
    • Exploring Learning Cycles: Teacher, Student Connections for Success
      Presented by: College Survival (a Student Success Program of Houghton Mifflin Co.)
      from College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL
    • The First Year of College: Assessing What We Value
      Presented by: National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience
      and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina
    • Forging Educational Partnerships: A Key to Student Learning and Success
      Presented by: University of South Carolina, University 101, National Resource Center
      for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
    • Lecturing for Effective Learning
      Hativa, Nira
    • Making Large Classes Interactive
      Featuring Barbara Walvoord, University of Cincinnati
    • Meeting the Challenge of Student Retention
      Presented by: National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students
      in Transition, University of South Carolina
    • Pitfalls and Progress - Cost-Effective and Appropriate Use of Technology in Higher Education
      Presented by: American Association of State Colleges and Universities in cooperation with University of North Carolina Center for Public Television
    • 10 Things Every Student Needs to Know to Study
      Wadsworth Study Skills Video Series
    • 10 Things Every Student Needs to Know to Succeed in College
      Wadsworth Study Skills Video Series
    • Using Collaborative Teams In and Out of Class
      Saunders, Peter M.
    • Using Course Syllabi to Foster Learner-Centeredness
      Cullen, R.; Harris, M.
    • We Can Get Along: A Blueprint for Campus Unity
      Presented by: Black Issues in Higher Education Teleconference