Borrowing Library

The following are the current titles available in our modest library, listed alphabetically by author(s).

• How Learning Works (Ambrose, et. al). Any conversation about effective teaching must begin with a consideration of how students learn. However, instructors may find a gap between resources that focus on the technical research on learning and those that provide practical classroom strategies. [This book] provides the bridge for such a gap. (CTE Book Club Selection, 2012)
• Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Angelo & Cross). This revised and greatly expanded edition of the 1988 handbook offers teachers at all levels how-to advice on classroom assessment.
• What The Best College Teachers Do (Bain). This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.
• Student Engagement Techniques (Barkley). Student Engagement Techniques is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to help teachers from a wide variety of disciplines and institutions motivate and connect with their students.
• Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty (Barkley, Major & Cross). This second edition reflects the changed world of higher education. New technologies have opened up endless possibilities for college teaching, but it's not always easy to use these technologies effectively. Updated to address the challenges of today's new teaching environments, including online, "flipped," and large lectures, Collaborative Learning Techniques is a wonderful reference for educators who want to make the most of any course environment.
• The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy (Berg & Seeber). In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter this erosion of humanistic education. Focusing on the individual faculty member and his or her own professional practice, Berg and Seeber present both an analysis of the culture of speed in the academy and ways of alleviating stress while improving teaching, research, and collegiality.
• The Beautiful Risk of Education (Biesta). The Beautiful Risk of Education is organized around a critical discussion of seven key educational concepts: creativity, communication, teaching, learning, emancipation, democracy, and virtuosity. By opposing the risk aversion that characterizes many contemporary educational policies and practices, Gert J.J. Biesta makes a strong argument for giving risk a central place in our educational endeavors and brings risk taking to the forefront of a critical pedagogical practice.
• Out on a Limb (Bird). Now, after 35 years as a branch campus faculty member, administrator, and consultant, Dr. Charles Bird offers lessons from his experience to support those who are committed to expanding opportunities for place-bound students and others who prefer to attend a local branch campus rather than relocating, commuting, or enrolling in a fully online program.
• Advice for New Faculty Members (Boice). It is the first guidebook to move beyond anecdotes and surmises for its directives, based on the author's extensive experience and solid research in the areas of staff and faculty development.
• Teaching Naked (Bowen). You've heard about flipping your classroom — now find out how to do it! [This book] illustrates how technology is most powerfully used outside the classroom, and, when used effectively, how it can ensure that students arrive to class more prepared for meaningful interaction with faculty. Bowen offers practical advice for faculty and administrators on how to engage students with new technology while restructuring classes into more active learning environments. (CTE Book Club Selection, 2014)
• The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking (Brookfield & Preskill). The fifty easily applied techniques in this timely manual spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation. 
• Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Brown & Roediger). More complex and durable learning comes from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interweaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.
• Universal Design in Higher Education : From Principles to Practice (Burgstahler & Cory).This revised edition provides both a full survey of those measures and practical guidance for schools as they work to turn the goal of universal accessibility into a reality. As such, it makes an indispensable contribution to the growing body of literature on special education and universal design. 
• How College Works (Chambliss & Takacs). How College Works reveals the surprisingly decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student's collegiate success, and puts forward a set of small, inexpensive interventions that yield substantial improvements in educational outcomes.
• Designing Groupwork: Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom (Cohen & Lotan). Designing Groupwork, Third Edition incorporates current research findings with new material on what makes for a group-worthy task, and shows how group work contributes to growth and development in the language of instruction. 
• Faculty Development and Student Learning (Condon). Extending recent research in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to assessment of faculty development and its effectiveness, the authors show that faculty participation in professional development activities positively affects classroom pedagogy, student learning, and the overall culture of teaching and learning in a college or university.
• Building Faculty Learning Communities (Cox & Richlin). This 97th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Teaching and Learning describes from a practitioner's perspective the history, development, implementation, and results of faculty learning communities across a wide range of institutions and purposes. 
• College Disrupted : The Great Unbundling of Higher Education (Craig). Craig sees the future of higher education in online degrees that unbundle course offerings to offer a true bottom line return for the majority of students in terms of graduation, employment, and wages. College Disrupted details the changes that American higher education will undergo, including the transformation from packaged courses and degrees to truly unbundled course offerings, along with those that it will not.
• Tools for Teaching (Davis). It includes more than sixty-one chapters designed to improve the teaching of beginning, mid-career, or senior faculty members. The topics cover both traditional tasks of teaching as well as broader concerns, such as diversity and inclusion in the classroom and technology in educational settings. 
• Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning : A Resource for More Purposeful, Effective, and Enjoyable College Teaching (Davis & Arend). The underlying rationale is to provide a framework to match teaching goals to distinct ways of learning, based on well-established theories of learning. The authors provide the reader with a conceptual approach for selecting appropriate teaching strategies for different types of content, and for achieving specific learning objectives. They demonstrate through examples how a focused and purposeful selection of activities improves student performance, and in the process makes for a more effective and satisfying teaching experience.
• Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life (Deresiewicz). As schools shift focus from the humanities to “practical” subjects like economics, students are losing the ability to think independently. It is essential, says Deresiewicz, that college be a time for self-discovery, when students can establish their own values and measures of success in order to forge their own paths. He features quotes from real students and graduates he has corresponded with over the years, candidly exposing where the system is broken and offering clear solutions on how to fix it.
• The New Science of Learning : How to Learn in Harmony With Your Brain (Doyle & Zakrajsek). Learning to learn is the key skill for tomorrow. This breakthrough book builds the foundation every student needs, from freshman orientation to graduate school.
• Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education (Edmundson). A renowned professor of English at the University of Virginia, Edmundson has felt firsthand the pressure on colleges to churn out a productive, high-caliber workforce for the future. Yet in these essays, many of which have run in places such as Harper's and the New York Times, he reminds us that there is more to education than greater productivity.
• Creating Significant Learning Experiences : An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses (Fink). Now the author has updated his bestselling classic, providing busy faculty with invaluable conceptual and procedural tools for instructional design. Step by step, Fink shows how to use a taxonomy of significant learning and systematically combine the best research-based practices for learning-centered teaching with a teaching strategy in a way that results in powerful learning experiences.
• Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (Freire). This book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life - an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live.
• To Improve the Academy Vol. 31 (Groccia & Cruz).  An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD)...a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development.
• To Improve the Academy Vol. 32 (Groccia & Cruz). An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD)...a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development.
• Integrating Multilingual Students into College Classrooms: Practical Advice for Faculty (Hafernik & Wiant ). Today more and more ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students enroll in our college and university courses...This text provides practical advice on how to assist these students with academic tasks and how to help them succeed in the academy.
• Into the Classroom: Developing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Hatch & Shulman). Based on the development of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Into the Classroom clearly shows the advantages of bringing teaching into the public arena and making it possible for many people to see the nature and quality of the teaching that goes on inside schools. Once teaching is more public we can create unprecedented opportunities for teachers to learn from one another and for others to participate constructively in supporting and improving schools. 
• Remaking College : The Changing Ecology of Higher Education (Kirst & Stevens). Writing from a range of disciplines and professional backgrounds, the contributors each bring a unique perspective to the fate and future of U.S. higher education. By directing their focus to schools doing the lion's share of undergraduate instruction - community colleges, comprehensive public universities, and for-profit institutions - they imagine a future unencumbered by dominant notions of "traditional" students, linear models of achievement, and college as a four-year residential experience. The result is a collection rich with new tools for helping people make more informed decisions about college - for themselves, for their children, and for American society as a whole.
• Student Learning Outside the Classroom : Transcending Artificial Boundaries (Kuh, et. al). Students learn and develop in a holistic, integrated way as they engage in both academic and nonacademic activities in and outside the classroom...Institutions must find ways to encourage students to take advantage of the array of human and physical resources.
• Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty (Lang). Drawing on an array of findings from cognitive theory, Lang analyzes the specific, often hidden features of course design and daily classroom practice that create opportunities for cheating. Courses that set the stakes of performance very high, that rely on single assessment mechanisms like multiple-choice tests, that have arbitrary grading criteria: these are the kinds of conditions that breed cheating. Lang seeks to empower teachers to create more effective learning environments that foster intrinsic motivation, promote mastery, and instill the sense of self-efficacy that students need for deep learning.
• Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (Lang). In Small Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful changes that make a big difference - many of which can be put into practice in a single class period. These strategies are designed to bridge the chasm between primary research and the classroom environment in a way that can be implemented by any faculty in any discipline, and even integrated into pre-existing teaching techniques. 
• Thinking About Teaching and Learning : Developing Habits of Learning with First Year College and University Students (Leamnson). Practical and thoughtful, and based on forty years of teaching, wide reading and much reflection, Robert Leamnson provides teachers with a map to develop their own teaching philosophy, and effective nuts-and-bolts advice. His approach is particularly useful for those facing a cohort of first year students less prepared for college and university. He is concerned to develop in his students habits and skills that will equip them for a lifetime of learning.
• Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry: A Guidebook for Institutions and Instructors (Lee). This book documents and explores NCSU’s IGL initiative from a variety of perspectives: how faculty arrived at their current understanding of inquiry-guided learning and how they have interpreted it at various levels -- the individual course, the major, the college, the university-wide program, and the undergraduate curriculum as a whole. The contributors show how IGL has been dovetailed with other complementary efforts and programs, and how they have assessed its impact.
• Generation on a Tightrope : A Portrait of Today's College Student (Levine & Dean). Fundamentally, this book is about becoming familiar with “who” is attending our colleges and universities and how these colleges and universities can be more responsive, supportive, and, most importantly, how they can continue to evolve the way a college or university delivers a top-rate education. 
• How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overpowering Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success (Lythcott-Haims). A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthood.
• The Highly Engaged Classroom (Marzano & Pickering). This book was designed as a self-study text that provides an in-depth understanding of how to generate high levels of attention and engagement. Engagement is obviously a central aspect of effective teaching. Using the suggestions presented in this book, every teacher can create a classroom environment in which engagement is the norm instead of the exception.
• Coaching Classroom Instruction (Marzano & Simms). This book covers everything from approaches for boosting professional growth to creating macrostrategies that are responsive to student needs. Learn how to offer targeted feedback to teachers, empowering them to identify how they can improve their knowledge and skill. 
• McKeachie's Teaching Tips (McKeachie). A practical handbook for courses in postsecondary instruction, professional workshops in pedagogy and training seminars for graduate teaching assistants.
• To Improve the Academy Vol. 30 (Miller & Groccia). An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD)...a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development.
• My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student (Nathan). After fifteen years of teaching anthropology at a large university, Rebekah Nathan had become baffled by her own students. Their strange behavior—eating meals at their desks, not completing reading assignments, remaining silent through class discussions—made her feel as if she were dealing with a completely foreign culture. So Nathan decided to do what anthropologists do when confused by a different culture: Go live with them. 
• Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students' Self-Awareness and Learning Skills (Nilson). The point of departure for this book is the literature on self-regulated learning that tells us that deep, lasting, independent learning requires learners to bring into play a range of cognitive skills, affective attitudes, and even physical activities – about which most students are wholly unaware; and that self-regulation, which has little to do with measured intelligence, can be developed by just about anyone and is a fundamental prerequisite of academic success.
• Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time (Nilson). In her latest book Linda Nilson puts forward an innovative but practical and tested approach to grading that can demonstrably raise academic standards, motivate students, tie their achievement of learning outcomes to their course grades, save faculty time and stress, and provide the reliable gauge of student learning that the public and employers are looking for.
• The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal: Transforming the Academy through Collegial Conversations (Palmer & Zajonc & Scribner). The Heart of Higher Education is for all who are new to the field of holistic education, all who want to deepen their understanding of its challenges, and all who want to practice and promote this vital approach to teaching and learning on their campuses.
• Classroom Communication and Diversity: Enhancing Instructional Practice (Powell & Caseau). Teachers face myriad communication challenges in today's classroom, reflecting the growing diversity of the student body; the ever-increasing number of students; gender issues; and students' learning disabilities. This volume provides a useful framework for helping new and experienced teachers manage the diverse communication challenges they encounter. It also encourages teachers to reflect on how their personal cultures influence their expectations about appropriate classroom communication and ways to demonstrate learning.
• An Evidence-based Guide to College and University Teaching (Richmond, Boysen & Gurung). Intended for professional development or teacher training courses offered in masters and doctoral programs in colleges and universities, this book is also an invaluable resource for faculty development centers, college and university administrators, and college teachers of all levels and disciplines, from novice to the most experienced, interested in becoming more effective teachers.
• Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners (Ritchhart, Church & Morrison). Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. 
• Beyond the University : Why Liberal Education Matters (Roth). An eloquent defense of liberal education, seen against the backdrop of its contested history in America.
• My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas (Seeley). Sure, there’s no place like home—but what if you can’t really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns and thirteen different houses. Her father’s dreams of movie stardom, stoked by a series of affairs, kept the family on edge, and on the move, until he up and left. Thirty years later, settled in what seems like a charmed life in San Francisco, a diagnosis of cancer and the betrayal of a lover shake Seeley to her roots—roots she is suddenly determined to search out. My Ruby Slippers tells the story of that search, the tale of a woman with an impassioned if vague sense of mission: to find the meaning of home. Seeley finds herself in a Kansas that defies memory, a place far more complex and elusive than the sum of its cultural myths. On back roads and in her many back years, Seeley also finds unexpected forgiveness for her errant father, and, in the face of mortality, a sense of what it means to be rooted in place, to dwell deeply in the only life we have.
• College (Un)bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students (Selingo). Selingo not only turns a critical eye on the current state of higher education but also predicts how technology will transform it for the better. Free massive online open courses (MOOCs) and hybrid classes, adaptive learning software, and the unbundling of traditional degree credits will increase access to high-quality education regardless of budget or location and tailor lesson plans to individual needs. 
• What Our Stories Teach Us: A Guide to Critical Reflection for College Faculty (Shadiow). This book encourages and enables faculty to deeply examine their teaching experiences, stories, and choices so real insight results. The author invites faculty to recall stories from their own biographies, demonstrates how to view these stories as critical incidents instead of mere reminiscences, and introduces an approach faculty can undertake to analyze then interpret these stories for the benefit of professional growth in teaching.
• Interactive Open Educational Resources : A Guide to Finding, Choosing, and Using What's out There to Transform College Teaching (Shank). The author examines many of the best repositories and digital library websites for finding high quality materials, explaining in depth the best practices for effectively searching these repositories and the various methods for evaluating, selecting, and integrating the resources into the instructor’s curriculum and course assignments, as well as the institution’s learning management system.
• Whistling Vivaldi (Steele). ...the eminent social psychologist Claude M. Steele sheds new light on how persuasive stereotypes can actually influence behavior and performance, and how these stereotypes, left unexamined, perpetuate themselves. 
• Identity Safe Classrooms: Places to Belong and Learn (Steele & Cohn-Vargas). This book focuses on strategies that positively affect student learning and attachment to schooling, in spite of social inequalities. Research shows that students in identity safe classrooms learn better and like school more than peers in other classrooms.
• Introduction to Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback, and Promote Student Learning (Stevens & Levi). This new edition retains the appeal, clarity and practicality that made the first so successful, and continues to provide a fundamental introduction to the principles and purposes of rubrics, with guidance on how to construct them, use them to align course content to learning outcomes, and apply them in a wide variety of courses, and to all forms of assignment.
• Effective Grading : A Tool for Learning and Assessment (Walvoord & Anderson). ...a proven hands-on guide for evaluating student work and offers an in-depth examination of the link between teaching and grading.
• Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty (Weimer). Provides a wealth of both research-driven and classroom-tested best practices to help adjuncts develop the knowledge and skills required to run a successful classroom.
• Academic Dishonesty: An Educator's Guide (Whitley & Keith-Spiegel). This book's goal is to provide readers with a concise handbook covering the full spectrum of issues related to academic dishonesty. To do so, the authors present research and theory on academic dishonesty and strategies for preventing, confronting, and managing the problem.
• Communication Teacher Journal 2012 (Wise, et. al). A peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge. Essays on: original teaching ideas, semester teaching ideas, educational assessment, unit teaching ideas.