Teaching for Learning

Teaching for Learning is a comprehensive, practical resource for instructors that highlights and synthesizes proven teaching methods and active learning strategies. Each of the 101 entries describes an approach and lists its essential features and elements, demonstrates how the approach may be used in various educational contexts, reviews findings from the research literature, and describes techniques to improve effectiveness. Fully revised and updated to reflect the latest research and innovations in the field, this second edition also features critical new content on adapting techniques for use in online courses.

Claire Howell Major is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Alabama, U.S.A.

Michael S. Harris is Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Methodist University, U.S.A.

Todd D. Zakrajsek is Associate Director of the Faculty Development Fellowship in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A., and President of the International Teaching Learning Cooperative.