Teaching Naked Techniques : A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes

Teaching Naked Techniques (TNT) is a practical guide of proven quick ideas for improving classes and essential information for designing anything from one lesson or a group of lessons to an entire course. TNT is both a design guide and a 'sourcebook' of ideas: a great companion to the award-winning Teaching Naked book.

Teaching Naked Techniques helps higher education faculty design more effective and engaging classrooms. The book focuses on each step of class preparation from the entry point and first encounter with content to the classroom 'surprise.' There is a chapter on each step in the cycle with an abundance of discipline-specific examples, plus the latest research on cognition and technology, quick lists of ideas, and additional resources.

By rethinking the how, when, and why of technology, faculty are able to create exponentially more opportunities for practical student engagement. Student-centered, activity-driven, and proven again and again, these techniques can revolutionize your classroom.

• Create more effective, engaging lessons for higher education
• Utilize technology outside of the classroom to better engage during class time
• Examine discipline-specific examples of Teaching Naked Techniques
• Prepare for each class step by step from the student's perspective

Teaching Naked flips the classroom by placing the student's first contact with the material outside of class. This places the burden of learning on the learner, ensures student preparation, and frees up class time for active engagement with the material for more effective learning and retention. Teaching Naked Techniques is the practical guide for bringing better learning to your classroom.

JOSÉ ANTONIO BOWEN is president of Goucher College. He has taught or been an administrator at Stanford University, the University of Southampton (England), Georgetown University, Southern Methodist University, and Miami University. Bowen is a pioneer in active learning and the use of technology in education, including podcasts and online games. His book Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2013) is winner of the 2014 Frederic W. Ness Book Award. Bowen has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today, US News and World Report, and on NPR. He received a Stanford Centennial Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 1990. Bowen is also an international jazz performer and an award-winning composer.

C. EDWARD WATSON is director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Fellow in the Institute for Higher Education at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is the founding Executive Editor of the International Journal of ePortfolio, the Executive Editor of the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and has published on teaching and learning in a number of journals. He is on the boards of two professional organizations in higher education (AAEEBL & ISETL) and was recently quoted in The New York Times, CNN, NPR, Campus Technology, EdSurge, and University Business Magazine regarding current teaching and learning issues and trends in higher education.