Designing Effective Teaching and Significant Learning

by Zala Fashant, Zala Fashant, Stewart Ross

Designing courses to deliver effective teaching and significant learning is the best way to set students up for success, and this book guides readers through the process. The authors have worked with faculty world-wide, and share the stories of how faculty have transformed courses from theory to practice. They start with Dee Fink’s foundation of integrating course design. Then they provide additional design concepts to expand the course blueprint to implement plans for communication, accessibility, technology integration, as well as the assessment of course design as it fits into the assessment of programs and institutions, and how faculty can use what they learn to meet their professional goals.

Genres: Teaching

580 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 12, 2019

About the author

ZalaFashant is a retired dean, faculty, and assistant director of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system Center for Teaching and Learning.

Reviews

[Dr. Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book offers lots of practical advice on effective teaching, but since the suggestions try to be discipline-independent, the text sometimes becomes vague. I wish there were more discipline-specific recommendations or pointers to such.