For busy college faculty who want to catch up on the latest developments in teaching and learning, this book offers an accessible guide to seven key evidence-based strategies for effective instruction.As higher education embraces active learning, online and blended classrooms, and new student expectations, educators are faced with overwhelming choices in teaching methods. How do instructors sort through all the possible options and choose the most appropriate methods for their goal...

For teachers in higher education who haven’t been able to catch up with developments in teaching and learning, James Davis and Bridget Arend offer an introduction that focuses on seven coherent and proven evidence-based strategies. 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 present approaches that readers can readily and safely experiment with to achieve desired learnin...