Stylus Publishing: 272 books
Of Education, Fishbowls, and Rabbit Holes
Rethinking Teaching and Liberal Education for an Interconnected World
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
This book questions some of our most ingrained assumptions, not only about the nature of teaching and learning, but about what constitutes education, and about the cultural determinants of what is taught.What if who you think you are profoundly affects what and how you learn? Since Descartes, teachers...
by Jim Sibley, Pete Ostafichuk
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
“The book does a terrific job of covering all the basics, but it also does much more. In almost every page, it sprinkles in amazingly helpful tidbits. The icing on the cake are the quotes and vignettes that make the ideas come to life. In every chapter, I found a number of ideas that I will be using...
Teaching Unprepared Students
Strategies for Promoting Success and Retention in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
As societal expectations about attending college have grown, professors report increasing numbers of students who are unprepared for the rigors of postsecondary education—not just more students with learning disabilities (whose numbers have more than tripled), but students (with and without special...
The First Generation Student Experience
Implications for Campus Practice, and Strategies for Improving Persistence and Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
"Jeff Davis offers keen insight into the first-generation student experience with this readable, informative, and persuasive volume. Smartly pairing academic analysis with student narratives, Davis describes and demonstrates the key barriers to student success for this growing contingent of American...
Flipped Learning
A Guide for Higher Education Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Flipped learning is an approach to the design and instruction of classes through which, with appropriate guidance, students gain their first exposure to new concepts and material prior to class, thus freeing up time during class for the activities where students typically need the most help, such...
How to Design and Teach a Hybrid Course
Achieving Student-Centered Learning through Blended Classroom, Online and Experiential Activities
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
This practical handbook for designing and teaching hybrid or blended courses focuses on outcomes-based practice. It reflects the author’s experience of having taught over 70 hybrid courses and having worked for three years in the Learning Technology Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,...
The New Digital Shoreline
How Web 2.0 and Millennials Are Revolutionizing Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Two seismic forces beyond our control – the advent of Web 2.0 and the inexorable influx of tech-savvy Millennials on campus – are shaping what Roger McHaney calls “The New Digital Shoreline” of higher education. Failure to chart its contours, and adapt, poses a major threat to higher education...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
The purpose of this work is to advance understanding of intersectional theory and its application to research in education. The scholars whose work appear in this volume utilize intersectional theory and research methods to work in fields and disciplines such as Education, Sociology, Women’s Studies,...
Demonstrating Student Success
A Practical Guide to Outcomes-Based Assessment of Learning and Development in Student Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
“A wonderful addition to existing resources on assessment in student affairs. Its value is in its focus on a crucial form of assessment: demonstrating how student experiences contribute to the richness of undergraduate life.”?John H. Schuh, Distinguished Professor, Iowa State UniversityBeginning...
Closing the Opportunity Gap
Identity-Conscious Strategies for Retention and Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This book offers a novel and proven approach to the retention and success of underrepresented students. It advocates a strategic approach through which an institution sets clear goals and metrics and integrates the identity support work of cultural / diversity centers with skill building through cohort...
Community Partner Guide to Campus Collaborations
Enhance Your Community By Becoming a Co-Educator With Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Whether your non-profit has experience of working with university interns or volunteers but wants to deepen and increase the effectiveness of the relationship; whether your agency is starting to explore how to improve client services through a campus collaboration; or whether you work for an NGO interested...
Critical Mentoring
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This book introduces the concept of critical mentoring, presenting its theoretical and empirical foundations, and providing telling examples of what it looks like in practice, and what it can achieve. At this juncture when the demographics of our schools and colleges are rapidly changing, critical mentoring...
Learner-Centered Teaching
Putting the Research on Learning into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
"This book is essential reading for everyone in higher education. Doyle has marshaled the evidence that proves the effectiveness of learner-centered pedagogy, and he has presented that research in a very accessible and engaging style.”?Michael Harris, Chancellor and Professor of Public and Environmental...
Helping Students Learn in a Learner-Centered Environment
A Guide to Facilitating Learning in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Before entering higher education, most students’ learning experiences have been traditional and teacher-centered. Their teachers have typically controlled their learning, with students having had little say about what and how to learn. For many students, encountering a learner-centered environment...