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Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education

Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone is aimed at faculty members, faculty-service staff, disability support providers, student-service staff, campus leaders, and graduate students who want to strengthen the engagement, interaction, and performance of all college students. It includes resources for readers who want to become Universal Design for Learning experts and advocates: real-world case studies, active-learning techniques, UDL coaching skills, micro and macro-level UDL-adoption guidance, and use-them now resources.

Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It

Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students' ability to focus. The logical response is to ban electronics in class. But Lang argues that this solution obscures a deeper problem: how we teach is often at odds with how students learn. Classrooms are designed to force students into long periods of intense focus, but emerging science reveals that the brain is wired for distraction. We learn best when able to actively seek and synthesize new information. In Distracted, Lang rethinks the practice of teaching, revealing how educators can structure their classrooms less as distraction-free zones and more as environments where they can actively cultivate their students' attention.

Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

In this classic collection of essays, bell hooks uses her personal experiences as a student and teacher to explain how students can be marginalized in schools and how multicultural classrooms can be more inclusive. Teaching to transgress is about pushing against the boundaries, to challenge racism, sexism, classism, and all forms of oppression in the world. A transgressive approach to education is when educators support others and themselves to achieve the freedom to live fully in the world.

Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide

Teaching and Learning STEM presents a trove of practical research-based strategies for designing and teaching courses and assessing students’ learning. Its engaging and well-illustrated descriptions will equip you to implement the strategies in your courses and to deal effectively with problems (including student resistance) that might occur in the implementation.

Additional Online Readings and Podcasts

E-Books Available Through Drexel Libraries

Ambrose, S. A., Bridges, M. W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M. C., & Norman, M. K. (2010). How learning works: Seven research-based principles for smart teaching. John Wiley & Sons.
Boettcher, J. V., & Conrad, R. M. (2016). The online teaching survival guide: Simple and practical pedagogical tips. John Wiley & Sons.
Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (2000). How people learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. Washington, DC: National academy press.
Brookfield, S. D. (2015). The skillful teacher: On technique, trust, and responsiveness in the classroom. John Wiley & Sons.
Brookfield, S. D. (2017). Becoming a critically reflective teacher. John Wiley & Sons.
Brown, P. C., Roediger III, H. L., & McDaniel, M. A. (2014). Make it stick: The Science of Successful Learning. Harvard University Press.
Bruff, D. (2019). Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching. West Virginia University Press.
Chambliss, D. F. (2014). How college works. Harvard University Press.
Doyle, T., & Zakrajsek, T. (2018). The new science of learning: How to learn in harmony with your brain. Stylus Publishing, LLC.
Felder, R. M., & Brent, R. (2016). Teaching and learning STEM: A practical guide. John Wiley & Sons.
Fink, L. D. (2013). Creating significant learning experiences: An integrated approach to designing college courses. John Wiley & Sons.
Lang, J. M. (2013). Cheating lessons: Learning from academic dishonesty. Harvard University Press.
Lang, J. M. (2016). Small teaching: Everyday lessons from the science of learning. John Wiley & Sons.
McCabe, D. L., Butterfield, K. D., & Trevino, L. K. (2012). Cheating in college: Why students do it and what educators can do about it. JHU Press.
McGuire, S. Y. (2015). Teach students how to learn. Stylus Publishing, LLC.
Neuhaus, J. (2019). Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers. West Virginia University Press.
Nilson, L. (2013). Creating self-regulated learners: Strategies to strengthen students' self-awareness and learning skills. Stylus Publishing, LLC.
Stevens, D. D., & Levi, A. J. (2013). Introduction to rubrics: An assessment tool to save grading time, convey effective feedback, and promote student learning. Stylus Publishing, LLC.
Talbert, R. (2017). Flipped learning: A guide for higher education faculty. Stylus Publishing, LLC.
Tobin, T. J., & Behling, K. T. (2018). Reach everyone, teach everyone: Universal design for learning in higher education. West Virginia University Press.
Zull, J. E. (2002). The art of changing the brain: Enriching the Practice of teaching by exploring the biology of learning. Stylus Publishing, LLC..

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