ABSTRACT

The fifth edition of The Lecturer’s Toolkit addresses the needs and aspirations of all lecturers teaching in tertiary education. With a focus on practical, implementable strategies to enhance learning experiences and ensure best practice, it covers all of the need-to-know information crucial to teaching success.

Pinpointing aspects of teaching excellence, the challenges and stresses of teaching and adapted to cover digital and online learning as well as face-to-face contexts, this new edition covers:

  • designing and using learning outcomes
  • face-to-face, online and peer dialogues
  • using web extracts, video-clips, phones, tablets and social media in large group teaching
  • how online learning relates to the larger contexts of lectures and MOOCs
  • cheating, plagiarism, essay mills and online assessment
  • how particular aspects fit into the bigger picture of a module/course/degree/life
  • ensuring you’re looking after yourself

Based on four decades of experience of higher education, The Lecturer’s Toolkit is written with authority and clarity in a jargon-free style. This invaluable guide is a must-read for every higher education professional.

chapter Chapter 1|37 pages

How students really learn

chapter Chapter 2|93 pages

Designing assessment

chapter Chapter 3|35 pages

Feedback dialogues

chapter Chapter 4|47 pages

Large-group teaching

chapter Chapter 5|41 pages

Making small-group teaching work

chapter Chapter 6|35 pages

Looking after yourself

chapter Chapter 7|40 pages

Onwards and upwards