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This book provides practical, ready-to-use, research-based information about specific strategies and state-of-the-art techniques to improve college teaching. Through its 19 chapters written by renowned faculty developers, this book offers a wide range of topics and ideas for thought and implementation.

This book shows college administrators, deans, department heads, and faculty development professionals how to improve the instructional performance of faculty members. It offers strategies for overcoming resistance and motivating faculty members to improve their teaching--and identifies the resources, activities, and services that will help them to succeed.

Amid the wide-ranging public debate about the future of higher education is a tension about the role of the faculty as instructors versus researchers and the role of teaching in the mission of a university. What is absent from that discourse is any clear understanding of what constitutes good teaching in college. In Convergent Teaching, masterful professors of education Aaron M. Pallas and Anna Neumann make the case that American higher education must hold fast to its core mission of fostering learning and growth for all people. Arguing that colleges and universities do this best through their teaching function, the book portrays teaching as a professional practice that teachers should actively hone

This book represents some of the latest and greatest work on science of learning and how to apply it to education. We are happy to provide this resource for folks interested in teaching and learning.

Elon University's Center for Engaged Learning published an Open Access Book that presents some guiding principles for STEM faculty interested in an extended engagement with the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Sections of the book (including a chapter written by Matt Fisher) may be of interest to other SVC faculty, both in the Boyer School and across campus. The entire book can be freely downloaded from https://www.centerforengagedlearning.org/books/becoming-a-sotl-scholar/.