Description
The mission of higher education in the 21st century must focus on optimizing learning for all students. In a shift from prioritizing effective teaching to active learning, it is understood that computer-enhanced environments provide a variety of ways to reach a wide range of learners who have differing backgrounds, ages, learning needs, and expectations. Integrating technology into teaching assumes greater importance to improve the learning experience.
Optimizing Higher Education Learning Through Activities and Assessments is a collection of innovative research that explores the link between effective course design and student engagement and optimizes learning and assessments in technology-enhanced environments and among diverse student populations. Its focus is on providing an understanding of the essential link between practices for effective “activities” and strategies for effective “assessments,” as well as providing examples of course designs aligned with assessments, positioning college educators both as leaders and followers in the cycle of lifelong learning. While highlighting a broad range of topics including collaborative teaching, active learning, and flipped classroom methods, this book is ideally designed for educators, curriculum developers, instructional designers, administrators, researchers, academicians, and students.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Yukiko Inoue-Smith (Ed.)
Yukiko Inoue-Smith, PhD, a professor and chair in the division of foundations and educational research at the University of Guam, teaches educational psychology and research. Her teaching and scholarship on education technology have equipped her to play an important role at the University. Her current research focuses on interdisciplinary studies of student learning and development, improving university teaching with technology, and social contexts of learning within higher education. Her recent books (editor/chapter author) include: Online Education for Lifelong Learning; and Faculty Roles and New Expectation in the New Age. And her book, A Jungle Named Academia: Approaches to Self-Development and Growth, is a product of her many years of experiences and observations in academia. She is equally committed to poetry as the second area in which she has invested her passion for writing. Her recent poetry books include: The Inescapable Seasons of Life; and The Winter Woods: My Journey into Tanka.
Troy McVey (Ed.)
Troy McVey is Vice Provost for Academic Excellence, Graduate Studies & Online Learning and Professor of Theatre at the University of Guam. He has been co-editor on a book on online learning and assessment with Professor Emerita Yukiko Inoue-Smith, a special volume on Student Success initiatives in Micronesian Educator with Dr Tracy Tambascia, and is currently assisting Dean Emerita Mary Spencer on edit a volume of Pacific Asia Inquiry. McVey holds an EdD from the University of Southern California, an MFA in Theatre Design from Tulane University, and a BFA in Theatre Arts from Drake University. He has worked professionally in theatre with the Washington Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, the La Jolla Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company, and created and lead a Summer Theatre Camp at the University of Guam for a decade. His research interests are in faculty development, educational policy analysis, and emerging Pacific theaters.