What the Best College Students Do

• Author : Ken Bain
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release : 27 August 2012

The author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with humane, doable, and inspiring help for students who want to get the most out of their education. The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. Use these four years to cultivate habits of thought that enable learning, growth, and adaptation throughout life.

• Author : Ken Bain
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release : 16 July 2012

The author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with humane, doable, and inspiring help for students who want to get the most out of their education. The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. Use these four years to cultivate habits of thought that enable learning, growth, and adaptation throughout life.

• Author : Ken Bain
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release : 30 April 2004

What makes a great teacher great? Which professors do students remember long after graduation? This book, based on a 15-year study of nearly 100 college teachers, offers answers for all educators. Bain provides humorous and touching examples of ingenuity and compassion, of students' discoveries of new ideas and the depth of their own potential.

• Author : J.M. Beach
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 13 November 2017

This book defines the concept and practices of literacy through a discussion of knowledge, information media, culture, subjectivity, science, communication, and politics. Examining the ways in which the spread of literacy and education have caused culture wars in pluralist societies since the 16th century, the author reviews an interdisciplinary array of scholarly literature to contend that science, and more broadly evidence-based inductive arguments, offer the only reliable source information, and the only peaceful solution to cultural conflict in the 21st

• Author : Ken Bain
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 23 August 2022

From the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do, the story of a new breed of amazingly innovative courses that inspire students and improve learning Decades of research have produced profound insights into how student learning and motivation can be unleashed—and it’s not through technology or even the best of lectures. In Super Courses, education expert and bestselling author Ken Bain tells the fascinating story of enterprising college, graduate school, and high school teachers who are

• Author : Eric Malm,Marguerite Weber
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 06 March 2018

The New Majority Student utilizes a business perspective to academic transformation, providing a guide to how universities can restructure to meet student needs. The contributors provide frameworks of how institutions can reallocate technology, effort (internal, external, student, faculty) and finances to reimagine programs.

• Author : Rachel Gable
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 26 July 2022

A revealing look at the experiences of first generation students on elite campuses and the hidden curriculum they must master in order to succeed College has long been viewed as an opportunity for advancement and mobility for talented students regardless of background. Yet for first generation students, elite universities can often seem like bastions of privilege, with unspoken academic norms and social rules. The Hidden Curriculum draws on more than one hundred in-depth interviews with students at Harvard and Georgetown

• Author : W. Michael Gray
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 12 October 2016

We have an uneasy relationship with the relentless deluge of information gushing out of academia and our media outlets. To turn it off is escapist, but to attempt to cognitively grapple with it is overwhelming. In Unforgettable: Enabling Deep and Durable Learning, a nationally recognized master teacher gives professors and their students the means to chart a clear path through this information explosion. Humans crave explanatory patterns, and this book enables teachers to think deeply about their academic disciplines to

• Author : James M. Lang
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release : 02 September 2013

Cheating Lessons is a guide to tackling academic dishonesty at its roots. James Lang analyzes the features of course design and classroom practice that create cheating opportunities, and empowers teachers to build more effective learning environments. Instructors who curb academic dishonesty become better educators in other ways as well.

• Author : L. Fink
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 2023

"Dee Fink challenges our conventional assumptions and practices and offers an insightful approach to expanding our learning goals, making higher education more meaningful. This is a gem of a book that every college teacher should read."--Ken Bain, author, What the Best College Students Do Since the original publication of L. Dee Fink's Creating Significant Learning Experiences, higher education has continued to move in two opposite directions: more institutions encourage faculty to focus on research, obtaining grants, and publishing, while

• Author : University of the State of New York. Board of Regents
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 1895

• Author : University of the State of New York
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 1895

No. 104-117 contain also the Regents bulletins.

• Author : Richard J. Light
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release : 30 May 2004

What choices can students in America make and what can teachers and university leaders do to improve more students' experiences and help them make the most of their time and monetary investment? Two Harvard University presidents invited Richard Light and his colleagues to explore these and other questions, resulting in ten years of interviews with 1,600 Harvard students. Filled with practical advice, Making the Most of College presents strategies for academic success.

• Author : Michael B. Horn,Bob Moesta
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 11 September 2019

Cut through the noise and make better college and career choices This book is about addressing the college-choosing problem. The rankings, metrics, analytics, college visits, and advice that we use today to help us make these decisions are out of step with the progress individual students are trying to make. They don't give students and families the information and context they need to make such a high-stakes decision about whether and where to get an education. Choosing College strips away

• Author : Edwin Grant Dexter
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 1869