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Teaching in a Digital Age

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Reviewed:: Mar 6, 2019 by Faculty Development

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Overview:: This book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when everyone and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. It provides you with a framework for making decisions about your teaching, while understanding that every subject is different, and every instructor has something unique and special to bring to their teaching. In the end, though, the book isn’t really about the teacher. It’s about how to help your students to develop the knowledge and skills they will need in a digital age: not so much the IT skills, but the thinking and attitudes to learning that will bring them success. For that to happen, though, your students need you, the teacher, to be on top of their game. This book is the your coach.
Type of Material:: Open (Access) Textbook
Recommended Uses:: It is a support material mainly for primarily college, university instructors or students of pedagogy, it can be used in class or for homework.
Technical Requirements:: None
Identify Major Learning Goals:: To guide effective teaching in an age when the students we are teaching, are using technology. A framework and a set of guidelines are suggested for making decisions about teaching, while understanding that every subject is different, and every teacher and instructor has something unique and special to bring to their teaching.
Target Student Population:: Graduate School, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: Basic knowledge about teaching.

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Strengths:: Presents validated concepts to those who add evidence and examples.
There is a hierarchy between categories and concepts with an epistemological structure based on constructivism. The content is appropriate, extensive and focused on the competences developed in the digital field for the teaching-learning process.
Concerns:: No concerns

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:: The book has clear objectives and possible applications. The systematization allows to decide about the contents since it promotes the understanding of the concepts and it is possible to rely on the text in different ways in the teaching-learning process.
Concerns:: No concerns

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:: There are possibilities to access the content with a linear or random navigation. It is also possible to download the text for those who can not read on the screen.
Concerns:: No concerns

Other Issues and Comments:: None
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