Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes Paperback - 2017

PUT THE LESSONS FROM TEACHING NAKED TO WORK IN YOUR CLASSROOM WITH A STEP-BY-STEP FIELD GUIDE

"Modeling creative educational practice on every page, Bowen and Watson have given higher education faculty and leaders a spectacularly useful guide to student learning in the age of digital innovation and learning research. The authors show readers, step-by-step, how to help novice college students become engaged, motivated, integrative, adaptive and even voracious learners."
--Carol Geary Schneider, Fellow, Lumina Foundation and president emerita, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)

"Teaching Naked Techniques masterfully integrates pedagogy and technology. Saving you days of research, what could be more helpful than the step-by-step application guide, examples, key concepts/summary, and annotated resources that each chapter provides?"
--Linda B. Nilson, director emeritus, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University, and author, Teaching at Its Best, Fourth Edition

"In Teaching Naked Techniques you have as rich a resource as has been written in a generation for assisting higher education teachers in how to improve their course design and how to improve students' learning. Whether you are just beginning your teaching career or are a thirty-year veteran you owe it to your students to read this remarkable book."
--Terry Doyle, author of Learner Centered Teaching, co-author of The New Science of Learning, and professor emeritus, Ferris State University

"Every teacher would profit from reading this book. I highly recommend it."
--Henry L. Roediger, III, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

"Teaching Naked Techniques offers provocative new ideas about effective teaching for today's students, and a wealth of teaching tips from instructors in a wide range of disciplines. It is an excellent blend of theory, practical techniques, and resources for teaching faculty."
--James M. Lang, professor of English and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, Assumption College, and author, Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning