How Learning Works: Eight Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching

The second edition of How Learning Works incorporates the latest research, provides a wider range of strategies, and adds a new principle to help educators keep their courses effective, engaging, relevant, and inclusive. Readers will find eight essential learning principles that distill the overwhelming research literature into practical insights and examples.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 14 March 2023
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

As educators in the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, we are continuously challenged to keep our courses effective, engaging, relevant, and inclusive. The updated and expanded second edition of How Learning Works can help! It incorporates the latest research, provides a wider range of strategies, and adds a new principle to your toolkit.

Readers will find eight essential learning principles that distill the overwhelming research literature into:

Real-world teaching and learning scenarios

Examples that reflect a diverse set of teaching environments and learner populations

150 practical strategies you can apply to your teaching context

With these practical, broadly applicable insights, you can:

Understand why your successful teaching approaches work

Solve common teaching and learning problems

Adapt your teaching to new modalities (e.g., online, hybrid) and challenges

Ground your innovations in evidence-based practice

Based on research from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, education, anthropology, and more—this book makes learning work … for you and your students.

Weight: 499g
Dimension: 231 x 160 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119861690
Edition number: 2 ed