José Antonio Bowen

If you're an educator, you need to run right out and pick up Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes. If you use even a fraction of what you find in this book, you will improve your teaching. As an education geek, I could not put this book down. It contained lots of research and provided a stripped-down strategy for improving learning. Read more… (meer)

Bowen paints a picture of the change coming to higher education. He posits that the current model of ever-increasing tuition for a residential college experience will eventually die out. Additionally, he suggests that the trend to more and more online learning will force colleges and universities to adopt this model of learning or die. His solution is to ensure that technology is used in the classroom and that the face-to-face time is spent providing value-added experiences rather than lecturing to dozing students. This is an important read for any faculty member who anticipates being employed at a university beyond 2020.… (meer)