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

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JOSÉ ANTONIO BOWEN is president of Goucher College. He has taught or been an administrator at Stanford University, the University of Southampton (England), Georgetown University, Southern Methodist University, and Miami University. Bowen is a pioneer in active learning and the use of technology in education, including podcasts and online games. His book Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2013) is winner of the 2014 Frederic W. Ness Book Award. Bowen has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today, US News and World Report, and on NPR. He received a Stanford Centennial Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 1990. Bowen is also an international jazz performer and an award-winning composer.

C. EDWARD WATSON is director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Fellow in the Institute for Higher Education at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is the founding Executive Editor of the International Journal of ePortfolio, the Executive Editor of the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and has published on teaching and learning in a number of journals. He is on the boards of two professional organizations in higher education (AAEEBL & ISETL) and was recently quoted in The New York Times, CNN, NPR, Campus Technology, EdSurge, and University Business Magazine regarding current teaching and learning issues and trends in higher education.

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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