The original Quick Hits was inspired by a FACET gathering for exchanging teaching tips. Since then, the Quick Hits series has helped countless faculty members become better teachers. Addressing topics ranging from the first day of class to teaching with technology, each Quick Hits book features techniques and strategies from award-winning college teachers. Even experienced faculty can learn a lot from Quick Hits.
Quick Hits
Mentioned in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Quick Hits collects techniques and tips from award-winning college teachers.
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More Quick Hits
This sequel to the popular Quick Hits puts the focus on learning. More Quick Hits offers simple but successful strategies that award-winning teachers have found helpful in promoting student understanding and retention. The book also explains how to create the best environment in which to teach the courses you love.
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Quick Hits for New Faculty
Featuring more advice from award-winning college faculty, this volume is designed to help new faculty negotiate the challenges of college teaching.
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Quick Hits for Educating Citizens
Quick Hits for Educating Citizens presents university faculty and administrators with ideas for integrating civic education into university curricula.
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Quick Hits for Service Learning
Quick Hits for Service-Learning presents more than 80 examples of innovative curricula—developed by educators in a wide range of disciplines—that combine community service with instruction and reflection.
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Quick Hits for Teaching Technology
In Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology, award-winning instructors in a wide range of disciplines address questions like; "How should I use technology in my courses?" and "Is distance learning effective?"
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Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers
Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers contains short, practice-oriented articles by experienced instructors that offer valuable teaching and career tips for balancing competing demands, addressing student issues, managing classrooms, and enhancing professional development.
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Quick Hits for Teaching and Learning with Canvas
Quick Hits: Teaching and Learning with Canvas (QHTLC) continues FACET’s commitment to disseminate faculty-tested, peer-reviewed teaching strategies. The articles in QHTLC were written by faculty to help faculty use Canvas to promote engagement, provide access to all learners, enhance evaluation, and increase efficiency.
Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities
Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers is an edited collection of 24 articles that aims to introduce faculty, administrators, and staff to ways in which digital techniques from the arts, humanities, and social sciences can be incorporated in the classroom.
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Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom (expected to publish Fall 2024)
With the proven effectiveness of active learning and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) pedagogies, we see the appeal and understand the need for creativity in the classroom. Additionally, we champion diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging (DEIJB), and these values increasingly inform teaching practices to make our classrooms welcoming and empowering places and spaces, whether in person or online. As these effective teaching practices and values are necessary for ensuring students’ wellbeing and persistence and demand creative approaches, this book will provide university and college instructors with teaching strategies, digital tools, materials, ideas, assignments, and the like to foster engagement with as many students as possible while supporting faculty and student agency in the learning process. Creativity is highly valued in and of itself, and the cultivation of it in the classroom, leading to experiences and artifacts that students can highlight, will enhance students’ opportunities to demonstrate their growth and what they have learned inside and beyond the classroom.