The Lecturer's Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching

The fifth edition of The Lecturer's Toolkit addresses the needs and aspirations of all lecturers teaching in tertiary education. With a focus on practical, implementable strategies to enhance learning experiences and ensure best practice, it covers all of the need-to-know information crucial to teaching success.

Pinpointing aspects of teaching excellence, the challenges and stresses of teaching and adapted to cover digital and online learning as well as face-to-face contexts, this new edition covers:






designing and using learning outcomes



face-to-face, online and peer dialogues



using web extracts, video-clips, phones, tablets and social media in large group teaching



how online learning relates to the larger contexts of lectures and MOOCs



cheating, plagiarism, essay mills and online assessment



how particular aspects fit into the bigger picture of a module/course/degree/life



ensuring you're looking after yourself

Based on four decades of experience of higher education, The Lecturer's Toolkit is written with authority and clarity in a jargon-free style. This invaluable guide is a must-read for every higher education professional.