Flower Darby – författare

Written by renowned teaching and learning experts, this guide offers concrete steps to help any instructor striving to ensure that all students—and, in particular, historically underserved students—have an equal chance for success. Here you’ll find actionable tips, grounded in research, for teaching college classes online, in person, and everywhere in between.While we are pleased to offer this title as a print book, this title is also available as a free ebook for educators. To learn more and register for access, visit https://seagull.wwnorton.com/equityguide Praise for The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching“Sometimes resistance to change comes less from a difference in values than from simply not knowing how to change. This guide is a remedy to that conundrum—a lucid and inspiring collection of useful strategies and actionable know-how’s on exactly how to make teaching more equitable and effective at the same time. A must-read for all teaching communities, it is a book whose time has come!”—Claude M. Steele, author of Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do “Colleges are racialized organizations whose practices maintain inequalities in academic opportunities and outcomes for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and marginalized Asian American and Pacific Islander students. This book gifts practitioners and their students with the knowledge and practices needed to transform the classroom into a site of racial justice.”—Estela Mara Bensimon, founder, USC Center for Urban Education “I can’t praise this book highly enough. The authors have produced a thoughtful and well-written guide to creating equity-minded college courses. Into their deft summaries of the research and theory they have woven well-chosen examples, plenty of starter tips, and material for further reflection. Change the lives of your students, and reshape your teaching, with the help of this essential book.”—James M. Lang, author of Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

The happier the teacher, the better the learning experience—for instructor and student alike. With this equation at its core, The Joyful Online Teacher provides practical guidance for making distance learning infinitely more enjoyable and effective, and for improving the online teaching experience in asynchronous classes that often take place in Learning Management Systems (LMSs) like Canvas or Blackboard Learn, and where instructors and students rarely interact in real time, contributing to low completion rates. One of the most pervasive challenges in distance learning is the absent online instructor; and one clear reason for this problem is the often unsatisfying nature of teaching online. A leading voice on online education, Flower Darby draws on the sciences of learning, emotion, and motivation, three decades of her own teaching, extensive research on online student experience, and the stories of joyful online teachers to present concrete tips for making online teaching more rewarding. The key, Darby suggests, is learning to love teaching online. To that end, her book offers instructors accessible, inspiring, common-sense hacks for connecting with students, finding passion, navigating the structural inequities of higher ed, and more—all with a focus on building rapport and relationships, the central ingredients of happiness and satisfaction. These time-tested strategies and hard-won insights promise to help online teachers find meaning, purpose, and, yes, joy in their work—and, consequently, to fulfill the enormous, largely untapped potential of online education.