Derek Bruff

Derek Bruff

Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

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I am an educator, author, and higher ed consultant. I directed the Vanderbilt University…

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  • Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching

    West Virginia University Press

    Chalkboards and projectors are familiar tools for most college faculty, but when new technologies become available, instructors aren’t always sure how to integrate them into their teaching in meaningful ways. As faculty interested in supporting student learning survey the changing landscape of technology, determining what’s possible and what’s useful can be challenging.

    Arguing that teaching and learning goals should drive instructors’ technology use, not the other way around…

    Chalkboards and projectors are familiar tools for most college faculty, but when new technologies become available, instructors aren’t always sure how to integrate them into their teaching in meaningful ways. As faculty interested in supporting student learning survey the changing landscape of technology, determining what’s possible and what’s useful can be challenging.

    Arguing that teaching and learning goals should drive instructors’ technology use, not the other way around, Intentional Tech explores seven research-based principles for matching technology to pedagogy. Through stories of creative and effective use of educational technology by faculty and other instructors, author Derek Bruff approaches technology not by asking “How to?” but by posing a more fundamental question: “Why?”

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  • Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments

    Jossey-Bass

    In the book I describe many ways college and university instructors can use classroom response systems (commonly called “clickers”) to engage and assess their students. The book features example clicker questions and activities from almost 50 instructors from a wide variety of disciplines and types of institutions, as well as advice for using clickers to generate class-wide and small-group discussion, to prepare students to get more out of lectures, to conduct classroom games, to administer…

    In the book I describe many ways college and university instructors can use classroom response systems (commonly called “clickers”) to engage and assess their students. The book features example clicker questions and activities from almost 50 instructors from a wide variety of disciplines and types of institutions, as well as advice for using clickers to generate class-wide and small-group discussion, to prepare students to get more out of lectures, to conduct classroom games, to administer quizzes and tests, and to generate feedback on student learning useful for instructors and students.

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