Higher Ed Resource of the Week: Intentional Tech

On September 26, West Virginia University Press released Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching by Derek Bruff. Bruff is the director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. For years, he maintained a blog in which he provided tips for incorporating student response systems and other technologies in the classroom. In this book, he explores seven research-based principles for matching technology to pedagogy in the following chapters:

1. Times for Telling
2. Practice and Feedback
3. Thin Slices of Learning
4. Knowledge Organizations
5. Multimodal Assignments
6. Learning Communities
7. Authentic Audiences

The 240-page book is available on Amazon for $24.99.