Teaching intensive and accelerated courses: instruction that motivates learning

Drawing on the authors' time-tested strategies from Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn, this book is a fundamental and practical guide to teaching diversestudents in accelerated courses, something the authors have been doing for over fifteen years. It begins by describing the characteristics of an accelerated course, and goes on to discuss the elements of accelerated courses that are retained from traditional courses; how the diverse characteristics of nontraditional learners affect their learning styles and motivations and should affectthe instructors methods; how to design learning objectives and course syllabifor a diverse, accelerated classroom; and strategies for motivating diverse nontraditional learners in culturally relevant ways.

• ISBN: 978-0-7879-6893-9
• Editorial: Jossey Bass
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 18/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés