Before entering higher education, most students’ learning experiences have been traditional and teacher-centered. Their teachers have typically controlled their learning, with students having had little say about what and how to learn. For many students, encountering a learner-centered environment will be new, possibly unsettling, and may even engender resistance and hostility.Taking as his starting point students’ attitudes toward, and unfamiliarity with, learner-centered classrooms, Terr...

About half of today’s nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession.As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War approaches, this collection of essays allows us to view within a broader international context one of modern history's bloodiest conflicts over secession. The cont...

***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – LONGLIST******2023 NL READS – FINALIST***The Wards are a working-class Newfoundland family on the cusp of upheaval. The children are becoming adults, the adults are growing old, and the new dog was probably stolen. When a sudden illness forces the Wards together, can they finally learn to be close-knit?This unsettling, at times hilarious novel explores the instability o...

This book presents the research-based case that Learner Centered Teaching (LCT) offers the best means to optimize student learning in college, and offers examples and ideas for putting it into practice, as well the underlying rationale. It also starts from the premise that many faculty are much closer to being learner centered teachers than they think, but don’t have the full conceptual understanding of the process to achieve its full impact. There is sometimes a gap between what we would ...

The exponentially increasing production of new data and the advancements in AI learning tools will require teachers to rethink their roles if they are to prepare their students to thrive in this new age of data. The New Science of Teaching: Rethinking a Teachers Role in the Age of Data details the three vital roles teachers must fill in this age of data. The first is to optimize students' learning by teaching in harmony with the most current research on how the brain takes in and ...

This work is a thought-provoking exploration of the origins and teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism), including discussions of personal faith, belief, some concepts and practices of other religions, and concepts of evil as interpreted by the author. Written as a conversation between a father and his son, Jesse, the book (the author's second) is a personal reflection and explanation of the author's faith and beliefs, which are deeply influenced by the fat...

A son learning from his father's perspective on America through the lenses of events; past, present, and future.Proud American, Utah Author. Wife, Angelina, 4 children: Desiree, Mckenzie, Jesse, and Bryan. Seven Grandchildren; Mya, Makena, Korbyn, Kamryn, Jude, Oliver, and Scarlet. Attended High School at Lehi High School, College at Utah Valley University. Currently working in the medical field, for the past 4 decades have worked as a Radiologic Technologist, Interventional Radiol...

Live a Courageous Life Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Crush Your Comfort Zone and The Art of FearSome say that fear is a great motivator and for some people it is. The fear of failing, loss or facing consequences can give us the will to thrive under pressure and help us complete tasks that would otherwise go unfinished. Unfortunately for others, it can literally cause life to come to a screeching halt. It's like being held hostage, unable to move forward or make a decision without being afraid of ...