Helping Students Learn in a Learner-Centered Environment: A Guide to Facilitating Learning in Higher Education - Paperback

by Terry Doyle (Author)

This book is about how to help students acquire the new skills and knowledge they need to take on unfamiliar roles and responsibilities. This book provides a rich and informative answer to the fundamental question: how do I help my students adjust to a learner-centered practice?.

Author Biography

Terry Doyle is an author, nationally recognized educational consultant and Professor Emeritus of Ferris State University where he taught for 38 years. From 1998 to 2009 he served as the Senior Instructor for Faculty Development.Terry has shared his work on ways to use neuroscience, biology, and cognitive science research to develop a learner centered approach to teaching and training with the U.S. military, police agencies, medical and veterinary colleges and some 400 universities and colleges around the world for the past 25 years. He also has given hundreds of keynote addresses at regional, national and international conferences around the world.He is the author or co-author of seven books dealing with the application of neuroscience findings about how the brain learns and how to teach and train in harmony with the brain. Terry is the CEO of Learner Centered Teaching Consultants and D&M Consultants--The New Science of Business. John Tagg is Associate Professor of English at Palomar College in San Macros, California, and author of The Learning Paradigm College.