Stearns Center Teaching Library

We invite you to come to the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning to browse our growing collection of books and articles related to teaching and learning (available to check out). These resources address a variety of issues including course design, active and collaborative learning, assessment, educational leadership, and professional development. We also have a catalog of books if you prefer to get your own copy: Stearns Center Online Library. Looking for something shorter? Please visit our Quick Guides on a variety of teaching topicsmentoring graduate students, and scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL).

Featured titles: These excellent books (shown below) and many more are featured in the Stearns Center Teaching Library. Please feel free to come in and peruse them.

Bain, Ken. (2004). What the Best College Teachers Do. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bain, Ken. (2004). What the Best College Teachers Do. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Bean, John C. (2011) - Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical hinking and Active Learning in the Classroom (2nd edition)

Bean, John C. (2011). Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. (2nd edition). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Davis, Barbara Gross. (2009). Tools for Teaching (2nd Edition)

Davis, Barbara Gross. (2009). Tools for Teaching. (2nd edition). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
McKeachie, Wilbert J. and Marilla Svinicki (2010). McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research and Theory for College and University Teachers

McKeachie, Wilbert J. and Marilla Svinicki. (2010). McKeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers. (13th edition). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.