A THOUGHTFUL NEW BOOK ON THE MARKET
I try to write all of these blog essays myself. However, a good friend of mine, James Lang at Assumption College, has just published a new book ( Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty ) that I think is excellent and innovative and I wanted to recommend that you consider reading it. (Here, in the name of full disclosure, I will admit that he includes a couple of pages on my approach to teaching but that is only a very small part of the book.) On his own blog, Jim posted the following description of the book. I thought he did a great job of explaining what he had done. So, I am simply including his words directly. If you are looking for a thoughtful book on teaching and education, I think this is a great choice. ** By James Lang: Just around two years ago, the editor of my last book with Harvard University Press told me that she had been to a conference about teaching in higher education and heard a lot of...