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Linda B. Nilson is director emerita of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation (OTEI) at Clemson University. Before coming to Clemson University, she directed teaching centers at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, Riverside and was a sociology professor at UCLA, where she entered the area of educational development. Nilson has held leadership positions in the POD Network, Toastmasters International, Mensa, and the Southern Regional Faculty and Instructional Development Consortium. Her career as a full-time faculty development director spans over 25 years. In this time, she has published many articles and book chapters and has given over 450 keynotes, webinars, and live workshops at conferences, colleges, and universities both nationally and internationally on dozens of topics related to college teaching and scholarly productivity. She has written several books, including Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time (Stylus, 2015), Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students' Self-Awareness and Learning Skills (Stylus, 2013), Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors, now in its 4th edition (Jossey-Bass, 2016), and The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course (Jossey-Bass, 2007).

Updated: 10-14-2016

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  • How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
    • How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?

    • How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Gain a portfolio of guidelines for assignments that test student constructed responses. You will learn the keys to defining learning goals, creating assignments, and drafting rubrics to boost and measure critical thinking outcomes.
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  • What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
    • What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?

    • What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Learn to create a discipline-specific strategy to grow your students critical thinking skills, identify critical thinking content, and adapt your courses accordingly. This program will give you a clearer and deeper understanding of critical thinking and how to teach it in your courses.
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  • What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?
    • What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?

    • What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • There are a lot of things going on that can keep your students from performing at their best. This program shows you the kinds of challenges your students face and then offers a simple, adaptable classroom tool that you can use to help your students help themselves learn course material and effectively demonstrate their knowledge on exams.
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  • What Key Concepts Improve Student Learning and Memory?
    • What Key Concepts Improve Student Learning and Memory?

    • What Key Concepts Improve Student Learning and Memory?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • This program presents five different memory-boosting strategies to incorporate into your teaching. Learn how to use cueing, the testing effect, semantic encoding, peer teaching, and the spacing effect to help your students learn more course content, move to higher levels of learning, and recall information more easily on exams.
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  • What Kinds of Questions Encourage Student Interaction?
    • What Kinds of Questions Encourage Student Interaction?

    • What Kinds of Questions Encourage Student Interaction?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Changing how you use questions requires a few simple tweaks to your approach and not a major overhaul of your teaching methods. Learn the subtle things you can do to make your questions more powerful and your classroom interactions with students more fruitful.
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  • Where Can I Find Flippable Moments in My Classes?
    • Where Can I Find Flippable Moments in My Classes?

    • Where Can I Find Flippable Moments in My Classes?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • If you have been wanting to flip but don't know where to start or fear you'll do it all wrong, this program is for you. Identify the flippable lessons in any course and determine which parts of your lessons you should actually invest time and energy in flipping.
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  • How Can I Structure a Flipped Lesson?
    • How Can I Structure a Flipped Lesson?

    • How Can I Structure a Flipped Lesson?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Learn the structure and find the confidence to flip a lesson in a course you already teach or a new course you are designing. Discover how to integrate flipped lessons into the overall course for a seamless learning experience for your students.
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  • What Is Storyboarding? And How Can It Help Me Flip My Class?
    • What Is Storyboarding? And How Can It Help Me Flip My Class?

    • What Is Storyboarding? And How Can It Help Me Flip My Class?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • You don't have to be an artist or have any kind of advanced production skills to benefit from a storyboard. After this program you will be able to use a storyboard to create a more powerful video that supports learning objectives and reinforces the benefits of the flipped classroom.
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  • What Are 5 FAQ’s About Faculty Roles in the Flipped Class?
    • What Are 5 FAQ’s About Faculty Roles in the Flipped Class?

    • What Are 5 FAQ’s About Faculty Roles in the Flipped Class?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • This program will give you the confidence you need to start flipping your own courses right away. Discover the answers to the five most common areas of concern for instructors new to flipping.
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