Innovative Teaching Strategies and Methods Promoting Lifelong Learning in Higher Education

Dr. Hava Vidergor is a senior lecturer of curriculum and instruction in the Graduate School at Gordon Academic College of Education, and Arab Academic College, Haifa, Israel. Her research interests center on curriculum planning and design, innovative teaching strategies and gifted education. She has published numerous papers and presented widely in international conferences. She designed a new graduate program called Innovation in Education and a Multidimensional Curriculum Model (MdCM) focusing on promoting future thinking literacy at all levels, currently applied in Israel and internationally. She participated in LLAF and TeachEx Erasmus+ European Union projects, and is the initiator of this book. This book is a comprehensive study of innovative strategies and methods in higher education, and may serve as a guide for college and university lecturers wishing to expand their teaching repertoire. The book offers theoretical constructs and their practical applications in a wide variety of fields demonstrating the implementation of field-tested methods and techniques. It focuses on teaching-learning strategies in higher education in different applied fields, addressing four main areas, each comprising of several subtopics: 1. The main challenges of academic teaching (i.e., transdisciplinary teaching-learning, teaching large classes and alternative/formative assessment); 2. Using technology (i.e., incorporating technology, blended learning environments and distance learning); 3. Cooperative teaching-learning strategies (i.e., problem based learning, project based learning and personal learning network); and 4. Values-based methods (i.e., promoting social responsibility and future thinking, values and knowledge education, and adapting teaching learning to special needs). Each of the fourteen chapters, which are written at a high academic standard, presents a current theoretical review followed by a description of sample courses and/or activities exemplifying possible applications of the relevant theory. The contributors are European university and college lecturers and researchers, experts in their respective fields, who have participated in two European Union ERASMUS+ projects, share the love of teaching and wish to disseminate these innovating teaching practices among higher education institutions.Target Audience:Inexperienced and established lecturers, in all fields of expertise, higher education institutions