Dear IFEES / GEDC members,

The second edition of Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent’s book, Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide, came out this year, and a nice review just appeared in the latest edition of ASEE Prism. The 2016 first edition of the book has had a significant impact on engineering education, and a number of directors of campus teaching centers and STEM deans have elected to use it in teaching workshops and provide their new faculty members with copies of it to help get their teaching careers off to a good start. I’d like as many of us as possible to be aware of the updated edition (which among other additions includes integration of AI into STEM curricula), so I’m reproducing the Prism review below, inserting the book’s website address for those of you who would like more information about the book.

“Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide (https://educationdesignsinc.com/book/) walks faculty through effective teaching step-by-step, including new material in the second edition about teaching online and integrating AI. The authors make the research on teaching accessible and help busy faculty apply it to their lived experience in the classroom.

“For example, the authors break active learning into steps. They do this by encouraging small forays into active learning, taking only 2-3 minutes of class time. These small forays are followed by reflection, adjustments, and then bigger forays. This is a recipe for success.

“Rich Felder and Rebecca Brent are two of the best teachers and writers in academe, and it shows: their advice is inspired and their prose flows like melted butter. One of my colleagues attended their workshop based on the book and declared that her teaching was transformed. Many teachers will find the book transformative. That is why it is my favorite book on teaching.”

Tara Gray, Ph.D.
Associate Provost for Faculty Development
Director, Teaching Academy
New Mexico State University

Sincerely,
HH