The FCTL offers MSU faculty free access to a variety of novels, articles, and journals covering an expansive range of topics under the umbrella of teaching and learning to promote and assist in the personal and professional development of our campus community members. This informal library provides access for any interested to explore educational texts created specifically for university level educators. Faculty are welcome to visit the FCTL Creative Commons to browse these texts and borrow materials anytime during FCTL business hours (for more information about the FCTL Creative Commons location and hours, click here).
Featured Texts
What makes a teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. In stories both humorous and touching, Ken Bain describes examples of ingenuity and compassion, of students' discoveries of new ideas and the depth of their own potential. What the Best College Teachers Do is a treasure trove of insight and inspiration for first-year teachers and seasoned educators alike.
AI and Writing is an introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and its emergent role as a tool for academic, professional, civic, and personal writing. Sid Dobrin examines GenAI from two perspectives: the conceptual and the applied. The conceptual approach addresses the function of GenAI and the ramifications of its use as a writing tool - especially the ethical, social, and material issues it raises. The applied approach offers guidance to assist readers in using GenAI responsibly and authentically.
"After a few hours of using generative AI systems," Ethan Mollick writes in the introduction to his book, "it dawns on you that you are interacting with something new, something alien, and that things are about to change." The nature of this alien intelligence, and how it will change the way you work, learn, and live, is the story he tells in Co-Intelligence. In his signature lucid and eye-opening prose, Mollick marshals cutting-edge research and dozens of real-time examples of AI in action as a coworker, coteacher, and coach to show how humans can collaborate productively with AI.
"Students are arriving at college with a deficit in necessary skills, among them reading, note-taking, and working independently. When professors try to meet students where they are, even that's not enough: The goal posts move. What do you do when students don't - or can't - do the work? [..] This collection gathers essential Chronicle reporting and opinion essays to help faculty members, staff, and administrators understand their Gen Z student body. It examines the changing role of instructors, shifts in student culture, and what support faculty members need from their administration."
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