• ISBN13: 9788126925803
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Education & Psychology
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: July 22, 2018
• Pages: 508
• Original Price: INR 1295.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 646 grams

The book Educators’ Handbook for Universities, Colleges and Libraries is a compendium of best practices in university and college education which will help the faculty, educators, educational planners, and administrators in their academic career and professional life. It contains insightful information covering more than 50 chapters. To make the reading pleasant, a lot of inspiring quotations are given in this book. It broadly includes topics such as University and College Mission and Vision; Quality and Excellence in Teaching and Research; Soft Skills, Transferable Skills, Communication and Presentation Skills; Learning Process, Theories of Learning and Instruction; Bloom’s Taxonomy, Course Planning and Course File; Time Management, Students’ Evaluation Assignments, and Term Papers; Academic Integrity and Ethics, etc. Appendix and Glossary of Academic Terms have been given at the end of the book to make it more useful. It will be very useful to faculty, educators, educational planners, and administrators for planning and executing educational programmes.

Dr. M. Adithan, was Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research) at Chandigarh. He was also a faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department and in the Curriculum Development Centre at IIT, Madras. He has been a visiting Professor at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, U.S.A. and at University of Technology, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Dr. Adithan has obtained B.E. (Hons) and M.Sc. Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, University of Madras, and Ph.D. from IIT, Madras. He has published many research papers in national and international journals and is author of several textbooks and other instructional materials. At VIT University, Vellore, he has established Academic Staff College and organized many new and innovative teacher training/faculty development programmes for engineering faculty.