Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates: Reflections from the Classroom

Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates: Reflections from the Classroom captures the endeavors that professors from different disciplines at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) have undergone to enhance the learning opportunities for their students. Each author has deliberately chosen to approach teaching with inquiry and enthusiasm to enhance the learning opportunities for their students. In each chapter, the author takes a scholarly, reflective approach to explain and examine the innovative techniques and methods he or she employed to identify the needs of the students in order to offer opportunities for them to better understand the subject material. Through topics ranging from introducing active learning techniques to examining the effect of technology on the learning process, each author describes, evaluates and reflects upon his/her experience. The fifteen chapters provide inspiration for teaching excellence by combining insight and experience to invoke enthusiasm and dedication to outstanding teaching and a commitment to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in institutions of Higher Education world-wide.