Book Review of Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies

Editorial: Emerging technologies and changing learning/teaching practices

This special issue is being published at a time when emerging technologies (ETs) have become ubiquitous, and many educators in higher education are trialling different ways of using these technologies to respond to varying teaching and learning challenges (see Sharples et al, 2012 for some examples of this). These challenges include concerns about the quality and outcomes of teaching and learni...

Book Review: Food Safety: Emerging Issues, Technologies, and Systems

Teaching the Library: Best Practices

Whether it is called bibliographic instruction, library instruction, or an information literacy program, the teaching of library and research skills to college students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels is a hot topic. There is much debate both in the literature and in the classroom about how best to engage the students’ attention and ensure that they understand what is being taught...

Vocabulary Teaching Techniques: A Review of Common Practices

Abundantly clear though the need for effective eclectic techniques for enhancing learners’ vocabulary learning strategies may seem, in practice, language instructors, by all accounts, tend to resort to only a few obsolete ones. This review paper aims to provide a brief account of practices in vocabulary teaching and learning by focusing on the research on teaching words in context and out...

Best Practices for Remote Psychological Assessment via Telehealth Technologies

The use and capabilities of telehealth technologies to conduct psychological assessments remotely are expanding. Clinical practitioners and researchers need to be aware of what influences the psychometric properties of telehealth-based assessments to assure optimal and competent assessments. The purpose of this review is to discuss the specific factors that influence the validity and reliabilit...