Interviews with Top University Teachers
How to Build Quality Teaching, Inspire Your Students,
and Create More Time for Research
Timothy Falcon Crack, PhD (MIT)
Timothy Falcon Crack, PhD (MIT)
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Please find the Book Description immediately below. You can click on the cover image below to find the eBook and the paperback for sale on Amazon.com. Below that, there are links to downloads, links to the author's CV and course evaluations, and finally email contact & errata (with known errors and corrections).
Book Description |
If you are a university teacher, you need to read this book! The author's goal is to help you to build quality into your teaching. Quality teaching inspires students, meets learning objectives, and yields excellent teaching evaluations. Quality teaching also exploits teaching efficiencies to create more time for research. To meet all these goals, the author interviewed a select sample of outstanding university teachers in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Israel, and New Zealand. Their advice has been interwoven with reflections upon the author's 30-year award-winning university teaching career in the U.S. and New Zealand. The book also includes a discussion of practical attitudes towards teaching and teaching motivation, plus dozens of stories (and even some horror stories) that serve as parables. The majority of the teaching advice is based on face-to-face instruction in the classroom, but much of it also carries over to remote/online teaching. Most of the advice is "purely mechanical," in the sense that you don't need any special skills or abilities to implement it. University teachers can use this book to improve their job performance and job satisfaction, and to increase the likelihood of promotion and career success. University administrators can give this book to new teachers to help build quality teaching from Day 1.
This handy pocket-sized edition (4.37in x 7in; 111mm x 178mm) is surprisingly comprehensive. It is 400-pages long, with 11 chapters, 95 references to literature, and a 10-page 900-item index. Although the book was written/organized with the intention that it be read sequentially, some busy readers keep it on their desk and open it randomly, sampling short pieces of advice and self-contained vignettes, as time allows. Click on the image below and use Amazon's "Look Inside" feature to view the Table of Contents.*

Available as a physical edition and as a print replica Amazon eBook (hardcopy ISBN 978-1-99-115540-5; eBook ASIN B09GKV6VS5; Revised third printing of first edition, published February 2022).
Downloads |
See the book for explanations of most of these files. If you have any difficulty downloading these files, RIGHT CLICK your mouse and choose "SAVE LINK AS".
- coversheet.docx (23Kb, MS Word; Uses Clickable Check Boxes and Text Boxes).
- grades.xlsx (26Kb, MS Excel; Uses Spinners.)
- questions.xlsx (55 Kb, MS Excel; Uses Basic Excel Commands.)
- peer.xlsx (21 Kb, MS Excel; Uses Basic Excel Commands.)
- hybrid.doc (44 KB, MS Word; Room For 50 Answers) hybrid75.doc (54 KB, MS Word; Room For 75 Answers)
- Example Exam, Equation Sheet, and Solution for Hybrid 50-Question Mid-Term exam. (193Kb, 75Kb, and 101Kb, respectively, Adobe Acrobat pdf Files.)
- desksign.doc (22 Kb, MS Word.)
CV & Course Evaluations |
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- Teaching Evaluations 2005-2019 (BSNS108 Intro. Finance, FINC302 Applied Investments, FINC460 Real Options) (Updated July 22, 2020)
- Teaching Evaluations 2019 (FINC302 Applied Investments) plus comments from students (Updated July 22, 2020)
- Teaching Evaluations 2017 (FINC302 Applied Investments) plus comments from students (Updated September 14, 2017)
- Teaching Evaluations 2016 (FINC302 Applied Investments) plus comments from students (Updated November 24, 2016)
- Teaching Evaluations 2015 (FINC302 Applied Investments) plus comments from students (Updated July 3, 2015)
- Teaching Evaluations 2014 (FINC302 Applied Investments) plus comments from students (Updated November 4, 2020)
- Teaching Evaluations Detailed 1998-2000 (F625 Emprical Asset Pricing) Indiana Univ. PhD (Updated November 4, 2020)
- Teaching Evaluations Summary 1999-2000 (F526 Derivatives) Indiana Univ. MBA (Updated November 4, 2020)
- Teaching Student Comments 1999-2000 (F526 Derivatives) Indiana Univ. MBA (Updated November 4, 2020)
- Teaching Evaluations Detailed 1999-2000 (F526 Derivatives) Indiana Univ. MBA (Updated November 4, 2020)
- Teaching Evaluations Detailed 1996-1999 (F421 Investments) Indiana Univ. Undergrad (Updated November 4, 2020)
- Teaching Evaluations 1994 (15.433, 15.962, 15.962) MIT MBA Teaching Assistant (Updated November 4, 2020)
- Teaching Evaluations 1991 (Finance 321 Investments; I taught 20 weeks of it) Undergrad Otago Univ. (Updated November 4, 2020)
- Graduate Student Survey (i.e., undergraduate students who graduated and left) Otago 2020
- Student Opinion Survey Otago (i.e., current undergraduate students) 2019/2020
- Teaching Award Nomination Notification Otago 2018
- Teaching Award Nomination Notification Otago 2017
- Teaching Award Nomination Notification Otago 2015
- Teaching Award Notification Otago 2007
- See CV (linked above) for other teaching awards and nominations.
- Heard on The Street: Amazon Top New Seller (Internships) August 2022
- Heard on The Street: Amazon Top New Seller (Internships) August 2021
- Heard on The Street: Amazon Top New Seller (Job Interviews) October 2018
- Heard on The Street: Amazon Best Seller (Finance) 2007
- Business Insider January 2014 Review of Heard on The Street
- Business Insider Heard on The Street Reference #1
- Business Insider Heard on The Street Reference #2
- Business Insider Heard on The Street Reference #3
Email Contact & Errata |
- Ask the author a question timcrack@alum.mit.edu (on average one week before reply).
- ERRATA (known errors and corrections).
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