Springer Evidence-Based Teaching for the 21st Century Classroom and Beyond: Innovation-Driven Learning Strategies

This book serves as an essential intervention where the innovative, evidence based and contemporary teaching, learning approaches, strategies and learning support systems to be incorporated in the learning process are presented, supported with findings. It addresses the complex challenges and limitations in practice supported with evidence, hence providing possible approaches to address them. It also addresses an interesting scope of topics that are both contemporary and essential to almost all academics that have a high responsibility to nurture, develop, train and equip learners both at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels at the university with the relevant skills and competencies. Review “The book authored by Dr. Rajaram provides evidence-based discussions and practical-oriented recommendations that comes as a timely, relevant intervention for educators and research scholars. Like most organizational sectors, the education sector is facing increasing competition and rapidly changing students’ interests and needs. Stated differently, it is being disrupted. In order for Higher Education Institutions and Universities and their faculty to stay relevant, it is critical that they understand, respond and adopt innovative evidence-based teaching strategies. Evidence-Based Teaching and Innovative Learning Strategies has been written to ensure that educational researchers and faculty are up to date on the latest teaching and learning innovations and research. It is sure to inform and propel educational best-practices into the future. The insights shared will serve as case-studies and exemplary practices to help educators respond with agility to the evolving, rapid changes in higher education.”  - Assistant Professor Ryan Gottfredson, College of Business and Economics, California State University-Fullerton, United States  “The book combines a succinct review of business education, learning science and teaching theories and presents evidence-based yet pragmatic research insights and analysis related to teaching and learning scholarship. These well-researched and clearly articulated analyses have generated theoretically informed recommendations for optimizing the learning process and effectiveness on how students in business education learn. This book addresses gaps in the literature explicit to business education teaching and learning. The author, Dr. Rajaram’s insightful discussions kindle contemporary and interesting research questions for business educators now and into a post-COVID future. The book serves a timely and valuable exploration of the discipline of business education in higher education institutions for researchers and educators alike.” – Professor Bob Fox, Curriculum, Office of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education & Student Experience), University of New South Wales, Australia and Teaching Fellow, The University of Hong Kong   “In this book, Dr. Rajaram goes beyond a basic presentation of existing learning methodologies. He also reflexively discusses approaches such as the flipped classroom and on-line learning via social media. Dr. Rajaram provides insights on important topics such as getting students motivated through collaborative work within and between groups, helping students develop cognitive empathy-related skills and leadership competencies, and creating a sense of community in the classroom. The result is a set of evidence-based, contemporary, valuable insights and innovative tools for researchers and educators in Higher Education.” - Dr. Ludvig Levasseur, Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Junior Research Fellow, Indiana University    “The book is beneficial for educators and researchers from universities who want to bring their “know-hows” and teaching skills to a more advanced level. This book by Dr. Rajaram presents validated pedagogical practices, innovative learning strategies from the latest academic research