Online Teaching at Its Best: Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research, 2nd Edition, by Linda B. Nilson & Ludwika A. Goodson, shows that distance is no barrier to a great education! It guides faculty on how to build an online class by using research-based strategies for course design, teaching, student motivation, active learning, scripting and recording micro-lectures, and interactive conferencing.
2025 TAA Virtual Conference: A Resounding Success
We’re thrilled to share that the 2025 TAA Conference on Textbook & Academic Authoring was a tremendous success — and it’s all thanks to our incredible attendees, speakers, sponsors, and staff who made this event truly special.
Held virtually June 9-10, this year’s conference brought together textbook and academic authors from across the country for two days of learning, connection, and inspiration. With 147 participants and a lineup of close to two dozen expert-led sessions, the event offered something valuable for every stage of the author journey — from first-time writers to seasoned scholars.
2025 TAA Virtual Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘A Visual Analogy Guide to Human Anatomy & Physiology’
The fifth edition of A Visual Analogy Guide to Human Anatomy & Physiology (VAGAP), by Paul A. Krieger, uses visual analogies to assist students in learning the details of human anatomy and physiology. This new edition has been digitized to enhance learning by adding interactive self-quizzes, 3D anatomical models, videos, downloadable coloring pages, and auto-graded assessments.
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Writing With Purpose, Peace & Passion: A Guide for Sustaining Your Academic Writing’
If you are an academic finding the writing difficult to do over time, you are not alone. It is one thing to master the skill of academic writing and publishing. It is quite another to keep writing over many years. Writing With Purpose, Peace & Passion: A Guide for Sustaining Your Academic Writing, by Margarita Huerta, is for anyone wanting help with sustaining an academic writing practice.
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know’
While college faculty go about their jobs—doing what is seen (teaching and publishing) and unseen (class prep, grading, and researching)—little time is given to the uncomfortable acknowledgment that those acts have legal ramifications. Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know, by Kent Kauffman, addresses topics that are vital for those in academia.
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Qualitative Research Design and Methods: An Introduction’
Qualitative Research Design and Methods: An Introduction, by Kathleen DeMarrais, Kathryn Roulston, and Janie Copple, situates qualitative research within the history of the field and integrates this history within discussions of specific research designs. The text discusses traditional as well as emerging qualitative research approaches, providing a theoretically grounded approach to designing and implementing qualitative research studies.