Designed for anyone interested in teaching and learning, Perusall Engage is a community reading event that allows participants to engage with the authors, engage with each other, and engage with the book content in our social reading platform. Plus, you can participate at your own pace and on your schedule.
Our next Engage event begins July 22nd!
Are you interested in hosting a book event through your Center for Teaching and Learning? Do you have a book publishing in 2024 on teaching and learning? Contact us.
Ask questions, give feedback, and engage with the authors as you read. Get access to curated resources and advice.
The event is asynchronous so you can read at your own pace and on your own schedule. Start conversation threads, upvote particularly useful observations, have some fun with emojis or GIFs and keep the conversation lively.
The Perusall platform allows participants to exchange ideas, experiences, and build a sense of community while reading collaboratively.
There is a $15 fee to access the book. A discount coupon will be provided for attendees who wish to purchase a print copy after the event.
July 22nd through August 17th, 2024
Do you have a lucky charm? OK, I’ll confess—it’s silly, but I have a pair of lucky shoes. I know, on an intellectual level, that the particular pair of shoes I choose to wear on any given day cannot possibly affect the course of events in the universe—but still, when I find I need a bit of luck, those shoes are on my feet. Luck is a great example of an irrational behavior that persists even in the face of evidence that it is irrational. Belief in luck crosses all the lines that usually separate us—culture, religion, class, even political affiliation. What are the Chances? Why We Believe in Luck explores what psychology, neuroscience, history, philosophy and religion can tell us about luck.
Join us for a 4-week asynchronous, author-facilitated, communal reading experience on Dr. Barbara Blatchley's book, What Are the Chances? Why We Believe in Luck. Winner of the 2023 American Psychological Association's William James Book Award.
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May 13th through June 9th, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, impacting and challenging ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. This book offers a practical guide to how faculty can harness and manage AI as a research, work and teaching tool.
February 26th through March 22nd, 2024
Memory is still important for learning even in an age of smartphones, search engines, and AI. This book offers college teachers an engaging introduction to how memory works and how it’s affected by technology, with advice on how to help students build the knowledge they need to succeed.
January 15th through February 9th, 2024
Ludic Pedagogy: A Seriously Fun Way to Teach and Learn outlines why and how having fun and positive experiences in college and university classes (and not just at social events or parties) leads to increased student success in face-to-face, hybrid, hyflex, or online environments. It provides readers with the Ludic Pedagogy model, together with how instructors can employ the elements of the model – play, playfulness, and positivity – in the courses that they teach.
January 15th through February 9th, 2024
Are you satisfied with your current and traditional grading system? Does it accurately reflect your students’ learning and progress? Can it be gamed? Does it lead to grade-grubbing and friction with your students? The authors of this book offer readers a fundamentally more effective and authentic approach to grading that they have implemented for over a decade.
January 15th through February 9th, 2024
Online learning can be so dull. Enter Design for Learning. Whether you’re a novice or experienced online instructional designer, you’ll learn how to apply industry best practices, how-to examples, powerful templates, and compelling activities to craft compelling instructional content for text, audio, and video. Read, enjoy, and create online learning experiences that will never be called “dull”!
May 1st through May 31st, 2023
Do your teaching behaviors promote student success? Can you build a persuasive case demonstrating your teaching effectiveness? Critical Teaching Behaviors can help you identify behaviors that lead to improved student outcomes and guide you in documenting and discussing your teaching achievements with colleagues.
April 3rd through April 30th, 2023
Read Principles of Marketing for a Digital Age, 2e collaboratively with other marketing instructors from around the world, share your best classroom strategies for effective learning and interact with content socially through Perusall.
Sage Publishing and Perusall have partnered to provide a new kind of textbook review: an asynchronous reading event of the award-winning Principles of Marketing for a Digital Age, 2e.
February 9th through March 30th, 2023
The University of Glasgow's global reading group provides the opportunity for academics, alumni, students, and the public to join together as a global community to read and discuss Adam Smith’s work through examining the Wealth of Nations.
