New book announcement! Coming soon!
Flower’s latest book will be out in spring 2026.
The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes
If we’re honest, we’ll admit that sometimes online teaching doesn’t feel like real teaching. There’s no buzz of interaction like we experience in the classroom. We struggle to engage with our asynchronous online students. Indeed, synchronicity is a key ingredient of meaningful connections. What happens when that’s missing, by design? In The Joyful Online Teacher, Flower addresses the root causes of pervasive challenges in online classes, highlights ways to promote happiness and satisfaction in everyday life, and translates those principles into practical, joy-inducing online teaching strategies. You’ll find concrete tips to promote flourishing in every class, whether online or in person, to enhance everyone’s vibrancy, engagement and success—starting with your own.
The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching
Isis Artze-Vega • Flower Darby • Bryan Dewsbury • Mays Imad
This practical inclusive teaching guide was designed for you: busy college educators who want to advance equity in your classes, and who have many competing demands on your time. This easy-to-read resource presents carefully curated practical strategies for every class, as well as distilled syntheses of the rich bodies of literature that inform the selection of these techniques. Case studies provide inspiration and day-to-day examples of how to become more equity-minded in your teaching practice.
This guide is available as a free ebook to all instructors. Whether you teach large or small classes, whether you teach online, in person, or everywhere in between, you’ll find ways to get started on or continue your educational equity journey.
Small Teaching Online.
Apply cognitive theory in your online class
The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.
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