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5-Star Amazon Review from Spain: Innovative College Teaching

 Honored to get this review:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Guide for College Teachers

Reviewed in Spain on July 30, 2025

Verified PurchasePerry Binder’s “Innovative College Teaching” is exactly what new and experienced college instructors need. This law professor writes in a relaxed, modern style that makes learning about teaching enjoyable.
The book covers everything: first-day strategies, icebreakers, online teaching, interactive activities, group projects, and exam preparation. What sets it apart is the practical advice on using AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E for creative projects—very timely! Binder speaks from experience as well as through interviews with other educators for a well-rounded conversation.
Binder’s real classroom examples are incredibly helpful. His humour shines through, like when he tells students: “If you’re sitting in jail accused of homicide, never say ‘Professor Binder said it would be okay if I did this.” This shows how he uses exaggeration and humour to make memorable teaching points.
Whether you’re thinking of a part-time employment as a college teacher or a seasoned professor, this book offers practical tips you can use immediately. It’s written like advice from a helpful colleague rather than a dry academic text. Highly recommended!

5-Star Review from Spain: Innovative College Teaching

 Honored to get this review:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Guide for College Teachers

Reviewed in Spain on July 30, 2025

Verified PurchasePerry Binder’s “Innovative College Teaching” is exactly what new and experienced college instructors need. This law professor writes in a relaxed, modern style that makes learning about teaching enjoyable.
The book covers everything: first-day strategies, icebreakers, online teaching, interactive activities, group projects, and exam preparation. What sets it apart is the practical advice on using AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E for creative projects—very timely! Binder speaks from experience as well as through interviews with other educators for a well-rounded conversation.
Binder’s real classroom examples are incredibly helpful. His humour shines through, like when he tells students: “If you’re sitting in jail accused of homicide, never say ‘Professor Binder said it would be okay if I did this.” This shows how he uses exaggeration and humour to make memorable teaching points.
Whether you’re thinking of a part-time employment as a college teacher or a seasoned professor, this book offers practical tips you can use immediately. It’s written like advice from a helpful colleague rather than a dry academic text. Highly recommended!

Incoming Freshmen: Perry Binder's 99 Motivators for College Success for 99 cents?

For a brief period, you can get the Kindle version for 99 cents. Enjoy as you prep for a new adventure!

99 Motivators for College Success

CETLOE @ GSU Highlights Binder's Use of AI in the Classroom

Honored that the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Online Education wrote this up:

How GSU faculty use generative AI to support teaching and learning

Gratitude for the People You Meet Along the Way, from Innovative College Teaching

From time to time, I re-read the Epilogue from Innovative College Teaching...

“I live by two words: tenacity and gratitude.” —Henry Winkler

Fromtime to time, I reflect on my teaching career, looking to capture my sentimentin the moment in one word. Recently, I watched an interview with Henry Winkleras he discussed the ups and many downs of his acting career after the hittelevision show, Happy Days, ended in 1984. The word that stuck with mewas that he was grateful for everything. Grateful. Work hard and be grateful.During the ups and the downs. Appreciate current and former students andcolleagues, and all of the people you’ve met along the way.

Iam grateful to the professors interviewed for this book. Unknown to them, theyelevated my game as I edited their chapters. When students ask me about timemanagement techniques, I tell them to be strategic and efficient with theirtime. To learn how and when to say no. But if I listened to my own advice, Ilikely would’ve passed on a great opportunity. As I was re-reading about theamazing work these Master Teachers are doing with their students, I wasinspired to say yes.

Thisled me to take on the task of recruiting and coaching a team of three studentsto compete in a three-day international mediation competition hosted by aneighboring university. These students weren’t in my Consumer Law class, hadzero exposure to mediation training, and went up against many students who wereConflict Resolution majors. They had five weeks to learn how to mediate adispute and switch roles from mediator to advocate to client in mock mediationsessions. The same amount of training time that Rocky had to fight world champion,Apollo Creed. The students worked hard and performed admirably. Theydemonstrated skill, patience, empathy, and poise under pressure, andarticulated reflective insights.

          Author Dan Millmanonce said: “The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination.” I amgrateful to the students who sacrificed their time during this adventure tolearn and experience something new. In turn, these types of interactionsfacilitate my growth as a professor and person. All of which motivates me toseek out my next quest.

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© 2024 Perry Binder

Perry Binder is a Clinical Associate Professor of Legal Studies, entering his 25th year at Georgia State University's Robinson College of Business. He is the author of several books, including Innovative College Teaching (2024), Classroom LIGHTBULBS for College Professors (2023), and 99 Motivators for College Success (2012).

 

Article Published in Times Higher Ed (THE) - Flip-Zoom-open: how Covid and AI transformed my classroom

The article is based on a few chapters in my book and subsequent conference presentations.

Maybe the uncertainty of the pandemic resulted in a few positives to university teaching? Here, Perry Binder reflects on lockdown’s seismic shifts 

Click to read Flip-Zoom-open: how Covid and AI transformed my classroom

#1 in Educational Counseling (Amazon, May 2025): 99 Motivators for College Success

It's been a good week for the book.

Each year from 2016-2022, 99 Motivators for College Success was sent to hundreds of rising high school seniors across the country by Randolph College (Virginia) through its Book Award Program.

In 99 Motivators, Perry Binder is one part professor, one part career mentor, and one part classroom cheerleader. His Motivators, insightful stories, and takeaways are presented in bite-sized tips and quotes on college success in class, in career choices, and in life. Most of the Motivators are serious, some are quirky, and they all have universal messages for college and high school students. In this book, Perry gives away all of his teaching secrets, including advice on how to study for multiple choice exams and how to write model essay exam answers. 

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FREE eBook, May 5-9: College Admissions - Avoid Summer Melt by Sending "99 Motivators for College Success" Book to Entering Fall Freshmen

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Each year from 2016-2022, 99 Motivators for College Success was sent to hundreds of rising high school seniors across the country by Randolph College (Virginia) through its Book Award Program.

Description:  In 99 Motivators for College Success, Perry Binder is one part professor, one part career mentor, and one part classroom cheerleader. His Motivators, insightful stories, and takeaways are presented in bite-sized tips and quotes on college success in class, in career choices, and in life. Most of the Motivators are serious, some are quirky, and they all have universal messages for college and high school students. In this book, Perry gives away all of his teaching secrets, including advice on how to study for multiple choice exams and how to write model essay exam answers. 

Get the digital copy for free from May 5-9. CLICK HERE

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It's been a long and fun teaching and learning journey.

Embracing AI to Flip College Classrooms

Great time on Friday presenting "Embracing AI to Flip College Classrooms" at GOSS  conference at UNG, demonstrating some of the lessons from the ICT book.
 

ABSTRACT: This presentation shares lessons on how generative artificial intelligence helps engage students and inspire their learning. "No more lectures" may hold the key to student engagement, by creating dynamic group activities based on assigned podcasts. You can design real-world hypotheticals quickly with AI, sensitize students to the positive uses and limitations of the technology, and develop students’ critical thinking skills by devising solutions through teamwork and then testing how those solutions measure up to AI’s answers.