Tom McBride

Tom McBride is professor emeritus of English at Beloit College, where he was also Gayle and William Keefer Professor of Humanities. For a decade he directed the college's first-year studies program and has authored numerous articles and books With Ron Nief he co-authored The Mindset Lists of American History (Wiley) and The Mindset List of the Obscure (Sourcebooks). His novel Godawful Dreams has been read on public radio's Chapter A day. He is a frequent contributor to Northern Public Radio.

Publications

How to Track Progress: Progressive Tracking Games
How to Track Progress: Progressive Tracking Games
Charles Westerberg, Tom McBride. © 2023. 11 pages.
This chapter introduces a second kind of tracking game: progressive tracking games. In it, the authors show how students can use progressive tracking games to develop tracking...
Acquiring Learning Skills With Digital Technology
Acquiring Learning Skills With Digital Technology
Charles Westerberg, Tom McBride. © 2021. 148 pages.
A common idea within modern education is that digital technologies and traditional learning cannot coexist successfully, that essentially technologies can be distracting and...
The Digital Lectern
The Digital Lectern
Tom McBride, Ron Nief. © 2013. 10 pages.
This chapter projects how higher education will be systematically transformed once the practice of capturing lectures is widespread and common: in particular how the practice...