Terry Doyle

Terry Doyle is an author, nationally recognized educational consultant and Professor Emeritus from Ferris State University where he worked for 38 years. From 1998 to 2009 he served as the Senior Instructor for Faculty Development and Coordinator of the New to Ferris Faculty Transition Program for the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at Ferris State.

Terry has given workshops and keynote addresses at 100 regional, national and international conferences since 2000. During the past ten years he has worked with faculty in Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, South Korea, Canada and faculty on two hundred different colleges and universities across the United States on ways to develop a learner centered approach to teaching.

He is the author of the book Learner Centered Teaching: Putting the Research on Learning into Practice which was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Selected New Books in Higher Education in 2012 and the book Helping Students Learn in a Learner Center Environment: A Guide to Teaching in Higher Education which was just translated into Chinese and was originally published by Stylus in 2008.

He is the co-author of the book New Faculty Transition -An Ideal Program published in 2004. His newest book published in August 2013, co-authored with Dr. Todd Zakrajsek is titled The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony with your Brain and is written for college and high school students. It has been described as breaking new ground in helping students understand how learning happens and suggests a new paradigm for how students should prepare themselves for learning.

The book was a finalist for the 2013 USA Best Book Award in the category of Education/Academics. Terry is the CEO of Learner Centered Teaching Consultants and is working on a new book for college teachers titled Engaging Students in the Learning Process: Understanding How Research Is (or should be) Revolutionizing the Way We Teach with his co-author Todd Zakrajsek.