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Dr. Linda B. Nilson is founding Director of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation (OTEI) at Clemson University in South Carolina and author of Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors, now in its third edition (Jossey-Bass, 2010) and The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating with Your Course(Jossey-Bass, 2007).
She co-edited Enhancing Learning with Laptops in the Classroom (2005) and Volumes 25 through 28 of To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional and Organizational Development (2007-2010). She has also published many articles and book chapters on university teaching and academic careers and conducts faculty workshops at institutions across the U.S. and internationally. In addition, she has been a regular presenter at the Lilly South Conference on College Teaching for many years.
Before coming to Clemson, Dr. Nilson directed the teaching centers at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, Riverside and was a faculty member in the sociology department at UCLA. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as a National Science Foundation Fellow and her B.A. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa.
