This comprehensive volume presents international perspectives on critical issues impacting teaching and learning in a diverse range of higher education environments. The need to understand learning and teaching from multiple cultural perspectives has become critically important in educating the next generation of college students. This is the first handbook to address these issues with a global view. The chapters are organized around a model developed by James Groccia that focuses on the seven variables that must be investigated to develop a full perspective of college and university teaching and learning. Using this model as the organizational structure of the book provides a framework for thinking about planning activities to improve teaching and student learning. The model shows that college teaching consists of, and is influenced by, seven complex interrelated variables: teacher, learner, learning process, learning context, course content, instructional processes, and learning outcomes. Chapters include contributions from domestic and international educational experts illuminating international differences and similarities.