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Online Teaching

Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines and Effective Practice from Around Globe

David G. Harper, Harvard Medical School
Sandy Hirtz

Education for a Digital World contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process.

ePortfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios

ePortfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios addresses theories and practices advanced by some of the most innovative and active proponents of ePortfolios.

Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction

Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction addresses the questions and decisions that administrators and instructors most need to consider when developing online writing programs and courses.

 

The Changing Story: digital stories that participate in transforming teaching & learning

Linda Buturian, University of Minnesota

The Changing Story gives you assignments, resources, and examples to use in your teaching and learning.

Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media

Jon Dron, Athabasca University
Terry Anderson, Athabasca University

In Teaching Crowds, Dron and Anderson introduce a new model for understanding and exploiting the pedagogical potential of Web-based technologies, one that rests on connections — on networks and collectives — rather than on separations.

Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for designing teaching and learning for a digital age

A.W. (Tony) Bates, University of British Columbia

The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when everyone,and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology.

Instructional Design

Project Management for Instructional Designers

Multiple Authors, Brigham Young University

Project Management for Instructional Designers (PM4ID) is a textbook about project management tailored specifically for instructional designers, intended for use in graduate programs in educational technology. This book is based on a pre-existing openly licensed textbook which was donated to the commons by a benefactor that desires to remain anonymous, and has been collaboratively revised and remixed by faculty and students at Brigham Young University.

Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design: Curriculum and Instruction for Students with Developmental Disabilities/Autism Spectrum Disorders

Samuel Sennott, Portland State University
Sheldon Loman, Portland State University

This open textbook addresses the population of individuals with disabilities that experience complex lifelong needs across multiple areas in their lives. Drs. Sennott and Loman drafted this book (along with the help from some friends) with the hope of providing pertinent, practical, and current resources to future special educators who plan to serve individuals with complex disabilities.

Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing

Alex Reid, University at Buffalo
Anthony Di Renzo, Ithaca College
David Franke, SUNY Cortland

Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing, edited byDavid Franke, Alex Reid, andAnthony Di Renzo,addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures — what the editors characterize as the "art and science of writing" — often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them. Design Discourse offers insights into the high-stakes decisions made by program designers as they seek to "function at the intersection of the practical and the abstract, the human and the technical."

Educational Psychology

Kelvin Seifert, University of Manitoba
Rosemary Sutton, Cleveland State University

In general the first half of the book focuses on broader questions and principles taken from psychology per se, and the second half focuses on somewhat more practical issues of teaching. But the division between “theory” and “practice” is only approximate; all parts of the book draw on research, theory, and practical wisdom wherever appropriate.