Excellence in College Teaching and Learning: Classroom and Online Instruction

This book will improve the quality of instruction that college students need. It makes numerous suggestions that must be tended to when teachers instruct students. For example, the authors speculate about ways teachers can present what may at times seem to be a mountain of information without burying students under it; why teachers must continually update their Internet skills; and whether courses are taught on campus or online, they should not be academic fluff or pedagogical gimmicks. Throughout the book the authors punctuate sentences and paragraphs with metaphors, similes, hyperboles, and ironies in order to adequately capture a panoramic view of the consonance and dissonance that characterizes effective and ineffective teaching. Scattered throughout the book are suggestions about ways teachers can become more responsive to students. For example, it provides suggestions on how classroom and online teachers can consciously manage sounds, movements, colors, and the other aspects of teaching as though they were like drama, music, ballet, or literature in order to keep students attentive. This is one of the few books that give equal attention to teaching classroom and online courses. Face-to-face teaching is more art than science, so the first part of the book is interpersonally expansive. Online teaching is more technology and science than art. Therefore, the second part of the book is more straightforward, less interpersonal. By reading this book, teachers will find out what will work for him or her, and it provides a lot of interesting information about other teachers, including the authors. Also provided are succinct overviews of several instructional methods, including their theoretical foundations, that can be used independently or together to enhance the education of college students. Many of the topics discussed in one chapter are revisited in later ones. This spiral approach to learning is actually repetition and supplementation for knowledge transfer. The exercises at the end of each chapter serve dual purposes: they are both self-assessments and summaries of selected data. The book will serve as an excellent resource for would-be, new, and experienced teachers as well as professional development staff and librarians.

Education & Teaching

Susan Smith Nash

George, Henderson

Higher & Continuing Education

Charles C. Thomas Pub Ltd

A young woman travels through the American West looking for lost treasure based on maps, tales, and partially-reveals secrets. Along the way, she finds mystery and perhaps love. A series of episodes in a mosaic form that come together to create a novel that explores a young female geologist and her relationship with her scientist father -- a man who creates machines that heal, detect metals and oil, and measure the auras of individuals. Ophelia, who has suffered from seizure disorder since her young teenage years, is emotionally fragile and yet finds great strength and acceptance in the quirky eccentricity of a father whose basement laboratory seems at times to belong to a benign Dr. Frankenstein, or a cheerfully cloud-busting Wilhelm Reich. With her father, Ophelia constructs maps, gathers data, and organizes treasure hunts and explorations for gold and precious minerals. Drawn to eccentric characters as much as she is drawn to treasure maps and quests for gold and oil, Ophelia falls in love with a young man who has embarked on his own quest for a rapprochement with his father -- a Vietnam veteran who must journey through time, memory, and the jungles of Laos, where treasures were found and smuggled out of the country.

Ophelia's Gold

Texture Press

After a terrible mix-up with a paintball gun and a backpack leading to fears of school violence, 15-year-old Kithie is asked to head up a Good Deeds Society at her school. She teams up with her 10-year-old brother, a computer genius with video games and ringtones. In the meantime, Kithie tries to solve the mystery of what happened to Gus's dad, and who is stalking her mom, the former child star of a tv show featuring a family of vampires. A pop star dogged by tabloids, a tarantula-loving soccer star, a frisky hamster, and an unusual principal figure into the mix. In the meantime, Kithie confronts her own sense of loss and the chaos that is her family.

Good Deeds Society

Children's Books

Leverage Moodle 4.0's improved UX features and new tools to create effective courses in today's competitive world of online learning, including blended live and on-demand delivery Key Features Design courses that are easy to navigate and have easy-to-use productivity tools Effectively incorporate text, audio, video, and graphics that are ADA compliant and meet the needs of all kinds of learners Build the best assessment tools for your learning objectives Book Description 
Moodle 4.0 maintains its flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use platform while adding impressive new features to enhance the user experience for student success. 
This updated edition addresses the opportunities that come with a major update in Moodle 4.0. You'll learn how to determine the best way to use the Moodle platform's new features and configure your courses to align with your overall goals, vision, and even accreditation review needs. You'll discover how to plan an effective course with the best mix of resources and engaging assessments that really show what the learner has accomplished, and also keep them engaged and interested. This book will show you how to ensure that your students enjoy their collaborations and truly learn from each other. You'll get a handle on generating reports and monitoring exactly how the courses are going and what to do to get them back on track. While doing this, you can use Moodle 4.0's new navigation features to help keep students from getting “lost.” Finally, you'll be able to incorporate functionality boosters and accommodate the changing needs and goals of our evolving world. 
By the end of this Moodle book, you'll be able to build and deploy your educational program to align with learning objectives and include an entire array of course content. What you will learn Build courses that emphasize the achievement of learning objectives Write a variety of effective quizzes that can be taken online and offline Make the most of the navigation and user experience improvements made to Moodle 4.0 Build courses that reflect current interactive teaching practices, including hybrid learning with web conferencing Optimize all kinds of content – text, graphics, audio, video, and recorded webcasts Encourage student engagement and collaboration Incorporate functionality builders for more responsive and adaptive learning Who this book is for 
This book is for novice as well as experienced course developers who want to incorporate Moodle 4.0's powerful features and make life easier for students, instructors, and administrators. The powerful and flexible Moodle platform will also help with accreditation and for deploying across devices to people in diverse situations. Table of Contents A Guided Tour of Moodle Installing Moodle and Configuring Your Site Creating Categories and Courses Managing Resources, Activities, and Conditional Access Adding Resources to Your Moodle Course Adding Assignments, Lessons, Feedback, and Choice Evaluating Students with Quizzes Getting Social with Chats and Forums Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries Running a Workshop Groups and Cohorts Extending Your Course by Adding Blocks Features for Teachers: Logs, Reports, Guides

Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development: The definitive guide to creating great courses in Moodle 4.0 using instructional design principles, 5th Edition

Computers & Technology

William Rice

Web Development & Design

Packt Publishing - ebooks Account

Otozna Boginja

Katalozni

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