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Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines and Effective Practice from Around Globe
Copyright Year: 2008
Contributors: Hirtz and Harper
Publisher: BCcampus
License: CC BY-SA
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. It offers practical, contemporary guidance to support e-learning decision-making, instructional choices, as well as program and course planning, and development.
(10 reviews)
WAC and Second-Language Writers: Research Towards Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs and Practices
Copyright Year: 2014
Contributors: Zawacki and Cox
Publisher: WAC Clearinghouse
License: CC BY-NC-ND
In WAC and Second-Language Writers, the editors and contributors pursue the ambitious goal of including within WAC theory, research, and practice the differing perspectives, educational experiences, and voices of second-language writers. The chapters within this collection not only report new research but also share a wealth of pedagogical, curricular, and programmatic practices relevant to second-language writers. Representing a range of institutional perspectives—including those of students and faculty at public universities, community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and English-language schools—and a diverse set of geographical and cultural contexts, the editors and contributors report on work taking place in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
(5 reviews)
Writing Programs Worldwide: Profiles of Academic Writing in Many Places
Copyright Year: 2012
Contributors: Thaiss, Bräuer, Carlino, Ganobcsik-Williams, and Sinha
Publisher: WAC Clearinghouse
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Emerging from the International WAC/WID Mapping Project, this collection of essays is meant to inform decision-making by teachers, program managers, and college/university administrators considering how writing can most appropriately be defined, managed, funded, and taught in the places where they work. Writing Programs Worldwide offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs. The authors of its program profiles show how innovators at a diverse range of universities on six continents have dealt creatively over many years with day-to-day and long-range issues affecting how students across disciplines and languages grow as communicators and learners.
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Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Hewett, DePew, Guler, and Zeff Warner
Publisher: WAC Clearinghouse
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction, edited by Beth L. Hewett and Kevin Eric DePew, with associate editors Elif Guler and Robbin Zeff Warner, addresses the questions and decisions that administrators and instructors most need to consider when developing online writing programs and courses. Written by experts in the field (members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee for Effective Practices in OWI and other experts and stakeholders), the contributors to this collection explain the foundations of the recently published (2013) A Position Statement of Principles and Examples Effective Practices for OWI and provide illustrative practical applications. To that end, in every chapter, the authors address issues of inclusive and accessible writing instruction (based upon physical and mental disability, linguistic ability, and socioeconomic challenges) in technology enhanced settings.
(7 reviews)
Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design: Curriculum and Instruction for Students with Developmental Disabilities/Autism Spectrum Disorders
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Sennott and Loman
Publisher: Portland State University Library
License: CC BY-NC
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.
(14 reviews)
Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for designing teaching and learning - 2nd Edition
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributor: Bates
Publisher: BCcampus
License: CC BY-NC
Teachers, instructors and faculty are facing unprecedented change, with often larger classes, more diverse students, demands from government and employers who want more accountability and the development of graduates who are workforce ready, and above all, we are all having to cope with ever changing technology. To handle change of this nature, teachers and instructors need a base of theory and knowledge that will provide a solid foundation for their teaching, no matter what changes or pressures they face.
(24 reviews)