Faculty and Staff Resources: Professional Development

Distance education today offers more than teaching and learning online. Honed through years of experience and grounded in distance education research, the tips selected for this book are placed in the respected framework of the instructional design process: pre-planning, planning, developing, implementing, evaluating.

Building a sense of community in the classroom is key to fostering a safe and supportive environment for learning. Icebreakers are designed specifically for this purpose – to create that sense of a community of learners, working together.

To help adults learn, you must go beyond subject matter expertise. This book offers you a lot of strategies in just a little time. It's structured around basic questions for you to consider as you begin preparing to train or teach.

For the first time in history, there are now four generations of adults living, working and learning within the same society. It sets a tone for the explosion of change that society faces in the 21st century. The day of the multi-age classroom is here. Generational Learning Styles is a pioneering work intended to provide you with guidelines for meeting the challenges of multiple generations in school, work and society.

Look around at today’s youth and you can see how technology has changed their lives. How does the new, charged-up, multitasking generation respond to traditional textbooks and lectures? Are we effectively reaching today’s technologically advanced youth? Rewired is the first book to help educators and parents teach to this new generation’s radically different learning styles and needs.

With each new era, educators must examine the cultural and technological changes that define the times in order to reflect or incorporate them into teaching practice. The Dynamic Classroom: Engaging Students in Higher Education submits that there is no single method for the current era or any other era, and accordingly approaches this crucial question from multiple angles in a collection of fourteen best-practices papers.