Disruptions and Civic Education
subject: Educational strategies Education Civics and citizenship
description: https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/162884#:~:text=This%20book%20examines,of%20life%20uncertainty.
creator: Kerry J Kennedy
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/104198/9789819658756.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Augmented Education in the Global Age
subject: Education Artificial Intelligence Education administration
description: Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work is an edited collection that explores the social impact of Artificial Intelligence over the coming decades, specifically how this emerging technology will transform and disrupt our contemporary institutions.
creator: Daniel Araya Peter Marber
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/103139/9781000870817.pdf
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2023
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

A Practical Guide to Understanding and Implementing Challenge-Based Learning
subject: Education, Teaching
description: This open access book maps the role of challenge-based learning (CBL) in the transformation of higher education pedagogy, towards being sector-informed as well as student-driven. CBL democratises the process of learning by repositioning students as drivers, who are empowered to make decisions on course content, assess needs in the real world and develop opinions. Teachers monitor student learning and engagement and mentor students to express their needs. Chapters showcase existing CBL practices in different settings, and include case studies which detail the practical application of CBL in multiple contexts. The authors develop an emerging theory of practical learning based on the insights of the curriculum designers, practitioners and students. The book will be of interest to researchers, teacher educators/trainers and research supervisors in higher education.
creator: Dikilitaş, Kenan , Marshall, Tim , Shahverdi, Masoumeh
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98548/1/9783031670114.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2025
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice
subject: Educational Materials
description: As so often is the case, the idea for this book came from a twisting path. Not long after we began collaborating and presenting together at conferences, we were invited to draft a chapter on critical race theory (CRT) in academic libraries. An invited chapter is, of course, very flattering, so we proceeded without much thought to who the publisher would be. Angela had been working on social justice issues for a while at that point, while CJ had a wealth of expertise on open educational resources (OER). We merged our two areas of expertise in drafting that chapter, discussing OER as an opportunity to not only save students money but incorporate CRT into the curriculum—both in content and in practice.
creator: Kevin Adams, Murray Anderson, Elissah Becknell, et al
source: https://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/booksanddigitalresources/digital/9780838936771_OA.pdf
publisher: Association of College and Research Libraries
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Opening Eyes onto Inclusion and Diversity
subject: Education
description: This book is for any reader who wishes to learn more about the rich tapestry of learners and 3 individuals who make our world such an interesting and diversely textured community. Although our focus is largely on diversity and inclusion in Australian educational contexts we believe that the perspectives and insights presented within each chapter have much to offer the broader community as a whole.
creator: Susan Carter, Lindy Abawi, Jill Lawrence,
source: https://usq.pressbooks.pub/openingeyes/open/download
publisher: University of Southern Queensland
date: 2019
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Foundations of American Education: A Critical Lens
subject: Education
description: Readers will explore the foundations of American education through a critical lens. Topics include the teaching profession, influences on student learning, philosophical and historical foundations, structures of schools, ethical and legal issues, curriculum, classroom environment, and the path forward.
creator: Courtney Clayton
source: https://viva.pressbooks.pub/foundationsofamericaneducation/
publisher: VIVA
date: 2021
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Microbiology: A Laboratory Experience
subject: Laboratory Experience
description: As a group of organisms that are too small to see and best known for being agents of disease and death, microbes are not always appreciated for the numerous supportive and positive contributions they make to the living world. Designed to support a course in microbiology, Microbiology: A Laboratory Experience permits a glimpse into both the good and the bad in the microscopic world. The laboratory experiences are designed to engage and support student interest in microbiology as a topic, field of study, and career.
creator: Holly Ahern
source: https://milneopentextbooks.org/microbiology-a-laboratory-experience/
publisher: Milne Open Textbooks
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Foundations of Educational Technology
subject: Educational Technology
description: This text provides a a graduate level introduction to the field of educational technology.
creator: Penny Thompson
source: https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/323771/Foundations-of-Educational-Technology-1556900633._print.pdf
publisher: Oklahoma State University
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Instructional Design Technology
subject: Foundations of Learning and Instructional Design Technology
description: What is this field?" "Where have we come from as a discipline, and where are we going?" "What do I want to study?" These and other questions are typical for new students in the field of Learning and Instructional Design Technology. This textbook is designed to help answer these questions and provide the quickest route to understanding the history and current trends in the field. After surveying classic theories and writings, as well as more recent applications of theory and practice, students will be better prepared to chart their own course and careers within the discipline. This book is designed to support foundations courses common in departments, as well as seminars on current trends and issues.
creator: Richard E> West
source: Brigham Young University
publisher: EdTech Books
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Digital Transformation of Learning Organizations
subject: Education
description: This open access volume provides insight into how organizations change through the adoption of digital technologies. Opportunities and challenges for individuals as well as the organization are addressed. It features four major themes: 1. Current research exploring the theoretical underpinnings of digital transformation of organizations. 2. Insights into available digital technologies as well as organizational requirements for technology adoption. 3. Issues and challenges for designing and implementing digital transformation in learning organizations. 4. Case studies, empirical research findings, and examples from organizations which successfully adopted digital workplace learning.
creator: Ifenthaler, Dirk --- Hofhues, Sandra --- Egloffstein, Marc --- Helbig, Christian
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/46121/2021_Book_DigitalTransformationOfLearnin.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2021
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom
subject: Teaching Autoethnography,Writing
description: Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethnographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. This book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation, but also on theories and sensibilities from creative writing and performance studies, which encourage self-reflection and narrative composition. Concepts from qualitative inquiry studies, which examine everyday life, are combined with approaches to the creation of character and scene to help writers develop engaging narratives that examine chosen subcultures and the author’s position in relation to her research subjects. The book brings together a brief history of first-person qualitative research and writing from the past forty years, examining the evolution of nonfiction and qualitative approaches in relation to the personal essay. A selection of recent student writing in the genre as well as reflective student essays on the experience of conducting research in the classroom is presented in the context of exercises for coursework and beyond. Also explored in detail are guidelines for interviewing and identifying subjects and techniques for creating informed sketches and images that engage the reader
creator: Melissa Tombro
source: https://textbooks.opensuny.org/teaching-autoethnography/
publisher: Open SUNY Textbooks
date: Open SUNY Textbooks,
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

STUDENT SUCCESS
subject: STUDENT
description: In Unit One, you will have the opportunity to identify your self-talk habits and how it impacts your everyday life and college success. You will learn about growth and fixed mindset as it relates to learning. We often think we are open to learning yet, we can create our own mental blocks. We will review emotional intelligence and the importance of navigating your responses to unexpected outcomes. We will highlight the information processing system and learn how the brain has to decide if it should keep new information or discard it. We will then transition to the learning process where you will identify the four stages of the learning process and preferred learning styles. As a college student you will be challenged with academic expectations by the institution and college professors. We would like to highlight academic study skills to help you overcome challenges in your academic life.
creator: Graciela Martinez, Anh Nguyen, & Liz Shaker
source: https://www.canyons.edu/Offices/DistanceLearning/Documents/Open%20Textbooks/Counseling150_Version3.pdf
publisher: College of the Canyons
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Develop a portfolio to demonstrate school leadership & management competence
subject: school, leadership , management
description: As a student on the ACE programme for school leadership you will be actively involved in a learning process aimed at developing or improving your competencen in respect of a range of areas relating to your management and leadership role in the school system. You will also be continuously assessed through a variety of formal and informal assessment methods. The main purpose of these assessments will be to gather evidence of your achievements against the outcomes described in the exit level outcomes of the qualification (see Text 1 in your Reader). At the end of the programme all the results from these assessments will be considered in deciding whether you have met the requirements to be awarded the ACE qualification.
creator: Department of Education
source: https://www.oercommons.org
publisher: Department of Education
date: 2008
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creartive Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Intercultural Learning : Critical preparation for international student travel
subject: Intercultural Learning
description: International student exchanges are an increasingly popular aspect of the internationalisation of higher education around the globe. Whether as short-term mobility projects or semester long ‘study abroad’ opportunities, the benefits of such international study experiences have been well documented. Higher education institutions, departments and disciplines, or individual academics are often tasked with preparing students for such international experiences. Such preparation often focuses on the practical and logistical aspects of student travel, overlooking a crucial dimension of student learning.
creator: Peter Jones, Debra Miles, Narayan Gopalkrishnan,
source: https://open.umn.edu
publisher: Independent
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Ebook

Higher Education in The Era of The Fourth Industrial Revolution
subject: Technology
description: In a July 2017 piece in Inside Higher Ed, Joshua Kim asked: “Why is it that books about technological-induced economic change tend to focus on every other information industry except for higher education?” The answer is because no one knows quite what is happening yet. It is too new. The automation economy, resulting from the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), is changing the way we live and work. Information transfer is no longer the sole purview of institutions of higher education (HE). Information is everywhere and the collection of big data means we have brand new kinds of information. Several good books have already been released on what needs to change in HE, but they lack a detailed perspective on how some elements of HE—liberal arts, youth themselves, and libraries—are already changing, as well as what nations are doing to adapt their HE institutions. HE is changing around the world already as a result of the fast-shifting global economy and the types of employees and thinkers it demands. This book offers a first glimpse at new global trends in HE, and how nations around the world are responding in their national HE systems in order to provide readers insights into how that is already happening on the ground and what is likely to come next. HE will have to change, quickly, in collaboration with governments and industry to respond to the automation of knowledge and production.
creator: Nancy W. Gleason
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Educational Psychology
subject: Educational psychology
description: A teacher named Ashley reflects: She looked around the classroom, enjoying a blessed moment of quiet after the students left at the end of the day. “Ashley, the teacher, that’s me”, she said proudly to the empty room. “But why am I doing this?” she asked herself quietly—and realized she wasn’t always sure of the answer. But then she remembered one reason: she was teaching for Nadia, who sat at the table to the left, always smiled so well and always (well, usually) tried hard. And another reason: she was teaching for Lincoln, tired old Lincoln, who needed her help more than he realized. She remembered twenty other reasons—twenty other students. And one last reason: she was also teaching for herself, challenging herself to see if she really could keep up with twenty-two young people at once, and really accomplish something worthwhile with them. She was teaching so she could keep growing as a person, keep connecting with others, keep learning new ideas. That’s why she was teaching.
creator: Kelvin Seifert, Rosemary Sutton,
source: https://open.umn.edu
publisher: Independent
date: 2009
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media
subject: Teaching Crowds
description: Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology, learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured and delivered in closed contexts, through learning management systems (LMS). However, while traditional "classroom" learning is by no means obsolete, networked learning is in the ascendant. A foundational method in online and blended education, as well as the most common means of informal and self-directed learning, networked learning is rapidly becoming the dominant mode of teaching as well as learning. 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. Recognizing that online learning both demands and affords new models of teaching and learning, the authors show how learners can engage with social media platforms to create an unbounded field of emergent connections. These connections empower learners, allowing them to draw from one another’s expertise to formulate and fulfill their own educational goals. In an increasingly networked world, developing such skills will, they argue, better prepare students to become self-directed, lifelong learners.
creator: Jon Dron
creator: Terry Anderson
publisher: Athabasca University Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Technical Writing
subject: Writing
description: This open textbook offers students of technical writing an introduction to the processes and products involved in professional, workplace, and technical writing. The text is broken up into sections reflecting key components of researching, developing, and producing a technical report. Readers will also learn about other professional communication, designing documents, and creating and integrating graphics. Written especially for an academic setting, this book provides readers with guidance on information literacy and documenting sources. This book was collected, adapted, and edited from multiple openly licensed sources.
creator: Annemarie Hamlin
creator: Chris Rubio
publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Working With Academic Literacies: Case Studies Towards Transformative Practice
subject: Academic Literacies
description: The editors and contributors to this collection explore what it means to adopt an "academic literacies" approach in policy and pedagogy. Transformative practice is illustrated through case studies and critical commentaries from teacher-researchers working in a range of higher education contexts—from undergraduate to postgraduate levels, across disciplines, and spanning geopolitical regions including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cataluña, Finland, France, Ireland, Portugal, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Key questions addressed include: How can a wider range of semiotic resources and technologies fruitfully serve academic meaning and knowledge making? What kinds of writing spaces do we need and how can these be facilitated? How can theory and practice from "Academic Literacies" be used to open up debate about writing pedagogy at institutional and policy levels?
creator: Theresa Lillis
creator: Kathy Harrington
creator: Mary Lea
creator: Sally Mitchell
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Mind, Body, World: Foundations of Cognitive Science
subject: Mind, Body, World
description: Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field’s immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition is information processing, cognitive science initially seemed more unified than psychology. However, as a result of differing interpretations of the foundational assumption and dramatically divergent views of the meaning of the term information processing, three separate schools emerged: classical cognitive science, connectionist cognitive science, and embodied cognitive science. Examples, cases, and research findings taken from the wide range of phenomena studied by cognitive scientists effectively explain and explore the relationship among the three perspectives. Intended to introduce both graduate and senior undergraduate students to the foundations of cognitive science, Mind, Body, World addresses a number of questions currently being asked by those practicing in the field: What are the core assumptions of the three different schools? What are the relationships between these different sets of core assumptions? Is there only one cognitive science, or are there many different cognitive sciences? Giving the schools equal treatment and displaying a broad and deep understanding of the field, Dawson highlights the fundamental tensions and lines of fragmentation that exist among the schools and provides a refreshing and unifying framework for students of cognitive science.
creator: Michael Dawson
publisher: Athabasca University Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

How to Learn Like a Pro!
subject: Education
description: How to Learn Like a Pro! features the “big six” effective learning/study skills topics: learning styles and preferences, time and materials management, critical thinking and reading, note-taking, memory principles, and test-taking techniques. Each of the six units featuring a total of twenty-three lessons and accompanying exercises (with a dash of humor here and there) were developed with the diverse student body of the community college in mind as well as learners in other educational venues.
creator: Phyllis Nissila
publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Genre in a Changing World
subject: Changing World
description: Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions and educational settings. Genre in a Changing World, edited by Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo, provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, North and South America, were selected from more than 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies), held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction
subject: Online Writing
description: 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. The five parts of this book attempt to cover the most important issues relevant to principle-centered OWI: (1) An OWI Primer, (2) OWI Pedagogy and Administrative Decisions, (3) Practicing Inclusivity in OWI, (4) Faculty and Student Preparation for OWI, and (5) New Directions in OWI. Working from the belief that most writing courses eventually will be mediated online to various degrees, the editors offer principles and practices that will allow this collection to inform future composition theory and praxis. To this end, the editors hope that the guidance provided in this collection will encourage readers to join a conversation about designing OWI practices, contributing to the scholarship about OWI, and reshaping OWI theory.
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis
subject: Exploring Perspectives
description: The reason why Randall Fallows wrote Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis is simple: to help give students a better understanding of how to discover, develop, and revise an analytical essay. Here is how his 5 chapter book goes about doing just that: The first two chapters focus on the nature of an analysis and what’s involved in writing an analytical essay. Randall shows that analysis consists of a balance of assertions (statements which present their viewpoints or launch an exploration of their concerns), examples (specific passages/scenes/events which inspire these views), explanations (statements that reveal how the examples support the assertions), and significance (statements which reveal the importance of their study to personal and/or cultural issues). After showing why each feature should be present throughout an essay, he reveals how to "set the stage" for producing one of their own. He first helps students to evaluate their own views on a subject and to examine how these views emerge from their own experiences, values and judgments. He, then, shows them how to research what others have said about the subject and provides suggestions for evaluating and incorporating this research into their own perspectives. Finally, Randall discusses the nature of writing, not as a linear procedure, but as a recursive process where the discovery and clarification of a concept occur simultaneously. The remaining three chapters reveal more specific advice on how to develop an analytical essay. Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis by Randall Fallows is a great text to prepare any student to write analytical essays for the argument and persuasion courses.
creator: Randall Fallows
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines and Effective Practice from Around Globe
subject: Education
description: 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. Practical advice, real-life examples, case studies, and useful resources supply in-depth perspectives about structuring and fostering socially engaging learning in an online environment. A plethora of e-learning topics provide insights, ideas, and usable tools. Tips and evidence-based theory guide administrators, program and course developers, project teams, and teachers through the development of online learning opportunities. Education for a Digital World is an indispensable guide, resource, textbook and manual for policymakers and practitioners in developing and developed countries.
creator: Sandy Hirtz
creator: David Harper
publisher: BCcampus
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Conventions 101: A Functional Approach to Teaching (And Assessing!) Grammar and Punctuation
subject: Teaching
description: This is a collection of cumulative units of study for conventional errors common in student writing. It’s flexible, functional, and zeroes in problems typically seen in writing of all types, from the eternal “there/they’re/their” struggle to correct colon use. Units are organized from most simple to most challenging
creator: Chauna Ramsey
publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design: Curriculum and Instruction for Students with Developmental Disabilities/Autism Spectrum Disorders
subject: Curriculum
subject: Instructional
description: 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.
creator: Samuel Sennott
creator: Sheldon Loman
publisher: Portland State University Library
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research
subject: Academic Research
description: Choosing & Using Sources presents a process for academic research and writing, from formulating your research question to selecting good information and using it effectively in your research assignments. Additional chapters cover understanding types of sources, searching for information, and avoiding plagiarism. Each chapter includes self-quizzes and activities to reinforce core concepts and help you apply them. There are also appendices for quick reference on search tools, copyright basics, and fair use.
publisher: Ohio State University Libraries
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

7th Grade Science for Utah SEEd Standards
subject: Science
creator: Utah State Board of Education OER
publisher: CK-12 Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Adult and Continuing Education in Norway
subject: Education
description: The European arena of lifelong learning offers rich country-specific portfolios of historical trajectories, policy frameworks and practical evidence of adult and continuing education. This book provides an introduction to the case of Norway and outlines the key features of the Norwegian system alongside issues such as political and legal agendas, schemes of participation, provision and financing or trends in professionalization, research areas and transnational linkages. Through the lens of adult and continuing education, the author invites researchers, practitioners, students and persons interested in international-comparative perspectives to a tour d'horizon of the Norwegian lifelong learning landscape.
creator: Sturla Bjerkaker,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: W. Bertelsmann Verlag, Bielefeld
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Quality Management For Science And Technology
subject: Quality Management
subject: Technology
description: We will first define and discuss some common definitions and measures of quality that have been put forward by quality philosophers. Next we will provide an overview of the historical development of quality management. In the third major section of this module we describe the eight different dimensions of quality used for analysing quality characteristics. An important measure of the effectiveness of quality management activities is the cost associated with the achievement and nonachievement of product or service quality as a result of these activities. The following section presents the prevention-appraisal-failure (PAF) model of costs of quality which has been widely adopted in different industries. To give a historical perspective to all these quality definitions, we will also discuss how different quality paradigms have emerged over the years due to changes in customer demands, technology and social environments.
creator: The Open University of Hong Kong
publisher: The Open University of Hong Kong
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Scientific Research Methods
subject: Methods
creator: The Open University of Hong Kong
publisher: The Open University of Hong Kong
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Instrumentation and Testing Techniques
subject: Instrumentation
subject: Testing Techniques
creator: The Open University of Hong Kong
publisher: The Open University of Hong Kong
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Organizational Change in the Field of Education Administration
subject: Education Administration
creator: Theodore Creighton
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

School Personnel Administration and Instructional Supervision
subject: School
subject: Administration
subject: Instructional Supervision
subject: Education
description: Generally, preparation programs remain segmented in topical categories such as finance, leadership, law, curriculum, and yes, personnel. Life does not proceed that way, nor does the day-to-day job of a school administrator. Administrators seldom have the luxury of segmenting their day and spending one hour strictly on legal issues and then the next on student issues, curriculum, or personnel concerns. All these topics are intertwined in the fast-paced administrative problem-solving and decisionmaking processes of the day. For university programs to relate more closely to actual administrative practice there should be an integration of topics across the curriculum and the incorporation of actual field experience assignments throughout the program, as opposed to only the use of case studies in the classroom setting, or when a student is assigned to an internship in a local school or district upon completion of required program coursework (Beyer, 2009).
creator: Theodore Creighton
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Thoughts and Ways of Thinking : Source Theory and Its Applications
subject: Applications
description: "Why do we think differently from one another? Why do religious people adhere to their faith even against reason, whilst atheist thinkers label it “nonsense”? Why do some judges turn more to moral values and others less? Why do we attach different meanings to the same words? These questions can be tackled on psychological or sociological levels, but we can also analyze the subjects on the epistemological level. That is the purpose of this book. Thoughts and Ways of Thinking offers Source Theory as a single explanation for epistemic processes and their religious, legal and linguistic derivatives. The idea is simple: our senses, our understanding, our memory, the testimonies that we trust, and many other objects transmit data to us and so shape our beliefs. In this function they serve as our truth sources. Different beliefs stem from different sources or different hierarchies between same sources. This notion is formalized here through the new tool of Source Calculus, and, after balancing its relativistic consequences by adding pragmatic constraints, it is applied to the philosophies of religion, law and language. With this unified theory, old doubts are framed in new perspectives, and some of them even find their solution."
creator: Benjamin Brown,
source: http://oapen.org/download
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Motivation and the Learning Environment
subject: Learning Environment
subject: Motivation
creator: Lisa White-McNulty
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Methodologies, Tools and New Developments for E-Learning
subject: Methodologies
subject: E-Learning
description: With the resources provided by communication technologies, E-learning has been employed in multiple universities, as well as in wide range of training centers and schools. This book presents a structured collection of chapters, dealing with the subject and stressing the importance of E-learning. It shows the evolution of Elearning, with discussion about tools, methodologies, improvements and new possibilities for long-distance learning. The book is divided into three sections and their respective chapters refer to three macro areas. The first section of the book covers methodologies and tools applied for E-learning, considering collaborative methodologies and specific environments. The second section is about E-learning assessment, highlighting studies about E-learning features and evaluations for different methodologies. The last section deals with the new developments in Elearning, emphasizing subjects like knowledge building in virtual environments, new proposals for architectures in tutoring systems, and case studies.
publisher: InTech
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Six Steps to Job Search Success
subject: Job
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Impact of Open Source Software on Education
subject: Education
subject: Open Source
description: Although the topic of the series is the Impact of Open Source Software (OSS) on Education, we anticipate that other related topics will be addressed, among them almost certainly will be open educational resources (OER) and open courseware (OCW). It is our intent to not only provide a rich resource on the theme of this series, but to also contribute to the larger movement of free content by making the resources that we create widely and freely available. In an effort to do so, a few days after each posting, the articles, discussion, and a briefsummary will be reformatted and made available on WikiEducator as Open Educational Resources. It is our hope that these resources will take a life of their own as they are reused, modified, and returned to the community. This being the case, please be aware that your contributions to this Series might serve as tools for change and progress.
creator: Ken Udas
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Introduction to School Leadership
subject: School Leadership
creator: Angus MacNeil
publisher: Open Stax
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

How does Cognition Influence Emotion
subject: Cognition
subject: Emotion
creator: Mark Pettinelli
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Entrepreneurship Education and Training
subject: Entrepreneurship
subject: Education
description: Entrepreneurship has a tremendous impact on the economic development of a country, so much that entrepreneurship is seen as a solution for the fast changing economic demands worldwide and has been recognized as a path to sustainable economic development. Despite recognition of entrepreneurship on the road to global economic development, a large body of research on the elements of entrepreneurship education remains unresolved. Are these behaviors inherent to human beings, their genetic code, their psychological traits, or can students, young children, and even adults, be taught how to become an entrepreneur? This book presents several chapters following different approaches to answer these questions. Researchers explore education programs in different countries, they show experiences in entrepreneurship education, explain how to teach entrepreneurial skills, cultural issues, and propose some orientations and reflections on entrepreneurship education.
publisher: InTech Journals
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Educational Administration: The Roles of Leadership and Management
description: This module has been peer-reviewed, accepted, and sanctioned by the National Council of the Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA) as a scholarly contribution to the knowledge base in educational administration
creator: National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
publisher: Connexions, Rice University, Houston, Texas
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Arts Integration in Elementary Curriculum
subject: Elementary Curriculum
description: This open textbook was created with the support of an ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Topics include art integration, music integration, physical education / dance integration, and the theoretical foundations of arts integration in education.
creator: Molly Zhou
creator: David Brown
publisher: University System of Georgia
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

A Learning Approach to School Discipline: Problem Solving Instead of Punishing
subject: School Discipline
subject: Learning
subject: Problem Solving
creator: Gary Martin
creator: Angus MacNeil
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

A Cognitive Perspective on Emotion
subject: Cognitive
subject: Emotion
creator: Mark Pettinelli
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

A Different Road To College A Guide For Transitioning To College For Non-traditional Students
subject: Different Road To College
description: A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning Non-Traditional Students is designed to introduce students to the contextual issues of college. Non-traditional students have an ever-growing presence on college campuses, especially community colleges. This open educational resource is designed to engage students in seeing themselves as college students and understanding the complexity of what that means to their lives. Non-traditional students face critical issues surrounding participation and success in college. These critical issues include, but are not limited to, the following Strategies for managing competing needs on their time Difficulty navigating institutional environments Understanding the culture of college Transitional services not in place to the same degree as for “traditional” students Knowledgeable support systems Personal barriers Unpredictable influences on their schedules Work first, study second priorities Paying for college Underprepared foundation skills (Reading, Writing, Math, Computer Literacy, Human Relations, Oral Communication). Most textbooks available on the topic of college transition/success today focus on the traditional 18-year old student and the needs of someone living away from home for the first time.The goal of the book is to help students understand how to select the right college for them and then become acquainted with the inner workings and language of college. The book is designed to be a practical guide for first-generation college students as they navigate potentially unfamiliar topics such as understanding the costs of college beyond tuition, navigating college websites, and defining critical language needed to understand communication regarding the context and culture of the college.
creator: Alise Lamoreaux
publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

21st Century Theories of Education Administration
subject: Education Administration
creator: Joseph Makolandra
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Information Literacy: Research and Collaboration across Disciplines
subject: Information Literacy
description: This collection brings together scholarship and pedagogy from multiple perspectives and disciplines, offering nuanced and complex perspectives on Information Literacy in the second decade of the 21st century. Taking as a starting point the concerns that prompted the Association of Research Libraries (ACRL) to review the Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education and develop the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2015), the chapters in this collection consider six frameworks that place students in the role of both consumer and producer of information within today's collaborative information environments. Contributors respond directly or indirectly to the work of the ACRL, providing a bridge between past/current knowledge and the future and advancing the notion that faculty, librarians, administrators, and external stakeholders share responsibility and accountability for the teaching, learning, and research of Information Literacy.
creator: Barry Maid
publisher: WAC Clearinghouse
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Building Strategy and Performance
subject: Building
description: This book uses a balanced blend of frameworks and illustrations to teach you how to tackle the challenge of driving performance into the future. Kim Warren takes special care with this new textbook, Building Strategy and Performance, to ensure that it delivers instruction on how to deliver strategy powerfully over a sustained period of time. This book helps you to show your students where the levers are that they can control and how to choose what to do, when, and how much to achieve their specific goals. This book effectively outlines the dynamics of strategy, how one drives performance - past, today and into the future. It shows what causes performance to improve or deteriorate and what your students can do to change this trajectory for the better. But don't take our word for it, review the book now to see if it can help you to deliver the kind of tactical strategy course you desire for your students.
creator: Kim Warren
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom
subject: Writing
description: The editors of Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom bring together stories, theories, and research that can further inform the ways in which we situate and address intellectual property issues in our writing classrooms. The essays in the collection identify and describe a wide range of pedagogical strategies, consider theories, present research, explore approaches, and offer both cautionary tales and local and contextual successes that can further inform the ways in which we situate and address intellectual property issues in our teaching.
creator: Martine Rife
creator: Shaun Slattery
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Writing in Knowledge Societies
subject: Writing
description: The editors of Writing in Knowledge Societies provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human activities in workplaces, civic settings, and higher education. Writing in Knowledge Societies helps us conceptualize the ways in which rhetoric and writing work to organize, (re-)produce, undermine, dominate, marginalize, or contest knowledge-making practices in diverse settings, showing the many ways in which rhetoric and writing operate in knowledge-intensive organizations and societies.
creator: Doreen Starke-Meyerring
creator: Anthony Paré
creator: Natasha Artemeva
creator: Miriam Horne
creator: Larissa Yousoubova
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

WAC and Second-Language Writers: Research Towards Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs and Practices
subject: WAC
subject: Second-Language Writers
description: 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.
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

WAC Partnerships Between Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions
subject: WAC Partnerships
description: Working with educators at all academic levels involved in WAC partnerships, the authors and editors of this collection demonstrate successful models of collaboration between schools and institutions so others can emulate and promote this type of collaboration. The chapters in this collection describe and reflect on collaborative partnerships among middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities that are designed to prepare students for the kinds of work and civic engagement required to succeed in and contribute to society. The WAC partnerships celebrated in this collection include frameworks to build connectivity between institutions while addressing Common Core State Standards, academic and non-academic collaborations around science education, WAC partnerships in Argentina and Germany, and both long- and short-term collaborations.
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

ePortfolio Performance Support Systems Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios
subject: ePortfolio
description: 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. Editors Katherine V. Wills and Rich Rice interweave twelve essays that address the ways in which ePortfolios can facilitate sustainable and measureable writing-related student development, assessment and accountability, learning and knowledge transfer, and principles related to universal design for learning, just-in-time support, interaction design, and usability testing.
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom
subject: Teach
subject: Autoethnography
description: Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethnographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. This book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation, but also on theories and sensibilities from creative writing and performance studies, which encourage self-reflection and narrative composition. Concepts from qualitative inquiry studies, which examine everyday life, are combined with approaches to the creation of character and scene to help writers develop engaging narratives that examine chosen subcultures and the author’s position in relation to her research subjects. The book brings together a brief history of first-person qualitative research and writing from the past forty years, examining the evolution of nonfiction and qualitative approaches in relation to the personal essay. A selection of recent student writing in the genre as well as reflective student essays on the experience of conducting research in the classroom is presented in the context of exercises for coursework and beyond. Also explored in detail are guidelines for interviewing and identifying subjects and techniques for creating informed sketches and images that engage the reader. This book provides approaches anyone can use to explore their communities and write about them first-hand. The methods presented can be used for a single assignment in a larger course or to guide an entire semester through many levels and varieties of informed personal writing.
creator: Melissa Tombro
publisher: Open SUNY Textbooks
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Battle for Open: How openness won and why it doesn’t feel like victory
description: With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. This marks a moment of victory for the open education movement, but at the same time the real battle for the direction of openness begins. As with the green movement, openness now has a market value and is subject to new tensions, such as venture capitalists funding MOOC companies. This is a crucial time for determining the future direction of open education. In this volume, Martin Weller examines four key areas that have been central to the developments within open education: open access, MOOCs, open education resources and open scholarship. Exploring the tensions within these key arenas, he argues that ownership over the future direction of openness is significant to all those with an interest in education. (DOI: http://dx.doi.org//10.5334/bam)
creator: Martin Weller
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Ubiquity Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Language of Science Education: An Expanded Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts in Science Teaching and Learning
subject: Language
subject: Education
publisher: Sense Publishing
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom
subject: Academic Success
description: Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom (FAS: WoW) introduces you to the various aspects of student and academic life on campus and prepares you to thrive as a successful college student (since there is a difference between a college student and a successful college student). Each section of FAS: WoW is framed by self-authored, true-to-life short stories from actual State University of New York (SUNY) students, employees, and alumni. The advice they share includes a variety of techniques to help you cope with the demands of college. The lessons learned are meant to enlarge your awareness of self with respect to your academic and personal goals and assist you to gain the necessary skills to succeed in college.
creator: Thomas Priester
publisher: Open SUNY Textbooks
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Educational Learning Theories
subject: Educational Learning
description: This open textbook was the result of a remix of pre-existing open materials collected and reviewed by Molly Zhou and David Brown. Learning theories covered include the theories of Piaget, Bandura, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Dewey, Bronfenbrenner, Eriksen, Gardner, Bloom, and Maslow.
creator: Molly Zhou
creator: David Brown
publisher: University System of Georgia
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Teacher Guide
subject: Teacher Guide
subject: Education
publisher: Core Knowledge Language Arts
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Teachers as Readers
subject: Teacher
subject: Education
creator: Michelle Commeyras
creator: Betty Shockley Bisplinghoff
creator: Jennifer Olson
publisher: Global Text
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Principles and Practice of Case-based Clinical Reasoning Education A Method for Preclinical Students
subject: Clinical Reasoning Education
subject: Preclinical
description: This volume describes and explains the educational method of Case-Based Clinical Reasoning (CBCR) used successfully in medical schools to prepare students to think like doctors before they enter the clinical arena and become engaged in patient care. Although this approach poses the paradoxical problem of a lack of clinical experience that is so essential for building proficiency in clinical reasoning, CBCR is built on the premise that solving clinical problems involves the ability to reason about disease processes. This requires knowledge of anatomy and the working and pathology of organ systems, as well as the ability to regard patient problems as patterns and compare them with instances of illness scripts of patients the clinician has seen in the past and stored in memory. CBCR stimulates the development of early, rudimentary illness scripts through elaboration and systematic discussion of the courses of action from the initial presentation of the patient to the final steps of clinical management. The book combines general backgrounds of clinical reasoning education and assessment with a detailed elaboration of the CBCR method for application in any medical curriculum, either as a mandatory or as an elective course. It consists of three parts: a general introduction to clinical reasoning education, application of the CBCR method, and cases that can used by educators to try out this method.
publisher: Springer Nature
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Teaching in a Digital Age
subject: Teaching
subject: Digital
subject: Computer Science
description: 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. A framework for making decisions about your teaching is provided, while understanding that every subject is different, and every instructor has something unique and special to bring to their teaching. The book enables teachers and instructors to help students develop the knowledge and skills they will need in a digital age: not so much the IT skills, but the thinking and attitudes to learning that will bring them success.
creator: A.W. (Tony) Bates
source: http://solr.bccampus.ca:8001/bcc/file/da50f5f1-bbc6-481e-a359-e73007c66932/1/Teaching-in-a-Digital-Age-1441991869.pdf
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks