Education
Book Collections & Textbooks
Early Childhood Education Collection
Eight ECE course textbooks available in both English and Spanish; College of the Canyons (through the Open Educational Resources) provided the English textbooks used for translation. format: .pdf files
Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines and Effective Practice from Around Globe
Contains a collection of strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process. Offers contemporary guidance to support e-learning decision-making, instructional choices, as well as program and course planning, and development.
Indigenous Teaching Methodologies
"David D. Plain is a member of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation (Ojibwa) and a grandson of Chief On The Plain. He holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Tyndale University College and Seminary, Toronto, Canada. Always a lover of history, he has devoted much time and effort to his family's genealogy and how it has affected the history of the Ahnishenahbek of Aamjiwnaang. David has published five titles through Trafford Publishing. One title, "The Plains of Aamjiwnaang" won a Golden Scribe Award for excellence in the non-fiction category in 2008 and it was also a Finalist in the 2014 Eric Hoffer Awards."
Introduction to Curriculum for Early Childhood Education
Addresses how to effectively plan curriculum for young children. Covers: Developing curriculum through the planning cycle; Theories that inform what we know about how children learn and the best ways for teachers to support learning; The three components of developmentally appropriate practice; Importance and value of play and intentional teaching; Different models of curriculum;Process of lesson planning (documenting planned experiences for children); Physical, temporal, and social environments that set the stage for children’s learning; guidance techniques to support children’s behaviors as the self-regulation abilities mature; Planning for preschool-aged children in specific domains.
Teaching in a Digital Age – Second Edition
“The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when all of us, 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.”
Repositories & Research
- The Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME): "JIME is a peer reviewed open access online journal in educational technology that focuses on the implications and use of digital media in higher or post-compulsory education. It aims to foster a multidisciplinary and intellectually rigorous debate on both the theory and practice of interactive media in higher or post-compulsory education. JIME was launched in September, 1996."
- The Teaching Commons: From UMass Amherst, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, and multimedia. Librarian-curated and built on the Digital Commons platform.
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