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New ebook: The Prize and the Price :: Shaping sexualities in South Africa
What is the Prize, and who pays the Price? The desired and the desirable are often constellated through our ideas of what is undesired and undesirable, deeply knotted into our sense of self, our sense of where and how we fit into the world. These notions of desire form the backdrop to this powerful volume which examines the historical continuities and interruptions of heteronormativity in South African society.
The Power of Educational Technology: 21st Century Technology Tools (great ebook)
This new edition includes updated screenshots for Delicious, Ning and Google Docs.There are tutorials for Google Reader, Twitter and Flickr. You can download the book for free or order it from Lulu.
Guidelines For Authors Of Learning Objects
This guide explores the what, why and how of learning objects. It offers practical advice for designing for usability — and reusability; for keeping your learning objects learner-centered and learner-driven; for aligning with current metadata standards; and for making your objects accessible. It includes tips for “marketing” your finished work and points you to resources for follow-up information.
Learning Leaders Fieldbook
Senior learning leaders live a precarious life these days. As a result of our tumultuous global economy, we’re witnessing massive change in the world of business and within learning organizations. The role that learning plays within the larger context of business is evolving too.
We hope you enjoy the opportunity to get into the minds of these learning leaders and look forward to your feedback on The Learning Leader Fieldbook. I believe you’ll find that learning from these leaders’ successes and mistakes will prove invaluable as you continue your own learning career.
What Was a Wiki, and Why Do I Care? A Short and Usable History of Wikis”
A book about wikis on a wiki
Mobile Learning: Transforming The Delivery Of Education And Training
The References Notes blog is devoted to providing profiles of significant or substantive developments and news of potential interest to Reference and Research Librarians worldwide.
Educating the Net Generation - a free ebook
The Net Generation has grown up with information technology. The aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students reflect the environment in which they were raised—one that is decidedly different from that which existed when faculty and administrators were growing up.
This collection explores the Net Gen and the implications for institutions in areas such as teaching, service, learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum. Contributions by educators and students are included. Professional printing options are available.
How to Use the Web to Transform the World- free ebook
Benko provides the reader with a gentle guide through the dark forests of political advocacy on the Internet. A must read for anyone wishing to understand how the Internet is changing politics forever. ""
Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning
This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities.
Atomic Learning's eBook on How to Flatten Your Classroom
An eBook From Atomic Learning: Seven Steps to Flatten Your Classroom
Free Ebook: Getting IT Right - Understanding IT better by G.Ram Kumar
"Getting IT Right" is for folks who have no clue about Information Technology and its ability in bettering our day-to-day lives. It introduces novices into the world of IT and helps in knowing what's in store by becoming computer savvy. This book serves as a primer and makes the reader aware of what IT can do and how much can be accomplished by harnessing its power. Learning IT is not that tough as it is being made out. Mind you, without IT skills you are nowhere in today’s workplace. This book would help you form an idea what IT is all about and prepare you to pick up the rudiments of IT.
E-book: Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits
Informal science is a burgeoning field that operates across a broad range of venues and envisages learning outcomes for individuals, schools, families, and society. The evidence base that describes informal science, its promise, and effects is informed by a range of disciplines and perspectives, including field-based research, visitor studies, and psychological and anthropological studies of learning.
Learning Science in Informal Environments draws together disparate literatures, synthesizes the state of knowledge, and articulates a common framework for the next generation of research on learning science in informal environments across a life span. Contributors include recognized experts in a range of disciplines--research and evaluation, exhibit designers, program developers, and educators. They also have experience in a range of settings--museums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, aquariums, zoos, state parks, and botanical gardens.
Learning Science in Informal Environments is an invaluable guide for program and exhibit designers, evaluators, staff of science-rich informal learning institutions and community-based organizations, scientists interested in educational outreach, federal science agency education staff, and K-12 science educators.
Learning 2.0 eBook - Free
A free eBook about Learning 2.0 - the blending of traditional learning approaches with the new tools of the social Web (blogs, wikis, social networks, etc.). It intended as a general introduction to how approaches to learning have evolved over time and what impact the new technologies dubbed “Web 2.0” are having. I have been told by many who have read it that it has also been a great tool for helping to educate others in their organization.
Twitter for Teachers: a collaborative effort to teach teachersd about twitter
This site is trying to write a collaborative e-book about twitter for the use of teachers
Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference to be downloaded
The ultimate Ubuntu book!
Written by award-winning author Keir Thomas, Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is a totally unique and concise guide for everyday Ubuntu use. It's the world's most popular Ubuntu book, with over 150,000 people already having read it!
* Focuses on core competencies and background knowledge needed to be an expert Ubuntu user;
* Readable, accessible, and easy to understand—even if you've never used Linux before;
* 100% new and original! Written from the ground-up to cover Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10.
The RPL Conundrum -Recognition of Prior Learning in a Teacher Upgrading Programme
The practice of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in the education of adults seeks to affirm and accredit the knowledge and skills which they have already attained in the course of their working lives. This monograph explores the implementation of RPL in a programme designed to upgrade tens of thousands of under-qualified teachers and finds a baffling dilemma: how does one value prior learning which one believes to be misguided, outdated, or inappropriate?
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