Faculty Books and Book Chapters
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Teaching Sexuality in a Multicultural Environment
Steven P. Kurtz
Essays on pedagogy -- Syllabi. General courses on sexuality ; Courses on specific topics in sexuality and gender -- Assignments and exercises -- Instructional resources.
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Dimensions of student success in online learning
Lynne Schrum
The book that emerges from an IFIP Technical Committee World Conference on Computers in Education is complex, and this complexity lies in the nature of the event from which it emerges. Unlike a number of other major international conferences, those organised within the IFIP education community are active events. A WCCE is unique among major international conferences for the structure that deliberately ensures that all attendees are active participants in the development of the debate. In addition to the major paper presentations and discussion, from international authors, there are panel sessions and professional working groups who debate particular themes throughout the event. There is no doubt that this was not a dry academic conference - teachers, lecturers and experts, policy makers and researchers, leamers and manufacturers mingled and worked together to explore, reflect, discuss and plan for the future. The added value of this event was that we know that it will have an impact on future practice; networks will be formed, both virtual and real -ideas will change and new ones will emerge. Capturing the essence of this event is a challenge - this post-conference book has three parts.
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The evolution of workplace tools for group communications and collaboration
Lynne Schrum and Lisa Benson
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Empowering All Learners: Creating Technology Rich, Student Centered Curriculum
Lynne Schrum and Bonnie Bracey
Twenty-three nationally-known educators discuss educational technology and diversity, provide historical and philosophical insights into digital divide issues, and offer practical suggestions for teachers, administrators, and policy makers. This book is designed to help educators understand complex technology issues and to equip them to meet whatever challenges keep their students from having full access to a quality education through technology. It discusses how schools acquire hardware, software, and connectivity, and why some schools experience such success in these endeavors and others are heartbreakingly behind. Perhaps most importantly, it examines the most current research in the effectiveness of technology and pedagogy in diverse settings to make suggestions on how teachers can create powerful learning environments for all students. Technology coordinators, teachers and school administrators.
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Gender issues and considerations: Explicating a systemic dilemma and identifying steps toward remediation
Lynne Schrum and Sandra Geisler
Twenty-three nationally-known educators discuss educational technology and diversity, provide historical and philosophical insights into digital divide issues, and offer practical suggestions for teachers, administrators, and policy makers. This book is designed to help educators understand complex technology issues and to equip them to meet whatever challenges keep their students from having full access to a quality education through technology. It discusses how schools acquire hardware, software, and connectivity, and why some schools experience such success in these endeavors and others are heartbreakingly behind. Perhaps most importantly, it examines the most current research in the effectiveness of technology and pedagogy in diverse settings to make suggestions on how teachers can create powerful learning environments for all students. Technology coordinators, teachers and school administrators.
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Connect online: Web learning adventures
Gwen Solomon and Lynne Schrum
"New!" Introduce yourself to Jay, Peg, and their spotted dog, Link, in Glencoe s new computer education textbook, "Connect Online: Web Learning Adventures." "Connect Online" introduces students to the Internet through the use of hands-on activities and by visiting various websites. Students are introduced to the various tools and methods for communicating and researching on the Internet and World Wide Web. They also learn to explore the Internet through integrated activities in math, science, global studies, language arts, and other topics."
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Identity and difference in textbooks and life
Gabriela Mendez
"Unless, like Rip Van Winkle, you have been asleep for the last decade, you are aware that literacy education is political." So wrote Patrick Shannon more than a decade ago in the introduction of Becoming Political. At that time, Shannon was worried about teachers' political naivete. Now, at every level, from preschool to postsecondary, the explicit signs of the politics of literacy education are all too clear.
With Becoming Political, Too, a follow-up to Becoming Political, Shannon presents twenty more articles on topics of vital importance to today's literacy educators. The contributors all begin by asking questions: Why are the dominating sides of literacy, teaching, and schooling practiced more often than the liberating sides? Why do participants in literacy education have so little voice in matters of consequence in their teaching? Who is served by the current organization of schools and the popular representations of school reform?
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Establishing successful online distance learning environments: Distinguishing factors that contribute to online courses and programs
Lynne Schrum and Angela Benson
As computers, telecommunications technology and other electronic media have reduced the constraits imposed by geographic location, increasing numbers of organizations are using information technology to geographically disperse education. As the number of distance learning programmes continues to increase therefore, a variety of challenges and issues must be faced. These issues include costs incurred for remote space and equipment used, the loss of traditional evaluation methods, and the potential losses of academic integrity. The goal of this book is to increase the understanding of such major issues, challenges and solutions related to distance education and it is geared toward administrators and academics trying to develop or improve distance education programmes.
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Teaching social studies in early education
Wilma Robles de Melendez, Vesna Beck, and Melba Fletcher
Teachers and child caregivers will love this new book because it clearly combines the theory and practice of teaching social studies to young children. Taking a global approach, this book presents major topical areas such as geography, history, the arts, and multicultural education. In addition, it integrates social studies with other subjects in a literature-based format. It's practical, easy-to-understand coverage that meets national standards.
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Lessons to consider: Online learning from student and faculty perspectives
Lynne Schrum and Angela Benson
A brilliant text on the latest developments on Internet teaching. Chapters include development tools, present day efforts on Internet teaching at various institutions and theoretical models on current and future course management. Contributors from Canada, the United States and Australia focus specifically on managing courses through systems such as WebCT, TopClass and Lotus LearningSpace.
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Trends in distance learning: Lessons to inform practice
Lynne Schrum
The purpose of this yearbook is to highlight multiple perspectives about educational technology and media development and to provide information about the purposes, activities, programs of study, and accomplishments of organizations and associations dedicated to the advancement of educational communications and technology. The 1999 edition is divided into seven sections. Part 1 focuses on trends and issues and includes articles on integrating technology into the K-12 educational setting, trends in distance learning, Virginia Tech's instructional development initiative, and balancing gender, technology, and instructional design. Part 2 covers the development and state of the profession. Current developments are addressed in part 3, including articles on World Wide Web-based resources for K-12 instructional planning, a taxonomy of bandwidth, frequently asked questions about educational technology, educational MOO (Multi-user domain, Object-Oriented), concept mapping, instructional development models, and motivation in instructional design. Part 4 presents a leadership profile of Thomas F. Gilbert. Information on professional organizations and associations in the United States and Canada is provided in part 5, and part 6 describes U.S. graduate programs in instructional technology, educational media and communications, school library media, and closely allied programs. Part 7 is a mediagraphy of more than 500 print and nonprint resources published in 1997 or 1998.
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Online education in the information age: A study of emerging pedagogy
Lynne Schrum
More than thirty-six million people in the United States are already using the Internet, and many more will join them in the years to come. Tools such as e-mail, Web browsers, and on-line conferencing present exciting opportunities for both adult learners and their instructors. The purpose of this volume of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education is to explore the effects of the Internet on adult learning--both as that learning is facilitated through formal instruction and as it occurs spontaneously in the experiences of individuals and groups--and to provide guidance to adult and continuing educators searching for ways to use the Internet more effectively in their practice. Taken as a whole, the sourcebook provides a thorough survey of the research literature. The chapters also reflect the hard-won personal experiences of the authors, all of whom are directly involved in the use of Internet technologies to facilitate adult learning. This is the 78th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education.
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Encyclopedia of distance education research in Iowa
Nancy J. Maushak, Michael R. Simonson, and Kristen Egeland Wright
The innovations in computer and communications technologies combined with on-going needs to deliver education programs to students regardless of their physical locations, have lead to the innovation of distance education programs and technologies. To keep up with recent developments in both areas of technologies and techniques related to distance education programs, educators, administrators, and researchers are in constant needs of learning about issues, solutions, and challenges of these technologies. The Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition offers the most comprehensive coverage of the issues, concepts, trends, and technologies of distance learning. Hundreds of international contributors have provided extensive coverage of topics such as workforce training, accessing education, digital divide, and the evolution of distance and online education into a multibillion dollar enterprise, which has been thoroughly examined in this 4-volume set encyclopedia. Each volume is edited by a leading international expert(s) with a long list of contributions focusing on the theme of the volume. This authoritative 4-volume encyclopedia is considered the foremost reference source for the latest understanding, discoveries, and research in the field of distance learning.
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Action research: a strategy for school and teacher development
Jan Robertson, Sandra M. Trotman, and Ann Galbraith
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Teaching and learning in the information age: A guide to educational telecommunications
Lynne Schrum and Boris Berenfeld
A curriculum-based book with a blend of applications, theory, history and research, this also offers a practical approach to implementing telecommunications in schools. As well as practical applications, it provides "teacher stories" which relate the information presented to the classroom. An entire chapter is devoted to research for educators, and the book provides frequent references to the locations of resources.
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A primer on distance education: Considerations for decision makers
Lynne Schrum and Laure Luetkehans
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Distance education: Review of the literature
Michael R. Simonson, Nancy Maushak, Charles Andrew Schlosser, and Mary L. Anderson
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Educational computing foundations
Michael R. Simonson and Ann Thompson
Educational Computing Foundations provides readers with the basic information necessary to use computers professionally. It is a comprehensive, modern, easy-to-read discussion of the past, present and future uses of the computer in teaching, learning and training. Drawing from a vast wealth of the latest research and literature on educational computing, the Third Edition, reflects the most recent, relevant tools and techniques in coverage that is applicable to a variety of situations.
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Teaching young children in multicultural classrooms: issues, concepts, and strategies
Wilma Robles de Melendez, Vesna Ostertag, and Johanne T. Peck
Teaching Young Children in Multicultural Classrooms: Issues, Concepts and Strategies is a comprehensive study of the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of multicultural education as it relates to young children. This book includes comprehensive current and future trends, addresses the contemporary and imminent directions of multicultural education and provides many practical classroom ideas for implementation. The book is divided into three parts. Part I deals with the social foundations and theory of multicultural education. It contains the historical perspectives of multiculturalism, future trends as well as the social and psychological influences that affect young children. Part II explores the past and current issues of multicultural education, in addition to establishing the connection between the historical background and current teaching approaches. Part III provides resources in the form of guidelines and ideas for classroom implementation. Several actual multicultural instruments, curriculum plans and activities are provided.
