Innovative Learning & Teaching

eZines, Books and Journals

eZines

• Learn from George Siemens twice weekly update (he also has a stimulating and comprehensive website, blog and more).
• Tomorrow's Professor Listserv: To sign up, address an e-mail message to: Majordomo@lists.stanford.edu. Do NOT put anything in the SUBJECT line but in the body of the message,. simply type: "subscribe tomorrows-professor".
• E-Learning Guru (along with a website with a lot of info).
• The eLearning Journal is a biweekly email newsletter synthesizing important news, trends, resources and organizations that impact the e-learning marketplace.

Books:

• Angelo, Thomas A. and K. Patricia Cross. Classroom Assessment Techniques, Second Edition: A Handbook for College Teachers. Jossey-Bass Publishing 1993.
• Bland, Carole J. and William H. Bergquist. The Vitality of Faculty Members, Vol. 25. No. 7 Snow of the Roof-Fire in the Furnace. The George Washington University 1997.
• Bligh, Donald A. What’s the Use of Lectures? Jossey-Bass Publishers 2000.
• Brookfield, Stephen D. and Stephen Preskill. Discussion As a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms. Jossey-Bass Publishers 1999.
• Brookfield, Stephen D. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher. Jossey-Bass 1995.
• Costa, Arthur L. and Benna Kallick. (editors). Assessment in the Learning Organization: Shifting the Paradigm. ASCD Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development 1995.
• Cross, K. Patricia and Mimi Harris Steadman. Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. Jossey-Bass Publishing 1996.
• Fink, Dee. Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses. Jossey Bass, 2003.
• Erickson, B. Peters, C., and Diane Strommer, Teaching First-Year College Students (previously Teaching College Freshmen) Jossey-Bass.
• Hanna, Donald E., Michelle Glowacki-Dudka & Simone Conceicao. 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups: Essentials of Web-Based Instruction. Atwood Publishing 2000.
• McConnell, David. Implementing Computer Supported Cooperative Learning 2000.
• McKeachie, Wilbert (ed.). McKeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College Teachers. (11th edition). Houghton Mifflin Company c2002; v1999.
• Palmer, Parker J. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life. Jossey-Bass Publishers 1998.
• Salmon, Gilly. E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online. 2000.
• Walvoord, Barbara E. and Virginia Anderson. Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment. Jossey-Bass Publishing 1998.
• Weimer, Maryellen. Improving Your Classroom Teaching: Strategies for Developing Instructional Effectiveness. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990; Sage Publications, v1993.

Journals:

• Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning (IJPBL).
• International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning is a refereed journal to advance research, theory and best practice in open and distance learning worldwide.
• Innovate is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical focusing on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings.
• inventio is a project of the Division of Instructional Improvement and Instructional Technologies (DoIIIT) at George Mason University. The journal's name inventio is taken from the first of the five arts of classical rhetoric: thinking out the subject, identifying the issue at question, exploring the means of persuasion.
• The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) is a web-based journal that publishes scholarship on computer-mediated communication. Broadly interdisciplinary in scope, the JCMC publishes mostly empirical research making use of social science methods, which should be presented according to the accepted standards for each method.
• The Journal of Distance Learning Administration is a peer-reviewed electronic journal offered free each quarter over the World Wide Web. The Journal welcomes manuscripts based on original work of practitioners and researchers with specific focus or implications for the management of distance education programs.
• The Journal for Educators Online (JEO) is an online, double-blind, refereed journal by and for instructors, administrators, policy-makers, staff, students, and those interested in the development, delivery, and management of online courses in the Arts, Business, Education, Engineering, Medicine, and Science fields.
• Merlot has launched the Journal of Online Teaching (JOLT) designed to address the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education.
• The Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology (Kent State University) provides a multimedia forum for the advancement of scholarly work on the effects of technology on teaching and learning.
• Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) encourages all instructors to engage in the discussion of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), and to become involved in the sharing of knowledge and learning about the teaching-learning process.
• The Journal of Student Centered Learning.
• MountainRise is an open, peer-reviewed, international electronic journal published twice a year for the purpose of being an international vehicle for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL).
• The National Teaching and Learning Forum (NTLF).
• New Directions for Teaching and Learning.
• Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation includes scholarly syntheses of research and ideas about issues and practices in education designed to help members of the community keep up-to-date with effective methods, trends and research developments.
• Research in Higher Education.
• Review of Higher Education.
• Simulation and Games Journal.
• Tertiary Learning and Professional Development (TLPD) allows practitioners in higher (tertiary) education to publish peer-reviewed, evidence-based papers that demonstrate a direct link between faculty, organizational, and staff development activities and the impact that those development activities have on the quality of learning and teaching in higher education institutions.
• T. H. E. Journal is dedicated to informing and educating K-12 senior-level district and school administrators, technologists, and tech-savvy educators within districts, schools, and classrooms to improve and advance the learning process through the use of technology.
• Women in Higher Education.