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Creating a Sense of Presence in Online Teaching
How to "Be There" for Distance Learners
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Creating a Sense of Presence in Online Teaching
This important new resource shows how a strong sense of online presence contributes to greater student satisfaction and retention. The authors explore the psychological and social aspects of online presence from both the instructor and student...
Motivating and Retaining Online Students
Research-Based Strategies That Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Finally, the first research-based book of sound strategies and best practices to help instructors motivate students to complete their online courses.
Although studies support the effectiveness of learning online, students often fail to complete online courses. Some studies have found that as...
Race, Romance, and Rebellion
Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Colleen O'Brien shows why, in nineteenth-century literatures of the Americas, stories of racial rebellion coincided with stories of cross-racial romance and how their concern with race and gender united the United States with the Caribbean and Africa.
Managing Online Instructor Workload
Strategies for Finding Balance and Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Managing Online Instructor Workload is a groundbreaking book that offers strategies, advice, illustrative examples, and a four-step process for identifying challenges and rethinking, prioritizing, managing, and balancing one's online instruction workload.
Based on surveys and interviews with...
by J.A. Butters, D.W. Hollomon, S.J. Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Over the past 30 years one alarming trend is the emergence of plant species resistant to agrochemicals (e.g. insecticides, herbicides, fungicides). Considering the fact that these pesticides are crucial to human health and to food, feed and fiber production, impressive research was carried out during...
by Robert C. O'Brien
Language: French
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Mme Frisby, une maman souris, et ses quatre souriceaux, Teresa, Martin, Cynthia et Timothy vivent paisiblement à la campagne.
Leur vie est bouleversée lorsque Timothy tombe gravement malade et qu’un tracteur menace de détruire leur maison.
Pas question de se laisser abattre !...
Half and Half
Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common. Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one's identity or origin. Simple questions like What are you? and Where are you from? aren't answered--they are discussed.
How...
God Answers Prayer
Experiencing a Fulfilling Prayer Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Does God answer prayer?How long does it take for our prayers to get to God?How limited is God’s power to answer our prayers?If you’ve had any doubts as to whether or not God answers prayers, or cares about our problems, reading this book will give you answers. Barren women...
Pink Tax and the Law
Discriminating Against Women Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
The emergence of the terms ‘pink tax’ and ‘tampon tax’ in everyday language suggests that women, who already suffer from an economic disadvantage due to the gender wage gap, are put in an even more detrimental position by means of ‘discriminatory consumption taxes’. This book is the first...
Peace versus Justice
Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
by C. O Vega
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Includes: One band 6 (or A range) essay on Metatheatre in Hamlet - which will help inform the students personal reading of the play One band 6 (or A range) essay on Hamlet covering all significant themes, techniques, characters and ideas in Hamlet- which will help inform the students response to exam...
by C. O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
A ground-breaking study of the roles played by foreign languages in film and television and their relationship to translation. The book covers areas such as subtitling and the homogenising use of English, and asks what are the devices used to represent foreign languages on screen?
by C. O Vega
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Includes in depth analysis of themes, symbols and techniques in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, as well as useful quotes and ways of reading the novel for developing a band 6 (A range) response. Also includes suggestions on how to use Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese as a related...
by William C O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
War, famine, disease; just a few of the many evils with which we share our world and daily lives but never aware that they exist as physical forms, escaped from the prison world of Exilia. The key to Exilia, lost since before recorded history, has now been found. The entrance to the prison world has...