Ruth E : 61 books
The Great War in the Heart of Dixie
Alabama During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
by Jane Thierfeld Brown EdD, Lorraine E. Wolf PhD, Lisa King MEd
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The Parent’s Guide to College for Students on the Autism Spectrum is a result of 100 plus years of combined experience as disability services professionals for authors, parents, teachers, and clinicians Jane Thierfeld Brown, EdD, Lorraine E. Wolf, PhD, Lisa King, MEd, and G. Ruth Kukiela Bork, MEd....
The Américas Award
Honoring Latino/a Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international...
Scenario-based e-Learning
Evidence-Based Guidelines for Online Workforce Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Scenario-Based e-Learning
Scenario-Based e-Learning offers a new instructional design approach that can accelerate expertise, build critical thinking skills, and promote transfer of learning. This book focuses on the what, when, and how of scenario-based e-learning for workforce learning. Throughout...
e-Learning and the Science of Instruction
Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
The essential e-learning design manual, updated with the latest research, design principles, and examples
e-Learning and the Science of Instruction is the ultimate handbook for evidence-based e-learning design. Since the first edition of this book, e-learning has grown to account for at least...
by Ruth C Carter, Bruce E Massis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Develop a library staff training program that really works!
To stay on top of the lightning-fast changes in the library field and provide your patrons with the best service possible, you need to establish and sustain an effective program for training your staff. The Practical Library Trainer...
by Michael E. Burrill Sr., Michael E. Burrill Jr., Pirkko Terao
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Mercy Flights--America's first not-for-profit air ambulance service--was created in 1949 in direct response to the polio epidemic and medical transportation problems in Southern Oregon and Northern California. At that time, two small general hospitals provided basic medical care for the community...
by Barbara Adam, Wendell Bell, Michael Burawoy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Public sociology—an approach to sociology that aims to communicate with and actively engage wider audiences—has been one of the most widely discussed topics in the discipline in recent years. The Handbook of Public Sociology presents a comprehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory...
Connecting Teaching and Learning
History, Evolution, and Case Studies of Teacher Work Sample Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
As accountability in education has become an increasingly prominent topic, teacher preparation programs are being asked to provide credible evidence that their teacher candidates can impact student learning.
Teacher Work Samples, first developed 30 years ago, have emerged as an effective method...
On New Shores
Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...
Texas Women
Their Histories, Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories...
by Kate Quinn, Ruth Downie, Stephanie Dray
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Britannia: land of mist and magic clinging to the western edge of the Roman Empire. A red-haired queen named Boudica led her people in a desperate rebellion against the might of Rome, an epic struggle destined to consume heroes and cowards, young and old, Roman and Briton . . . and these are their...
by David Allan, Pam Perkins, Catherine Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal...