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Possible Books for Fall, 2009

  • The Fifth Discipline
  • Happiness and Education

Contact Brian Richardson for more information.


Books Suggested in the Past

  • Curtis Bonk, Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing (Amazon)
  • Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree (Amazon)
  • Skip Downing, On Course (Amazon)
  • Peter Filene, The Joy of Teaching: a Practical Guide for New College Instructors (Amazon)
  • Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Amazon)
  • James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Amazon)
  • Philip Johnston, The Practice Revolution - for those who teach music performance (Amazon)
  • Wilbert McKeachie, McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers (Amazon)
  • Dawna Markova, Open Mind - on learning and thinking styles (Amazon)
  • Rebekah Nathan, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student (Amazon)
  • Terry O'Banion, A Learning College For The 21st Century (Amazon)
  • Judith Grunert O'Brien, The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach (Amazon)
  • Rena Palloff, The Virtual Student: A Profile and Guide to Working with Online Learners (Amazon)
  • Rena Palloff, Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom (Amazon)
  • John E. Roueche, Practical Magic: On the Front Lines of Teaching Excellence (Amazon)
  • Dannelle Stevens and Antonia Levi, Introduction to Rubrics (Amazon)
  • Alvin Toffler, Learning For Tomorrow: The Role of the Future in Education (Amazon)


Books Read So Far

  • Clayton Christensen, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (Amazon)
    discussed in March, 2009: Brian, Catherine, Kalani, Laurie, Richard, Sarah
  • Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do (Amazon)
    discussed in February, 2009: Brian, Catherine, Kalani, Laurie, Richard, Robert, Sarah

 

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