This book introduces new concepts and mechanisms regarding the usage of both social media interactions and artifacts for peer education in digital educational games. Digital games in general, and digital educational games in particular, represent an area with a high potential for interdisciplinary innovation, not only from an information technology standpoint, but also from social science, psychological and didactic perspectives.
English for Academic Purposes in Neoliberal Universities: A Critical Grounded Theory (Educational Linguistics)
The critical grounded theory presented in this book offers valuable insights on the social processes and strategies used by Blended English for Academic Purposes Professionals (BLEAPs) at higher education institutions, as they struggle to negotiate the challenges arising from a new focus on recruiting international students and hunting for other resources for their universities. Drawing from in-depth interviews with numerous research participants at over eleven higher educational institutions in the UK, Japan and the United States, this work focuses on those who have been precariously placed as middle manager at many EAP and TESOL programs.
Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy - Cells
In Bill Nye the Science Guy: Cells, the Science Guy takes a close look at cells, and explains the difference between dog cells and people cells. Students are taught the basics about DNA, and will be very aware of cell facts through demonstrations and wacky graphics that are geared toward their sensitivities. Good jokes, bad jokes, strange camera angles, and eminently doable experiments help to reinforce the instruction in these programs, which are also popular with adults.
Students often fear the educational research course. Don’t worry. This book is famous for its lack of jargon, for its clear and concrete explanations, and its light (often funny) tone. As you read the book, you will build skills that you need to read educational research and produce your own.
Educational Psychology: Windows on Classrooms, Eighth Edition provides future teachers with the practical and hands-on solutions they and their students urgently need. Long recognized as very applied and practical, Eggen and Kauchak's Educational Psychology: Windows on Classrooms, eighth edition gives students exactly what they need to know in the intro to Ed Psych course. The author’s hallmark cases remain, both in written and video format, to introduce real-world applications in a way that no other text can.
