http://www.lybrary.com/index.php?cPath=188 Copyright © 2010 Lybrary.comAbout the Author.<p>Foreword.<p>Preface.<p><b>1. What Is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning?</b><p>A Bit of SoTL History.<p>Example Definitions.<p>Related Concepts.<p>Conclusion.<p><b>2. Why Do SoTL?</b><p>Function of SoTL.<p>Value and Fit in the Reward Structure.<p>Standards for SoTL Work.<p>Conclusion.<p><b>3. How Do I Get Started?</b><p>Challenges for First Timers (and Others).<p>What Is the "Problem"?<p>Example SoTL Research Problems and Questions.<p>The Role of Theory and the Importance of Definitions.<p>Refining Your Question(s).<p>Searching for Literature.<p>Conclusion.<p><b>4. How Can I Move My Project Forward?</b><p>The Importance of Collaboration.<p>Collaborations With Colleagues.<p>Involving Students as Coresearchers.<p>Integrating SoTL Projects Into Your Existing Professional Life and Workload.<p>Resources for SoTL Work.<p>Think Outside the Box: Resources Broadly Defined.<p>Tips for Grant Writing.<p>SoTL Funding Opportunities.<p>Conclusion.<p><b>5. What Are the Practical and Ethical Issues I Must Consider?</b><p>Practical Issues.<p>Ethical Issues--Overview.<p>Institutional Review Boards.<p>Three Ethical Criteria.<p>Informed Consent.<p>Right to Privacy.<p>Protection From Harm.<p>Starting to Put It All Together.<p>Conclusion.<p><b>6. How Do I Design My SoTL Project?</b><p>Two General Issues.<p>The Quantitative and/or Qualitative Choice.<p>Time Frames for Your Study.<p>Typologies or Categories of Methods.<p>Specific Methodologies and Examples.<p>Course Portfolios and Other Refection and Analysis.<p>Interview and Focus Groups.<p>Observational Research.<p>Questionnaires.<p>Content Analysis.<p>Secondary Analysis.<p>Experiments and Quasi-Experiments.<p>Case Studies.<p>Multimethod Studies.<p>Analysis and Interpretation.<p>How Far Have We Come?<p>Conclusion.<p><b>7. How Do I Make My SoTL Public and Document My Work</b>?<p>The Meanings of Making Public and Peer Review.<p>How Common Is Making Public?<p>Tips and Outlets for Making Public.<p>Publications.<p>Presentations.<p>Web Postings.<p>Documenting SoTL Work for the Reward System.<p>Conclusion.<p><b>8. What Are the Disciplinary and Institutional Contexts of SoTL?</b><p>Disciplinary Context.<p>Similarities and Difference in Views of SoTL.<p>Status of SoTL in the Disciplines.<p>Example SoTL Projects in the Disciplines.<p>Meaning of Cross- and Interdisciplinary SoTL.<p>Examples of Cross-Disciplinary SoTL.<p>Institutional Context.<p>Campus Support--Some Data.<p>Campus Support--Possible Methods.<p>Strategies for Campus Support.<p>Conclusion.<p><b>9. Where Do We Go From Here?</b><p>SoTL and Transforming Culture.<p>Using SoTL.<p>Levels and Forms of Application.<p>Some Data on Application.<p>Thinking About Use and Application.<p>The Future of SoTL.<p>Challenges and Opportunities in the Field of SoTL.<p>Future Images.<p>Conclusion.<p>Appendix A: Example Campus Survey on Status of SoTL.<p>Appendix B: Additional Resources on SoTL--Web Sites, Articles, Chapters, and Books.<p>Appendix C: List of SoTL Journals and Newsletters.<p>Appendix D: Example Call for Proposals for Campus SoTL Small Grants.<p>Appendix E: Possible Funding Sources for SoTL Work.<p>Appendix F: Example IRB Form Questions and Responses for an Interview Study.<p>Appendix G: Sample of Useful Books on Portfolios, Classroom Assessment/Research, and Methods.<p>Appendix H: Example Tenure and Promotion Language re SoTL.<p>Bibliography.<p>Index.http://www.lybrary.com/enhancing-learning-through-scholarship-teaching-learning-challenges-joys-juggling-anker-p-64778.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/enhancing-learning-through-scholarship-teaching-learning-challenges-joys-juggling-anker-p-64778.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST <i>Exploring the Digital Library,</i> a volume in <i>The Jossey-Bass Online Teaching and Learning</i> series, addresses the key issue of library services for faculty and their students in the online learning environment. Written by librarians at Athabasca University, a leading institution in distance education, this book shows how faculty can effectively use digital libraries in their day-to-day work and in the design of electronic courses. <i>Exploring the Digital Library</i> is filled with information, ideas, and<ul><li>Discusses how information and communication technologies are transforming scholarship communication<li>Provides suggestions for integrating digital libraries into teaching and course development<li>Describes approaches to promoting information literacy skills and integrating these skills across the curriculum<li>Outlines the skills and knowledge required in digital library use<li>Suggests opportunities for faculty and librarians to collaborate in the online educational environment</ul>http://www.lybrary.com/creative-night-digital-photography-tips-techniques-p-64696.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/creative-night-digital-photography-tips-techniques-p-64696.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST <p>A beautiful gift book that offers encouragement, comfort, and inspiration for new (and veteran) teachers</p><p>This beautifully designed book is a celebration of the joys and challenges of the teaching life. Author and veteran educator Coleen Armstrong is a wise, witty, and caring mentor. Her words of encouragement will resonate with new teachers, with students in teacher education schools, and with veteran teachers who wish to remember that they are not alone in an often lonely profession. From lesson plans to large classes; salaries to student engagement; germs to geometry-learning (or remembering) to love both the highs and lows of the profession has never been easier, or more fun.<ul><li>Contains a wealth of wise, humorous, and practical advice for all teachers</li><li>Includes over 150 tips, suggestions, and ideas</li><li>Co-published with Inspiring Teachers, a teacher-created organization</li></ul>http://www.lybrary.com/truth-about-teaching-what-wish-veterans-told-p-64591.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/truth-about-teaching-what-wish-veterans-told-p-64591.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the best-selling book <i>Exploring Leadership.</i> The book is designed to help college students understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and to guide them in developing their leadership potential. <i>Exploring Leadership</i> incorporates new insights and material developed in the course of the authors' work in the field. The second edition contains expanded and new chapters and also includes the relational leadership model, uses a more global context and examples that relate to a wide variety of disciplines, contains a new section which emphasizes ways to work to accomplish change, and concludes with concrete strategies for activism.<p>http://www.lybrary.com/nonlinear-statistical-models-wiley-series-probability-statistics-p-64566.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/nonlinear-statistical-models-wiley-series-probability-statistics-p-64566.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST After many years of attention to improving the first college year for students, colleges and university administrators are now asking, "What next?" What happens when first-year students transition into their sophomore year? What are their needs and how can they be met?<p>This resource on the sophomore-year experience will represent an in-depth, comprehensive understanding of the transitional issues between a student's first and second years of college. It will be a primary aid in designing curricular and cocurricular programs for the second-year student population, focused on issues of retention, academic and career development, and personal transition and growth.<p>Sponsored by The University of South Carolina's National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, which appears to be the only organization monitoring the developing interest in this topic, the book will offer an update on second-year-student satisfaction using both quantitative and qualitative measures from national research findings; give an overview of emergent themes: purpose, integration, engagement, and commitment; expand the view of student developmental issues; and discuss implications for best practices.http://www.lybrary.com/chemistry-heterocyclic-compounds-pyrimidines-chemistry-heterocyclic-compounds-series-monographs-p-64469.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/chemistry-heterocyclic-compounds-pyrimidines-chemistry-heterocyclic-compounds-series-monographs-p-64469.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and the systems and services they encounter<ul><li>Presents a unique, pan-disciplinary overview of this growing field of study<li>Offers a human rights approach to disability and family life<li>Informed by the newly adopted UN <i>Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities</i> (2006)<li>Provides comprehensive research-based knowledge from leading figures in the field of intellectual disability</ul>http://www.lybrary.com/parents-with-intellectual-disabilities-past-present-futures-p-64343.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/parents-with-intellectual-disabilities-past-present-futures-p-64343.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST This book shows how schools can--and <i>must</i>--develop expertise in "learning variation" (understanding how different kinds of minds learn) and apply this knowledge to classroom instruction in order to address the chronic learning challenges and achievement gap faced by millions of students. Barringer shows how using what we know about learning variation with a focus on discovering learning <i>strengths</i>, not just deficits, can help schools create plans for success for those students who often find it elusive. The book specifically addresses how school leaders can incorporate this knowledge into instructional practice and school-level policy through various professional development strategies.<i> </i><p><i>Schools for All Kinds of Minds</i>:<p>* Provides a readable synthesis of the latest research from neuroscience, cognitive science, and child and adolescent development as it relates to understanding learning and its many variations.<p>* Links this information to strategies for understanding struggling learners and adapting school practices to accommodate a wider array of learning differences in a classroom.<p>* Demonstrates how this understanding of learning variation can change the way teachers and others help students succeed in various academic and content areas and acquire necessary 21st century skills.<p>* Includes discussion questions and facilitator guidelines for staff developers and teacher education programs; downloadable forms that accompany exercises from within the book; an action plan for schools to implement the ideas found in the book; and more.http://www.lybrary.com/schools-kinds-minds-boosting-student-success-embracing-learning-variation-p-64327.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/schools-kinds-minds-boosting-student-success-embracing-learning-variation-p-64327.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST http://www.lybrary.com/negotiating-political-identities-multiethnic-schools-youth-europe-p-64276.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/negotiating-political-identities-multiethnic-schools-youth-europe-p-64276.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Now in paperback with a new introduction, The Schools We Need offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas--by one of America's most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy. For over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging children academically is unnatural for them, that teachers do not need to know the subjects they teach, that the learning "process" should be emphasized over the facts taught. All of this is tragically wrong. Renowned educator and author E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that, by disdaining content-based curricula while favoring abstract--and discredited--theories of how a child learns, the ideas uniformly taught by our schools have done terrible harm to America's students. Instead of preparing our children for the highly competitive, information-based economy in which we now live, our schools' practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn. With an introduction that surveys developments in education since the hardcover edition was published, The Schools We Need is a passionate and thoughtful book that will appeal to the millions of people who can't understand why America's schools aren't educating our children. From the Trade Paperback edition.http://www.lybrary.com/schools-need-p-64235.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/schools-need-p-64235.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST The ability to lead a campaign is essential to success for today's college or university president. And campaign experience at some level is generally now a prerequisite credential for presidential candidates, as well as deans and other academic leaders,on both public and private campuses. This book discusses fundamental campaign principles, but is not intended as a how-to guide. Rather, its emphasis is on the strategic decisions that a campaign requires and on campaign leadership. It will be of interest to trustees, advancement professionals, and others concerned with the future of colleges and universities. But, consistent with its sponsorship by the American Council on Education, it emphasizes the campaign leadership of presidents.http://www.lybrary.com/leading-campaign-advancing-colleges-universities-p-64222.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/leading-campaign-advancing-colleges-universities-p-64222.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST The Perfumed Garden by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature. The full title of the book is The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight (al-rawd al-'âtir fà nuzhat al-khâtir). The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about sexual health, and recipes to remedy sexual maladies. It has a section on the interpretation of dreams. Interspersed with these there are a number of stories which are intended to give context and amusement. According to the introduction of Colville's English translation, Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi probably wrote The Perfumed Garden sometime between 1410 and 1434. Sheikh Nefzawi, full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad ben Umar Nafzawi, was born in the Nefzawa region in the south of present-day Tunisia. Circa 1420 he compiled at the request of the Hafsid ruler of Tunis, Abû Fâris `Abd al-`AzÃz al-Mutawakkil, the present work. The reputation acquired by this work in the Arab world was similar to that of the Arabian Nhttp://www.lybrary.com/sacred-sexuality-perfumed-garden-shaykh-nefwazi-p-64077.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/sacred-sexuality-perfumed-garden-shaykh-nefwazi-p-64077.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Teaching and Learning in Real Time provides up-to-date information on modern technologies and also covers the link between the technologies and current theory and practice in second language learning.http://www.lybrary.com/teaching-learning-real-time-media-technologies-language-acquisition-p-64039.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/teaching-learning-real-time-media-technologies-language-acquisition-p-64039.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST The Ananga Ranga (Stage of Love) or Kamaledhiplava (Boat in the Sea of Love) is an Indian sex manual written by Kalyana Malla in the 15th or 16th century AD. The poet wrote the work in honor of Lad Khan, son of Ahmed Khan Lodi. He was related to the Lodi dynasty, which from 1451 to 1526 ruled India. Later commentators have said it is aimed specifically at preventing the separation of a husband and wife. This work is often compared to the Kama Sutra, on which it draws. It was translated into English in the year 1885, under the editorship of Sir Richard Francis Burton . "Satisfaction and enjoyment comes for a man with possession of a beautiful woman. Men marry because of the peaceful gathering, love, and comfort and they often get nice and attractive women. But the men do not give the women full satisfaction The reason is due to the ignorance of the writings of the Kamashastra and the disdain of the different types of women. These men view women only from the perspective of an animal. They are foolish and spiritless". The work was intended to show that a woman is enough for a man. The book provides instructions in how a husband can promote the love for his wife through sexual pleasure. The husband can so greatly enjoy living with his wife, that it is as if he had lived with 32 different women. The increasingly varied sexual pleasures are able to produce harmony, thus preventing the married couple from getting tired of one another. In addition to the extensive catalogue of sexual positions for both partners, there are details regarding foreplay and lure.http://www.lybrary.com/sacred-sexuality-ananga-ranga-ancient-erotic-indian-love-p-64012.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/sacred-sexuality-ananga-ranga-ancient-erotic-indian-love-p-64012.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST <p>The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in higher education. With the increased pressure to perform assessment to demonstrate accountability, Assessment Clear and Simple is needed more than ever. This second edition of the classic resource offers a concise, step-by-step guide that helps make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to an institution. It contains effective strategies for meeting the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review boards, and others, while emphasizing and showing how to move from data to actions that improve student learning. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes many new or expanded features, including:</p><ul> <li>Illustrative examples drawn from the author's experience consulting with more than 350 institutions </li> <li>A basic, no-frills assessment plan for departments and for general education </li> <li>Tips on how to integrate portfolios and e-portfolios into the assessment process </li> <li>Suggestions for using rubrics and alternatives to rubrics, including doing assessment for multidisciplinary work </li> <li>Clear instructions on how to construct a coherent institution-wide assessment system and explain it to accreditors </li> <li>Ideas for assigning responsibility for general education assessment </li> <li>Strategies for gathering information about departmental assessment while keeping the departmental workload manageable </li> <li>Information on how to manage assessment in times of budgetary cutbacks </li></ul><p>Praise for the Second Edition of Assessment Clear and Simple<p>"Walvoord's approach to assessment is wonderfully straightforward; it is also effective in facilitating faculty engagement in assessment. We've applied a number of her methods to our campus assessment efforts with success. This book makes assessment both manageable and useful in improving and enhancing student learning."—Martha L. A. Stassen, director of assessment, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and president, New England Educational Assessment Network (NEEAN)<p>"Walvoord's work clearly presents the basics for getting started in assessment of student learning while honestly addressing the complexities of assessment when driven by faculty passion for student learning. This book is a valuable resource for the novice as well as the developing experts who are leading their institutions in academic assessment."—Bobbi Allen, faculty assessment director, Delta Collegehttp://www.lybrary.com/assessment-clear-simple-practical-guide-institutions-departments-general-education-p-63729.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/assessment-clear-simple-practical-guide-institutions-departments-general-education-p-63729.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Since the 3rd edition appeared, a fast evolution of the field has occurred. The fourth edition of this classic work provides an up-to-date account of the nonlinear phenomena occurring inside optical fibers. The contents include such important topics as self- and cross-phase modulation, stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering, four-wave mixing, modulation instability, and optical solitons. Many new figures have been added to help illustrate the concepts discussed in the book. New to this edition are chapters on highly nonlinear fibers and the novel nonlinear effects that have been observed in these fibers since 2000. Such a chapter should be of interest to people in the field of new wavelengths generation, which has potential application in medical diagnosis and treatments, spectroscopy, new wavelength lasers and light sources, etc. This book continues to be industry bestseller providing unique source of comprehensive coverage on the subject of nonlinear fiber optics. Fourth edition is a completely up-to-date treatment of the nonlinear phenomena occurring inside optical fibers. It includes 2 new chapters on the properties of highly nonlinear fibers and their novel nonlinear effects.http://www.lybrary.com/nonlinear-fiber-optics-p-63589.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/nonlinear-fiber-optics-p-63589.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST <p>Student Success in Community Colleges</p><p>As more and more underprepared students enroll in college, basic skills education is an increasing concern for all higher education institutions. Student Success in Community Colleges offers education leaders, administrators, faculty, and staff an essential resource for helping these students succeed and advance in college.<p>By applying the book's self-assessment instrument, colleges can pinpoint how their current activities align with the most effective proven practices. Once the gaps are identified, community college leaders can determine the best strategic direction for improvement. Drawing on a broad knowledge base and illustrative examples from the most current literature, the authors cover organizational, administrative, and instructional practices; program components; student support services and strategies; and professional learning and development.<p>Designed to help engage community college leadership and practitioners in addressing the practices, structures, and obstacles that enhance or impede the success of basic skills students, the book's strategies can be tailored to various institutional levels, showing how to unite faculty, staff, and administrators in a cooperative effort to effect institutional change.<p>Finally, Student Success in Community Colleges reveals how investing in a comprehensive basic skills infrastructure can be a financially sustainable model for the institution as well as substantially beneficial to students and society.<p>"This is a most unusual and valuable book; it is packed with careful analysis and practical suggestions for improving basic skills programs in community colleges. Compiled by a team of practicing professionals in teaching, administration, and research, it is knowledgeable about what has been done and imaginative and practical about what can be done to improve the access and success of community college students."—K. Patricia Cross, professor of higher education, emerita, University of California, Berkeley<p>"For its first hundred years the community college was committed primarily to access; in its second hundred years the commitment has changed dramatically to success. This book provides the best road map to date on how community colleges can reach that goal."—Terry O'Banion, president emeritus, League for Innovation, and director, Community College Leadership Program, Walden University<p>"This guide is the most comprehensive source of information about all facets of basic skills or developmental education. It will be invaluable not just to community college educators across the nation, but also to those in high schools and four-year colleges who share similar problems."—W. Norton Grubb, David Gardner Chair in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeleyhttp://www.lybrary.com/student-success-community-colleges-practical-guide-developmental-education-p-63232.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/student-success-community-colleges-practical-guide-developmental-education-p-63232.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Directed towards college faculty, <i>Inspired College Teaching</i> challenges teachers to be responsible for their professional growth and development as an ongoing, career-long quest. Written by an experienced college teacher and editor of The Teaching Professor newsletter, this source explores the journey and growth of college teachers. This resource provides goals best positioned for beginning, mid-career, and senior faculty as well as activities faculty can use to ignite intellectual curiosity from both students and themselves. This book presents a way for faculty to obtain and sustain teaching excellence throughout their career.http://www.lybrary.com/inspired-college-teaching-careerlong-resource-professional-growth-p-63229.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/inspired-college-teaching-careerlong-resource-professional-growth-p-63229.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Since the first edition was published, the dynamics of higher education and faculty development have greatly changed.<i> A Guide to Faculty Development </i>provides an introduction and a guide to faculty development as well as new topics like working with adjuncts, diversity, multiculturalism, assessment, and different issues associated with the various types of campuses. Sponsored by The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, this revised and updated guide is essential for faculty developers and administrators newly involved as well as experienced in faculty development.http://www.lybrary.com/guide-faculty-development-p-63225.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/guide-faculty-development-p-63225.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST <i>Supported Literacy for Adolescents</i>, written by nationally recognized experts, introduces an innovative and field-tested instructional framework for preparing secondary students to succeed academically in a fast-changing and globally networked world. Filled with examples from science, history, literature, and special education classrooms, the book shows how teachers can enable diverse students, including under-performers, to develop critical thinking and other essential competencies along with the "multi-literacy" tools needed to engage in twenty-first century content learning.http://www.lybrary.com/supported-literacyfor-adolescents-transforming-teaching-content-learning-21st-century-p-62994.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/supported-literacyfor-adolescents-transforming-teaching-content-learning-21st-century-p-62994.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing a Successful ANTI-BullyING Program<p>Bullying can be found in every school system, school, and classroom. It is destructive to the well-being of students, creates unsafe schools, and impacts learning. School personnel, parents, and others are increasingly realizing the importance of putting effective anti-bullying strategies and policies in place that will create safe, caring, and peaceful schools where all students feel a sense of belonging and acceptance. Based on Allan L. Beane's proven Bully Free7reg; Program, <i>Bullying Prevention for Schools</i> is a step-by-step guide to implementing an anti-bullying program in individual schools or throughout a district.<p>In <i>Bullying Prevention for Schools</i>, Dr. Beane details how to: <ul><LI> Implement training for school personnel and volunteers and awareness sessions for students, parents, and the community <LI> Establish policies, rules, behavioral expectations, discipline rubrics, and response plans <LI> Prepare intervention and prevention strategies <LI> Develop a plan to actively include, involve, and empower students, parents, and the community <LI> And much more </ul><i>Bullying Prevention for Schools</i> also contains a wealth of reproducible documents and forms, such as surveys, statement sheets, and intervention questionnaires.http://www.lybrary.com/bullying-prevention-schools-stepbystep-guide-implementing-successful-antibullying-program-p-62993.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/bullying-prevention-schools-stepbystep-guide-implementing-successful-antibullying-program-p-62993.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST