I can’t really provide reviews for these books, I haven’t read most of them yet (they are just lying in my 10 year old amazon saved items queue), but I thought I’d share the list for future reference:
Some new Books on Teaching, Learning, Education, Faculty Development
- Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning – Tony Bates, check out his blog if you haven’t already: http://www.tonybates.ca
- Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education – a book Tony Bates mentioned in this post: why the professional development model is broken.
- See also this free e-book/pdf: Effective Practice in a Digital Age
- A Guide to Faculty Development
- See also this recent online faculty development course on developing blended learning courses: http://blended.online.ucf.edu/blendkit-course/
- And I’ve seen this faculty development book recommended as well: Teaching What You Don’t Know
- Academically Adrift – I probably don’t even need to mention this one, it’s gotten so much attention, but here is a recent discussion and summary of responses/criticisms of the book.
- The Formative Assessment Action Plan: Practical Steps to More Successful Teaching and Learning – formative assessment is one of the most effective things you can do to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning environments (see also work by Paul Black).
- See also this current discussion of challenges to formative assessment
- Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology – new edition (3rd) of this standard instructional design textbook
- Informed Design of Educational Technologies in Higher Education: Enhanced Learning and Teaching
- The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities
- Education and Technology: Key Issues and Debates
- Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology, and the New Literacies – see also this recent post on net gen skeptic with more on how the digital natives / digital immigrants distinction is dead (or at least dying).
- The Challenge of Rethinking History Education: On Practices, Theories, and Policy
- The National Academies Press (which recently made all their books available in pdf form for free, including the How People Learn book and Engineering in K-12 Education), recently released some new education books:
- Learning Science Through Computer Games and Simulations – See also this just published journal article: The Learning Effects of Computer Simulations in Science Education
- Successful K-12 STEM Education:Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
- A Framework for K-12 Science Education
- Single-Case Design (pdf) – how to do research with a single class, from the Department of Education What Works group
New Books on HTML5, Canvas, Javascript
Some of these aren’t out just yet
- Making Things Move in Javascript – that’s actually a link to some free tutorials – the book is not out yet
- HTML5 Canvas
- Core HTML5: Volume 1: Canvas
- Making Isometric Social Real-Time Games with HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript
- Learning HTML5 Game Programming: A Hands-on Guide to Building Online Games Using Canvas, SVG, and WebGL
- HTML5 Cookbook
- Coredogs – some free online lessons/books on web development, drupal
New Books in Psychology, Technology, Design, Embodied Cognition
- Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science – see also this recent article The enactive approach: Theoretical sketches from cell to society
- The Primacy of Movement – Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
- Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average and related books such as The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us and The Age of American Unreason
- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood – by James Gleick (author of Chaos)
- Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis
- Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
- The Third Teacher – exploring ways design can transform teaching
Faculty developer. Interests: developing educational technology; faculty & student development; learning sciences & psychology.
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