Illustrates the process of creating 'edu-tainment' activities designed to serve serious instructional goals. This book explores the use of e-readers as learning tools and describes the planning and possibilities involved in creating classes in online worlds, such as Second Life.…
"This hands-on guide provides a unique compilation of active-learning exercises that will enhance any for-credit library instruction class, no matter what the setting or audience"--
"This hands-on guide provides a unique compilation of active-learning exercises that will enhance any for-credit library instruction class, no matter what the setting or audience"--
"This hands-on guide provides a unique compilation of active-learning exercises that will enhance any for-credit library instruction class, no matter what the setting or audience"--
Discusses motivational theories and provides teaching scenarios and examples of motivational lesson plans to help teachers stimulate learning.
Annotation. With information retrieval (IR) a growing field of research, teaching it requires new resources. This book provides theoretical and practical ideas for teaching IR, a topic which has up to now suffered from a lack of literature on its pedagogical aspects.
Information Retrieval has become a very active research field in the 21st century. Many from academia and industry present their innovations in the field in a wide variety of conferences and journals. Companies transfer this new knowledge directly to the general public via servi…
With information retrieval (IR) a growing field of research, teaching it requires new resources. This book provides theoretical and practical ideas for teaching IR, a topic which has up to now suffered from a lack of literature on its pedagogical aspects.
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The field of distributed learning is constantly evolving. Online technology provides instructors with the flexibility to offer meaningful instruction to students who are at a distance or in some cases right on campus, but still unable to be physically present in the classroom. T…
