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Teaching Learning Based Optimization Algorithm
by R. Venkata RaoDescribing a newoptimization algorithm, the "Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization (TLBO)," in aclear and lucid style, this book maximizes reader insights into how the TLBOalgorithm can be used to solve continuous and discrete optimization problemsinvolving single or multiple objectives. As the algorithm operateson the principle of teaching and learning, where teachers influence the qualityof learners' results, the elitist version of TLBOalgorithm (ETLBO) is described along with applications of the TLBO algorithm inthe fields of electrical engineering, mechanical design, thermal engineering,manufacturing engineering, civil engineering, structural engineering, computerengineering, electronics engineering, physics and biotechnology. The book offers a valuableresource for scientists, engineers and practitioners involved in thedevelopment and usage of advanced optimization algorithms.
Teaching & Learning Online: New Pedagogies for New Technologies (Creating Success Ser.)
by John StephensonA guide to teaching and learning online. It presents a wide range of experience and research findings from leading practitioners and organizations around the world, including case studies from the Open University, the BBC, ICL and leading international academics.
Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom (Options for Teaching #59)
by John Miller and Julie WilhelmThis volume considers the challenges and opportunities of online literature classes and suggests instructional strategies that ensure students are engaged in the virtual classroom. The ideas shared here are grounded in research, practice, critical self-reflection, and collaboration. Reflecting a diverse collection of practical tips and experiences from colleagues teaching at a variety of institutions, the essays offer readers the chance to inhabit others' classrooms. Contributors discuss building an interactive and inclusive classroom and using hypertext, video lectures, and other asynchronous and synchronous tools in classes whose subjects include, among others, Shakespeare, the Chinese novel, early American literature, speculative fiction, and contemporary American poetry.
Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds: Immersive Learning in English Studies
by Allen WebbWhat are the realities and possibilities of utilizing on-line virtual worlds as teaching tools for specific literary works? Through engaging and surprising stories from classrooms where virtual worlds are in use, this book invites readers to understand and participate in this emerging and valuable pedagogy. It examines the experience of high school and college literature teachers involved in a pioneering project to develop virtual worlds for literary study, detailing how they created, utilized, and researched different immersive and interactive virtual reality environments to support the teaching of a wide range of literary works. Readers see how students role-play as literary characters, extending and altering character conduct in purposeful ways ,and how they explore on-line, interactive literature maps, museums, archives, and game worlds to analyze the impact of historical and cultural setting, language, and dialogue on literary characters and events. This book breaks exciting ground, offering insights, pedagogical suggestions, and ways for readers to consider the future of this innovative approach to teaching literary texts.
Teaching Literature with Digital Technology Assignments
by Tim HetlandTeaching Literature with Digital Technology is a collection of digital assignments, each created by a contributor in the fields of literature and composition. Edited by Seattle-based scholar and teacher Tim Hetland and available as a print text or PDF e-book, this resource for instructors invites students to become knowledge-makers as it introduces creative uses of social media, digital tools, podcasts, multimodal assignments, and digital archives to learn about literature. Sample assignments can be viewed in the Professional Resources folder on the Macmillan English Community site. To order the print text, use ISBN: 978-1-4576-2948-8; to order a PDF e-book of the text, use ISBN: 978-1-3190-7643-6.
Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology (Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology)
by Bill FersterTechnology promises to make learning better, cheaper, faster—but rarely has it kept that promise.The allure of educational technology is easy to understand. Classroom instruction is an expensive and time-consuming process fraught with contradictory theories and frustratingly uneven results. Educators, inspired by machines’ contributions to modern life, have been using technology to facilitate teaching for centuries.In Teaching Machines, Bill Ferster examines past attempts to automate instruction from the earliest use of the postal service for distance education to the current maelstrom surrounding Massive Open Online Courses. He tells the stories of the entrepreneurs and visionaries who, beginning in the colonial era, developed and promoted various instructional technologies. Ferster touches on a wide range of attempts to enhance the classroom experience with machines, from hornbooks, the Chautauqua movement, and correspondence courses to B. F. Skinner’s teaching machine, intelligent tutoring systems, and eLearning. The famed progressive teachers, researchers, and administrators that the book highlights often overcame substantial hurdles to implement their ideas, but not all of them succeeded in improving the quality of education. Teaching Machines provides invaluable new insight into our current debate over the efficacy of educational technology.
Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
by Audrey WattersHow ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines--from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box.Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet. The idea of technology that would allow students to "go at their own pace" did not originate in Silicon Valley. In Teaching Machines, education writer Audrey Watters offers a lively history of predigital educational technology, from Sidney Pressey's mechanized positive-reinforcement provider to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Watters shows that these machines and the pedagogy that accompanied them sprang from ideas--bite-sized content, individualized instruction--that had legs and were later picked up by textbook publishers and early advocates for computerized learning. Watters pays particular attention to the role of the media--newspapers, magazines, television, and film--in shaping people's perceptions of teaching machines as well as the psychological theories underpinning them. She considers these machines in the context of education reform, the political reverberations of Sputnik, and the rise of the testing and textbook industries. She chronicles Skinner's attempts to bring his teaching machines to market, culminating in the famous behaviorist's efforts to launch Didak 101, the "pre-verbal" machine that taught spelling. (Alternate names proposed by Skinner include "Autodidak," "Instructomat," and "Autostructor.") Telling these somewhat cautionary tales, Watters challenges what she calls "the teleology of ed tech"--the idea that not only is computerized education inevitable, but technological progress is the sole driver of events.
Teaching Macroeconomics with Microsoft Excel®
by Humberto BarretoHumberto Barreto gives professors a simple way to teach fundamental concepts for any undergraduate macroeconomics course using Microsoft Excel® with Excel workbooks and add-ins and videos freely available on his university website. The Excel files are designed to be used by students with any textbook, and have been used many times by the author in his own teaching. Each Excel workbook contains links to short screencasts, around five to ten minutes, that show the cursor and typing as the file is manipulated with narration that walks the student through the steps needed to complete a task. The book shows professors a simple way to present macroeconomic models and incorporate data into their courses.
Teaching Math at a Distance, Grades K-12: A Practical Guide to Rich Remote Instruction (Corwin Mathematics Series)
by Theresa E. WillsMake Rich Math Instruction Come to Life Online In an age when distance learning has become part of the "new normal," educators know that rich remote math teaching involves more than direct instruction, online videos, and endless practice problems on virtual worksheets. Using both personal experience and those of teachers in real K-12 online classrooms, distance learning mathematics veteran Theresa Wills translates all we know about research-based, equitable, rigorous face-to-face mathematics instruction into an online venue. This powerful guide equips math teachers to: Build students’ agency, identity, and strong math communities Promote mathematical thinking, collaboration, and discourse Incorporate rich mathematics tasks and assign meaningful homework and practice Facilitate engaging online math instruction using virtual manipulatives and other concrete learning tools Recognize and address equity and inclusion challenges associated with distance learning Assess mathematics learning from a distance With examples across the grades, links to tutorials and templates, and space to reflect and plan, Teaching Math at a Distance offers the support, clarity, and inspiration needed to guide teachers through teaching math remotely without sacrificing deep learning and academic growth.
Teaching Math at a Distance, Grades K-12: A Practical Guide to Rich Remote Instruction (Corwin Mathematics Series)
by Theresa E. WillsMake Rich Math Instruction Come to Life Online In an age when distance learning has become part of the "new normal," educators know that rich remote math teaching involves more than direct instruction, online videos, and endless practice problems on virtual worksheets. Using both personal experience and those of teachers in real K-12 online classrooms, distance learning mathematics veteran Theresa Wills translates all we know about research-based, equitable, rigorous face-to-face mathematics instruction into an online venue. This powerful guide equips math teachers to: Build students’ agency, identity, and strong math communities Promote mathematical thinking, collaboration, and discourse Incorporate rich mathematics tasks and assign meaningful homework and practice Facilitate engaging online math instruction using virtual manipulatives and other concrete learning tools Recognize and address equity and inclusion challenges associated with distance learning Assess mathematics learning from a distance With examples across the grades, links to tutorials and templates, and space to reflect and plan, Teaching Math at a Distance offers the support, clarity, and inspiration needed to guide teachers through teaching math remotely without sacrificing deep learning and academic growth.
Teaching Of Computer Science
by P.N. Lakshmi ShanmugamThis book has been written as a basic textbook for B.Ed student teachers who have chosen one of the optional subjects as computer science -I studying in the B.Ed colleges affiliated to Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University. The importance of systematic and organized knowledge can hardly be exaggerated in this book. Ten chapters namely Hardware and Software, Aims of Teaching Computer Science, Micro-teaching, Lesson Plan and Unit Plan, Methods of Teaching. Teaching Aids. Curriculum, Evaluation in Education, Textbook, Assignment and Review are described in a simple language with images and necessary illustrations to enable the student teachers to understand it clearly and easily. It highlights skills and values for everyday use based upon Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. A complete and detailed description of computer science library is helpful to the students in stimulating the ideas about digital library. Greater emphasis is given to the use of different types of tests and construction of Achievement test towards the improvement of learning and instruction.
Teaching Of Computer Science
by P.N. Lakshmi ShanmugamThis book has been written as a basic textbook for B.Ed student teachers who have chosen one of the optional subjects as computer science -I studying in the B.Ed colleges affiliated to Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University. The importance of systematic and organized knowledge can hardly be exaggerated in this book. Ten chapters namely Hardware and Software, Aims of Teaching Computer Science, Micro-teaching, Lesson Plan and Unit Plan, Methods of Teaching. Teaching Aids. Curriculum, Evaluation in Education, Textbook, Assignment and Review are described in a simple language with images and necessary illustrations to enable the student teachers to understand it clearly and easily. It highlights skills and values for everyday use based upon Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. A complete and detailed description of computer science library is helpful to the students in stimulating the ideas about digital library. Greater emphasis is given to the use of different types of tests and construction of Achievement test towards the improvement of learning and instruction.
Teaching on the Education Frontier: Instructional Strategies for Online and Blended Classrooms Grades 5-12
by Kristin KippA groundbreaking guide to facilitating online and blended courses This comprehensive resource offers teachers in grades K-12 a hands-on guide to the rapidly growing field of online and blended teaching. With clear examples and explanations, Kristin Kipp shows how to structure online and blended courses for student engagement, build relationships with online students, facilitate discussion boards, collaborate online, design online assessments, and much more. Shows how to create a successful online or blended classroom Illustrates the essential differences between face-to-face instruction and online teaching Foreword by Susan Patrick of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning This is an essential handbook for learning how to teach online and improve student achievement.
Teaching Online: A Practical Guide (College Teaching Ser.)
by Susan Ko Steve RossenTeaching Online: A Practical Guide is an accessible, introductory, and comprehensive guide for anyone who teaches online. The fourth edition of this bestselling resource has been fully revised, maintains its reader-friendly tone, and offers exceptional practical advice, new teaching examples, faculty interviews, and an updated resource section. New to this edition: entire new chapter on MOOCs (massive open online courses); expanded information on teaching with mobile devices, using open educational resources, and learning analytics; additional interviews with faculty, case studies, and examples; spotlight on new tools and categories of tools, especially multimedia. Focusing on the "hows" and "whys" of implementation rather than theory, the fourth edition of Teaching Online is a must-have resource for anyone teaching online or thinking about teaching online.
Teaching Online: A Guide to Theory, Research, and Practice (Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology)
by Claire Howell MajorDemystifies online teaching for both enthusiastic and wary educators and helps faculty who teach online do their best work as digital instructors.It is difficult to imagine a college class today that does not include some online component—whether a simple posting of a syllabus to course management software, the use of social media for communication, or a full-blown course offering through a MOOC platform. In Teaching Online, Claire Howell Major describes for college faculty the changes that accompany use of such technologies and offers real-world strategies for surmounting digital teaching challenges.Teaching with these evolving media requires instructors to alter the ways in which they conceive of and do their work, according to Major. They must frequently update their knowledge of learning, teaching, and media, and they need to develop new forms of instruction, revise and reconceptualize classroom materials, and refresh their communication patterns. Faculty teaching online must also reconsider the student experience and determine what changes for students ultimately mean for their own work and for their institutions. Teaching Online presents instructors with a thoughtful synthesis of educational theory, research, and practice as well as a review of strategies for managing the instructional changes involved in teaching online. In addition, this book presents examples of best practices from successful online instructors as well as cutting-edge ideas from leading scholars and educational technologists. Faculty members, researchers, instructional designers, students, administrators, and policy makers who engage with online learning will find this book an invaluable resource.
The Teaching Online Handbook
by Courtney OstaffClassroom teachers are increasingly expected to teach online – creating content area courses from scratch with little support or training. But high-quality, researched-based online teaching has its own particular set of skills and expectations, and most resources are directed at college-level instructors. This no-nonsense handbook is for that busy classroom teacher, with clear techniques for planning, instruction, and assessment, as well as sections on teaching students with diverse needs and exceptionalities. Based on the author's real-life experiences as an online teacher, there are multiple examples including sample assignments across content areas, rubrics for grading, and sample scripts for parent contact as well as tips to reduce instructor workload and conduct successful live instruction.
The Teaching Online Handbook
by Courtney OstaffClassroom teachers are increasingly expected to teach online – creating content area courses from scratch with little support or training. But high-quality, researched-based online teaching has its own particular set of skills and expectations, and most resources are directed at college-level instructors. This no-nonsense handbook is for that busy classroom teacher, with clear techniques for planning, instruction, and assessment, as well as sections on teaching students with diverse needs and exceptionalities. Based on the author's real-life experiences as an online teacher, there are multiple examples including sample assignments across content areas, rubrics for grading, and sample scripts for parent contact as well as tips to reduce instructor workload and conduct successful live instruction.
Teaching Outside the Lines: Developing Creativity in Every Learner
by Douglas A. JohnsonMake Creativity The Center Of The Curriculum! In our fast-changing world, the ability to think independently and innovatively is no longer a “nice extra”—it’s a survival skill. This book delivers surefire strategies for equipping learners across all grades and subjects with the motivation and critical thinking skills to thrive in our high-tech future. Content includes: Why “one right answer” instruction paradigms discourage critical thinking and risk-taking Why merely using the latest technology class does not equate to teaching creatively Projects and prompts that ask the question “So what does this mean in the classroom today?”
Teaching Outside the Lines: Developing Creativity in Every Learner
by Douglas A. JohnsonMake Creativity The Center Of The Curriculum! In our fast-changing world, the ability to think independently and innovatively is no longer a “nice extra”—it’s a survival skill. This book delivers surefire strategies for equipping learners across all grades and subjects with the motivation and critical thinking skills to thrive in our high-tech future. Content includes: Why “one right answer” instruction paradigms discourage critical thinking and risk-taking Why merely using the latest technology class does not equate to teaching creatively Projects and prompts that ask the question “So what does this mean in the classroom today?”
Teaching Photography: Tools for the Imaging Educator (Photography Educators Series)
by Glenn Rand Jane Alden Stevens Garin HornerThe photographic community is rife with talented and creative practitioners and artists. But making great photographs does not always translate into an ability to teach effectively. This new edition of Teaching Photography approaches photographic education from a point of view that stresses the how and why of the education. It includes the resources that will inspire new and seasoned teachers to help students expand their technical and aesthetic abilities and techniques, as well as their visual literacy and the way photography fits into the wider world. Fully updated to include the online/hybrid classroom environment, collaborative learning, rubrics, and using digital technology, plus techniques for inspiring conversations and critiques.
Teaching Skills with Virtual Humans: Lessons from the Development of the Thinking Head Whiteboard (Cognitive Science and Technology)
by Marissa Bond David M.W. Powers Parimala RaghavendraThis book highlights current research into virtual tutoring software and presents a case study of the design and application of a social tutor for children with autism. Best practice guidelines for developing software-based educational interventions are discussed, with a major emphasis on facilitating the generalisation of skills to contexts outside of the software itself, and on maintaining these skills over time. Further, the book presents the software solution Thinking Head Whiteboard, which provides a framework for families and educators to create unique educational activities utilising virtual character technology and customised to match learners’ needs and interests. In turn, the book describes the development and evaluation of a social tutor incorporating multiple life-like virtual humans, leading to an exploration of the lessons learned and recommendations for the future development of related technologies.
Teaching Surrounded by Smart Phones (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Dinesh Kant Kumar Peterjohn RadcliffeThis book explores how smartphones affect teaching activities, students’ behavior, and learning outcomes. The Internet and smartphones are a very recent phenomenon and are evolving very rapidly, and new devices, software apps and methodologies that may upset previous understandings are emerging on a regular basis. Based on the latest research, this book shares various current perspectives and encourages continuing dialog to allow the education community to react in a timely manner to any new developments, and as such improve classroom outcomes.
Teaching Tech-Savvy Kids: Bringing Digital Media Into the Classroom, Grades 5-12
by Jessica K. ParkerStudents are plugged in, powered up, and connected. Are you? The author gives teachers a deeper understanding of the dynamic potential for increasing student learning through digital media. Based on a three-year study of youth and their use of new media, this teacher-friendly resource includes: Descriptions of digital tools such as social networking platforms, YouTube, Wikipedia, virtual worlds, digital music, and more Vignettes about how young people use digital media Sidebars debunking common myths about technology Advice about navigating digital media for both novice and expert teachers Pedagogical implications and practices, including sample activities
Teaching Tech Together: How to Make Your Lessons Work and Build a Teaching Community around Them
by Greg WilsonHundreds of grassroots groups have sprung up around the world to teach programming, web design, robotics, and other skills outside traditional classrooms. These groups exist so that people don't have to learn these things on their own, but ironically, their founders and instructors are often teaching themselves how to teach. There's a better way. This book presents evidence-based practices that will help you create and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them. Topics include the differences between different kinds of learners, diagnosing and correcting misunderstandings, teaching as a performance art, what motivates and demotivates adult learners, how to be a good ally, fostering a healthy community, getting the word out, and building alliances with like-minded groups. The book includes over a hundred exercises that can be done individually or in groups, over 350 references, and a glossary to help you navigate educational jargon.
Teaching the Last Backpack Generation: A Mobile Technology Handbook for Secondary Educators
by null Zachary Walker null Kara Rosenblatt null Donald McMahonLet mobile devices transform teaching and learning Don’t just know how to use mobile technology. Know how to use it to transform learning. This refreshingly easy-to-use workbook shows educators how to make mobile devices a natural part of their classrooms by optimizing technology, no matter what the content. Discover: practical mobile device management skills such as how to project and use devices as a whiteboard and tools to capture student responses. fun strategies students will love such as teaching vocabulary using text speak and slang or using a digital assistant (like Siri) instead of writing. helpful resources to enhance professional learning.