Books in the Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning series

Part of the Jossey-Bass Online Teaching and Learning series, a set of concise and practical resources, focused on helping higher education practitioners meet the challenges of the online learning environment.

Update the visual design of your course in pedagogically sound ways Visual Design for Online Learning spotlights the role that visual elements play in the online learning environment.

This is another volume in the Jossey-Bass Online Teaching and Learning series, a set of concise practical resources focused on helping higher education practitioners meet the challenges of the online learning environment. This volume addresses the key issue of library services for faculty and their students in the online learning environment.

This book is designed to help higher education professionals understand the basics of assessment online and apply those principles through creative assessment practices, such as the use of case studies, authentic assessments based in real-life application of concepts, and collaborative activities.

How can online instructors and course designers' instruction harness the popular Web 2. 0 tool, the wiki, for successful collaboration and learning outcomes? This book focuses on using wikis in the active learning processes that are the hallmark of collaborative learning and constructivism.

Higher education institutions are increasingly delivering content online, but the content is often not sufficiently engaging.

How can faculty create a strong e presence for their online classes? This volume highlights the need for creating a presence in the online environment. The authors explore the emotional, psychological, and social aspects from both the instructor and student perspective.

* A practical guide to making online courses accessible to learners with disabilities. * This book will help all online instructors and institutions not only meet government-mandated ADA compliance, but also create optimal conditions for learning success and student satisfaction.

* The first book to discuss workload management for online instructors, it offers practical evidence-based strategies, advice, and examples for how to prioritize, balance, and manage an online teaching workload.

This book includes a definitive model for engaged learning that can be applied in a wide range of on-line learning environments and across age levels. It also addresses current topics such as engaging in a blended learning environment, social networking, and using related technology tools.

Includes an innovative framework - the Phases of Engagement - that helps learners become more involved as knowledge generators and cofacilitators of a course. This book also provides specific ideas for tested activities (collected from experienced online instructors across the nation) that can go a long way to improving online learning.

Finally, the first research-based book of sound strategies and best practices to help instructors motivate students to complete their online courses.Although studies support the effectiveness of learning online, students often fail to complete online courses. Some studies have found that as many as 50-70% drop out of their online courses or programs. Retention is not only a growing expectation and imperative, but it is also as opportunity for faculty members to take the lead in innovating, researching, and implementing new strategies while demonstrating their effectiveness.Designed for instructors and instructional designers, Motivating and Retaining Online Students is filled with empirical research from the authors' study of motivation and retention strategies that can reduce online learner dropout. Focusing on the most important issues instructors face, such as course design; student engagement and motivation; and institutional, instructional, and informal student support strategies, the book provides effective online strategies that help minimize student dropout, increase student retention, and support student learning.While helping to improve the overall retention rates for educational institutions, the strategies outlined in the book also allow for student diversity and individual learner differences. Lehman and Conceição's proven model gives instructors an effective approach to help students persist in online courses and succeed as learners.

Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame shone brightly within and outside her native Venice, and whose voice is original and reflective of her time and culture. This book tells the story of the conquest of Byzantium in the Fourth Crusade.

Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Chatelet (1706-49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime. This book features a selection of key sections from Du Chatelet's works.