Product Description: The Crisp Training Essentials Learning Track includes the best self-directed study books at a significant cost savings. To help you learn the essentials of training, this bundle combines the best Fifty-Minute Series books and additional Crisp publications to provide in-depth knowledge of the subject matter...read more

An updated classic!The first research-based guide to developing training programs that truly improve employee performance, "Mastering the Instructional Design Process" will serve as a road map for all trainers, human resource managers, and instructional designers charged with the responsibility of finding effective, lasting solutions to employee performance problems.This guidebook will teach you how to: Detect employee performance problemsConduct a needs assessmentIdentify causes of performance problemsDevelop performance objectivesImplement working solutions"Mastering the Instructional Design Process" is essential to anyone who seeks to improve workplace performance with training, job aids, organization development, employee reward programs, task-related feedback, and high-impact hiring. Full of case studies, checklists, and charts, this is your guide to performance improvement!

Product Description: This practical guide examines the impact of environmental hazards and legislation on real estate and business transactions, and shows environmental auditors how to perform a thorough and accurate assessment in accordance with the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standard governing the process...read more

Product Description: This learner-centered approach to instructional design gives the reader extensive experience in using the principles of instructional design. This book directly involves readers in the process of actually designing instructional events through (1) a comprehensive overview of instructional design principles as they apply in real settings; (2) explanations of how learning principles can be used to design responsive solutions to instructional problems in a range of settings (e...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This highly praised handbook presents proven strategies for incorporating multimedia projects into the curriculum. The authors use the DDD-E model (DECIDE, DESIGN, DEVELOP, EVALUATE) to show how to select and plan multimedia projects, use prsentation and development tools, manage graphics, audio, and digital video, and evaluate student work.Significantly updated and expanded, the second edition of this highly praised handbook presents proven strategies and ideas for incorporating multimedia projects into the curriculum. With a strong focus on student learning, the authors show how to plan and implement multimedia activities and effectively engage students in expressing themselves through a variety of media. Using the DDD-E model (DECIDE, DESIGN, DEVELOP, EVALUATE), educators learn how to select and plan multimedia projects, use presentation and development tools, manage graphics, audio, and digital video, create a Web page, and evaluate student work. In addition, the authors offer numerous examples of projects involving such tools as PowerPoint, HyperStudio, and HTML. Project suggestions come complete with a scenario, an overview, topics, and reproducible worksheets, and can easily be adapted to different grade levels.

Instructional design is a system that is dynamic enough to work with any set of variables regardless of the particulars. This book provides both novice and experienced instructional designers a series of tools to reference as they practice their profession. Accompanying digital materials are available (via download).

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Product Description: Based on the Concord Consortium e-Learning Model, this easy-to-follow handbook provides a rich working overview of online teaching―and reveals the 17 essential elements of successful online teaching. A must-have for every new or seasoned online instructor to be successful and engaging in an online educational environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ten Steps to Complex Learning presents a path from a training problem to a training solution in a way that students, practitioners (both instructional designers and teachers), and researchers can understand and easily use. Practitioners can use this book as a reference guide to support their design of courses, materials, or environments for complex learning...read more

Product Description: Is the e-learning you create a meaningful and powerful experience for your audience? It will be after this innovative, how-to workshop. Designing the Learning Moment will help you establish a personal, systematic approach to designing more creative e-learning regardless of your background, personal strengths, tools at your disposal or budget...read more

Product Description: Keeping the User in Mind provides a practical down-to-earth look at instructional design and its uses in the academic library. Focus is given to teaching and measuring information literacy skills, and chapters also review the history of the field, providing an overview of some relevant technological innovations that might be a part of any library’s instructional design mosaic...read more

Product Description: The Fourth Edition of Educational Technology for Teaching and Learning introduces current and future teachers to the approaches, methods, and procedures for integrating computers and other media into the curriculum using a systematic instructional design approach...read more

Product Description: As the educative process continues to transform, educators and instructional designers are challenged to understand the nature of online learning and the central issues involved in effective online design.Distinctive Distance Education Design: Models for Differentiated Instruction attempts to gather the traditional models of teaching and learning and present them in a way that is useful to both new and experienced online teachers in a manner that can assist in increasing the overall effectiveness of online courses and training sessions and provide a greater impact for both the teacher and the learner...read more

Product Description: Introducing change to higher education has always been a difficult and slow process. But over the last two decades, information and communication technologies have served to transform the traditional classroom and break down the barriers to education despite any insecurity educators have felt...read more

Good instructional design is the key to great instruction. Instructional Design for Teachers focuses on the instructional design process specifically for k-12 teachers. This book introduces a new, common-sense model of instructional design (ID) to take K-12 teachers through the ID process step-by-step, with a special emphasis on preparing, motivating, and encouraging new and ongoing use of ID principles. Each chapter contains framing questions, common errors, easy-to-use rules of thumb, clearly stated outcomes, and examples to show ID in action. The basic model and its application within constructivism and user design will help teachers adapt from a behavioral approach to a more open, student-centered design approach. Combining basics with strategies to implement this model in the most advanced instructional approaches, this book empowers teachers and learners to use good ID with the most recent research-based approaches to learning. Instructional Design for Teachers shows how instructional design principles can impact instructional moments in positive and practical ways. It is perfect for basic ID courses and introductory curriculum courses, and will be easily accessible to in-service as well as pre-service teachers.

Product Description: The phenomenon of using Free and Open Source Software in education has increased significantly in the last decade.Free and Open Source Software for E-Learning: Issues, Successes and Challenges reviews open and free software used in e-learning, examines the pedagogy behind FOSS and how it is applied to e-learning, and discusses the best practices for FOSS through real world examples, providing guidelines for e-learning designers and instructors who use FOSS...read more

Product Description: Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) is the process through which individuals control their own learning, from the cognitive, meta-cognitive, behavioral, emotional and motivational points of view. Through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) it is an important interdisciplinary competence which has increasingly gained attention in the past couple of decades because it leads to improved learning and it helps people to cope with the challenges of life-long-learning in the knowledge society...read more

Product Description: The Instructional Design Knowledge Base: Theory, Research and Practice provides ID professionals and students at all levels with a comprehensive exploration of the theories and research that serve as a foundation for current and emerging ID practice...read more

Product Description: Design patterns have become popular in the domains of architecture, software design, human computer interaction, Web 2.0, organizational structures, and pedagogy as a way to communicate successful practical knowledge. Patterns capture proven solutions for recurrent problems with respect to fitting contexts...read more

Product Description: Virtual worlds are an area of growing interest in many sectors, including higher education. While Web-based tools have existed for years to help deliver course content, these tools have not traditionally provided means for creation of community with the embedded communication and collaboration necessary for successful teaching and learning...read more