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Le Littéraire dans le quotidien
No full textLe Littéraire dans le quotidien is an open textbook for use in French courses. The Literary in the Everyday represents a new pedagogical approach to reading and writing at the lower levels and is applicable to all languages. Teachers of foreign languages besides French can read about the approach in the Teacher\u27s Guide. Go to Google Drive for individual chapters. Additionally/ the Foreign Languages & The Literary in the Everyday (FLLITE) Project/ a joint initiative of COERLL and CERCLL/ two national foreign language resource centers/ offers open resources for professional development in the publication of CC licensed FLLITE lessons in any language.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1209/thumbnail.jp
The Changing Story: digital stories that participate in transforming teaching & learning
No full textThe Changing Story gives you assignments/ resources/ and examples to use in your teaching and learning. It will also help you think of ways digital stories can be used in your teaching/ and help students harness the power of visual storytelling.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1214/thumbnail.jp
International Economics: Theory and Policy
No full textThis text strives to reach a median between these two approaches. First/ I believe that students need to learn the theory and models to understand how economists understand the world. I also think these ideas are accessible to most students if they are explained thoroughly. This text presents numerous models in some detail/ not by employing advanced mathematics/ but rather by walking students through a detailed description of how a model\u27s assumptions influence its conclusions. Second/ and perhaps more important/ students must learn how the models connect with the real world. I believe that theory is done primarily to guide policy. We do positive economics to help answer the normative questions; for example/ what should a country do about its trade policy or its exchange rate policy? The results from models give us insights that help us answer these questions. Thus this text strives to explain why each model is interesting by connecting its results to some aspect of a current policy issue. A prime example is found in Chapter 11 Evaluating the Controversy between Free Trade and Protectionism of this book/ which addresses the age-old question of whether countries should choose free trade or some type of selected protection. The chapter demonstrates how the results of the various models presented throughout the text contribute to our understanding of this long-standing debate.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1223/thumbnail.jp
The Process of Research Writing
No full textThe title of this book is The Process of Research Writing/ and in the nutshell/ that is what the book is about. A lot of times/ instructors and students tend to separate “thinking/” “researching/” and “writing” into different categories that aren\u27t necessarily very well connected. First you think/ then you research/ and then you write.The reality is though that the possibilities and process of research writing are more complicated and much richer than that. We think about what it is we want to research and write about/ but at the same time/ we learn what to think based on our research and our writing. The goal of this book is to guide you through this process of research writing by emphasizing a series of exercises that touch on different and related parts of the research process.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1231/thumbnail.jp
Writing Programs Worldwide: Profiles of Academic Writing in Many Places
No full textEmerging from the International WAC/WID Mapping Project/ this collection of essays is meant to inform decision-making by teachers/ program managers/ and college/university administrators considering how writing can most appropriately be defined/ managed/ funded/ and taught in the places where they work. Writing Programs Worldwide offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs. The authors of its program profiles show how innovators at a diverse range of universities on six continents have dealt creatively over many years with day-to-day and long-range issues affecting how students across disciplines and languages grow as communicators and learners. In these profiles/ we see teachers and researchers relying on colleagues and on transnational scholarship to build initiatives that are both well suited to their specific environments and can serve as regional and often global models. Their struggles and achievements offer insights to colleagues in similar locales and across borders who seek to establish/ enhance/ and assess their own work as designers of writing programs. An introduction and three section essays by the editors illuminate themes that inform this collection. Growing networks of initiators and scholars and survey results from the International WAC/WID Mapping Project exemplify the argument of this collection for transnational exchange and collaboration.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1247/thumbnail.jp
International Advances in Writing Research: Cultures/ Places/ Measures
No full textThe thirty chapters in this edited collection were selected from the more than 500 presentations at the Writing Research Across Borders II Conference in 2011. With representatives from more than forty countries/ this conference gave rise to the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research. The chapters selected for this collection represent cutting edge research on writing from all regions/ organized around three themes—cultures/ places/ and measures. The authors report research that considers writing in all levels of schooling/ in science/ in the public sphere/ and in the workplace/ as well as at the relationship among these various places of writing. The authors also consider the cultures of writing—among them national cultures/ gender cultures/ schooling cultures/ scientific cultures/ and cultures of the workplace. Finally/ the chapters examine various ways of measuring writing and how these measures interact with practices of teaching and learning.Edited by Charles Bazerman/ Chris Dean/ Jessica Early/ Karen Lunsford/ Suzie Null/ Paul Rogers/ and Amanda Stansell.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1252/thumbnail.jp
Torts: Cases/ Principles/ and Institutions
No full textThis is the Fifth Edition of Torts: Cases/ Principles/ and Institutions/ a casebook for a one-semester torts course that carves out a distinctive niche in the field by focusing on the institutions and sociology of American tort law. The book retains many of the familiar features of the traditional casebook/ including many of the classic cases. Like the best casebooks/ it seeks to survey the theoretical principles underlying those cases. But it aims to supplement the cases and principles with editorial notes that focus students’ attention on the institutional features of our tort system/ including features such as the pervasiveness of settlements/ the significance of the market/ the role of the plaintiff\u27s bar/ the importance of private insurance/ the contingency fee/ and the jury. These institutional arrangements are what make American tort law distinctive. They are how the substantive doctrines of tort law are translated into the practice of torts lawyers. And they are sociologically fascinating in their own right. TCPI integrates the institutional materials into the cases and notes rather than segregate them into separate sections of their own. It does so because its aim is not to teach the details of any one institution/ such as the mechanics of the law of subrogation or workers’ compensation. Few one-semester torts classes can take up so much material. Instead/ the book integrates the institutional material into the main text to draw general lessons about the massive/ sprawling systems of private administration that American law has created under the umbrella of our torts system.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1271/thumbnail.jp
Signal Computing: Digital Signals in the Software Domain
No full textIn this book/ you will learn how digital signals are captured/ represented/ processed/ communicated/ and stored in computers. The specific topics we will cover include: physical properties of the source information (such as sound or images)/ devices for information cap- ture (microphones/ cameras)/ digitization/ compression/ digital signal representation (JPEG/ MPEG)/ digital signal processing (DSP)/ and network communication. By the end of this book/ you should understand the problems and solutions facing signal computing systems development in the areas of user interfaces/ information retrieval/ data structures and algo- rithms/ and communications.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1274/thumbnail.jp
Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media
No full textWithin the rapidly expanding field of educational technology/ learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured and delivered in closed contexts/ through learning management systems (LMS). However/ while traditional classroom learning is by no means obsolete/ networked learning is in the ascendant. A foundational method in online and blended education/ as well as the most common means of informal and self-directed learning/ networked learning is rapidly becoming the dominant mode of teaching as well as learning. In Teaching Crowds/ Dron and Anderson introduce a new model for understanding and exploiting the pedagogical potential of Web-based technologies/ one that rests on connections — on networks and collectives — rather than on separations. Recognizing that online learning both demands and affords new models of teaching and learning/ the authors show how learners can engage with social media platforms to create an unbounded field of emergent connections. These connections empower learners/ allowing them to draw from one another\u27s expertise to formulate and fulfill their own educational goals. In an increasingly networked world/ developing such skills will/ they argue/ better prepare students to become self-directed/ lifelong learners.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1298/thumbnail.jp
Education for a Digital World: Advice/ Guidelines and Effective Practice from Around Globe
No full textEducation for a Digital World contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching/ based on the principles of learning as a social process. It offers practical/ contemporary guidance to support e-learning decision-making/ instructional choices/ as well as program and course planning/ and development.Practical advice/ real-life examples/ case studies/ and useful resources supply in-depth perspectives about structuring and fostering socially engaging learning in an online environment. A plethora of e-learning topics provide insights/ ideas/ and usable tools. Tips and evidence-based theory guide administrators/ program and course developers/ project teams/ and teachers through the development of online learning opportunities.Education for a Digital World is an indispensable guide/ resource/ textbook and manual for policymakers and practitioners in developing and developed countries.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1299/thumbnail.jp