The Center for Teaching & Learning is a resource center for full-time and adjunct faculty. The following literature, purchased with Title III funding, is available for checkout through the Distance Education area:

101 Great Games and Activities
Arthur VanGundy, Editor
Training mastermind Arthur VanGundy has assembled 101 original games and activities guaranteed to satisfy almost every conceivable training need. It’s all here! You’ll know exactly when, why, and how to use every activity. These dynamic exercises are accompanied by: • concise objectives • recommended uses • suggested audience • required time • necessary materials • detailed procedures • potential discussion topics • possible variations. Plus, you get a detailed activity selection matrix that facilitates your finding the perfect training tool. So whether you’re a pro trainer, or a novice trainer, or not a trainer at all, you’ll quickly incorporate these electrifying designs into your sessions, workshops, meetings, and presentations.

147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups: Essentials of Web-Based Education
Donald E. Hanna, Michelle Glowacki-Dudka & Simone Conceicao-Runlee
In 147 Practical Tips For Teaching Online Groups: Essentials of Web-Based Education, Donald E. Hanna, Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, and Simone Conceicao-Runlee effectively collaborate to create a practical and succinct compendium of "tips, tricks and techniques" for successfully conducting a workshop, seminar or classroom symposium over the Internet. Each technique is succinctly presented and will increase effectiveness for both the teacher and the group discussion participants. 147 Practical Tips For Teaching Online Groups is essential and invaluable reading for anyone charged with the responsibility for using the Internet as a means of instructional contact whether in academia, a corporate in-service, non-profit organizational seminar, or educating an Internet newsgroup or listserv in some particular subject, issue or topic.

Beyond Teams: Building the Collaborative Organization
Michael M. Beyerlein, Sue Freedman, Craig McGee, Linda Moran
According to the authors, collaborative organizations are those that are capable of forming and reforming their members and their external partners into teams engaged in productive collaborative activity. Written for executives, supervisors and managers, human resource and organizational effectiveness practitioners, and people working in collaborative settings, this book introduces principles of collaborative organizations, shows how the principles apply in four different types of business settings, and provides strategies for implementation and assessment.

Bridging the Gap: Leadership, Technology and Organizational Change for Deans and Department Chairs Edited by Michael J. Johnson, Donald E. Hanna, and Don Olcott, Jr.
Johnson (educational administration, U. of Alaska-Anchorage), Hanna (educational communications, U. of Wisconsin-Extension), and Olcott (extended programs, Western Oregon U.) provide deans and department chairs with a range of theoretical perspectives on leadership, technology, and academic culture and their interconnections for managing organizational change. The opening chapters discuss current leadership, management, and cultural theoretical perspectives applied to change. The seven chapters which follow feature interviews with practicing deans and chairpersons reflecting on their experiences in practical ways.

Developing Faculty to Use Technology: Programs and Strategies to Enhance Teaching
David G. Brown, Editor
This book chronicles how a wide range of universities implemented successful faculty development programs to help faculty better use technology in their teaching. With over 70 brief chapters divided into seven parts – philosophy, communication, staffing and support strategies, teaching environments, model programs, assessment of student programs, and assessing the effect of technology on learning – this book presents practical advice on how to integrate technology into teaching and learning activities.

Distance Learners in Higher Education: Institutional Responses for Quality Outcomes
Chere Campbell Gibson, Editor
Learners in distance education programs have increased in numbers and in diversity over recent years. And distance education programs, enhanced by technological advances, have proliferated. The resulting challenges to learners, educators, and administrators are both exciting and confounding. Reflecting on these changes, Editor Chere Gibson and the contributors, focus on the learner in distance education. As she states in her Editor’s Notes: “We need to truly understand the learner and design learning environments that facilitate learning, environments that enhance access to and success in higher education.”

Essential Elements: Prepare, Design, and Teach Your Online Course
Bonnie Elbaum, Cynthia McIntyre, Alese Smith
“I’m especially impressed with the overall clarity of explanations and the balanced coverage of instruction and technology. Clearly this is a text written from experienced online instructors who nonetheless remember what it was like the first time. Kudos.” (review written by Linda Polin, Pepperdine University )

Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators
George Collison, Bonnie Elbaum, Sara Haavind, Robert Tinker
Does the thought of moderating a web-based course for the first time make you feel like you’re being thrown into a room of spikes? Or have you already facilitated such a course, only to fall into some unanticipated traps and run into some peculiar roadblocks? This is the book for you. This book is aimed specifically at new or relatively new facilitators of online education or training courses. The book’s authors guide you in learning the ground-breaking techniques and skills necessary to effectively facilitate online dialogue, community, and, ultimately, education.

Higher Education in an Era of Digital Competition: Choices and Challenges
Donald E. Hanna and Associates
A collection of 14 contributions which explore a variety of issues in the application of information technologies to higher education. Hanna (educational communications, U. of Wisconsin) has selected the chapters to address such themes as the emergence of a global learning society; changing patterns of individual, organizational, and social needs; the challenges and possibilities of advanced technologies; transformational change in higher education on a global scale; and the importance of ethics and equity of access as elements that must drive decision making and leadership at an organizational level.

Information Anxiety 2
Richard Saul Wurman
Nervous? Here's why: too much data, not enough meaning. Twelve years ago, Richard Saul Wurman identified the problem and pointed the way to the solution, teaching -- and showing -- how to illuminate the meaning in any information. Now, he's completely updated his classic Information Anxiety to reflect 12 years' worth of revolutionary changes -- not least, the Internet. Still way ahead of the curve. Still beautifully written (and designed). Still utterly invaluable to everyone who communicates. An even more important book than ever.

Leading in a Time of Change: What It Will Take to Lead Tomorrow (with workbook)
The Drucker Foundation presents a conversation with Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge, hosted by Frances Hesselbein. In this dynamic package-which includes a video and companion workbook, two great minds of modern management share their wisdom on how leaders can prepare themselves and their organizations for the inevitable changes that lie ahead. Sit at the table with the visionary leaders who are setting the agenda for organizational leadership and change. Watch the video and witness a remarkable conversation between Peter Drucker and Peter Senge as they talk about the importance of learning to lead change for all organizations.

Life Balance: How to Convert Professional Success into Personal Happiness
Alan Weiss
"A popular aphorism suggests that in the end, no one ever regretted not spending more time in the office. Yet during our lives and careers we often seem to confuse our priorities, shifting our focus so that we end up with clients whom we know extremely well and families who are de facto strangers. In this book, Alan Weiss tells how to blend life, work, and relationships in a way that will help anyone to work smarter and live better."

Live and Online! Tips, Techniques, and Ready-to-use Activities for the Virtual Classroom
Jennifer Hofmann
Live and Online! offers the key to designing effective interactions for the synchronous classroom. This ensures that participants have ample opportunity to collaborate and interact, which in turn helps them to successfully learn online. Author Jennifer Hofmann explains the use of powerful synchronous tools -- Whiteboard, Chat, Breakout Room, Application Sharing, and Synchronized Web Browsing -- provides sample exercises for each tool, and offers advice on how each tool fits into the instructional landscape. Live and Online! also includes instructional and design guidelines for course development and explores what topics work best in the synchronous classroom environment. The book examines the four factors critical to creating effective participant learning environments: participant motivation, opportunities to collaborate and interact, usable technology, and an active and participative trainer.

Multimedia-Based Instructional Design Computer and Web-Based, & Distance Broadcast Training, (2nd edition)
William W. Lee, Diana L. Owens
Just as the groundbreaking first edition of Multimedia-Based Instructional Design offered a complete guide to designing and developing interactive multimedia training, the second edition is filled with relevant new content, automated tools on the CD-ROM, updates on standards, and current case studies and demonstrations.

Organizing Change: An Inclusive, Systemic Approach to Maintain Productivity & Achieve Happiness
William W. Lee & Karl J. Krayer
Learn how to harness change and use it as a competitive advantage! Organizing Change shows you how to organize and activate a team process to accomplish a successful change initiative throughout your organization. Using the process outlined in this book, your organization will be able to respond quickly yet methodically to your organization's needs while your company maintains, and even increases, productivity and results throughout the change process.

Preparing Learners for E-Learning
George M. Piskurich, Editor
Designed for anyone charged with making e-learning really work, Preparing Learners for e-Learning presents a variety of methods business organizations and educational institutions can use to prepare their learners to become successful e-learners. This first-of-its-kind book helps trainers, designers, and educators understand the importance of enhancing self-directedness in learners as they prepare for e-learning and the various learning theories that can be used for this purpose. It then guides e-learning professionals through the process of creating interventions—specific to their own individual situations—that will assist their learners in preparing for the move to an e-learning environment.

The 8th Habit
Stephen R. Covey
That the world has changed and is continuing to change at a rapid pace is not news. People are much more aware of everything around them. The consumer revolution has accelerated dramatically. But something vital is missing in all of this change.

Leadership has not kept up with the changes going on in the world. From board rooms to classrooms, leadership is being challenged on a daily basis yet no new leadership model has been given. In this new, important work, bestselling author Stephen R. Covey offers ideas of how leadership roles have changed and how one can take on the roles of the new leader.

Dr. Covey introduces the 4 roles of the new leader--modelling, pathfinding, aligning and empowering--and how those qualities can change you and your organization. He discusses how trust can be lost throughout organizations and how it is imperative that any organization bring trust back to the company if it is to survive. Covey also shows how to go from what he calls a "want to" person to a "can do" person and how doing so can completely transform people and organizations.

Those Who Can Teach
Kevin Ryan and James M. Cooper
As the bestseller in the introductory education market, Those Who Can, Teach is a current, dynamic, reader-friendly text that helps students make informed decisions about entering teacher education programs. Appropriate for courses in introduction to education, exploring education, education in America , or foundations of education, its approach addresses social trends head-on, providing a unique real-world sensibility that no other text has.

The text uses multiple sources to provide high interactivity, while the authors' direct, conversational voice invites students to reflect on the problems and satisfactions of teaching, making becoming a teacher a positive challenge. The Ninth Edition delves deeply into national, state, and local educational policies to familiarize teachers about the impact that policy will have on their everyday lives in classrooms.

Type Talk at Work: How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job
Otto Kroeger and Janet Thuesen
Are you one of those organized people who always complete your projects before they are due? Or do you put off getting the job done until the very last possible moment? Is your boss someone who readily lets you know how you are doing? Or does she always leave you unsure of precisely where you stand? Do you find that a few people on your team are incredibly creative but can never seem to get to a meeting on time? Do others require a specific agenda at the meeting in order to focus on the job at hand? Bestselling authors Otto Kroeger and Janet Thuesen make it easy to recognize your own type and those of your co-workers in Type Talk at Work, a revolutionary guide to understanding your workplace and thriving in it. Fully revised and updated for its 10th anniversary, this popular classic now features a new chapter on leadership, showing you how to be more effective on the job. Get the most out of your employees -- and employers -- using the authors' renowned expertise on typology. With Type Talk at Work, you'll never look at the office the same way again!