Professional Development and Workplace Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Volume I

In this Book

• A Short History of Instruction in the Use of Libraries
• Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning: A Review of Literature
• Informal Individual Learning via Virtual Professional Development: A Proposal for Massive Open Online Professional Informal Individual Learning (MOOPIL)
• Teachers as Researchers and Instructional Leaders
• The Benedum Collaborative: Evaluating a Strategic Plan for Simultaneous Renewal
• Transformative Professional Development: A Professional Development Team Learns from Students Who Write across the Curriculum
• Information as a Human Right
• Program Administration and Implementation of an Online Learning Initiative at a Historically Black College University
• Professional Development Needs and Resources for Government Document Librarians
• Homeland Security Information Technology and Engineering (ITE) Professional Development Training for Educators in Urban High Schools
• The Professional Development School: Fertile Ground for Service-Learning Initiatives
• Outlining the Value of Cognitive Studies in Increasing the Strategic Management within Organizations
• Optimizing Conditions for Learning and Teaching in K-20 Education
• Overview of Theory and Practice in Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania
• Getting the Context Right for Quality Teaching and Learning
• Hard to Believe it All Started on a Napkin! Anatomy of a Long-Term School-University Partnership to Create and Evaluate Effective Practice
• Teaching and Assessing Problem Solving in Online Collaborative Environment
• LIS Undergraduate Education in New Zealand: Development and Contemporary Issues
• Professional Development for Teaching Writing in a Digital Age
• Professional Development 1.5: Two Models for Helping Teachers Implement Digital Tools in Writing Pedagogy
• Incorporating Information Literacy into Instructional Design within Pre-Service Teacher Programs
• Co-Development of Professional Practice at a Professional Development School through Instructional Rounds and Lesson Study
• Developing a More Systematic Approach to Professional Development School Partnerships: The Case of PDS Efforts at a Large Urban University
• The Networked Learning Framework: A Model for Networked Professional Learning Utilizing Social Networking Sites
• Development of a Technology Plan
• Development Curriculum for Knowledge-Based Organizations Lessons from a Learning Network
• Didactical Design for Online Process-Based Assessment in Teacher Education: Making the Informal Formal
• Teaching MSE Students to Teach: A Design-Based Research Model for Introducing Professional Skills into the Technical Curriculum
• Effective Online Learning Begins with Effective Teacher Preparation
• Promoting Multiculturalism in Technology Based-Education: A Framework for the Improvement of Compatibility between Educators of Special Groups and their Learners and a Case Study on Educators of Roma in Greece to Prove its Efficiency
• Leveraging Asynchronous Online Instruction to Develop Elementary School Mathematics Teacher-Leaders