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Faculty Services: Guide to Teaching Online

Library services available to faculty at YCCC.

Introduction

“Good teaching is an act of generosity, a whim of the wanton muse, a craft that may grow with practice, and always risky business.” Parker J. Palmer

Teaching with Brightspace

Faculty Resources: Best Practices in Online Teaching
Toolbox and trainings from Brightspace, gathered by our own Maureen Simmons and Amber Tatnall.

Recommended web sites

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
A virtual community of online instructors with peer reviewed teaching materials by discipline.
Teaching Best Practices
Extensive collection of resources from Carnegie Mellon.

Recommended Research Databases

Free access to full-text magazine, journal, and newspaper articles.

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)
World's most comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database
Education Journals (Proquest)
Covers primary, secondary, higher ed. also special ed., home schooling, adult ed. etc..
ERIC (Ebsco)
Education Resource Information Center provides access to educational literature and resources.

Ebooks via Proquest Ebook Central

E-books
All e-books can be accessed via ebrary, from the library website. Login required from off-campus

The Plugged-In Professor by Sharmila Pixy Ferris (Editor); Hilary Anne Wilder (Editor)
Call Number: LB 1044.87 .P58 2013eb
ISBN: 9781843346944
Publication Date: 2013-05-15
Student Engagement Online by ASHE Higher Education Report Staff; Katrina A. Meyer (Editor)
Call Number: LB 1028.3 .M49 2014eb
ISBN: 9781119000754
Publication Date: 2014-12-03
Thoughtful Teachers, Thoughtful Learners : Helping Students Think Critically by Norman J. Unrau
Call Number: LB 1590.3 .U57 2008eb
ISBN: 9780887511189
Publication Date: 2008
Learning with 'e's : Educational theory and practice in the digital age by Steve Wheeler
Call Number: LB1044.87 .W444 2105eb
ISBN: 9781845909611
Publication Date: 2015-02-09

Books from the Library

Print Books
All print books can be found in the YCCC library.

Teaching Online by Susan Ko; Steve Rossen
Call Number: LB 2395.7 .K67 2017
ISBN: 9780415832434
Publication Date: 2017-03-01
A Fieldbook for Community College Online Instructors by Kent Allen Farnsworth; Teresa Brawner Bevis
Call Number: LC 5800 .F37 2006
ISBN: 9780871173768
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Student Engagement Online by ASHE Higher Education Report Staff; Katrina A. Meyer (Editor)
Call Number: LB 1044.89 .M49 2014
ISBN: 9781119000754
Publication Date: 2014-12-03
Online Teaching at Its Best by Linda B. Nilson; Ludwika A. Goodson
Call Number: LB 1044.87 .N55 2018
ISBN: 9781119242291
Publication Date: 2017-12-04