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Instructional Design e-Books

The Blended Course Design Workbook : A Practical Guide
Providing a step-by-step course design process that emphasizes active learning and student engagement, this book will help instructors adapt traditional face-to-face courses to a blended environment by guiding them through the development of course goals and learning objectives, assignments, assessments, and student support mechanisms with technology integration in mind
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Designing Adaptive and Personalized Learning Environments
Provides a theoretically-based yet practical guide to systematic design processes for learning environments that provide automatic customization of learning and instruction.
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ISD From The Ground Up: A No-nonsense Approach
This updated fourth edition covers all the basics and many advanced tenets important to working professionals, especially those entering the field. Stand-alone chapters offer crucial support to practitioners building foundational skills, while in-depth tutorials and rich insights guide the credentialed designer.
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Issues in Technology, Learning, and Instructional Design : Classic and Contemporary Dialogues
Powerful, original dialogues that clarify current issues, provide context and theoretical grounding, and illuminate a framework for future thought. Position statements are introduced and then responded to, covering a remarkably broad series of topics across educational technology, learning, and instructional design, from tool use to design education to how people learn.
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Learning Design : Conceptualizing a Framework for Teaching and Learning Online
Learning Design looks inside the "black box" of pedagogy to understand what teachers and learners do together, and how the best teaching ideas can be shared on a global scale. Learning design supports all pedagogical approaches, content areas, and fields of education.
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Rapid Instructional Design : Learning ID Fast and Right
Rapid Instructional Design is the industry standard guide to creating effective instructional materials, providing no-nonsense practicality rather than theory-driven text.
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The Sciences of Learning and Instructional Design : Constructive Articulation Between Communities
Addresses the growing divide between the learning sciences community and the instructional design and technology community, bringing leading scholars from both fields together in one volume in an attempt to find productive middle ground.
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