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Professional Journals (paper copy)

American Journal of Distance Education

Chronicle of Higher Education

Community College Journal

Community College Review

Community College Times

Community College Week

Education Digest

New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education

New Directions for Community Colleges  *each issue is dedicated to a single educational topic such as critical              thinking; look in the online card catalog under New Directions for Community Colleges for complete listing.

New Directions for Higher Education

New Directions for Institutional Research

New Directions for Student Services

The Teaching Professor

Technology and Learning

 

Electronic Resources

See the Professional Development Collection online database on the Library webpage (http://www.ws.edu/library).  This database is designed for professional educators and provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.  Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

 

E-books

Moving On In Your Career: A Guide for Academic Researchers and Postgraduates (2000) http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=60802

How Scholars Trumped Teachers: Change without Reform in University Curriculum, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990 (1999)

http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=34537

Teaching Undergraduates (2001)

http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=63038

Using Cases in Higher Education (2002)

http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=74208

Using Simulations to Promote Learning in Higher Education (2002)     http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=118919

The Wired Professor: A Guide to Incorporating the World Wide Web in College Instruction (1999)

            http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=2163

 

Additional information is available on the WSCC Library’s online catalog.  For example, a subject search for words that exactly match teaching and electronic books resulted in a match of over 250 books.

 

Books (paper format)

Accountable Teacher Evaluation: Toward Highly Qualified and Competent Teachers (2004) LB1028 .A53 2004  

Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator’s Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers (2005) LB2332.72 .A34 2005

Cases for Community College Teachers: Thought-Provoking and Practical Solutions for Community College Educators (2001) LB2328 .K36 2001  

Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching (1999) LB2333 .S435 1999  

Core Indicators of Effectiveness for Community Colleges (1999) LB2328 .C6912 1999  

Critical Thinking: Unfinished Business (2005) LB2328 .N4 no. 130 Summer 2005  

Effective Teaching: A Guide for Community College Instructors (2004) LB1025.2 .E44 2004

Encouraging Civility as a Community College Leader (2005) LB1779 .E53 2005  

The Entrepreneurial Community College (2005) LB2328 .E577 2005  

Establishing and Sustaining Learning-Centered Community Colleges (2005) LB2331 .E83 2005  

Expanding Minds, Exploring Futures: Teaching Scholar Partnerships: Models Linking Community Colleges with

K-12 Science and Mathematics Education (2004) LB1585.3 .S638 2004  

Improving Access to the Baccalaureate (2004) LC1039.5 .A44 2004  

It Works for Me: Shared Tips for Teaching (1998) LB2331 .B59 1998  

It Works for Me, Too!: More Shared Tips for Effective Teaching (2002) LB2331 .B59 2002  

Leadership Gap:  Model Strategies for Leadership Development (2002) LB2341 .C14 2002  

Leadership Strategies for Community College Executives (2003) LB2341 .L26 2003  

Learning College for the 21st Century (1997) LB2328.15.U6 O33 1997

Linking Training to Performance: A Guide for Workforce Development Professionals (2004) LC1045 .L56 2004  

National Profile of Community Colleges: Trends & Statistics (2005) LB2328 .N28 2005  

New Directions for Community Colleges  *see online card catalog for individual titles

Opportunities in Place: National Assessment of the Rural Community College Initiative (2003)

LB2328.15 .U6 O66 2003

Protecting Information: The Role of Community Colleges in Cybersecurity Education (2002)

QA76.9 .A25 P78 2002  

State-by-State Profile of Community Colleges (2003) LB2328.15 .U6 S72 2003  

Strangers in Their Own Land: Part-Time Faculty in American Community Colleges (1995) LB2331.72 .R68

Strengthening Collegiate Education in Community Colleges (1994) LB2328.15.U6 E28 1994  

Systems for Offering Concurrent Enrollment at High Schools and Community Colleges (2001) LB2331.53 .S97

Teachers for Tomorrow: Staff Development in the Community-Junior College (1972) LB2328 .O22

Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors (1998) LB2331 .N55 1998  

Teaching by Choice: Community College Science and Mathematics Preparation of K-12 Teachers (2005)

LB2331 .T42 2005

Teaching In the Community Junior College (1970) LB2328 .K4

Teaching Strategies & Techniques (1986) LB2328 .G8241

Teaching Tips for College and University Instructors: A Practical Guide (2001) LB2331 .R695 2001

Team Building for Quality: Transitions in the American Community College (1995) LB2328.15.U6 T43 1995

Transfer and Articulation: Improving Policies to Meet New Needs (1996) LB2360 .T961 

Transfer, Making It Work: A Community College Report (1987) LB2360 .T7 1987

Two–Year Colleges , Doing Business with Business: A Handbook for Colleges Planning to Serve Commerce and Industry (1988) LB2328 .H25 1988

Why Many College Teachers Cannot Lecture: How to Avoid Communication Breakdown in the Classroom (1984) LB2393 .P4 1984 

Writing Across the Curriculum in Community Colleges (1991) PN181 .W757 1991

 

See our web-based electronic card catalog for additional books.  If you would like to recommend titles to add to this list, please email Dr. Douglas Cross at Doug.Cross@ws.edu.

 

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Web Resources

American Association of Community Colleges Project Briefs

*The following briefs are available in PDF format: http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ResourceCenter/AACCPublications/AACC_briefs.htm

 

Best Practices in Service Learning: Building a National Community College Network, 1994-1997

Bridges to Healthy Communities, 1998

Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, 1997–2000

Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, 2000-2003

Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, 2003-2006

Creating Sustainable Service Learning Programs: Lessons Learned From the Horizons Project, 1997-2000

Engaging Students: Teaching Scholar Partnerships

Faces of the Future: Summary Findings

HIV Prevention Strategies for Community Colleges

Rural Community College Initiative. I. Access: Removing Barriers to Participation

Rural Community College Initiative. II. Economic Development

Rural Community College Initiative. III. Team Building

Rural Community College Initiative IV. Capacity for Leading Institutional and Community Change

Working Connections: Class of 2000

Working Connections: Class of 2001

Working Connections: Class of 2002

Working Connections: Mentor Colleges

 

American Association of Community Colleges Research Briefs

*Research briefs are available in PDF format at:    http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ResourceCenter/AACCPublications/AACC_Publications.htm

 

Career Paths for Community College Leaders

Community College Engagement in Community Programs and Services

Community College Leadership

The Community College Presidency 2001

Community Colleges Tackle Student Health and HIV/AIDS

Credit Student Analysis: 1999 to 2000

Hot Programs at Community Colleges: 2000

Institutional Context of Community College Administration

Institutionalizing Service Learning In Community Colleges

International Programs at Community Colleges

National Study on Community College Health Project, 1997-2000

New Hot Programs at Community Colleges Research Brief

The Nursing Shortage and the Role of Community Colleges in Nurse Education

Remedial Education: Practices and Policies in Community Colleges

Why Math? Applications in Science, Engineering, and Technological Programs

 

American Association of Community Colleges Projects and Partnerships

Descriptions available at: http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ResourceCenter/Projects_Partnerships/AACC_Projects_and_Partnerships.htm

 

Leading Forward

Access to the Baccalaureate

Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count

Advanced Technological Education

America ’s Promise

Bridges to Healthy Communities 2005

By the People: America in the World

CampusCares

Career One Stop

Community Building

Disabilities

Faces of the Future

Horizons Service Learning Project

The Knowledge Net

Leading Forward

MentorLinks

Market-Responsive Community Colleges

The New Americans

New Expeditions

Pathways to College Network

Rural Community College Initiative

 

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