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Books

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Provides access to books, magazines, reserve material, audio-visual material, and web resources.

Although scattered throughout the collection depending on the focus, most of the books on education are in the 370's.

The following terms may be useful in finding information on this topic:

  • Adult education
  • Cognitive styles
  • Learning, Psychology of
  • Educational psychology
  • Curriculum planning
  • Computer-assisted instruction
  • Learning
  • College teaching
  • Educational evaluation
  • Effective teaching
  • Community college teachers

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Electronic Books

NetLibrary
General and career resources

Safari Tech Books
Marketing and other business texts

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Periodicals


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Some examples of magazines available through the MATC Libraries are listed below. Click on the title of the periodical to see which issues are available at MATC libraries. Use your browser's "Back" button to return to this page.

ATEA Journal
Professional development articles for persons involved in post secondary technical education.

Change
Deals with contemporary issues in higher learning, the award-winning Change spotlights trends, provides new insights, and analyzes the implications of educational programs.

Chronicle of Higher Education
Provides news reports and editorials on all facets of higher education in the United States , Canada , and abroad, with reference lists of relevant research, books, seminars, workshops, fellowships, and grants; for senior administrative, business, and academic officers.

College Teaching
Highlights education and training of teachers.

College English
Examines various study and teaching methods for teachers of college-level English language arts.

Community College Journal Formerly Community, Technical & Junior College Journal
Covers the latest trends, innovations, and research affecting two-year colleges. Features exemplary programs, practices, and policies.

Education Digest
Condenses outstanding articles on education and includes features on new resources, news from Washington , education briefs, and web resources.

Multicultural Review
Reviews multicultural books and educational curriculum materials. Includes feature articles on related subjects.

Tech Directions
Includes articles by teachers, teacher educators and professionals in vocational technology and career technical education covering classroom projects, programs, issues, and government activities, new products and resources.

Techniques
Articles, profiles and interviews, legislation, news notes and what's new in vocational education for administrators, teachers and counselors.

Women in Higher Education
Contains information to enlighten, encourage, empower, and enrich women on campus in the U.S. and Canada , administrators as well as faculty and students.

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Electronic Databases

The following databases may be helpful for finding popular and scholarly articles about the field of education:

Academic Search Elite

Career and Technical Education (ProQuest)

Education Full Text

JSTOR

Powersearch Gale (Infotrac - Incudes Academic OneFile and Expanded Academic ASAP)

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)

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Internet Resources

Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/
Information on higher education for instructors and administrators.

Campus Technology
http://campustechnology.com/
A monthly online publication focusing on the use of technology in higher education.

Educause
http://connect.educause.edu/term_view/Teaching+and+Learning
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

FAST: Free Assessment Summary Tool
http://www.getfast.ca/
Free anonymous online survey tool that automatically summarizes students' impressions of a course and/or teacher and supplies the data directly to the teacher.

Instructor Support at the MATC Libraries
http://matcmadison.edu/library/library/instructors.shtm

Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment
http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/upa/assmt/resource.htm
North Carolina State University website with links to websites, listservs and articles relevent to assessment in higher education.

TCRecord
http://www.tcrecord.org/
A journal of research, analysis, and commentary in the field of education that has been published by Teachers College, Columbia University, since 1900.

U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

Wisconsin Education Calendar: Department of Public Instruction
http://dpi.wi.gov/calendar/calendar.aspx

Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/

Wisconsin Technical College System
http://witechcolleges.com/
Information about and links to Wisconsin Technical Colleges.

Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER)
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/
University of Wisconsin–Madison's School of Education research center that conducts research on numerous educational topics, such as educational technology, higher education, and teaching, learning, and professional development.

World Lecture Hall
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/
Directory of academic web pages from many disciplines maintained by the University of Texas-Austin .

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Learning Objects

A Learning Object is any digital resource that breaks educational content down into small chunks.

HOWLER
HOWLER (Help Online with Library Education & Research) is a tutorial designed to introduce you to the MATC Libraries and through the research process.

MATC Libraries Learning Objects
http://matcmadison.edu/library/library/instructors.shtm#lo

MATC: Curriculum Design Learning Objects
http://matcmadison.edu/cetl/idesign/learningobjects.shtm

Wisc-Online (Wisconsin Online Resource Center)
http://www.wisc-online.org/
This digital library of learning objects has been developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and produced by multimedia technicians.

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