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  The Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Academic Professionals (Routledge, n.d.) is a sixty-page book about e-learning and teaching online. Engaging tips are provided to introduce educators and learners into online teaching and learning. The book starts from the basics answering some key questions about common doubts regarding the field and, as it continues, it presents a wide range of topics related to e-learning. As regards the language of the book, it addresses the reader directly and it is quite simple to follow. The book is divided into six chapters. Each chapter contains a summary of different books that belong to the same recognized publishing house: Routledge. This guide can be considered a must for those who are starting to delve into e-teaching and learning although it can be highlighted that it needs some improvement regarding the connections between one chapter and the other. Teaching Online. The Basics , chapter 1, is a summary of the...

  Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (n.d.) The Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Academic Professionals.  Retrieved from: https://n9.cl/k85v2 The book The Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Academic Professionals (Routledge, n.d.) is a compilation of excerpts of six books written by well-known experts on the field of teaching and learning online. The Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Academic Professionals (Routledge, n.d.) provides key ideas and useful information about becoming an online instructor. The book also pinpoints some tips and pieces of advice to succeed and continue growing in the online teaching environment. What is more, in one of its chapters, the innovative concept of  e-tivities is presented. They are “frameworks for enabling active and participative online learning by individuals and groups” (Salmon, 2012, as cited in Routledge,p,29). Moreover,...

  Outline of the book: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (n.d.). The Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Academic Professionals. Retrieved from: https://n9.cl/k85v2 Purpose: To provide an insight of the importance of teaching and learning online. Thesis statement: The book offers educators useful and basic tools to acquire knowledge regarding online learning and teaching. Audience: Academic professionals, teachers and trainee teachers who are trying to start delivering or improve their online lessons. I   Introduction II Teaching Online - The Basics                        A. Teaching a Course entirely Online                        B. What about Support Personnel and Training?       ...

  The American Psychological Association (APA) has established a style of documentation of sources used in academic writing, mainly in the Social Sciences, like Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, and Education as well.   It is of utmost importance to bear in mind two aspects when following APA style: the in-text citations and the reference page. In-text citations include the author’s name and the publication date of sources. The reference page goes at the end of the paper and it takes its own page. It lists all the sources that a writer has used in a paper. The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the in-text citations and the reference list of the article Beyond Reflection: Teacher Learning as Praxis by Hoffman-Kipp, Artiles, and López-Torres (2003) on the basis of the APA manual 6th edition. The APA manual (2002) states several rules to follow for in-text citations such as: in an author-date style, in-text citations usually require the last name of the author(s)...

  At a prestigious secondary private school in Mar del Plata, there was a boy called Marcos in 1 st year who refused to work or participate in the English class. Apart from that, Marcos behaved terribly bad. He talked in class, distracted his classmates, and interrupted the teacher when she was explaining. Students had English lessons three days a week for one hour. Mrs. Manzanares did not know what to do to make Marcos changed his attitude. She had tried everything. Every time Marcos behaved incorrectly, the teacher had to interrupt the class and talk to the student or even send him to the headmaster’s office. It was exhausting. Since anything the teacher did work, she got frustrated because the situation did not seem to change. Similarly, in the four previous classes that I observed, Marcos kept on misbehaving. Surprisingly, one day, in the middle of an exam, Marcos asked the teacher if he could do it. Shocked, the teacher agreed, and Marcos started to do the exam. When he finis...

Dolk, M., & Den Hertog, J. (2008). Narratives in teacher education.  Interactive Learning Environments , 16 (3), 215-229. doi:10.1080/10494820802113970   Purpose: To inform about a multimedia interactive learning environment (MILE) and describe the different steps student teachers go through to develop narratives as a tool to construct meaning. Thesis statement: Prospective teachers are presented with a groundbreaking tool called MILE to help them connect theory and practice in their pre-teaching experiences.   Audience: EFL researchers, advanced students, and teachers. Abstract Introduction MILE  4.  Narratives 5. Research method A Narrative knowledge in teacher education       B Everybody has stories about education       C Stories about a collective experience are verifiable       D Stories are being negotiated until they are...

Dolk, M., & Den Hertog, J. (2008). Narratives in teacher education.  Interactive Learning Environments , 16 (3), 215-229. DOI:10.1080/10494820802113970   In the Netherlands, student teachers are challenged to produce narratives of paradigmatic classroom situations through a multimedia interactive learning environment (MILE). It is a program presented to help prospective teachers develop narratives as a tool to construct meaning and to bridge the division between theory and practice. (Dolk and Hertog, 2008). It is computer-based and contains a database of real classroom teaching. Thanks to this tool, student teachers will be able to widen their observations. Moreover, by constructing narratives preservice teachers will be helped to reflect upon their own teaching practices. According to Dolk and Hertog (2008), this narrative approach implies a redesign of teacher education. A six-step curriculum design framework is introduced to construct meaning through narratives. Tho...

  Rakovic, M., Marzouk, Z., Chang, D., & Winne, P. H. (2019). Towards knowledge- transforming in writing argumentative essays from multiple sources: A methodological approach.  Companion Proceedings 9th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK19)  Tempe, AZ, USA. Retrieved from:  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333680138_Towards_knowledge_transforming_in_writing_argumentative_essays_from_multiple_sources_A_methodological_appr In this article, Rakovic, Chang, Marzouk and Winne  (2019) discuss the challenges to transform knowledge that post-secondary students face. As a result, a two- facet approach is described to  model linguistic properties . Forty post-secondary students’ essays based on an argumentation framework and Bloom’s taxonomy were collected to develop a tool to help writers to get involved in a deeper knowledge transforming process . The authors also mention the rhetorical problem space and the cont...