The goal of the Designing for All: A Toolkit for Maximum Digital impact is to provide resources for instructors at Vancouver Island University to create digitally accessible courses for their students. It focuses on the suite of tools supported by the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL). A giant thank you to BCcampus and their Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd Edition. We were abl…
This course is designed to provide an engaging and personally relevant overview of the discipline of Developmental Psychology. In this course you will examine the cultural, social, psychological, and physiological influences which imp[act human development from conception to death. You - the student - will provide much of the substantive content and teaching presence in this course
The Basics of American Government is a collaborative effort among eight current and one former faculty members in the Departments of Political Science and Criminal Justice at University of North Georgia. The purpose of this book is to offer a no-frills, low-cost, yet comprehensive overview of the American political system for students taking introductory courses in American national government.…
Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. Before Einstein offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century …
Creative Marketing has been written in response to the continued failure to address the theory/practice gap in marketing management. The art world is full of creativity, yet existing marketing theory continues to prescribe formulaic, stepwise processes for marketing success. Rather than perpetuating the belief in the value of traditional marketing frameworks, this book draws on a diverse range …
Dieses essential zeigt, welche ersten Schritte für den Aufbau und die Pflege von Online-Präsenzen notwendig sind, denn das Internet ist heute die erste Anlaufstelle für Informationen zu Unternehmen, ihren Dienstleistungen und Produkten. Philipp Eng erläutert die Grundlagen des Suchmaschinen- (SEO und SEA) und Content-Marketings. Dabei geht er außerdem auf die Wichtigkeit einer zugrundelieg…
Bereits jetzt führt die Existenz des Internet zu tiefgreifenden Änderungen bestehender Marktstrukturen, die sich in Zukunft noch verstärken werden. Dieses Buch bietet eine systematische Untersuchung der grundlegenden Einflußgrößen, die den Erfolg und die längerfristige Entwicklung elektronischer Märkte bestimmen. Es geht über die Darstellung des momentanen Anwendungsstands elektronisch…
This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of West’s life and their relationship to his works. James F. Light gives a detailed analysis of each of West’s novels, investigating in particular the works’ treatment of social criticism and manipulation of dream and symbol.
Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children’s identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. As professional instructors, childcare workers or students looking forward to a career working with children, we should continuously search for ways to tap into childr…