The Edupunks' Guide to a DIY Credential    by Anya Kamenetz
Price: Free! 28450 words. Language: English. Published on July 31, 2011. Nonfiction » Education and Study Guides » College Guides.
(3.00 from 1 review)
A first-of-its kind resource for the future of education: a comprehensive guide to learning online and charting a personalized path to an affordable credential using the latest innovative tools and organizations. Real-life stories and hands-on advice for today's students, whether you're going back to school, working, transferring colleges, or pursuing lifelong learning goals.

School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come    by Kristin Fontichiaro
Price: Free! 45700 words. Language: English. Published on October 15, 2011. Nonfiction » Education and Study Guides » Teaching.
(5.00 from 1 review)
A crowdsourced collection of over 100 essays from around the world about trends in school libraries written by librarians, teachers, publishers, and library vendors. Edited by Kristin Fontichiaro and Buffy Hamilton. Foreword by R. David Lankes. Photographs by Diane Cordell.

It Ain't Flat: A Memorizable Book of Countries    by Karl Beckstrand
Price: Free! 590 words. Language: English. Published on November 25, 2011. Nonfiction » Children's Books » Games and puzzles.
(4.67 from 3 reviews)
It Ain't Flat is a fun list of countries meant to be read aloud to facilitate easy memorization (or just entertaining reading).

Six Sigma Training - What is Six Sigma? What is Lean?    by Silicon Beach Training
Price: Free! 1790 words. Language: English. Published on February 28, 2011. Nonfiction » Education and Study Guides » Study guides - Business.
Six Sigma is a methodology, a statistical analysis tool and a management system designed to streamline business processes by eradicating defects. The implementation of Six Sigma aims to improve and sustain quality, eliminate waste and raise profits.

Get Smart Fast: An analysis of Internet based collaborative knowledge environments for critical digital media autonomy    by Joe Tojek
Price: Free! 39440 words. Language: English. Published on November 11, 2009. Nonfiction » Education and Study Guides » History of education.
This study examines the interactive features of Internet based collaborative knowledge environments from a democratic media education perspective. Structural linguistic and semiotic analysis methods are used to develop an analysis framework for investigating the nature of interaction in online learning environments. Results enable critical thinking for users and designers of online learning.

Grad Skool Rulz: Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure    by Fabio Rojas
Price: $3.00 USD. 40660 words. Language: English. Published on October 2, 2011. Nonfiction » Education and Study Guides » Careers in education.
(5.00 from 6 reviews)
Get the inside scoop on graduate school and the tenure track. This no-nonsense guide gives you blunt advice about everything from admissions to dissertations to getting tenure. Filled with concrete strategies for surviving graduate school while keeping your sanity.

Surveying the Field: Changes in Quantity Surveying    by Aref Fanous
Price: Free! 9850 words. Language: English. Published on August 17, 2012. Nonfiction » Education and Study Guides » Research.
This book details the changing role of the quantity surveyor. It compares traditional expectations with the changes have occurred, and why these are necessary in the modern world. Including the presentation of original research conducted with Coventry University. The book contains valuable information for academics, quantity surveyors and other agents associated with the construction industry.

Global Introduction to CSCL    by Gerry Stahl
Price: Free! 43840 words. Language: English. Published on September 24, 2010. Nonfiction » Education and Study Guides » Teaching.
Versions of “Computer-supported collaborative learning: An historical perspective” by Gerry Stahl, Timothy Koschmann and Daniel D. Suthers for a global audience: in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Romanian and German. An introduction to the educational research field of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning from an interactional perspective.

The Chinese National Top Level Courses Project: Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Quality in Undergraduate Teaching    by Stian Haklev
Price: Free! 33170 words. Language: English. Published on September 13, 2010. Nonfiction » Education and Study Guides » History of education.
The Top Level Quality Project (jingpin kecheng, 精品课程) is a large Chinese project which uses the production of Open Educational Resources to improve the quality of undergraduate education. This work is an in-depth discussion of this project from a comparative education perspective, looking at the history of Chinese higher education, and comparisons with MIT OpenCourseWare.