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The aroma of aged and contemporary books when you saunter into the library building, would you miss that? Touching books, writing in them, highlighting them, bookmarking them. Libraries are suffused with so many different resources for researching rather than just books. The card catalog categorizes all the books and where to locate them. Now this process has gone electronically along with the mechanism of checking out books. Is this the future of libraries, a virtual library where everything is…

Nowadays, if you ask a number of people if they prefer ‘books or movies’, it’s most certain that, there will be an extensive collection of different answers. For many centuries books have been the biggest source of stories that human kind has, but now, things are changing. Today’s way to get introduced to a new story is, to watch a movie. The demand for movies is constantly increasing, so, why do some people still read books? Why do a countless number of people like to watch movies? There are…

questionnaire. Big Five Inventory. The Big Five Inventory is a 44-item inventory that measures on five different dimensions of personality. These dimensions include extraversion vs. introversion, agreeableness vs. antagonism, conscientiousness vs. lack of direction, neuroticism vs. emotional stability, and openness vs. closedness to experience (John & Srivastava, 1999). Pet Attitude Scale. The pet attitude scale is a 18-item questionnaire with a 7-point response scale for each question. This…

mastery on the assignment in Module 1. Module 1 content was readings from the IRIS website. The content I read related to classroom behavior problems that an educator would encounter and strategies that could be used. After reading the IRIS module I was able to complete the assignment for module 1 with ease. The assignment questions were well written that I was able to complete with the material I had just read from IRIS module. 2. Reflect and discuss how the content in Module 2 prepared you…

Innovations of Technology Applicable to Online Learning Technological advancements have enabled online learning to develop and become a higher preferred method of education. With the accumulation of advanced computers and high-speed internet, we have the competences to be able to take advantage of the innovations of online learning. With programs like Blackboard and Canvas, the abundant of resources available and the facilitation of instructors, students can be successful in this environment.…

In Defense of EBooks Books have always been the medium of knowledge transmission across time and space. Throughout human civilization, generations pass on their wisdom, custom, social codes, and scientific knowledge by way of books. Different civilizations learn from and about each other mostly through books. Books are not just the contents, it is also the physical material on which the content is engraved on and it this part of the book I am discussing in this article. We have completely passed…

territorial. Smith and Tabak claim that monitoring of employee e-mails “may result in less engagement in organizational citizenship behaviors due to the negative impact on employees’ perceptions of privacy and fairness as well as employee resistance” (43). Although the fact that when employees work under the company, they are using the company’s resources wins over the argument of the invasion of employees’ privacy. Therefore, as the company owns the e-mail system and has to protect its…

Introduction: Program planning for adult learners can be a difficult and time consuming task. However the use of program objectives can give clarity and understanding to the program developer, resulting in greater understanding of what is needed to achieve specific goals. Program “objectives are specific action statements… They are the most specific level of description used… Objectives say what the student will be able to do or think or feel or say as a result of the planned learning/teaching…

Knowles Learning Objectives Program planning for adult learners can be a difficult and time consuming task. However the use of program objectives can give clarity and understanding to the program developer, resulting in greater a understanding of what is needed to achieve specific goals. Program “Objectives say what the student will be able to do or think or feel or say as a result of the planned learning/teaching event” (Daines, Daines, & Graham, 1993 p. 21). According to Daines et al. (1993,…

symbolically with writing”. Whereas Liat Hughes Joshi’s eight year old son used the built-in dictionary for unknown words, perhaps the most positive comment is as Liat Hughes Joshi quotes a US survey by Scholastic and Harrison “80% of children with access to e-books still pick up their paperbacks and primarily read…