ITC: 52 – My 25 Book Recommendations for Educators and Instructional Technologists

Taking a deep dive into a topic is one of the best ways to improve your knowledge of a subject. You can do this by reading. If you read three books on a subject, you will know more than 95% of other people. To get your year off on the right foot, I am going to recommend 25 books that will help you improve what you are doing.

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The collection I am sharing will help you improve what you are doing in the classroom. Some of these books encourage you to think differently about teaching and learning whereas the rest of the books will help you improve what you are doing.

• Rethinking Education
  • The One World Schoolhouse: A New Approach to Teaching and Learning
  • Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere
  • Digital Leadership: Changing Technology for Change-Savvy School Leaders
  • Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  • Old School, New School, No School: Re-Calibrating Higher Education
• Teaching
  • Rapid Media Development for Trainers: Creating Videos, Podcasts, and Presentations on a Budget
  • From Telling to Teaching: A Dialogue Approach to Adult Learning
  • The Multiplayer Classroom
  • Evidence-Based Training Methods: A Guide for Training Professionals
  • Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day
  • Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes
  • Multimedia Learning
  • Classroom Advice for New Teachers: A Proactive Approach for Meeting the Daily Challenges of the Profession
• UDL
  • UDL Now!: A Teacher’s Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning in Today’s Classrooms
  • Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education
• Online Instruction
  • Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
• OER
  • A Guide to Making Open Textbooks With Students
• Productivity
  • The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months
  • Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
  • The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More With Less
  • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World With OKRs
  • Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
  • Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
• Working Out Loud
  • They Ask You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today’s Digital Consumer
  • Never Lose a Customer Again: Turn Any Sale Into Lifelong Loyalty in 100 Days

I would like to also encourage you to join me on Goodreads where we can recommend books to each other and support each other’s reading goals.

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Additional Reading

• Setting Your Reading Goals

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