Classroom Routines for Real Learning: Student-Centered Activities that Empower and Engage

Simple classroom routines can lay the groundwork for an environment that maximizes learning by offering stability, consistency, and time management skills. This thoughtful book illustrates ways to use routines to build community, foster independent work, and increase student engagement.

Harness the power of games to create extraordinary customer engagement with Game–Based Marketing. Gamification is revolutionizing the web and mobile apps. Innovative startups like Foursquare and Swoopo, growth companies like Gilt and Groupon and established brands like United Airlines and Nike all agree: the most powerful way to create and engage a vibrant community is with game mechanics. By leveraging points, levels, badges, challenges, rewards and leaderboards these innovators are dramatically lowering their customer acquisition costs, increasing engagement and building sustainable, viral communities.

Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music.

This book brings together a set of papers, many which grow out of presentations at a conference in Oxford in 2009 on addiction and self-control, by a set of thinkers who are united in believing that understanding agency and failures of agency requires engagement with the best science.

Successfully integrating attention to globalization, gender, class, race and ethnicity, and the environment, this text engages students with compelling ethnographic examples and by demonstrating the relevance of anthropology.
Faculty and students praise the book’s proven ability to generate class discussion, increase faculty-student engagement, and enhance student learning.