This interactive package features a fully integrated printed text, Web site, and PowerPoint slides, which combine the benefits of a textbook and a workbook. The book presents a breadth of targeted, concise mini-chapters called "Topics," which instructors can develop by adding their own material or using assignments and resources from the companion Web site. This flexibility creates a more active learning environment.
About the Author, James A. DuPlass
Jimmy Duplass is a professor at the University of South Florida, a Carnegie I research university that is NCATE accredited and one of the largest colleges of education in the country. He earned his Ph.D. from Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Mo. He has previously served in faculty and/or administrative positions at Penn State University, Wayne State University, Loyola University, and Saint Louis University. Professor Duplass' research focus is on methods of instruction, competing conceptions of curriculum, values education, technology integration, and social studies education methods and philosophy. He has authored academic articles on topics such as values education, curriculum design, instructional methods, thinking skills, and administrative practices in higher education and has received over $1 million in technology grants.
Dr. Duplass has published in Middle Level Learning, The International Journal of Social Education, Trends and Issues, The Social Studies Review, The Social Studies, Computers and Education, College and University, Lyra Journal of Poetry and Fiction, Liberal Education, and Religious Education, and is the past editor of Trends and Issues.
