EDS Resources

We will be making use of a variety of information resources in this course, including design and education journals, books, web sites, and videos. On this page, we'll provide links to a variety of resources, and we'll try to grow our collection of useful stuff as the semester progresses.

Educational Design and Education in the News

How One Top College Ended a Policy That Weeded Out Poor Students, Jon Marcus, The Huffington Post, December 18, 2015.

Betsy DeVos' Graduation Rate Mistake. nprEd, February 4, 2017.

Jerry Falwell’s New Higher-Ed Task Force Could Take Cues From a Private-College Association’s Playbook. Chronicle of Higher Education, February 2, 2017.

Little Girls Doubt that Women Can Be Brilliant, Study Shows. AP, January 26, 2017. While we're on the topic of gendered conceptions of "brilliance," check out this Science article:

Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines, Science, Vol. 347 No. 6219, January 2015.

Five Education Stories to Watch in 2017, NPREd, January 3, 2017

Journals and Magazines

• ASEE Prism

• Chronicle of Higher Education

  • A long list of education journals available through Olin's library

Books and e-documents: On Educational Design

Books and e-documents: On Education

• Schunk, D. H., Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective, 6th ed. Boston, Pearson, 2012.

Books and e-documents: On Design

Web-Based Content