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• Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 publications, including more than 7,300 scholarly journals. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Some content goes back as far as 1887. Highly recommended for all academic subjects.
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• Education Full Text/Retrospective Covers an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Coverage includes about 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC's CIJE. (Indexing 1929-, Abstracting 1994-, select Full Text 1996- ).
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• ERIC (web interface) Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, this database provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
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• Professional Development Collection Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. (1930-present)
• Teacher Reference Center Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. (1984-present)
• Research Guide: Career Research — Experiential Education & Internship Programs

• Association for Career and Technical Education
• American Association of Community Colleges
• Association for Experiental Education
• Cooperative Education and Internchip Association
• Corporation for National and Community Service
• Educators for Community Engagement
• National Center for Research in Vocational Education
• National Commission for Cooperative Education
• National Service Learning Clearinghouse
• National Society for Experiental Education
• UCLA Service Learning Clearinghouse
• World Association for Cooperative Education

Bersin, Josh. The blended learning book : best practices, proven methodologies, and lessons learned / Josh Bersin. San Francisco, CA : Pfeiffer, 2004.
HF5549.5 .T7 B4815 2004

The best of active training : 25 one-day workshops guaranteed to promote involvement, learning, and change/ edited by Mel Silberman. San Francisco, CA : Pfeiffer, c2004.
HF 5549.5 .T7 B47 2004 (includes CD-ROM)

Beyond experience : the experiential approach to cross-cultural education / edited by Theodore Gochenour. Yarmouth, Me. : Intercultural Press, 1993.
LC1099 .B49 1993

Cantor, Jeffrey A. Apprenticeship and community colleges : promoting collaboration with business, labor, and the community for workforce training / Jeffrey A. Cantor. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1993.
HD 4885 .U5 C36 1993

Cantor, Jeffrey A. Cooperative apprenticeships : a school-to-work handbook / Jeffrey A. Cantor. Lancaster, Pa., U.S.A. Technomic Pub., c1997.
LB 1049.5 .C36 1997

Cantor, Jeffrey A. Experiential learning in higher education : linking classroom and community / by Jeffrey A. Cantor. Washington, DC : Graduate School of Education and Human Development, The George Washington University, 1997.
LB 2324 .C36 1997

Davis, Barbara Gross. Tools for teaching / Barbara Gross Davis. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2001.
LB 2331 .D37 2001

Evans, Norman. Experiential learning for all / Norman Evans. London ; New York : Cassell, 1994.
LB 1067 .E83 1994

Howard, Elaine Makas. Career pathways : preparing students for life / by Elaine Makas Howard and Pamela J. Ill. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, c2004.
LC 1037.5 .H67 2004

Jacobs, George M. The teacher's sourcebook for cooperative learning : practical techniques, basic principles, and frequently asked questions / George Jacobs, Michael A. Power, Loh Wan Inn. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2002.
REF LB 1032 .J34 2002

Kirk, James J. Training games for the learning organization / James J. Kirk, Lynne D. Kirk. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1997.
HD 30 .26 .K57 1997

Litecky, Larry. Creating active learning: with examples drawn from the social sciences / Larry Litecky. Washington, D.C.: Community College Press, 1998.
LB 2395.35 .L58 1998

Mandel, Scott M. Cooperative work groups : preparing students for the real world / Scott M. Mandel. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2003.
LB 1032 .M364 2003

Milnes, Joan. Field work savvy: a handbook for students in internship, co-operative education, service-learning and other forms of experiential education / Joan Milnes. Enumclaw, Wash.: Pleasant Word, 2003.
LB 1027.23 .M55 2003

Pedersen, Paul. 110 experiences for multicultural learning / Paul B. Pedersen. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2004.
LC 1099.3 .P53 2004

Reflective learning in practice / edited by Anne Brockbank, Ian McGill, and Nic Beech.Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Gower, c2002.
LB 1027.23 .R43 2002

Scannell, Edward E. Still more games trainers play : experiential learning exercises / Edward E. Scannell and John W. Newstrom. New York : McGraw-Hill, c1991.
HM 133 .S314 1991

Sweitzer, H. Frederick. The successful internship : transformation and empowerment in experiential learning / H. Frederick Sweitzer, Mary A. King. Belmont, CA : Brooks/Cole, c2004.
LC 1072 .I58 S84 2004

Web-based education : learning from experience / [edited by] Anil K. Aggarwal. Hershey, PA : Information Science Pub., c2003.
LB 1044.87 .W42 2003

Working with experience : animating learning / edited by David Boud and Nod Miller. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
LB 1027.23 .W67 1996