Books have been a source of entertainment and education for decades, and they have allowed a part of society to become educated and enrich their minds with knowledge, vocabulary and incredible stories. Just as there are different literary genres and types of writers, there is a specific section for eLearning. These books can be guides, research and tips that can be applied in the virtual classroom. That is why below is a list of the most popular eLearning books on Amazon.
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GED Test Prep Plus 2021: 2 Practice Tests + Proven Strategies + Online
Caren Van Slyke
3155 reviews
December 1, 2020
With realistic practice, proven strategies, and expert guidance, Kaplan’s GED Test Prep 2021 gives you everything you need to pass the test. Kaplan is the official partner for live online prep for the GED test and our content is 100% aligned with the GED test objectives.
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Bettina Love
2098 reviews
February 4, 2020
Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.
Call Of The Wild + Free: Reclaiming Wonder In Your Child’s Education
Ainsley Arment
1506 reviews
September 3, 2019
Allow your children to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood with this practical guide that provides all the information, inspiration, and advice you need for creating a modern, quality homeschool education.
Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice
Nathan Maynard/ Brad Weinstein
1600 reviews
March 11, 2019
Are you or your teachers frustrated with carrots and sticks, detention rooms, and suspension–antiquated school discipline practices that simply do not work with the students entering our classrooms today? Our kids have complex needs, and we must empower and embrace them with restorative practices that not only change behaviors but transform students into productive citizens, accountable for their own actions.
The English Grammar Workbook For Adults: A Self-study Guide To Improve Functional Writing
Michael DiGiacomo
1556 reviews
June 2, 2020
Mastering English grammar can be a real challenge. But, with a little practice and patience, you can discover how to communicate better through self-study in your spare time. The English Grammar Workbook for Adults is here to help improve your writing fluency so you can gain confidence while crafting emails, cover letters, conducting daily business, and personal correspondence.
The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
Julie Bogart
1477 reviews
February 5, 2019
Allow your children to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood with this practical guide that provides all the information, inspiration, and advice you need for creating a modern, quality homeschool education.
Read People Like a Book
Patrick King
1200 reviews
December 10, 2020
Is it possible to analyze people without them saying a word? Yes, it is. Learn how to become a “mind reader” and forge deep connections.
Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture
Ryan A. Bush
1076 reviews
January 10, 2021
A bold and fascinating dive into the nuts and bolts of psychological evolution, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture is part philosophical manifesto, part practical self-development guide, all based on the teachings of legendary thinkers like Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Abraham Maslow. The ideas and techniques it offers are all integrated into a vital theory for helping individuals scale the heights of self-mastery and lead great lives.
Homeschool Bravely: How to Squash Doubt, Trust God, and Teach Your Child with Confidence
Jamie Erickson
918 reviews
April 2, 2019
Quiet the voices of “not good enough” and step courageously into guilt-free homeschooling.
The Knowledge Gap: The hidden cause of America’s broken education system–and how to fix it
Natalie Wexler
929 reviews
August 4, 2020
The untold story of the root cause of America’s education crisis–and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty.
Take Control Of The Noisy Class
Rob Plevin
857 reviews
January 5, 2019
Drawing on 20+ years experience in special education and mainstream settings, teacher-trainer Rob Plevin explains a proven, step-by-step plan for successfully managing the most challenging individuals and groups in today’s toughest classrooms. Packed with powerful, fast-acting techniques – including a novel routine to get any class quiet in 15 seconds or less – this book helps teachers across all age groups connect and succeed with hard-to-reach, reluctant learners.
The HyperDoc Handbook: Digital Lesson Design Using Google Apps
Lisa Highfill, Sarah Landis, Kelly Hilton
617 reviews
September 5, 2019
It’s time to think differently about lesson design. Technology gives students immediate access to information, the ability to connect beyond the classroom, and a myriad of opportunities for collaboration and creativity. But do your daily lessons reflect this shift in instruction?
The Interactive Class: Using Technology to Make Learning More Relevant and Engaging in the Elementary Classroom
Joe Merrill, Kristin Merrill
617 reviews
January 4, 2020
Are you looking for ways to make teaching and learning more interactive in your classroom? Do you ever feel overwhelmed when it comes to integrating technology and content standards? Are you searching for lessons that you can immediately implement in your learning environment? Then you are ready to dive into The InterACTIVE Classroom!In this practical and idea-packed book, coauthors, classroom teachers Joe and Kristin Merrill share their personal framework for teaching.
Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say–and What You Don’t
L. David Marquet
693 reviews
February 4, 2020
You might imagine that an effective leader is someone who makes quick, intelligent decisions, gives inspiring speeches, and issues clear orders to their team so they can execute a plan to achieve your organization’s goals. Unfortunately, David Marquet argues, that’s an outdated model of leadership that just doesn’t work anymore.
Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
Gholdy Muhammad
693 reviews
January 1, 2020
In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education.
Teaching In The Online Classroom, Surviving And Thriving In The New Normal
Doug Lemov
595 reviews
October 8, 2020
A timely guide to online teaching strategies from bestselling author Doug Lemov and the Teach Like a Champion team
Connecting with Students Online: Strategies for Remote Teaching & Learning
Jennifer Serravallo
518 reviews
September 29, 2020
Jennifer Serravallo’s Connecting with Students Online gives you concise, doable answers based on her own experiences and those of the teachers, administrators, and coaches she has communicated with during the pandemic.
Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom
Jan Burkins, Kari Yates
545 reviews
September 18, 2021
In this leading-edge book, authors Jan Burkins and Kari Yates address this tension as a critical opportunity to look closely at the research, reevaluate current practices, and embrace new possibilities for an even stronger enactment of balanced literacy.
How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive
Jennifer Brown
483 reviews
August, 20, 2019
We know why diversity is important, but how do we drive real change at work? Diversity and inclusion expert Jennifer Brown provides a step-by-step guide for the personal and emotional journey we must undertake to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Super Learning: Advanced Strategies for Quicker Comprehension, Greater Retention, and Systematic Expertise (Learning how to Learn)
Peter Hollins
473 reviews
March 8, 2021
Make learning: painless, exciting, habitual, and self-motivating. Absorb info like a human sponge.
Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
Flower Darby, James M. Lang
445 reviews
June 12, 2019
The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.
The Chromebook Infused Classroom: Using Blended Learning to Create Engaging Student Centered Classrooms
Holly Clark
417 reviews
July 14, 2020
Conquer remote learning and digital leaning experiences like a pro!
Thinking Like a Lawyer
Colin Seale
418 reviews
April 30, 2020
Critical thinking is the essential tool for ensuring that students fulfill their promise. But, in reality, critical thinking is still a luxury good, and students with the greatest potential are too often challenged the least.
Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
Pooja K. Agarwal, Patrice M. Bain
404 reviews
June 5, 2019
Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning empowers educators to harness rigorous research on how students learn and unleash it in their classrooms. In this book, cognitive scientist Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D., and veteran K–12 teacher Patrice M. Bain, Ed.S., decipher cognitive science research and illustrate ways to successfully apply the science of learning in classrooms settings.
The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done
John M. Ellis
354 reviews
March 17, 2020
A series of near-riots on campuses aimed at silencing guest speakers has exposed the fact that our universities are no longer devoted to the free exchange of ideas in pursuit of truth. But this hostility to free speech is only a symptom of a deeper problem, writes John Ellis.
Blended Learning with Google: Your Guide to Dynamic Teaching and Learning (Shake Up Learning)
Kasey Bell
307 reviews
December 16, 2020
In Blended Learning with Google, bestselling author and experienced educator Kasey Bell shows you how to use Google tools to design and support dynamic blended learning experiences whether you’re teaching in-person, online classes, or both!
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side
Eve L. Ewing
309 reviews
April 20, 2020
Ewing’s answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. Rooting her exploration in the historic African American neighborhood of Bronzeville, Ewing reveals that this issue is about much more than just schools. Black communities see the closing of their schools—schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs—as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination
Culturally Responsive School Leadership (Race and Education)
Muhammad Khalifa
256 reviews
July 24, 2018
Culturally Responsive School Leadership focuses on how school leaders can effectively serve minoritized students—those who have been historically marginalized in school and society. The book demonstrates how leaders can engage students, parents, teachers, and communities in ways that positively impact learning by honoring indigenous heritages and local cultural practices.
Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-bias Classrooms
Iheoma Iruka, Stephanie Curenton, Tonia Durden
252 reviews
April 1, 2020
Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms leads early childhood professionals to explore and address issues of bias, equity, low expectations, and family engagement to ensure culturally responsive experiences
Balance With Blended Learning: Partner With Your Students to Reimagine Learning and Reclaim Your Life
Catlin R. Tucker
242 reviews
February 20, 2020
Rethink the roles, responsibilities, and workflow in your blended learning classroom and enjoy balance in your life.
The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners
Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church
203 reviews
May 19, 2020
The long-awaited follow-up to Making Thinking Visible, provides new thinking routines, original research, and unique global case studies.
Course Design Formula: How to Teach Anything to Anyone Online
Rebecca Frost Cuevas
199 reviews
November 19, 2019
Award-winning teacher and online learning expert Rebecca Frost Cuevas developed this formula in order to help creative thinkers, thought leaders and entrepreneurs design engaging and effective online courses that deliver real transformation.
Teaching When the World Is on Fire: Authentic Classroom Advice, from Climate Justice to Black Lives Matter
Lisa Delpit
178 Reviews
April 6, 2021
We are all protagonists of the situations that have occurred in recent years and we have felt affected or have not even paid attention. With this book you can learn how to involve current issues with your teaching method in order to keep your students informed and also make them participants in what is happening.
Online Teaching with Zoom: A Guide for Teaching and Learning with Videoconference Platforms
Aaron Johnson
175 reviews
July 30, 2020
Online Teaching with Zoom is your guide for gaining the technical, classroom management, and teaching skills you’ll need to operate with confidence in the live online classroom
Active Learning Online: Five Principles that Make Online Courses Come Alive
Stephen M. Kosslyn
140 reviews
October 14, 2020
Inspired by the surge of online courses during the COVID 19 pandemic, researcher and educational innovator Stephen M. Kosslyn offers a treasure trove of active learning principles and activities to bring online courses alive.
Kid Confidence: Help Your Child Make Friends, Build Resilience, and Develop Real Self-Esteem
Eileen Kennedy-Moore
139 reviews
January 1, 2019
Help your child cultivate real, lasting confidence! In Kid Confidence, a licensed clinical psychologist and parenting expert offers practical, evidence-based parenting strategies to help kids foster satisfying relationships, develop competence, and make choices that fit who they are and want to become.
The Equity & Social Justice Education 50: Critical Questions for Improving Opportunities and Outcomes for Black Students
Baruti K. Kafele
108 Reviews
May 26, 2021
Stimulates the ideas flow and strategies to generate discussion and reflection in order to ensure the social and just life of a student. This book will allow you to generate unity and a positive impact among your students.
Hacking Questions: 11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom
Connie Hamilton
120 reviews
April 4, 2019
A fresh perspective on the art of questioning.
Questions are the driving force of learning in classrooms. Hacking Questions digs into framing, delivering, and maximizing questions in the classroom to keep students engaged in learning.
Design Thinking for Training and Development
Sharon Boller and Laura Fletcher
120 reviews
June 9, 2020
This book offers an introduction to design thinking. A practical guide for readers to apply design thinking tools and techniques.
Equity by Design: Delivering on the Power and Promise of UDL
Mirko Chardin, Katie R. Novak
186 reviews
October 6, 2020
Equity by Design is intended to serve as a blueprint for teachers to alter the all-too-predictable outcomes for our historically under-served students. A first of its kind resource, the book makes the critical link between social justice and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) so that we can equip students (and teachers, too) with the will, skill, and collective capacity to enact positive change
The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents: How to Support Your Child′s Academic, Social, and Emotional Development in Any Setting
Rosalind Wiseman, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie
159 reviews
August 30, 2020
Following the tremendous success of The Distance Learning Playbook, K-12, education authorities Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie have teamed up with New York Times bestselling author and parenting expert Rosalind Wiseman to bring you the consummate guide to support your child′s academic, social, and emotional development in any learning environment – while not overwhelming you in the process.
Linguistic Justice (NCTE-Routledge Research Series)
April Baker-Bell
148 reviews
May 12, 2020
Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts.2
Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning
Andratesha Fritzgerald
146 reviews
August 26, 2020
Andratesha Fritzgerald presents Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in a new light: As an effective framework to teach Black and Brown students. Drawing vivid portraits of her classroom instruction in urban over the past two decades, Fritzgerald shows teachers how to open new roads of communication, engagement, and skill-building for their students. The result? Helping students become expert, lifelong learners who feel honored and loved.
Forged by Reading: The Power of a Literate Life
Kylene Beers, Robert Probst
137 reviews
December 1, 2020
Bestselling authors Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst explore why independent reading is vital to the intellectual and developmental growth of students as citizens of our world and as architects of the future. Forged by Reading explores historic and timely topics through the context of literacy—literacy being the gateway to power and privilege—while serving as nothing short of a call to action. One that reminds educators of their critical hand in empowering readers to think, to seek curiosity and skepticism, to shape themselves and their ideas through evidence and reason, vision and imagination, and in doing so to forge themselves and our world through reading.
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
Barbara Oakley PhD , Beth Rogowsky EdD
113 Reviews
June 15, 2021
This book may be of interest to you if you are looking to improve your teaching methodology so that your students learn. The book discusses how to keep students engaged during their learning, how teachers can help strengthen students’ long term memory and finally how to use inclusion as a teaching method.
Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
Alex Shevrin Venet
96 Reviews
May 25, 2021
The reality that many students live outside the classroom can be a detonating factor for the quality of their academic results. This book invites teachers to take into account this type of situation and to promote equity and inclusion in the classroom. Transformation is a long process that can be accelerated through unity.
The eLearning Designer’s Handbook: A Practical Guide to the eLearning Development Process for New eLearning Designer
Tim Slade
94 Reviews
September 2, 2020
Learn how to design elearning that delivers results. Definitely for people who want to start designing and creating content this book is ideal, as it allows creators to organize and concretize their ideas so that their design and idea is successful and delivers results.
Engaging Virtual Meetings: Openers, Games, and Activities for Communication, Morale, and Trust
John Chen
90 reviews
October 20, 2020
Build a cohesive and high-performing virtual team with this fantastic resource full of actionable advice and practical tips
Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching
J. Richard Gentry, Dr. Gene Ouellette
85 reviews
February 7, 2019
With the concise and readable BrainWords, you will learn how children’s brains develop as they become readers and discover ways you can take concrete steps to promote this critical developmental passage.
Teach Boldly: Using Edtech for Social Good
Jennifer Williams
77 reviews
October 22, 2019
Transformational education leader Jennifer Williams offers design- and empathy-driven practices to help teachers activate positive change in student learning.
Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity
Sydney Cail Snyder, Diane Staehr Fenner
74 Reviews
February 9, 2021
Utilize the strengths of your students and promote the success of your multilingual learners in and out of the classroom. Implement cultural tools that are engaging for your students to provide a safe and equitable place for your learners.
Designing for Modern Learning
Lisa M.D. Owens, Crystal Kadakia
67 reviews
June 30, 2020
Learning is no longer an activity or luxury that only occurs at specific stages in your life or career. With the digital revolution, learning has become immediate, real-time, and relevant whether you’re young, old, in the workforce, in school, or at home. As a learning and development professional, you’ve likely confronted the digital learning revolution armed with instructional design models from the pre-digital world. But today’s digital universe has a new model to address its wealth of new technologies and a new philosophy of learning experience design: learning cluster design.
Teaching Online: Online Teaching Survival Guide: The Best Teaching Strategies and Tools for Your Online Classroom
Selena Watts
55 reviews
October 12, 2020
Experts agree that online learning has many benefits, and some countries are even considering fully transferring to this type of teaching. The rest of the world is also preparing to incorporate online teaching into their education system to some extent.
In both cases, teachers will need to step out of their comfort zone and dive straight into the alien world of online teaching.
