Reading

Page last updated 25 March 2024.

I regularly look out for new books to support my learning and development through social media, publisher newsletters/brochures and peeking at others bookshelves!  I always share my findings onto individuals/groups that may interest them as well onto my professional networks, both face-to-face and via social media.  So I have created and curated a dedicated area that presents an illustrated list of books (in no particular order) on the following topics:

• Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and everything across this spectrum (my specialism);
• Design thinking (mapping, planning and structuring etc);
• Teacher education (underpinning reference), delivering training and
• Journals, articles and guides (for research/further guidance)

Additionally I've provided links to:

• Reading/research groups
• Communities of practice

The book lists include some of my favourite 'go to's', some of which sit on my own shelf.  Those that work in further, higher, primary and secondary education will find them useful, even if you are are a teacher, student or researcher.  On Amazon you can preview, see further book recommendations and purchase copies.  You could also request an inspection copy directly from the publisher or even loan from your local or organisation's library or online repository.

n.b. do consider buying from independent and local booksellers (if they stock them) not just defaulting to Amazon.  You can also use BookFinder to find used, new, out-of-print and rare books.

I update this page frequently as I find new and upcoming books and other handy literature.  So do let me know if you want any adding.

EDIT:  January 2024 - Amazon are no longer supporting the image and text illustrated thumbnails.  Therefore the original thumbnails became obsolete, however I have now recovered and rebuilt them as basic URLs.  Though I don't have the patience to include authors and dates due to the volume of titles - though the initial anonymity might appeal.

TEL

Firstly, my own book:

• Digital Learning, Teaching and Assessment for HE and FE Practitioners
• E-tivities: The Key to Active Online Learning
• E-Moderating: The Key to Online Teaching and Learning
• E-Learning in the 21st Century: A Community of Inquiry Framework for Research and Practice
• Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age: Principles and Practices of Design
• Critical Approaches to Online Learning
• Pedagogies of Digital Learning in Higher Education
• Digital Learning in Higher Education: COVID-19 and Beyond
• From EdTech to PedTech: Changing the Way We Think about Digital Technology
• e-Learning and Social Networking Handbook: Resources for Higher Education
• Enhancing Learning and Teaching with Technology: What the research say
• Learning Technology: A Complete Guide for Learning Professionals
• Wiley Handbook of Learning Technology
• Technology-Enhanced Learning and the Virtual University
• Rethinking University Teaching: A Conversational Framework for the Effective Use of Learning Technologies
• Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology
• Adaptable: How to Create an Adaptable Curriculum and Flexible Learning Experiences That Work in Any Environment
• Critical Digital Pedagogy in Higher Education
• An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy
• Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection
• Immersive Education: Designing for Learning
• 3D Immersive and Interactive Learning
• Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer's Guide
• Transforming Digital Learning and Assessment: A Guide to Available and Emerging Practices and Building Institutional Consensus
• The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
• Learning Online: What Research Tells Us About Whether, When and How
• Digital Learning: The Key Concepts
• The SAGE Handbook of E-learning Research
• Encyclopedia of Terminology for Educational Communications and Technology
• E-learning Theory and Practice
• Integrating Technology in Learning and Teaching: A Practical Guide for Educators
• Conceptualising the Digital University: The Intersection of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice
• Re-imagining University Assessment in a Digital World
• Tech with Heart: Leveraging Technology to Empower Student Voice, Ease Anxiety, & Create Compassionate Classrooms
• The Manifesto for Teaching Online
• The Textbook and the Lecture – Education in the Age of New Media
• Teaching and Learning Online: New Models of Learning for a Connected World
• Re-imagining Technology Enhanced Learning: Critical Perspectives on Disruptive Innovation
• Best Practices in Engaging Online Learners Through Active and Experiential Learning Strategies
• Teaching in the Post Covid Classroom: Mindsets and Strategies to Cultivate Connection, Manage Behavior and Reduce Overwhelm in Classroom, Distance and for Blended Learning
• A to Z of EdTech
• Teaching in the Online Classroom: Surviving and Thriving in the New Normal
• Online Teaching At Its Best: Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research
• Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology
• Illuminate: Technology Enhanced Learning
• Design of Technology-Enhanced Learning: Integrating Research and Practice
• Learning Technology
• Sail the 7 Cs with Microsoft Education: Stories from around the World to Transform and Inspire Your Classroom
• Learning Design: Conceptualizing a Framework for Teaching and Learning Online
• Blended Learning in Action: A Practical Guide Toward Sustainable Change
• Balance With Blended Learning: Partner With Your Students to Reimagine Learning and Reclaim Your Life
• Teaching Online: Online Teaching Survival Guide: The Best Teaching Strategies and Tools for Your Online Classroom
• The Successful Virtual Classroom: How to Design and Facilitate Interactive and Engaging Live Online Learning
• Excellent Online Teaching: Effective Strategies For A Successful Semester Online
• Education and Technology: Key Issues and Debates
• Confident Digital Content: How to Create and Manage Amazing Social Media and Web Content for a Futureproof Career
• Learning First, Technology Second: The Educator's Guide to Designing Authentic Lessons
• Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning: Solutions for Creating the Learning Spaces Students Deserve
• Classroom Management in the Digital Age: Effective Practices for Technology-Rich Learning Spaces
• Learning in a Digital World: Perspective on Interactive Technologies for Formal and Informal Education
• Critical Learning in Digital Networks
• Digital Badges in Education: Trends, Issues, and Cases
• Digital Storytelling in Higher Education: International Perspectives
• Learning Through Storytelling in Higher Education: Using Reflection and Experience to Improve Learning
• Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning
• An Analysis of Two Decades of Educational Technology Publications: Who, What and Where
• The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice
• Best Practices in Engaging Online Learners Through Active and Experiential Learning Strategies
• Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom
• Learning Identities in a Digital Age: Rethinking creativity, education and technology
• Learning with 'e's: educational theory and practice in the digital age
• Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis
• Social Media Tools and Platforms in Learning Environments
• Social Media and Mental Health: Handbook for Parents and Teachers
• Enhancing Learning Through Technology In Lifelong Learning: Fresh Ideas: Innovative Strategies
• Social Media for Academics
• Using Social Media in the Classroom: A Best Practice Guide
• E-Learning Groups and Communities
• Learning Theory and Online Technologies
• Pebblegogy - Ideas and activities to inspire and engage learners
• ePortfolio as Curriculum: Models and Practices for Developing Students’ ePortfolio Literacy
• Digital Classroom: Harnessing Technology for the Future of Learning and Teaching
• E-Portfolios in Higher Education: A Multidisciplinary Approach
• ePortfolios in Australian Universities
• High-Impact ePortfolio Practice: A Catalyst for Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning
• Blended Learning Designs in STEM Higher Education: Putting Learning First
• Catalyst in Action: Case Studies of High-Impact ePortfolio Practice
• Teaching Online: A Practical Guide
• The Acquisition of ILT Skills by FE Teachers: The Acquisition of Information and Learning Technology Skills by FE Teachers
• The Learningwheel: A Model of Digital Pedagogy
• Libraries Supporting Online Learning: Practical Strategies and Best Practices
• Increasing Student Engagement and Retention in E-Learning Environments: Web 2.0 and Blended Learning Technologies
• Blended Learning in Higher Education: Framework, Principles, and Guidelines
• Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice
• Blended Learning in Practice: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers
• Flexible Learning in a Digital World: Experiences and Expectations
• Adult Learning in the Digital Age: Information Technology and the Learning Society
• Technology-Mediated Narrative Environments for Learning
• Integrated E-Learning: Implications for Pedagogy, Technology and Organization
• preparing for blended e-learning
• The Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips
• 50 Ways to Use Technology Enhanced Learning in the Classroom: Practical strategies for teaching
• The Really Useful #EdTechBook
• Emergency Rations #EdTechRations: What’s so important we can’t leave it at home?
• My Secret #EdTech Diary: Looking at Educational Technology through a wider lens
• The Differentiated Flipped Classroom: A Practical Guide to Digital Learning
• Education in Computer Generated Environments
• Assessing the Online Learner: Resources and Strategies for Faculty
• Technology-Enhanced Learning in Higher Education
• Technology Enhanced Learning: Research Themes
• Disruptive Technology Enhanced Learning: The Use and Misuse of Digital Technologies in Higher Education
• The E-Learning Revolution: How Technology Is Driving a New Training Paradigm
• Emotions, Technology, and Learning
• Enhancing Learning Through Technology: Research On Emerging Technologies And Pedagogies
• Discourse, Dialogue and Technology Enhanced Learning
• Technology and Engagement: Making Technology Work for First Generation College Students
• Goal-Setting and Problem-Solving in the Tech-Enhanced Classroom: A Teaching and Learning Reboot
• Digital Learning in Organizations: Help your Workforce Capitalize on Technology
• The Monsters of Education Technology
• Teachers vs Tech?: The case for an ed tech revolution
• Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
• Technology-Enhanced Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage
• Digital Play in Early Childhood: What's the Problem?
• Digital Technologies and Learning in the Early Years
• Early Learning in the Digital Age
• Learning with Mobile and Handheld Technologies

Learning/eLearning/instructional design

• Designing Learning: From Module Outline to Effective Teaching
• Learning Science for Instructional Designers: From Cognition to Application
• Learning Experience Design: How to Create Effective Learning that Works
• Multimedia Learning
• Toward a Critical Instructional Design
• e-Learning by Design
• e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning
• Scenario-based e-Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Online Workforce Learning
• First Principles
• Make It Meaningful: Taking Learning Design From Instructional to Transformational
• The Accidental Instructional Designer: Learning Design for the Digital Age
• Creating the Digital Campus: Active Learning Spaces and Technology
• Blended Learning and Online Tutoring: Planning Learner Support and Activity Design
• The Really Useful eLearning Instruction Manual
• Essentials for Blended Learning: A Standards-Based Guide
• Essentials of Online Course Design: A Standards-Based Guide
• Essentials of Online Teaching: A Standards-Based Guide
• Instructional Design for eLearning: Essential guide for designing successful eLearning courses
• Michael Allen's Guide to e-Learning: Building Interactive, Fun, and Effective Learning Programs for Any Company
• Introduction to Systematic Instructional Design for Traditional, Online, and Blended Environments
• The eLearning Designer's Handbook: A Practical Guide to the eLearning Development Process for New eLearning Designers
• E-Learning Fundamentals: A Practical Guide
• CHECKLISTS for quality eLearning (Online) Courses & Resources: Underpinning knowledge to support eLearning (Online) Courses & Resources
• Meaningful Online Learning: Integrating Strategies, Activities, and Learning Technologies for Effective Designs
• Microlearning: Short and Sweet
• Managing Online Learning: The Life-Cycle of Successful Programs
• Instructional Design: The ADDIE Approach
• The Essentials of Instructional Design: Connecting Fundamental Principles with Process and Practice
• Creating Courses Online: Learn the Fundamental Tips, Tricks, and Strategies of Making the Best Online Courses to Engage Students
• Active Learning Online: Five Principles that Make Online Courses Come Alive
• Learning Design: Create amazing learning experiences with Design Thinking
• Course Design Formula: How to Teach Anything to Anyone Online
• Talk to the Elephant: Design Learning for Behavior Change
• Evidence-Informed Learning Design: Creating Training to Improve Performance

Accessibility

• Designing Accessible Learning Content: A Practical Guide to Applying best-practice Accessibility Standards to L&D Resources
• Guide to Digital Accessibility: Policies, Practices, and Professional Development

Digital skills/literacy

• Understanding Digital Literacies: A Practical Introduction
• Digital Literacy Unpacked
• Digital Skills: Unlocking the Information Society
• Digital Skills for Nursing Studies and Practice
• Digital Literacy Skills for Fe Teachers
• e-Learning Skills
• Study Skills Connected: Using Technology to Support Your Studies
• Learning Online – The Student Experience
• DCMM: Digital Capabilities Management Model
• Digital Literacy for Primary Teachers

Digital leadership/strategy/culture

• Evolving Digital Leadership: How to Be a Digital Leader in Tomorrow’s Disruptive World
• The Power of Us: How we connect, act and innovate together
• Digital Transformation: Build Your Organization's Future for the Innovation Age
• Leading Digital Strategy: Driving Business Growth Through Effective E-commerce
• The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
• Digital Talent: Find, Recruit and Retain the People your Business Needs in a World of Digital Transformation
• Building Digital Culture: A Practical Guide to Successful Digital Transformation
• Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation
• Workplace Learning: How to Build a Culture of Continuous Employee Development
• Agile Transformation: Structures, Processes and Mindsets for the Digital Age
• L&D's Playbook for the Digital Age
• Learning Technologies in the Workplace: How to Successfully Implement Learning Technologies in Organizations

Artificial Intelligence

• AI in Learning: Designing the Future
• Artificial Intelligence for Learning: How to use AI to Support Employee Development
• The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education
• Artificial Intelligence In Education: Promises and Implications for Teaching and Learning
• The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI
• Machine Learning and Human Intelligence: The future of education for the 21st century

Design thinking

• Curriculum Planning with Design Language: Building Elegant Courses and Units
• Design for How People Learn
• Map It: The hands-on guide to strategic training design
• Beyond Sticky Notes: Co-design for Real: Mindsets, methods and movements
• Design. Think. Make. Break. Repeat.: A Handbook of Methods
• Non-Designer's Design Book
• The Design of Everyday Things, revised and expanded edition
• Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience: 1

Teacher education

• Achieving your Diploma in Teaching (FE & Skills): Putting theory into practice for the qualification or apprenticeship
• Principles and Practices of Assessment: A guide for assessors in the FE and skills sector
• Principles and Practices of Teaching and Training: A guide for teachers and trainers in the FE and skills sector
• Principles and Practices of Quality Assurance: A guide for internal and external quality assurers in the FE and Skills Sector
• Learning Theories Simplified: ...and how to apply them to teaching
• Teaching Today: A Practical Guide
• Learning Theories for Everyday Teaching
• Understanding the Adult Learner: Perspectives and Practices
• PCET: Learning and teaching in the post compulsory sector
• A Concise Guide to Lecturing in Higher Education and the Academic Professional Apprenticeship
• Using Digital Video in Initial Teacher Education
• Enabling Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education
• The Teacher Educator's Handbook: A narrative approach to professional learning
• The Vocational Assessor Handbook: Including a Guide to the QCF Units for Assessment and Internal Quality Assurance (IQA)
• Academic Practice: Developing as a Professional in Higher Education
• The Lecturer's Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching
• The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies
• The Science of Learning: 99 Studies That Every Teacher Needs to Know
• Just Teach! in FE: A people-centered approach
• Teaching Training and Learning: A Practical Guide
• Teaching and Supporting Adult Learners
• Understanding and Using Educational Theories
• Understanding Pedagogy: Developing a critical approach to teaching and learning
• The Confident Teacher: Developing successful habits of mind, body and pedagogy
• Powerful Pedagogy: Teach Better Quicker
• The New Apprenticeships: Facilitating Learning, Mentoring, Coaching and Assessing
• The Essential Guide to Teaching New Apprenticeships
• The Best Quality Assurer's Guide: For IQAs and EQAs of Vocational Qualifications: 2
• The Best Initial Assessment Guide: Getting it Right - from the Start
• The Best Vocational Trainer's Guide: Essential Knowledge and Skills for Those Responsible for Workplace Learning: 4
• The Best Assessor's Guide: Essential Knowledge and Skills for Vocational Assessors
• A Concise Guide to the Level 3 Award in Education and Training
• A Complete Guide to the Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training
• A Complete Guide to the Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training
• Practical Teaching: A Guide to Teaching in the Education and Training Sector
• Teaching in lifelong learning
• Teaching and training in lifelong learning
• How We Learn: Throw out the rule book and unlock your brain’s potential 
• Reflective Teaching and Learning in Further Education
• Ways of Learning: Learning Theories for the Classroom
• Practical Pedagogy: 40 New Ways to Teach and Learn
• Post Compulsory Teacher Educators: Connecting Professionals
• The Trainee Teacher's Handbook: A companion for initial teacher training
• Being a Teacher: The trainee teacher′s guide to developing the personal and professional skills you need
• Teacher Education in Lifelong Learning: Developing Professionalism as a Democratic Endeavour
• 50 Teaching and Learning Approaches: Simple, easy and effective ways to engage learners and measure their progress
• 50 Assessment Approaches: Simple, easy and effective ways to assess learners
• 50 Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance Approaches: Simple, easy and effective ways to improve performance
• Teaching In The Lifelong Learning Sector
• Teaching in Further Education: An Outline of Principles and Practice
• How to be a Brilliant FE Teacher: A practical guide to being effective and innovative
• Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide
• How People Learn: A New Model of Learning and Cognition to Improve Performance and Education
• The Award in Education and Training
• The Certificate in Education and Training
• Achieving your Assessment and Quality Assurance Units
• The City & Guilds Practical Guide to Quality Assurance
• Effective Teaching: Evidence and Practice
• Learning Teaching: Becoming an Inspirational Teacher
• The Professional Teacher in Further Education
• Understanding and Using Challenging Educational Theories
• Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
• Trainee Teachers' Survival Guide
• Teacher Toolkit: Helping You Survive Your First Five Years
• Of Teaching, Learning and Sherbet Lemons: A Compendium of careful advice for teachers
• Teaching and Learning through Reflective Practice: A Practical Guide for Positive Action
• Teaching in Context: An easy-access guide to teaching in FE
• Contemporary Theories of Learning: Learning Theorists ... In Their Own Words
• Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education
• Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning
• Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn
• 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning: Teaching for Success
• Visible Learning Insights
• Navigating Initial Teacher Training: Becoming a Teacher
• The Wiley Handbook of Teaching and Learning
• The Wiley Handbook of Vocational Education and Training
• Inclusion in Further Education
• Effective Personal Tutoring in Higher Education
• Co-creating Learning and Teaching: Towards relational pedagogy in higher education
• Educational Leadership Simplified: A guide for existing and aspiring leaders
• Principles of Educational Leadership & Management
• Using Lesson Observation to Improve Learning: Practical Strategies for FE and Post-16 Tutors
• The CPD Curriculum: Creating conditions for growth
• Becoming a Brilliant Trainer: A Teacher’s Guide to Running Sessions and Engaging Learners
• The Workshop Book: How to design and lead successful workshops
• The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time

Journals, articles and guides

Can be found at the following places:

• #100Papers - by Sue Tucker
• ALT - Research in Learning Technology
• Future FE Pedagogies
• Google Scholar
• IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
• iLearn pedagogy and evidence - Sammy Lambert
• Jisc Guides
• Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
• myBRAINisOPEN
• PebblePad Publications, Conferences and Events
• QAA - Building a Taxonomy for Digital Learning
• ResearchGate
• RaPAL Journal
• SAGE Journals
• SEDA
• SpringerLink (key words: Education; Technology and Digital Education; Educational Technology)
• SpringerLink (key words: Education; Educational Philosophy; Learning & Instruction; Teaching and Teacher Education)
• SpringerOpen - International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
• Taylor & Francis Online
• The Immersive Learning Research Network (ILRN)
• The Journal of Social Media for Learning
• The Open University - Open Research Online
• thesedablog
• UCISA Publications and resources

Jisc Digital Experience Insights surveys (reports at bottom of page), UCISA Technology Enhanced Learning surveys and EDUCAUSE Horizon Report publications and The Open Univeristy Innovating Pedagogy reports are also useful sources of current information.

Reading/research groups

• London E-learning Reading Group - reading current TEL research papers to discuss own practices with other practitioners.  Join here.
• TEL Researchers at Lancaster series - current and past candidates on the Lancaster University PhD e-research and Technology Enhanced Learning programme.  Sharing their research practice, passions and journey on becoming a researcher.

Communities of practice

• DigiLearn Sector Community
• Early-career learning technologists
• Follow and share #altc on Twitter and LinkedIn
• Further Education and Skills Teachers (FEAST)
• Jisc compiled list of communities

Additionally, as Ann Gravells signposts from her website; "A fantastic choice of videos regarding using technology can be viewed from Daniel Scott on YouTube."