Learning Development

In today's fast-paced digital age, personalized educational experience is more critical than ever. "Adaptive Learning: Build Personalized Learning with Storyline & ChatGPT" offers a transformative approach for instructional designers, educators, and eLearning professionals ready to embrace the future of personalized learning. "Adaptive Learning" breaks down the complexities of integrating advanced AI-driven interactions and dynamic content customization, making it accessible even to those new to the field. From initial setup and tool familiarization to the intricacies of JavaScript for ...

What does it take to have a long writing life? Drawing on her years of writing, teaching, and practicing Zen, Natalie Goldberg shares the experiences that have opened her to new ways of being alive - experiences that point the way forward in our lives and our writing. The "great spring" of this book title refers to the great rush of energy that arrives when you think no life will ever come again - the early yellow flowering forsythia, for example.

Understand how to use mind games and mental manipulation! You will learn the main techniques that manipulative people use to control their targets and to get them to do whatever they want. All the main tricks that narcissist, Machiavellians, sadistic people, sociopaths, and even psychopaths use to keep others under their thumb will be revealed to you, so that you can learn to protect yourself from manipulation or control, whether its orchestrated by your partner or spouse, a member of your family, a friend with personal agendas, or a colleague with malicious intentions.

Inspiration is a slippery thing at the best of times. But as a writer, you can't afford to wait around on Madam Muse's goodwill. In this encouraging audiobook, award-winning author K.M. Weiland shows you how to nurture creativity and put it at your summons, rather than the other way around.

Dr. Julia B. Lindsey’s evidence-based routines help young listeners decode words efficiently so they can spend more energy on comprehending—and enjoying—what they read!

According to author Cindy Wigglesworth, spiritual intelligence is "the ability to behave with wisdom and compassion while maintaining inner and outer peace regardless of the situation." In her best-selling, award-winning audiobook, SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence, Cindy helps us understand how spiritual intelligence is analogous to such concepts as IQ and emotional intelligence (EQ). Using clear, practical language, she defines the "21 skills" that comprise spiritual intelligence and teaches you the steps to begin developing your own spiritual intelligence.

Oliver Wyman reads The Speakeasy Guide and captures the rich atmosphere and enduring cultural influence of the roaring ‘20s. While the anecdote about Audible staffers stumbling out of an anonymous casino might be in doubt, one thing’s for sure – this fun listen is the bee’s knees.

The Complete Book of Grant Writing is the ultimate grant book that shows you how to write a grant proposal if you're seeking funding through government grants, foundation grants, and specialty grants. Grant proposal writing is an intricate process where any bits of misinformation or formatting errors can mean the difference between securing funding or not. Professional grant writer Nancy Burke Smith and philanthropy consultant and grant maker E. Gabriel Works unveil the secrets behind how to find and successfully apply for grants.

Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.

Are you a people pleaser? Do you feel guilty while saying no? Do you feel good when you say, "yes," to everyone for everything - even by sacrificing your priorities? If you somehow relate to the above, it means you are suffering from "being nice disease". If your life priorities have suffered badly, if you’ve taken a toll on your health by taking unnecessary stress due to every avoidable "yes", you need to be ready for becoming "not nice". You have to become more assertive in your life and work. Here is your practical blueprint.

Inspirational words on parenting from the beloved Fred Rogers, showing appreciation for parents whose children are grown as well as giving advice to those parents raising young ones.

Whether you’re a born storyteller or need a little assistance from spellcheck and the thesaurus, Lauren Bingham is here to help you make it the “write time” to make your author’s dreams a reality. How to Write a Book: A Book for Anyone Who Has Never Written a Book (But Wants To) is filled with insight into what makes writers tick and how to bring the passion out on paper.

Newly updated for 2023! Want to learn how to code in less than a day? This book was designed for absolute beginners – you don’t need any prior experience or knowledge. Written by the Co-Founders of The Tech Academy (learncodinganywhere.com), it serves as a perfect introduction to computer programming for anyone. This book utilizes Small Basic, an educational programming language developed by Microsoft. Learn Coding Basics in Hours with Small Basic is easy and simple, and it can be completed fast. The Tech Academy is a technology school that specializes in coding bootcamps. You can ...

Add some kick to your characters with some quick and simple dialect training. Paul Meier has been training actors for over 25 years and now offers his experience to the casual pretender in these entertaining presentations. You will find accent tips, colloquialisms, and charismatic character concepts that will add to your storytelling, roleplaying, or cosplay.

In The Art of Self-Leadership: Discover the Power Within You and Learn to Lead Yourself, celebrated workplace culture and employee engagement expert Heather R. Younger delivers an exciting and practical discussion of how to develop an entirely new mindset around personal advocacy and self-leadership. You'll learn how to take control of the workplace experience and set expectations up front about relationships.

You'll discover everything you need to know about making an amazing app. The book starts from the very beginning of the process and breaks down complex computer code into easy-to-understand steps, so you can get great results!

Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey toward mastering the art of conflict resolution and effective communication? "Navigating Life's Conflicts: Strategies for Effective De-Escalation and Communication" invites you to step into the heart of true-to-life scenarios where tensions rise, emotions flare, and understanding seems out of reach. In this immersive and scenario-driven approach, you'll not only learn invaluable conflict resolution skills, but you'll also apply them in these true-to-life situations, challenging yourself to navigate the complexities of human interaction. ...

Professionals and entrepreneurs do a great job of keeping up appearances. But if they're honest with themselves, they're short on living the life they really want. Train Your Brain for Success provides the perspective to analyze how you got where you are and, more importantly, learn the skills to get where you truly desire to be. Train Your Brain for Success explains specific ways of thinking and acting that will get anyone where they want to go, fast.

Filled with illuminating case studies and brilliant in-depth analysis, this invaluable book provides a multitude of insights that will help you weather market upheavals, adapt to disruptions, and optimize your resources to your best advantage.

At the heart of this groundbreaking book are two urgent questions: What do our young children need in the earliest years of school, and how do we ensure that they all get it? Cutting-edge research has proven that early childhood education is crucial for all children to gain the academic and emotional skills they need to succeed later in life. Children who attend quality pre-K programs have a host of positive outcomes including better language, literacy, problem solving, and math skills down the line.