My favorite so far! A 'must have' for e-learning content conversion

Outstanding! | Conquering the Content: A Step-by-Step Guide to Online Course Design (Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching ... | Robin M. Smith

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	• Conquering the Content: A Step-by-Step Guide to Online Course Design (Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching ... Robin M. Smith Jossey-Bass, 2008 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A reference to keep as close as possible!

I've found many of the Jossey-Bass books to be of high quality. Robin Smith's book does not disappoint. This slim volume is packed with excellent information that immediately gets to the "nuts and bolts" of creating an online course or developing an online course from a face-to-face course.

Many people think that crafting an online course is "easy"---you just put the same stuff on the 'net that you use in your classes, right? Um...no.

Smith does a great job of guiding the reader through the steps of developing a course that will be engaging and effective. She is careful to note various approaches to the process.

One of the most helpful aspects, I found, was the reader-friendly set up. Something that may benefit those who think they can just "throw something on the web" and call it online learning is the emphasis on Time. Conquering the Content does an excellent job of providing timelines and realistically approaching the amount of time each step may take.

I teach face-to-face, I've taught hybrid courses, and I have taken years of courses online. I'm currently in a program toward a Master Online Teacher Certificate, and Smith's book is in my "go-to" bag for every course I've taken. Her concise prose is straight-to-the-point and beneficial.

I highly recommend this book for educators, future educators, administrators, and stakeholders pondering implementing online learning; this book demonstrates the realities of online course development: my copy is highlighted and dog-eared---it does not just sit on a shelf and get dusty.

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My favorite so far! A 'must have' for e-learning content conversion

Thank you, thank you! This is the BEST. Hand-holding you through to conversion of your first e-learning course with workbook-style guidance. I looked high and low for this and now that I have it, it has exceeded my desires. This book is extremely well-thought-out. It's SO good that it's also short. Robin Smith knows her stuff and shares it! Don't despair - here is a bright light down a tunnel that doesn't look as long as it did before...

Outstanding!

This book is a must for anyone teaching in an online environment. If you're just starting the transition from classroom to online, Robin M. Smith has it all there for you. Follow her exercises and recommendations and you can't go wrong. If you have been teaching online for a while, I guarantee you'll learn some new and very productive tricks. Every online instructor should read this book, and then keep it on the desk for easy reference.

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Good beginner's guide to distance learning design

This book is really helpful for the beginner distance learning instructional designer. The authors gives helpful tips including:
* Set up forums to avoid incessant e-mail questions. Other students can answer many of each other's questions.
* Set up one master list of links. Just by a few clicks on one file, you can check them prior to each term to check for bad links.
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Excellent Material

This was a good overview with some great tips throughout. I would have liked it to be a little more specific but I don;t think that it would have been possible.

I would highly recommend it to anyone.

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As the sixth volume of the Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning series, Conquering the Content provides a highly-practical blue-print for course development and content presentation for web-based courses. While providing guidance for incorporating learning theory into online courses, this book primarily furnishes online instructors with the practical templates, learning guides, and sample files to construct and manage their course content.

Unlike other books about online instruction that cover theories of teaching and learning, instructional design, or even graphic design this book gives the "how to" of preparing an online course by focusing on content. The much needed step-by-step guidance in this book will result in fully formed courses where high-quality content is the central feature.

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