+ Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom + Fosters Community Among Educators And Their Students!
If "the devil is in the details" of online learning, Paloff and Pratt have done an excellent job exploring the promise and pitfalls of distance learning programs. Anyone in the process of designing online courses or programs in higher education should read both this book and their earlier book ...
A fine overview of a currently-hot topic (among educators, anyway.) Dr. Campbell-Gibson is concerned mainly with the quality of the instruction available, in terms of learner retention, i.e. do the learners finish their course? She is attempting here to provide a tool for the distance educator to ...
Although Allen says,"Forget everything you know," much of what he describes here is good instructional design in any context. What's unique is that he makes the book interactive. He teases out certain instructional components, like incidental learning, that have been alluded to in other books and ...
This invaluable resource can help transform online courses into exciting, meaningful, and active e-learning experiences. 75 e-Learning Activities is filled with scores of e-learning activities and games that offer trainers and instructors a handbook for creating interactive and engaging online courses. Much like the activities and games used in traditional classroom training, these e-learning ...
I am using this book for a course in Fostering Online Learning Communities and I love it. It is an easy read, very well organized, authoritative, and full of useful tips despite the limited research on this emerging topic. Well worth the small price.
It is very understandable that the book should emanate from Athabasca University. By sheer geographic necessity, that uni would be acutely interested in distance learning, aka online teaching and learning. The book is directed towards librarians and academics in any field, who might be interested ...
+ An excellent guide for online instructors to get the most efficient results!
Are you entering the world of virtual education? This book can give you clear information on how to design your courses, how to analyse the work of your students, how to grade forum's participation and what mistakes you must avoid. A great introduction for all teachers who are interested in ...
Everything you need to consider for asynchronous learning
+ Interested in VCoPs? Buy this book! + It applies to virtual communities of practice
I have found this book to be very helpful if you are REALLY interested in doing asynchronous work online. The authors are leading edge thinkers about this subject who have earned themselves a place in the world consulting to people who want to do this. The problem is that many, many people only ...
+ A Classroom of One: How Online Learning is Changing our Schools and Colleges + Cyber Education - The Past, Present, and Future + Enlightened Perspective
+ Talks about Teaching First! + Practical Information, Helpful tips and tricks
"You CAN Teach Online!" provides easy-to-follow examples of pedagogical techniques, and tools that will be useful for faculty interested in developing online courses in the traditional and online classrooms. Throughout the text, numerous technical drawings, charts, graphs, and photographs are ...
I found this book very useful, it allowed me to set up a full Moodle site and course for my training company within less than a week. Clear, easy to read, with good structure, and exhaustive - in terms that it allows one to install and setup moodle, shows multiple possibilities of creating courses ...
For teachers who are contemplating making use of elearning activities. This is a well presented book and worthwhile. It focuses on distance education learning and tertiary students. It also focuses on what skills are needed by the facilitor to make use of software such as WebCT, Blackboard, ...
+ Excelent + Using Moodle: Teaching with the popular open source course management system + What can Moodle Do? Good book for context and ideas + A Great Start for the Uninitiated
This is a comprehensive, easy-read that brings every aspect of online curriculum development into focus before it marches into the details of practical, successful class management. Through it all, Lynnette's constant thread is defining the role of the teacher in creating an online community that ...
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