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Engaging the Online Learner: Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction (Online Teaching and Learning Series (OTL))

Engaging the Online Learner: Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction (Online Teaching and Learning Series (OTL))

by Rita-Marie Conrad

Engaging the Online Learners includes an innovative framework—the Phases of Engagement—that helps instructors become more involved as knowledge generators and cofacilitators of a course. The book also provides specific ideas for tested activities (collected from experienced online instructors across the nation) that can go a long way to improving online learning. Engaging the Online Learner offers the tools and... (more)

What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

by James Paul Gee

One of America's most well-respected professors of education looks at the good that can come from playing video games-even violent ones. James Paul Gee is interested in the cognitive development that can occur when someone is trying to escape a maze, find a hidden treasure and, even, blast away an enemy with a high-powered rifle. Talking about his own video-gaming experience learning and using games as diverse as... (more)

Building Virtual Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom

Building Virtual Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom

by Rena M. Palloff

Building Online Learning Communities further explores the development of virtual classroom environments that foster a sense of community and empower students to take charge of their learning to successfully achieve learning outcomes. This is the second edition of the groundbreaking book by Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt and has been completely updated and expanded to include the most current information on... (more)

Blended Learning in Higher Education: Framework, Principles, and Guidelines

Blended Learning in Higher Education: Framework, Principles, and Guidelines

by D. R. Garrison

This groundbreaking book offers a down-to-earth resource for the practical application of blended learning in higher education as well as a comprehensive examination of the topic. Well-grounded in research, Blended Learning in Higher Education clearly demonstrates how the blended learning approach embraces the traditional values of face-to-face teaching and integrates the best practices of online learning. This... (more)

Moodle Magic: Make It Happen

by Laurie Korte

These are amazing times for the Internet and online learning. We are seeing a rapidly increasing commitment to internet-based learning from teachers, students, and institutions of all kinds. Online learning is being used to increase flexibility and communication within existing courses and to enable courses that could never exist before. Moodles have been implemented for users at all age levels. Online... (more)

Making the Most of the Web in Your Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis, Pages, and Sites

Making the Most of the Web in Your Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis, Pages, and Sites

by Timothy D. Green, Abbie Brown

The authors show how to use Web tools to enhance learning, and discuss student safety, appropriate "netiquette," legal considerations, and ISTE NETS technology and content standards.

E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online

E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online

by Gilly Salmon

Fully updated and expanded, this second edition features new material on the latest research and practice in the field, fresh case studies and practitioner resources, and a brand new chapter on future e-learning scenarios.

Using Moodle : [teaching with the popular open source course management system]

Using Moodle : [teaching with the popular open source course management system]

by Jason R. Cole

Using Moodle is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning. Updated for the latest version, this new edition explains exactly how Moodle works by offering plenty of examples, screenshots and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules. Moodle... (more)

The Adult Learner, Sixth Edition: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

The Adult Learner, Sixth Edition: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

by Elwood F. Holton, Malcolm S. Knowles, Richard A. Swanson

This much acclaimed text has been fully updated to incorporate the latest advances in the field. As leading authorities on adult education and training, Elwood Holton and Dick Swanson have revised this edition building on the work of the late Malcolm Knolwes. Keeping to the practical format of the last edition, this book is divided into three parts. The first part contains the classic chapters that describe the... (more)

Beyond E-Learning: Approaches and Technologies to Enhance Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Performance

Beyond E-Learning: Approaches and Technologies to Enhance Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Performance

by Marc Jeffrey Rosenberg

A follow-up to his best-selling E-Learning , Beyond E-Learning explains the most current thinking on how organizations learn and apply what they know to be successful, and explores the increasingly important role that technology plays, not as an end in itself but as a vital means to get there. The book also provides a clear path for helping to integrate learning—including e-learning—knowledge management, and... (more)

E-tivities: The Key to Active Online Learning

E-tivities: The Key to Active Online Learning

by Gilly Salmon

Beyond the hype of online learning lies a straightforward questio: how do you really deliver worthwhile learning online? This book, based on action research, provides a simple answer to this fundamental question by exploring a key technique that enables teachers and learners to use available technologies happily and successfully. So, what are e-tivities? They are motivating, engaging, purposeful activities... (more)

E-Learning

by Marc Jeffrey Rosenberg

Internet and intranet technologies offer tremendous opportunities to bring learning into the mainstream of business. E-Learning outlines how to develop an organization-wide learning strategy based on cutting-edge technologies and explains the dramatic strategic, organizational, and technology issues involved. Written for professionals responsible for leading the revolution in workplace learning, E-Learning takes a... (more)

Michael Allen's Guide to E-Learning

by Michael W. Allen

As an international speaker and consultant to virtually every business sector over his more than thirty-five years of research and development in technology-based instruction, Michael Allen now speaks out about his frustrations with e-learning and brings fundamental issues to light. He shares specific, commonsense guidelines that reliably produce effective and practical learning solutions. From his pioneering work... (more)

Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: Theory, Practice and Assessment

Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: Theory, Practice and Assessment

by Tisha Bender

As online courses proliferate, teachers increasingly realize that they have to connect with their students as they would in face-to-face classes. They have to provide true opportunities for inspirational and meaningful learning, rather than a sterile experience of clicking within a labyrinth of links. With the specific purpose of switching emphasis from the technical issues of online teaching to the human... (more)

Systematic Design of Instruction, The (6th Edition)

Systematic Design of Instruction, The (6th Edition)

by Lou Carey, Walter Dick

Often described as the Bible of the instructional design field. Covers the fundamentals of instructional design and helps the reader learn the concepts and procedures for designing, developing, and formatively evaluating instruction. Paper. DLC: Instructional systems.

Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System

by Jason R. Cole

Developed by an extremely active open source community, Moodle is a sophisticated course management system that's ideal for creating dynamic online learning communities and for supplementing face-to-face learning. Used in more than 115 countries and supporting over 60 languages, Moodle can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000- student university. Teachers who use Moodle have access to an array of... (more)

Moodle E-learning Course Development

by William Rice

A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle - Straight-forward coverage of installing and using the Moodle system - Working with Moodle features in all learning environments - A unique course-based approach focuses your attention on designing well structured, interactive, and successful courses A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle, focused on course development and delivery and... (more)

Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)

Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)

by Rena M. Palloff

1999 Winner of the Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature in Continuing Higher Education, from the University Continuing Education Association "A must read for anyone involved in or considering involvement in online, networked learning. -- Donald J. MacIntyre, president, The Fielding Institute "A thorough overview of the online course process, including course selection, design, and evaluation, and many of... (more)

Training & Retraining: A Handbook for Business, Industry, Government, and the Military (MacMillan Research on Education Handbooks)

Designing World-Class E-Learning : How IBM, GE, Harvard Business School, And Columbia University Are Succeeding At E-Learning

Designing World-Class E-Learning : How IBM, GE, Harvard Business School, And Columbia University Are Succeeding At E-Learning

by Roger Schank, Roger C. Schank

"Schank's success designing teaching software has made him a much sought after figure among businesses, military clients, and universities." -The New York Times The majority of corporate training programs are weak, ineffective, costly, and inconvenient for the time-pressed employees they are supposed to train. Designing World-Class e-Learning explores on-line learning--today's hottest business training... (more)

Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: e-learning

by Rita-Marie Conrad

by James Paul Gee

by Rena M. Palloff

by D. R. Garrison

by Laurie Korte

by Timothy D. Green, Abbie Brown

by Gilly Salmon

by Jason R. Cole

by Elwood F. Holton, Malcolm S. Knowles, Richard A. Swanson

by Marc Jeffrey Rosenberg

by Gilly Salmon

by Marc Jeffrey Rosenberg

by Michael W. Allen

by Tisha Bender

by Lou Carey, Walter Dick

by Jason R. Cole

by William Rice

by Rena M. Palloff

by Roger Schank, Roger C. Schank