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  Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

  by Will Richardson

  For both novice and experienced "techies," this practical resource shows how to use blogs and other new Web tools for innovative, interactive teaching and motivated learning.
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  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)
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  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)
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  Choosing Web 2.0 tools for learning and teaching in a digital world

  by Pam Berger

  Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World provides practical strategies and examples to effectively integrate Web 2.0 tools to support the inquiry process in the school library program and the classroom curriculum. Targeted for school librarians, this book addresses the questions: What is digital literacy? How is learning different in a digital world? And the most important questions,... (more)
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  Learning online with games, simulations, and virtual worlds : strategies for online instruction

  by Clark Aldrich

  Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds Strategies for Online Instruction Clark Aldrich Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds The infusion of games, simulations, and virtual worlds into online learning can be a transforming experience for both the instructor and the student. This practical... (more)
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  The World Is Open

  How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education

  by Curtis Jay Bonk

  Praise for The World Is Open "In this epic effort, Dr. Bonk takes the technologies, the concepts, the future and even the past of distance education and synthesizes it into a comprehensible landscape. He gives us a window from which we can see it all. Masterful!" — Glenn R. Jones , chancellor, Jones International University "Network technology has proven to be a great social leveler and... (more)
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  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)
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  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)
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  e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning

  by Richard E. Mayer, Ruth Colvin Clark

  In e-Learning and the Science of Instruction authors Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Mayer— internationally recognized experts in the field of e-learning— offer essential information and guidelines for selecting, designing, and developing e-learning courses that build knowledge and skills for workers learning in corporate, government, and academic settings.
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  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)
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  Designing Web-Based Training: How to Teach Anyone Anything Anywhere Anytime

  by William K. Horton

  The surge in the number of online training sites has created an unprecedented demand for experts who know all aspects of Web-based training (WBT) site design. Written by bestselling author William Horton, this book provides the hands-on and practical guidance that trainers demand. Packed with over 100 examples, this well-illustrated guide walks you through every phase of designing WBT, from analyzing your course... (more)
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  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)
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  e-Learning by Design

  by William K. Horton

  From William Horton -- a world renowned expert with more than thirty-five years of hands-on experience creating networked-based educational systems -- comes the next-step resource for e-learning training professionals. Like his best-selling book Designing Web-Based Training , this book is a comprehensive resource that provides practical guidance for making the thousand and one decisions needed to design effective... (more)
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  Blended Learning in Higher Education

  Framework, Principles, and Guidelines

  by D. R. Garrison, Norman D. Vaughan

  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)
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  Conquering the Content: A Step-by-Step Guide to Online Course Design (Online Teaching and Learning Series (OTL))

  by Robin M. Smith

  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... (more)
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  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)
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  Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development

  by William Rice

  In Detail This unique book gives you more than just a guide to the Moodle software; it uses Moodle as a route to better teaching, more motivated students, and more successful courses. Moodle is the leading Open Source learning management system. Using Moodle, teachers can easily construct richly textured web based courses. A course can consist of a number of lessons, with each lesson including reading... (more)
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  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)
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  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)
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  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)