The Online Learning Idea Book: Proven Ways to Enhance Technology-Based and Blended Learning

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Patti Shank
John Wiley & Sons, Jul 26, 2011 - Business & Economics - 400 pages
Many books recommend teaching and learning strategies based on current learning research and theory. However, few books offer illustrative examples of how to take these strategies and put them into action in the real world. The Online Learning Idea Book is filled with concrete examples of people who make learning more inspiring and engaging every day, in all kinds of settings, all over the world.

In this second volume of The Online Learning Idea Book you will find brand new and valuable ideas that you can adopt or adapt in your own instructional materials, to make them more dynamic and more worthwhile for learners and learning. These ideas will let you peek over the shoulders of some of the world's most creative instructors, instructional designers and developers, trainers, media developers, and others in order to help spark creative ideas of your own.

This hands-on resource will help you build online instructional materials or improve existing materials including online courses, modules, activities, or supplementary materials for classroom-based courses.

This book provides great tips, techniques, and tricks in the following areas: The Design and Development Process, Supporting Learning, Synchronous and Interpersonal Activities, Asynchronous and Self-Paced Activities, and NS Better Media.

Within these pages you will discover creative ways to give your online and blended instruction a boost by adopting and adapting great ideas from others.

 

Contents

List of Figures and Exhibits
Preface Introduction
1 ABCD Example for One Lesson
Paid Leave Procedures
4 Results Screen
Checklist for Online Learning
6 Five Factors for Good Collaboration Overlaid on Bacharachs Momentum Model
Dr Toomey Patient
1 Cracker Barrel Breakout Sessions
2-41
4 Journal Group Formation Instructions
3-4
9 Collaborative Peer Review Example
3-10
15 Finding Professional Groups on LinkedIn
3-18
Professional Development Activity
3-20
21 Online Poll Embedded in a Course Management System
3-31
27 YouTube Discussion
3-45
Ideas for SelfPaced Learning
3-52

Ideas for Supporting Learners and Learning
Tips for Online Learners
1 Team Questions
Motivation Matters Balance Sheet
2-2
4 Main Menu
2-5
Read Me First File
2-10
8 Example of a PreWork Form
2-11
Reading Guide
2-18
10 Example ofMilstids Tweets
2-23
EndofModule Learning
2-24
12 Example ofLearning Profile
2-30
Tips to Learners
2-32
Ideas for Synchronous and Social Learning
2-39
7 Advice for This Situation
4-9
Screen Figure 4 15 Original FinishedOutput
4-16
Ideas for Media and Authoring
4-27
2 Which Is More Fun?
4-29
13 Wordle Word Cloud Example 1
5-1
11 Open Project File and Library File
5-11
25 VoiceThread Course Introductions Voice Response
5-26
39 Tagxedo Word Cloud for Gettysburg Address
5-39
51 Image with Interlocking Areas
5-52
57 Insert Variable Dialog
5-57
Glossary
5-74
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The Editor
PATTI SHANK, PhD., CPT, is the president of Learning Peaks LLC, an internationally recognized performance and instructional design consulting firm. She is the co-author of Making Sense of Online Learning, editor of The Online Learning Idea Book, Volume 1, co-editor of The E-Learning Handbook, and co-author of Essential Articulate Studio '09.

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