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Empowering Online Learning is an essential resource for anyone designing or facilitating online learning. It introduces an easy, practical model (R2D2: read, reflect, display, and do) that will illustrate to online educators how to deliver content in ways that benefit all types of learners (visual, auditory, observational, and kinesthetic) from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill levels. The book has 25 unique activities for each phase of the R2D2 model as well as summary tables helping you pick and choose what to use whenever you need it. Each activity lists a description, skills addressed, advice, variations, cost, risk, and time index, and much more! Finally, this book is loaded with current information about emerging technologies (e.g., simulations, podcasts, wikis, blogs) and the Web 2.0. Anyone wanting an update on technology integration in education will want this book. A useful model, more than 100 online activities, the latest information on emerging technologies, hundreds of quickly accessible Web resources, and relevance to all types and ages of learners - Empowering Online Learning is a book whose time has come. Pedagogy is forever linked to technology.
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Sample Endorsements:
"Instructors who read this book and incorporate the R2D2 approach to learning, along with the exciting activities that accompany each phase, will create robust learning experiences and demonstrate the potential that online learning holds and that learning online can be fun."
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Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt
Program Directors and Faculty
Teaching in the Virtual Classroom Program
Fielding Graduate University
"I just do not believe that endemic in the nature of teachers of the 21st Century is a large scale resistance to the use of technology. Instead they need a bright light to illuminate the pathways to the future. Some teachers will then take pigeon steps and others run a marathon. For me, Empowering Online Learning is exactly what they need to brighten their demanding journeys. Some ideas provide well trodden, signposted footpaths. Others are a more fast-lane. All are clear and valuable. Have a great trip."
Gilly Salmon
Professor of E-learning & Learning Technologies
Beyond Distance Research Alliance
University of Leicester
"I have a library full of books on e-learning and most of them are vague, theoretical, and lengthy. I like Curt and Ke's book because it gives me freedom and flexibility. I can open to any page and discover something that is immediately applicable to the e-learning that I am designing."
Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan
President, Thiagi Group
"This book will give you the inside track for delivering on the promise of engaging elearning experiences in your enterprise."
Ellen D. Wagner
Senior Director
Worldwide eLearning
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Sample Testimonials:
"Thank you so much for the book. I was just thinking to order it from Amazon. You are my life saver. :) My college just talks about how to support online learning and blended learning better using different types of technologies, such as wiki, blog, secondlife, podcasters, video streaming. We also try to figure out the ways to make mobile education available to some countries at Europe."
Hui-Hsien Tsai, Ph.D.
Center for Learning and Technology
SUNY-Empire State College
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Book Reviews:
"With a solid theoretical foundation and concrete guidance and examples, this book can be used as a handy reference, a professional guidebook, or a course text. This book is intended to help online instructors and instructional designers, as well as those contemplating such positions, to design, develop, and deliver learner-centered online instruction. With a useful model, more than 100 online activities, the latest information on emerging technologies, hundreds of quickly accessible Web resources, and relevance to all types and ages of learners - Empowering Online Learning is a book whose time has come."
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