Empowering Online Learning : 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing

by Curtis J. Bonk; Ke Zhang

• ISBN13: 9780470605479
• ISBN10: 0470605472
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This 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 show 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. 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. The authors intend for it to help online instructors and instructional designers as well as those contemplating such positions design, develop, and deliver learner-centered online instruction.Empowering Online Learning 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.This title is loaded with current information about emerging technologies (e.g., simulations, podcasts, wikis, blogs) and the Web 2.0. 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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

The R2D2 Model: Read, Refl ect, Display, and Do

Phase 1 of the R2D2 Model: Verbal and Auditory Learners

Activities for Phase 1: Verbal and Auditory Learners

Phase 2 of the R2D2 Model: Refl ective and Observational Learners

Activities for Phase 2: Refl ective and Observational Learners

Phase 3 of the R2D2 Model: Visual Learners

Activities for Phase 3: Visual Learners

Phase 4 of the R2D2 Model: Hands-On Learners

Activities for Phase 4: Hands-On Learners

Integrating R2D2 and Final Refl ections on the Web of Learning

Web Links, Examples, and Resources

References

Index

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