Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures and Exhibits
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Ideas for the Design and Development Process
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Chapter 2: Ideas for Supporting Learners and Learning
- Survival Skills
- Rules of Engagement
- Team Review Form
- Motivation Matters
- Virtual Campus
- Read Me First!
- Pre-Work Verification
- Accountability Check-In
- My Personal Learning Network
- Reading Guide
- Combating the Free-Rider
- Learning Log
- Project Grading Checklist
- Life Web
- Reminder Tips
- Celebrate
- Installment Plan
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Chapter 3: Ideas for Synchronous and Social Learning
- Open House
- Roll Call
- Reenergizing Lectures with Insert-Learner-Activity-Here Strategies
- Group Formation
- Better Connections with Online Learners
- Comments, Please
- Easy Collaborative Documents
- Virtual Job Interviews
- Who Are You? Alternative Online Meet-and-Greet Tactics
- Making Connections
- Alternative Structures for Online Discussions
- “Rad” Libs
- Nonverbal Cues
- Online Classroom Clickers
- Online vs. On-Campus Competition
- Polling for Engagement
- Back in the Day, Facebook Style
- Side by Side
- Turn Up the Music
- YouTube YouTalk
- Wiki Review
- Word Me
- Chapter 4: Ideas for Self-Paced Learning
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Chapter 5: Ideas for Media and Authoring
- Lose the Worn-Out Images, Up the Creativity
- Pecha Kucha for Learning
- Find the Right PowerPoint Clip Art
- PowerPoint Clip Art Surgery
- PowerPoint Graphics Library
- Show to Tell
- First-Person Point of View
- Create a Television in PowerPoint
- Easy Video
- VoiceThread Virtuosity
- Cheap Stock Photos
- Silhouette Characters
- Create Polaroid-Like Images
- Word Clouds
- EZ Forms
- Recording Better Audio
- Easy Mobile Learning Content: PowerPoint to MP4
- Rollover Slidelets for Nonrectangular Rollover Areas in Captivate 5
- Easier Multi-Language Captivate 5 Application Simulations—Captions
- Easier Multi-Language Captivate 5 Simulations—Narration
- Easier Reformatting of Captivate 5 Captions
- Creating a Slide Replay Button in Captivate 5
- Using System Variables in Captivate 5
- Adding a Non-Articulate Flash File as a Tab in Articulate Presenter
- Linking from Engage to Specific Presenter Slides
- Adding PDFs to Articulate Presenter Projects
- Embed Articulate Quizmaker Quizzes (or Articulate Engage Interactions) into Adobe Presenter Presentations
- Glossary
- About the Editor
Product information
- Title: The Online Learning Idea Book, Volume Two: Proven Ways to Enhance Technology-Based and Blended Learning
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2011
- Publisher(s): Pfeiffer
- ISBN: 9780787981686
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