Annotated Bibliography

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    1. Engaging the Online Learner: Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction by Rita-Marie Conrad, J. Ana Donaldson

      2. Review
      "Conrad and Donaldson have definitely written a book that an inspire teachers to be creative and resourceful!"  (Authors Journal Compilation, Winter 2007)

      Description
      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 information needed to:

      • Convert classroom activities to an online environment and use online activities in a classroom-based course
      • Assess the learning that occurs as a result of collaborative activities
      • Phase-in activities that promote engagement among online learners
      • Help online learners use online tools
      • Build peer interaction through peer partnerships and team activities
      • Create authentic activities
      • Implement games and simulations

    2. Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators  by George Collison, Bonnie Elbaum, Sarah Haavind, Robert Tinker

      3. Product Description
      "Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators" is Atwood Publishing's latest title and one of your greates resources for distance education. It will help you build an online community and fuel online dialogue to create relationships between interactants. It will also provide you with a wide repertoire of strategies for sharpening your course's content and ways to fend off and avoid technological problems and roadblocks that you will invariably face during your class.

      From the Publisher
      The results of Concord Consortium's online teacher training, "Facilitating Online Learning" supplies you with a comprehensive analysis of online education and the strategies and techniques used in their online classes.

    3. Teaching at a distance: A handbook for instructors by Mary Boaz
      This handbook introduces some fundamental ideas on designing, implementing, and facilitating a distance learning course. It offers specific strategies for topics ranging from choosing delivery technologies to encouraging collaboration among scattered distance-learning students to testing and other evaluation methodologies.

      The book is broken down into seven chapters.
      Chapter 1 discusses strategies for developing an effective distance learning experience.
      Chapter 2 covers new learning environments and instructional technologies.
      Chapter 3 offers information on advantages and limitations of different distance education technologies.
      Chapter 4 provides an introductory discussion of communication issues related to teaching at a distance as well as of factors related to enhancing interaction in distance learning environments.
      Chapter 5 covers a basic design structure adapted to the needs of instructors working with students at a distance.
      Chapter 6 is organized around testing and assessment in distance learning.
      Chapter 7 offers a profile of the distance learning model of one innovative and experienced community college.
       [Abstract courtesy of ERIC, Education Resources Information Center]

    4. Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web by Rita-Marie Conrad  and Judith Boettcher 

      This book serves as a guide for faculty in using computers, the Internet and the World Wide Web as instructional tools in higher education.
      Chapter 1, "Introduction to the Internet and the Web for Higher Education", provides a brief history of the Internet and builds conceptual understanding of the Internet and its usefulness in education.
      Chapter 2, "Principles of Technology and Change to Guide our Journey to the Web," discusses principles behind technology innovation and provides key statistics.
      Chapter 3, "What We Know about Teaching and Learning," introduces the emerging educational environment on the Web.
      Chapter 4, "Envisioning, Planning and Identifying Resources," addresses general topics for faculty moving courses to the Web.
      Chapter 5, "Instructional Design Guidelines for Moving Courses to the Web," provides guidelines for initial course design.
      Chapter 6, "Steps in Developing Web Courses," presents a step-by-step process for course development.
       Chapter 7, "Tools and Resources for Creating Web Courses," describes five phases for moving a course to the Web.
      Chapter 8, "Web Course Models," provides several examples of Web courses.
      Chapter 9, "Creating and Sustaining Online Communities," discusses strategies for a collaborative learning environment.
      Chapter 10, "Issues in the Web Environment," focuses on four issues relevant to instructors. Finally,
      Chapter 11 provides perspectives on the future.
      [Abstract courtesy of ERIC, Educational Resources Information Center]

    5. Increasing Engagement for Online and Face-to-Face Learners Through Online Discussion Practice by Alice Bedard-Voorhees

      Alice Bedard-Voorhees, Associate Academic Dean, Chair for Arts and Humanities, Colorado Community Colleges Online wasawarded the first Cross-Papers Fellowship from the League of Innovation in the Community College and K. Patricia Cross.
      She is the author of Cross Paper 8: Increasing Engagement for Online and Face-to-Face Learners through Online Discussion Practice , a monograph for practitioners wishing to expand class learning opportunities.

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    6. 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups : Essentials of Web-Based Education by Donald E. Hanna, Simone Conceicao-Runlee, Michelle Glowacki-Dudka

      7. Product Description
      From experienced distance educators comes this comprehensive collection of strategies for teaching effectively online. Beginning with pre-instruction preparation and progressing through actual online teaching, "147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups" will help you feel more comfortable and competent heading into an online course, whether you're a new instructor or an experienced professor. The authors dispel popular myths in online education and anticipate the potential problems you might face teaching in the online medium.

      From the Publisher
      If you're involved in web-based education, or if you're about to be, this new book in distance education will become one of your most trusted references. The authors offer you advice on how to set up and implement your online course, and make the course discussions as interactive as those you have in the traditional face-to-face classroom setting.

     
     
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