Understanding Online Instructional Modeling ― Theories and Practices

After a brief when enthusiastic novices attempted to create online instruction that prominently featured unreadable screen after unreadable screen of fine print, eye-searing graphics, and plenty of plagiarism for everybody, developers have come to understand that they must meet professional quality and production standards. This comprehensive desk reference gives both theory and practice so builders of higher education online courses can produce courses that students will actually take and enjoy. Contributors cover traditional issues such as functional relevance, model-facilitated learning, flexible learning and instructional dialog, then delve into the concepts of online teaching and learning, including large-scale interaction strategies, teaching social skills and establishing social presence, making the transition to an online classroom, keeping interactive, conducting online interactions, and using anonymity to its best advantage. The collection closes with multi-disciplinary perspectives such as applying gaming features, creating applications for special learners, and figuring out methods of supervision. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)