Engaging the Online Learner: Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction (Online Teaching and Learning Series (OTL))

by Rita-Marie Conrad, J. Ana Donaldson

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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

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Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3 out of 5 stars

Helpful but Somewhat Repetative, 2008-06-30
The first part of the book kept repeating itself with regards to what "should be the main goals of online learning"...it felt very repetitive without really offering any useful information. I discovered the source of every lame group project (or group building experiments) my husband has had to do since he began taking online classes at Keller. There were some interesting "get to know you" activities, but a lot of what I read smacked of those very tired and very lame role-playing business seminars I had to put up with when I worked in hotels, which I despised...but this did drive home the importance of creating a community feel among the students, of getting them working together and feeling part of a group. I would recommend it, but with the warning that the book is somewhat repetitive in the first few chapters. I am glad to have it as a reference, but it's certainly not a one stop resource...it should definately be part of a larger body of works to draw from on the subject.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Engaging Online Teachers as Well, 2007-11-01
As an online learner and instructor, I found this book informative, and, yes, ENGAGING. I am planning on using the insights and examples in a new project I've been given-- securing the services of teachers that have experience with strictly the conventional classroom models to instruct online. I'm hopeful that resources like this can de-mystify the distance learning models, and eventually help disseminate knowledge widely throughout my mostly-rural state.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3 out of 5 stars

Good But Not Great, 2007-05-30
I found the book to be very easy and fast to read with lots of concrete examples of activities for the online learner. Though I understand the importance of engaging the online learner, as an instructor in the allied health field I don't feel I have the time or interest in developing games and the types of alternative learning activities suggested in the book. In allied health/science courses we need to cover an extensive amount of material, perhaps if I were teaching a course in another discipline I would feel differently.

I feel that another book "Discussion Based Online Teaching To Enhance Student Learning" by Tisha Bender is a much better book for my situation and offered more helpful ideas (but less examples) to improve my online course.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

A must read for every online tutor , 2006-11-11
This book is what I have been looking for: short, concise and full of practical examples of activities.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

Worth the read, 2006-07-10
I found the book to be a good read and had a lot of interesting things to say and good examples of activities for online participants.

The book focuses solely on the online learner, which is good, but if you teach students in a classroom setting and are looking to extend their learning online in the evenings and between classes you need to 'read between the lines' to pull out the pieces that you need (which are many and included in this book).

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