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.

As a proponent and authority on lifelong learning, Draves turns his attention in this volume to the most powerful contemporary tool for democratizing and proliferating adult learning the Internet. He asserts that the Internet not only changes how we learn, what we learn, who is learning, but must change the way we teach.

The now classic volume is currently in its second edition. Familiar on the shelves of many teachers of adult learners, the new volume adds sections on the Learning Environment and on Learning in the Twenty-First Century.

by Slatin & Rush - Sep 2002 - Maximum Accessibility is a comprehensive resource for creating Web sites that conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. This book offers an overview of key issues, discusses the standards in depth, and presents practical design techniques, up-to-date technologies, and testing methods to implement these standards for maximum accessibility.

Karen Mantyla

Use the practical advice, real-life examples and other useful, concise information in this book to guide your organisation toward making strategically sound and effective blending decisions. Case studies from the manufacturing, academic, retail, and the financial/consulting service sectors supply the in-depth perspectives you need. Plus, an interactive CD-ROM illustrates how two world-class organisations created a successful blended approach to training.

Kathleen Iverson, Roosevelt University

Based on principles of constructivism and grounded in instructional design theory, this book contains games, simulation exercises, experiential activities, and other active learning approaches that will guide its users as they create engaging, interactive web based courseware.

William Horton

Your organisation may be a training department within a large corporation, a stand-alone training firm, or a group that wants to use e-learning to expand your current offerings. Whatever your title and whatever your group, this book can guide you in creating your strategy and tactics to move your organisation into e-learning. 
 

William Horton

This book is written to help both current and future adopters of e-learning learn how to really USE e-learning for maximum organisational benefit. It will help the reader develop a comprehensive, concrete, and specific strategy for using e-learning in an organisation.

Free digital book produced by the Masie Center contains elearning tips provided by senior managers and training professionals from major corporations around the world. These have been edited and compiled into 14 chapters covering the ABCs of elearning, from getting started to global implementation strategies - warning - 13.5Mb file

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This practical volume details the journey of online learning from theory to practice. Using a flexible yet systematic instructional design framework that enables even novice teachers to design, plan, and implement customized instructional environments, this text thoroughly addresses how course management systems and other online learning technologies can be used to design learner-centered environments that actively engage students. Emphasis throughout is on the vital interaction among pedagogical models, instructional strategies, and learning technologies. This text is born of the authors' extensive experience in using technology in online/distributed learning contexts, and based on the principles of learning as a social process

The power of eLearning does not come from technology alone. Rather, it is unleashed when teachers know how to use technology to create better instruction. The focus of this book is on eLearning pedagogy. Straightforward and practical, many of the concepts are based on the common sense strategies experienced teachers discover through trial and error when using technology in the classroom. (Professional resource book not available for sampling.)

There’s no doubt that a great classroom lecturer can be an inspiration to students. But almost all lecturers worry that their students are not learning how to discover, how to make connections on their own. If you have never taught an online course you’ll be surprised to learn that teaching online, as described by the authors, has the potential for providing students with a truly comprehensive learning experience.