Michael Corry – författare

E-LEARNING COMPANION serves as a resource and quick-reference guide for any course that demands technology skills. In addition to helping students adapt previously mastered skills--such as time management, note-taking, and critical thinking--to the online environment, this text shows students how social networking, cloud file storage, wikis, and blogs can be utilized appropriately and effectively in a college course. Technical terminology and how-to tutorials help students become more capable and flexible online learners, and build skills that will support them throughout college and their future careers. The Fourth Edition is fully updated to be current and relevant for today's online learning environments, and also includes new Workplace Applications, and coverage of professional behavior and professional emails.

Don’t start from scratch! Learn what worksand what doesn’tin providing education to off-campus students! This unique compilation presents practical advice on how to set up distance learning programs that effectively serve the needs of students who don’t have access to the campus. The book examines issues surrounding development, implementation, teacher training, time management, and other important aspects of distance education. Distance Education: What Works Well brings you lessons garnered from real-life experiences at several institutions to help you explore the pros and cons of distance educationand what it takes to implement a distance program that really works. In the first half of Distance Education: What Works Well you’ll examine:

the development of a digital high schoolfrom the early stages through rookie camp experiences practical recommendations on how to design successful online high school programs what has worked welland what has notin terms of distance education in the rural K-12 environment the successful and not-so-successful aspects of an innovative distance education project that encourages collaboration between high schools and middle schools

The second half of this informative book presents practical advice to help you set up distance learning programs that make the most of available technology. You’ll learn:

how to train faculty to effectively use distance education techniques the importance of student-teacher and student-student interaction in a distance education settingand how to build active online communities that keep students and faculty in touch the roles and functions of moderators in online educationand the skills they need to be effective six effective tactics designed to optimize online time how to decide whether distance education is the right choice for you

Don’t start from scratch! Learn what worksand what doesn’tin providing education to off-campus students! This unique compilation presents practical advice on how to set up distance learning programs that effectively serve the needs of students who don’t have access to the campus. The book examines issues surrounding development, implementation, teacher training, time management, and other important aspects of distance education. Distance Education: What Works Well brings you lessons garnered from real-life experiences at several institutions to help you explore the pros and cons of distance educationand what it takes to implement a distance program that really works. In the first half of Distance Education: What Works Well you’ll examine:

the development of a digital high schoolfrom the early stages through rookie camp experiences practical recommendations on how to design successful online high school programs what has worked welland what has notin terms of distance education in the rural K-12 environment the successful and not-so-successful aspects of an innovative distance education project that encourages collaboration between high schools and middle schools

The second half of this informative book presents practical advice to help you set up distance learning programs that make the most of available technology. You’ll learn:

how to train faculty to effectively use distance education techniques the importance of student-teacher and student-student interaction in a distance education settingand how to build active online communities that keep students and faculty in touch the roles and functions of moderators in online educationand the skills they need to be effective six effective tactics designed to optimize online time how to decide whether distance education is the right choice for you