{"product_id":"empowering-online-learning-isbn-9780787988043","title":"Empowering Online Learning","description":"This is an essential resource for anyone designing or facilitating online learning. It introduces an easy, practical model (R2D2: read, reflect, display, and do) that will show online educators how to deliver content in ways that benefit all types of learners (visual, auditory, observational, and kinesthetic) from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill levels. With a solid theoretical foundation and concrete guidance and examples, this book can be used as a handy reference, a professional guidebook, or a course text. The authors intend for it to help online instructors and instructional designers as well as those contemplating such positions design, develop, and deliver learner-centered online instruction.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmpowering Online Learning\u003c\/b\u003e has 25 unique activities for each phase of the R2D2 model as well as summary tables helping you pick and choose what to use whenever you need it. Each activity lists a description, skills addressed, advice, variations, cost, risk, and time index, and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis title is loaded with current information about emerging technologies (e.g., simulations, podcasts, wikis, blogs) and the Web 2.0. With a useful model, more than 100 online activities, the latest information on emerging technologies, hundreds of quickly accessible Web resources, and relevance to all types and ages of learners--\u003cb\u003eEmpowering Online Learning\u003c\/b\u003e is a book whose time has come.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface v\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The R2D2 Model: Read, Reflect, Display, and Do 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Phase 1 of the R2D2 Model: Verbal and Auditory Learners 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Activities for Phase 1: Verbal and Auditory Learners 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Phase 2 of the R2D2 Model: Reflective and Observational Learners 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Activities for Phase 2: Reflective and Observational Learners 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Phase 3 of the R2D2 Model: Visual Learners 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Activities for Phase 3: Visual Learners 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Phase 4 of the R2D2 Model: Hands-On Learners 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Activities for Phase 4: Hands-On Learners 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Integrating R2D2 and Final Reflections on the Web of Learning 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeb Links, Examples, and Resources 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 294\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCurt Bonk\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Instructional Systems Technology and adjunct in Informatics at Indiana University. He also spent 15 years as a professor of educational psychology. Dr. Bonk has received the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association, the Most Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association, and the Most Innovative Teaching in a Distance Education Program Award from the State of Indiana. He has over 200 publications, including the \u003cem\u003eHandbook of Blended Learning Environments: Global Perspectives, Local Designs\u003c\/em\u003e (Pfeiffer, 2005), and during the past three years he has presented nearly 300 talks related to online teaching and learning, including ones at universities in China, Australia, Korea, Finland, Ireland, Taiwan, Malaysia, Spain, Iceland, the UK, and the United Arab Emirates. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKe Zhang\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology at Wayne State University with a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems from Penn State University. She has years of success in designing, developing and teaching online courses and programs, together with fruitful research on online learning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989127446757,"sku":"NP9780787988043","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780787988043.jpg?v=1761782906","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/empowering-online-learning-isbn-9780787988043","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}