Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Empowering Online Learning 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
Table of Contents
Preface v
Acknowledgments xii
About the Authors xiv
1 The R2D2 Model: Read, Reflect, Display, and Do 1
2 Phase 1 of the R2D2 Model: Verbal and Auditory Learners 15
3 Activities for Phase 1: Verbal and Auditory Learners 26
4 Phase 2 of the R2D2 Model: Reflective and Observational Learners 67
5 Activities for Phase 2: Reflective and Observational Learners 78
6 Phase 3 of the R2D2 Model: Visual Learners 118
7 Activities for Phase 3: Visual Learners 134
8 Phase 4 of the R2D2 Model: Hands-On Learners 181
9 Activities for Phase 4: Hands-On Learners 199
10 Integrating R2D2 and Final Reflections on the Web of Learning 249
Web Links, Examples, and Resources 264
References 284
Index 294
