Description
Book SynopsisWhat does best practice in online education look like? How can educators make use of the affordances offered by online environments to bring out the best in the children they teach? These questions are answered in this new textbook, written with experienced teachers, novice educators and teacher educators in mind. Meskill and Anthony offer a wealth of examples of what successful online teaching looks like, and provide a rich source of practical, conversation-based strategies for optimizing online learning. This book will inspire anyone teaching or planning to teach fully online, or in a blended or hybrid format, by demonstrating how well constructed online conversations constitute powerful teaching.
Trade ReviewProviding a much-needed framework for a conversation-based approach to teaching and learning, this book is a resource-filled guide emphasizing the use of information and communication technology to promote sound learning. Embedded in the strategies is encouragement for communication, reflection, and growth. The content and techniques contained in Teaching Children Online are elements all teachers and instructional designers need in their tool box.
* Zane Berge, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA *
This book provides novice and seasoned online teachers with a detailed view of the opportunities for excellence in online teaching and learning. It identifies the importance of moving beyond online interaction to online instructional conversations, leading to both knowledge/skill advancement and individual learner development.
* Martha Cleveland-Innes, Athabasca University, Canada; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1. Teaching Online: A Conversational Approach
Chapter 2. Saturating and Modeling in Online Teaching
Chapter 3. Corralling Student Learning in Online Teaching
Chapter 4. Orchestrating Interactions and Scaffolding Synthetic Thinking
Chapter 5. Providing Feedback in Online Teaching
Chapter 6. Elements of Effective Online Instructional Conversations
Chapter 7. Future Directions for Online Teaching and Learning
