This book is geared toward teaching adults, higher education, not k-12. I expected more concrete advice on teaching online,it really is just about creating "communities" as the title says. The need to connect the students. It's okay. Just not what I was hoping for.
Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom
โ Scribed by Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt
- Publisher
- Jossey-Bass
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 320
- Series
- Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
This book might be good for someone writing a paper about online learning but, as someone looking to create an online learning course, there was very little, if anything, I could use or apply. To be honest, I stopped reading after 100 pages and started skimming because the dry, academic writing style combined with little actual specific information left me bored.
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