Product Description
You CAN Teach Online! is a web-enhanced text provides easy-to-follow examples of pedagogical techniques, and tools that will be useful for faculty interested in developing online courses in the traditional and online classrooms. Throughout the text, numerous technical drawings, charts, graphs, and photographs are displayed to illustrate the very latest in educational technology. With this information, readers will learn to have the confidence to translate their traditional classroom materials to an online environment.
From the Publisher
Companion Website - There is a web-enhanced site that features newly breaking information on an ongoing basis in this rapidly changing field. This site is available only to users of this textbook (code protected). The site contains numerous useful links including a CYBERCLASS where readers will be able to engage in tasks that include participation in threaded discussions, chatrooms, file transfers, and visiting and evaluating other web courses. eCollege will host this site and the text authors will be responsible for content and maintenance.
Users will find links in the printed book and on the Website that will permit them to download mostly free materials that will significantly benefit their online course and the student experience.
There are numerous author-created, detailed technical illustrations, charts, graphs, and photographs throughout the book to improve visual learning, simplify concepts, and make the book visually appealing.
The use of double columns, visually appealing illustrations, and numerous figures showing step-by-step pedagogy represents the very latest in educational technology and will greatly add to the ease of learning and interest by readers of this book.
There are significant in-chapter and end-of-chapter materials that will reinforce the chapter objectives including BOLDFACED TERMS. Included within the body of text will be words or terms that are made to stand out by boldfacing them. These words or terms will normally be followed immediately by definition or explanation. All of them will also appear as key terms at the end of the chapter.
KEY TERMS. A list of key terms and their definitions appear at the end of each chapter as a useful learning aid in the focusing the reader's attention on important terms and words.
HANDS ON. Readers of the text are encouraged to participate in a series of exercises that will lead them through a series of gradually more complex computer related tasks. The reader will begin with simple email tasks, then attaching and sending files, FTPing files, using a threaded discussion, using a chatroom, finding and incorporating figures and animated gifs into a web page, and finally completing the uploading of course materials. Each chapter has its own hands-on exercise.
KNOWTHAT. There is a series of short-answer and matching questions at the end of each chapter that will reinforce the material presented. Readers may access the Website and answer the questions interactively.
