- ISBN13: 9780787981686
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“For those who think online learning can’t be truly interactive, Patti Shank and her colleagues clearly demonstrate–in hundreds of examples–that it can. The real lesson in The Online Learning Idea Book is that technology doesn’t build interactive learning; creative thinking and good, solid instructional design does. Using even a smidgen of the great ideas in this book will increase the learning effectiveness of any online program.” –Marc J. Rosenberg, consultant, and author of Beyond E-Learning “Patti Shank has collected great ideas about online learning and teaching from all over the globe. If you are an online instructor or instructional designer looking for new ways to involve and engage your … More >>
The Online Learning Idea Book: 95 Proven Ways to Enhance Technology-Based and Blended Learning
#1 by Danielle Watkins on February 20, 2010 - 11:52 am
All instructional designers creating instructor led, blended, or e-learning should read this book and have plenty of post-its or flags on hand. I found many great new ideas that I can adapt and use in a variety of learning environments. This is a great reference book that those in ID should keep at arms length as they are designing.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Web Guru on February 20, 2010 - 2:12 pm
Patti Shank has collected great ideas about online learning and teaching from all over the globe. If you are an online instructor or instructional designer looking for new ways to involve and engage your learners, you’ll be inspired by this book!
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Keith Johnson on February 20, 2010 - 4:51 pm
What I like best about this book is that it covers a wide range of topics. When you’re working in e-learning you have a different focus depending on what project you’re doing at the moment and sometimes you need a refresher on topics. A refresher can be a chapter, an article, or just an idea that triggers your memory. For example, myself I upload to an LMS, but I don’t manage an LMS. The articles that went over LMS ideas were a good refresher for me.
When a book claims to have 95 proven ways to enhance technology based and blended learning you realize some of those I ideas may be fillers. I would have said that was not the case up to the beginning of the final chapter. The final chapter “Ideas for Creative Media” I could not help but think this was thrown in. This is a hot area in the online learning world, the way people learn is changing dramatically, and I guess I will have to wait for book 2.
That said, it is a good book, a nice read, I read it completely and highlighted it and it will sit on my office self for future reference.
Keith Johnson
Online Learning Specialist/Flash Designer
Seattle, WA
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Lark Reads on February 20, 2010 - 7:10 pm
My favorite part about this book is that it gives practical examples of what can be done with online learning, and how to do it. I work with lots of industries, and each of my clients wants (and quite honestly, needs) something different. This book always helps me find a solution.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by William Corsair on February 20, 2010 - 8:39 pm
Patti has done an excellent job of putting together a collection of ideas and suggestions from some of the most accomplished online learning “experts.” By that, I don’t necessarily mean people with academic backgrounds. I mean people who’ve been in the business trenches and have found from experience what worked, what didn’t, and what might have worked if it had been presented differently. What’s missing from so many books of this kind is what I call the “how to.” Patti acknowledges that fact with, “This book shows you concrete examples of people making learning better every day, in all kinds of settings, all over the world.”
The book can be read in a linear fashion, but I found that I liked jumping around in it and making my own “Ah ha” connections among the ideas. Most ideas are no more than 3-4 pages, and include many job aids and visual references which make the ideas come alive.
I highly recommended this collection. You’ll start making your own connections and developing material that will help your learners truly engage and enjoy.
Rating: 5 / 5