Making the Move to eLearning: Putting Your Course Online - Softcover

Kay Lehmann; Lisa Chamberlin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607090414 ISBN 13: 9781607090410

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2009

Synopsis

Making the Move to eLearning proposes a radical truth_that online education, when taught using the methodology perfected by successful veterans of distance learning, surpasses traditional face-to-face teaching and learning. The key is for online educators to learn just what those successful methods are and how to emulate them in their own virtual courses. Making the Move to eLearning is the textbook for new and veteran online teachers who want to learn or refine their online facilitation skills.

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About the Author

Kay Lehmann is a Milken National Educator award-winner, with a master's and doctorate in online learning. She is currently working full time as an online facilitator and writer. Lisa Chamberlin holds a master's degree in curriculum and instruction (technology emphasis). She has been an online facilitator for more than a decade, as well as a freelance writer, and an editor of education articles. She, along with Dr. Lehmann, is a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation award-winning educator and trainer.

Review

Kay Lehmann and Lisa Chamberlin have captured the best practices of eLearning in an easy-to-read style that delivers real substance. Offering twenty-six reasons demonstrating how online education can be better than traditional education, this book informsthose curious about online teaching and improves the methods of those who already teach via the Internet. As online learning experts both Kay and Lisa walk the talk?they understand how to train educators to be great online teachers. In this handy volume, they share field-tested, hard-won insights to the art and science of online teaching. This is a must-have book for anyone who wants to teach in the twenty-first century. Don't miss it!!! (Dennis O'Connor, E-Learning and Online Teaching 21st Century Information Fluency)

Making the Move to eLearning is a must read for all who teach. As a career and leadership coach this book provides expertise not only as best practices for teaching, but affirms our teacher leader responsibilities as genuine, empathic responders as well. (Phyl Burger, Career Leadership Talent Management Coach, and faculty, Concordia University, St. Paul)

Anyone who wants to both succeed and enjoy themselves in this non-traditional, creative, dynamic, asynchronous world will dog-ear page after page of Lehmann and Chamberlin's book. As a traditional educator who had to quickly and intuitively adapt to my online classroom and its students as well as coach my faculty colleagues, I'm very grateful now for a book I wish I'd had five years ago! (Sheila Bartle, director of faculty development, Kendall College)

This is the book to read if you are keen to learn how to teach online but aren't quite sure where to start or how to adapt your teaching strategies. Novice and veteran online instructors will appreciate the difference this book can make in their teaching. Making the Move to eLearning is an essential read for those who wish to understand how to deal with time management and student motivation issues and how to improve their day-to-day facilitation and assessment strategies when teaching an online class. (Joan Vandervelde, online professional development coordinator, University of Wisconsin?Stout)

Kay Lehmann and Lisa Chamberlin have captured the best practices of eLearning in an easy-to-read style that delivers real substance. Offering twenty-six reasons demonstrating how online education can be better than traditional education, this book informs those curious about online teaching and improves the methods of those who already teach via the Internet.As online learning experts both Kay and Lisa walk the talk―they understand how to train educators to be great online teachers. In this handy volume, they share field-tested, hard-won insights to the art and science of online teaching. This is a must-have book for anyone who wants to teach in the twenty-first century. Don't miss it! (Dennis O'Connor, E-Learning and Online Teaching 21st Century Information Fluency)

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1607090414
• ISBN 13: 9781607090410
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 276