- ISBN13: 9780787994426
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Product Description
As the sixth volume of the Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning series, Conquering the Content provides a highly-practical blue-print for course development and content presentation for web-based courses. While providing guidance for incorporating learning theory into online courses, this book primarily furnishes online instructors with the practical templates, learning guides, and sample files to construct and manage their course content. Unlik… More >>
Conquering the Content: A Step-by-Step Guide to Online Course Design
This was a good overview with some great tips throughout. I would have liked it to be a little more specific but I don;t think that it would have been possible.
I would highly recommend it to anyone.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is really helpful for the beginner distance learning instructional designer. The authors gives helpful tips including:
* Set up forums to avoid incessant e-mail questions. Other students can answer many of each other’s questions.
* Set up one master list of links. Just by a few clicks on one file, you can check them prior to each term to check for bad links.
Thumbs up!
Rating: 5 / 5
Thank you, thank you! This is the BEST. Hand-holding you through to conversion of your first e-learning course with workbook-style guidance. I looked high and low for this and now that I have it, it has exceeded my desires. This book is extremely well-thought-out. It’s SO good that it’s also short. Robin Smith knows her stuff and shares it! Don’t despair – here is a bright light down a tunnel that doesn’t look as long as it did before…
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is a must for anyone teaching in an online environment. If you’re just starting the transition from classroom to online, Robin M. Smith has it all there for you. Follow her exercises and recommendations and you can’t go wrong. If you have been teaching online for a while, I guarantee you’ll learn some new and very productive tricks. Every online instructor should read this book, and then keep it on the desk for easy reference.
Rating: 5 / 5
Robin Smith presents helpful advice for instructors–neophytes and experienced–in organizing their course content for online delivery. Her methods are not limited to online instructors. Smith focuses on ideas like “chunk-ability” and gives several sample formats based on her ideas in the appendices that will help professors only teaching face-to-face.
If your desk looks as cluttered as mine, Smith’s book will give you sound advice to make course content organization (or re-organization) something to look forward to rather than to avoid.
Rating: 4 / 5