Online Learning from Amazon

HOW ORGANIZATIONS CAN MAKE THE MOST OF ONLINE LEARNING

Author: David Guralnick

Publisher: Business Expert Press

ISBN-13: 978-1637422731 

Online learning has the potential to change an organization’s culture and performance – if the organization employs technology in the right ways. In How Organizations Can Make the Most of Online Learning, organizations will learn how to create and deliver online learning and performance experiences that can take their employees’ performance to the next level.

Too much online learning today focuses on memorizing information. This book shifts this paradigm to focus on learning key skills that are meaningful to an employee and relevant to their work.

COURSE DESIGN FORMULA: HOW TO TEACH ANYTHING TO ANYONE ONLINE

Author: Rebecca Frost Cuevas

Publisher: Learn and Get Smarter, Inc. 

ISBN-13: 978-1732782310

Whether you are an experienced teacher in the offline space, or you have never taught before in any context, get ready for a fast track guide to how to be a truly transformational teacher, online. This book introduces and explains the Course Design Formula, a research-based instructional design process that promotes excellence in online course development. Integrating best practices from cognitive psychology, instructional design, learning theory, information processing theory, and more, the formula helps you create high-quality learning journeys for your online course participants.

LEARNING ONLINE: THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

Author: George Veletsianos

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN-13: 978-1421438092

Online learning is ubiquitous for millions of students worldwide, yet our understanding of student experiences in online learning settings is limited. The geographic distance that separates faculty from students in an online environment is its signature feature, but it is also one that risks widening the gulf between teachers and learners. In Learning Online, George Veletsianos argues that in order to critique, understand, and improve online learning, we must examine it through the lens of student experience.

THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM OF ONLINE LEARNING (PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE)

Authors: Murat Öztok

Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition

ISBN-13: 978-1032090597

Challenging the current understandings of equity and social justice in the field of online education, this volume analyses how cultural hegemony creates unfair learning experiences through cultural differences. It argues that such inequitable learning experiences are not random acts but rather represent the existing inequities in society at large through cultural reproduction. This book discusses the concept of social absence (in relation to social presence) to discuss how individuals perform their identities within group contexts and to create awareness of social justice issues in online education.

Online Learning from The MIT Press

INSTRUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY

Author: Brad Mehlenbacher

Publisher: The MIT Press

ISBN-13: 9780262013949

The perpetual connectivity made possible by twenty-first-century technology has profoundly affected instruction and learning. Emerging technologies that upend traditional notions of communication and community also influence the ways we design and evaluate instruction and how we understand learning and learning environments. In Instruction and Technology, Brad Mehlenbacher offers a detailed, multidisciplinary analysis of the dynamic relationship between technology and learning. Mehlenbacher describes how today’s ubiquitous technology conflates our once separated learning worlds—work, leisure, and higher educational spaces. The technologies that distribute today’s classroom across time and space call for a new discussion about what we value in the traditional classroom.

THE DIGITAL YOUTH NETWORK

Author: Brigid Barron, Kimberley Gomez, Nichole Pinkard, and Caitlin K. Martin

Publisher: The MIT Press

ISBN-13: 9780262027038

The popular image of the “digital native”—usually depicted as a technically savvy and digitally empowered teen—is based on the assumption that all young people are equally equipped to become innovators and entrepreneurs. Yet young people in low-income communities often lack access to the learning opportunities, tools, and collaborators that help digital natives develop the necessary expertise. This book describes one approach to address this disparity: the Digital Youth Network (DYN), an ambitious project to help economically disadvantaged middle-school students in Chicago develop technical, creative, and analytical skills across a learning ecology that spans school, community, home, and online.

THE WAR ON LEARNING

Author: Elizabeth Losh

Publisher: The MIT Press

ISBN-13: 9780262027380

In this book, Elizabeth Losh examines current efforts to “reform” higher education by applying technological solutions to problems in teaching and learning. She finds that many of these initiatives fail because they treat education as a product rather than a process. Highly touted schemes—video games for the classroom, for example, or the distribution of iPads—let students down because they promote consumption rather than intellectual development. In an effort to identify educational technologies that might actually work, she looks at strategies including MOOCs (massive open online courses), the gamification of subject matter, remix pedagogy, video lectures and educational virtual worlds.

THE DISTRIBUTED CLASSROOM

Authors: David A. Joyner and Charles Isbell

Publisher: The MIT Press

ISBN-13: 9780262547291

David Joyner and Charles Isbell explain how recent developments, including distance learning and learning management systems, have paved the way for the distributed classroom. They propose that we dispense with the dichotomy between online and traditional education and describe the distributed classroom’s various delivery modes for in-person students, remote synchronous students, and remote asynchronous students; the goal would be a symmetry of experiences. With The Distributed Classroom, Joyner and Isbell offer an optimistic, learner-centric view of the future of education, in which every person on earth can be a potential learner as barriers of cost, geography, and synchronicity disappear.