Empowering online learning : 100+ activities for reading, reflecting, displaying, and doing

This is an essential resource for anyone designing or facilitating online learning. It introduces an easy, practical model (R2D2: read, reflect, display, and do) that will show online educators how to deliver content in ways that benefit all types of learners (visual, auditory, observational, and kinesthetic) from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill levels. With a solid theoretical foundation and concrete guidance and examples, this book can be used as a handy reference, a professional guidebook, or a course text. The authors intend for it to help online instructors and instructional designers as well as those contemplating such positions design, develop, and deliver learner-centered online instruction.

Empowering Online Learning has 25 unique activities for each phase of the R2D2 model as well as summary tables helping you pick and choose what to use whenever you need it. Each activity lists a description, skills addressed, advice, variations, cost, risk, and time index, and much more.

This title is loaded with current information about emerging technologies (e.g., simulations, podcasts, wikis, blogs) and the Web 2.0. With a useful model, more than 100 online activities, the latest information on emerging technologies, hundreds of quickly accessible Web resources, and relevance to all types and ages of learners-- Empowering Online Learning is a book whose time has come.

Author Notes

Curtis J. Bonk is professor of instructional systems technology and adjunct in the School of Informatics at Indiana University
Ke Zhang is an assistant professor of instructional technology at Wayne State University where she conducts research and teaches graduate courses in online and blended learning

Preface	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. xii
About the Authors	p. xiv
1 The R2D2 Model: Read, Reflect, Display, and Do	p. 1
2 Phase 1 of the R2D2 Model: Verbal and Auditory Learners	p. 15
3 Activities for Phase 1: Verbal and Auditory Learners	p. 26
4 Phase 2 of the R2D2 Model: Reflective and Observational Learners	p. 67
5 Activities for Phase 2: Reflective and Observational Learners	p. 78
6 Phase 3 of the R2D2 Model: Visual Learners	p. 118
7 Activities for Phase 3: Visual Learners	p. 134
8 Phase 4 of the R2D2 Model: Hands-On Learners	p. 181
9 Activities for Phase 4: Hands-On Learners	p. 199
10 Integrating R2D2 and Final Reflections on the Web of Learning	p. 249
Web Links, Examples, and Resources	p. 264
References	p. 284
Index	p. 294

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