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Online Learning News and Research
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Friday, September 28, 2001
http://www.distance-educator.com/dn/dnews.php4?action=detail&id=5133 Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators Source: Distance-Educator.com By George Collison, Bonnie Elbaum, Sarah Haavind, and Robert Tinker Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing, 2000; 216 pp., ISBN: 1891859331 $ 24.95 (pbk) Reviewed by David L. Dollar , Tarrant County College Southeast Campus, Arlington, Texas Online courses are now integral learning mediums in traditional education, business, and distance campuses. The use of online communication for teaching and training is continuing to grow as more schools and businesses connect to the Internet and gain access to new technologies. To be successful in this new medium, educators are finding that they need a new repertoire of skills or a new way of using old skills. Facilitating Online Learning is a groundbreaking handbook that lays out a systematic approach for creating a learning community in which a more collaborative learning environment is effectively fostered....
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