Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
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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