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Adding Some Tec-Variety - 100+ Activities for Motivating and Retaining Learners Online (Paperback)
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Adding Some Tec-Variety - 100+ Activities for Motivating and Retaining Learners Online (Paperback)
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Loot Price R575
Discovery Miles 5 750
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Motivation is central to all things human. Online teaching and
learning is no different. In the early years of the Web, however,
students experienced extremely dry online content, affectionately
known as "shovelware." Over time, learners were increasingly
inundated by bland content and unimaginative activities. Worse, too
often they accepted it as reality. In the process, online learning
became highly lock-step and mechanized. There was no room for
flexibility, choice, or creative expression of any kind.
Unfortunately, most online content remains lifeless today. Legions
of learners are interminably bored. Part of the reason is that
their online and blended courses fail to effectively utilize the
smartphones, tablets, and other wireless and mobile technologies
strapped to their bodies or contained in their tote bags. At this
very moment, tens of millions of learners around the planet are
navigating through seemingly endless pages of their online courses.
Unfortunately, most of these learners are swimming in this sea of
content without much hope for interaction, collaboration, or
engagement. The emergence of massive open online courses or MOOCs
with tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of learners in a single
course has made the present situation even more prominent and
precarious. We propose the TEC-VARIETY framework as a solution to
the lack of meaningful engagement. It can shift learners from
highly comatose states to extremely engaged ones. Adding some
TEC-VARIETY helps instructors to focus on how to motivate online
learners and increase learner retention. It also is a
comprehensive, one stop toolkit for online instructors to inspire
learners and renew their own passion for teaching. Using ten
theoretically-driven and proven motivational principles,
TEC-VARIETY offers over a 100 practical yet innovative ideas based
on decades of author experience teaching in a variety of
educational settings. In this book, you will discover: A wellspring
of Web resources 10 highly documented successful motivational
principles Hundreds of activities to motivate and engage online
learners Proven ideas on how to design interactive and
collaborative courses A realistic path toward meaningful and
relevant online learning Detailed risk, cost, and time guidelines
for each activity A highly researched basis for each idea and
activity Hope (yes real hope ) for engaging online learners"
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